First … and last

Went out on a limb with Elementor 4. I had to really sell my company on the idea of building websites quickly and handily with this tool. Sure, it was going to be a major update and there’d be some bumps along the way. Well ….

I’ve seen a lot of new software, but I’ve never experienced a major release so shot-through with significant bugs—not annoying little minor issues, but serious problems that never should’ve been inflicted on actual users in production environments. And the folks at Elementor said version 4 was ready for production environments.

I’ve lost too much time, suffered too many headaches, and had to offer too many explanations to my superiors for all the delays Elementor 4 has caused. The site I’m working on is nearly complete, but there’s technical debt to be paid: I will likely have to return to it to upgrade elements I had to downgrade to v3 in order to get them functioning properly. Basic things, like using the Featured Image as a background image in blog page headers. (Seriously—it’s a known issue a user documented in GitHub back in June. There’s still no indication that the development team is addressing it.) It’s my first Elementor site … and it’ll be my last. Future sites will be built with Bricks and/or Gutenberg, and my goal is to rebuild the Elementor site before I have to renew my Elementor One subscription.