Developing With Elementor and WordPress: Best Practices For Speed, Usability & Scalability

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Developing With Elementor and WordPress: Best Practices For Speed, Usability & Scalability

Developing with Elementor and WordPress offers a powerful combination of tools to create amazing user-friendly websites. By following some simple best practices, developers can make sure that their projects are optimized for speed, usability, and scalability.

From choosing the right themes to implementing custom code, there are many ways to ensure that your WordPress site is running at its best with Elementor.

What Is Elementor and WordPress?

Elementor and WordPress are two of the most popular website building tools used by developers today.

Elementor is the #1 drag-and-drop Page Builder plugin for WordPress that allows users to create beautiful, responsive websites with ease.

WordPress is a powerful content management system that enables developers to create stunning websites without having to code from scratch.

Elementor developers are able to quickly create custom designs with the help of its user-friendly interface and intuitive features. Developers can use the platform’s extensive library of plugins and themes to customize their site’s look and functionality. When paired, Elementor and WordPress might be the absolute best choices for simplifying website development on the WordPress platform.

If you want to take advantage of all the features that Elementor offers, without the hassle of learning all about it, then it may just be best to hire an expert. Experienced Elementor developers will be able to create a beautiful and functional website for you in no time. They will be able to ensure that your site is optimized for SEO and mobile-friendly, and they can also help with customizing templates and adding additional features as needed.

Choosing the Right Themes

Choosing the right theme for your website can be a daunting task. With so many options available, it can be hard to decide which one is best suited for your needs. Fortunately, there are some great themes out there that can help you get started quickly and easily.

WordPress themes like Hello Elementor and GeneratePress are the most common choices when it comes to developing with the Elementor Theme Builder. Each of these themes are highly compatible with Elementor and Elementor Pro. They’re both lightweight, simple to manage day-to-day, and really both offer a smooth experience.

Tom Osburne, developer of the GeneratePress theme, has done a superb job of creating a beautiful ecosystem. The theme is wildly popular with WordPress developers working with Gutenberg Blocks, and with Elementor Developers using the visual page builder, really proving the success of this WordPress theme.

Hello Elementor is the ‘official’ theme of Elementor. It is developed by the core Elementor development team and is probably the “best choice” for developing a website with Elementor. It’s really simple to create and download a child theme for Hello Elementor, and the simplicity really conveys into all aspects of the tool.

In recent comparisons done in-house by our Elementor developers, we found the performance of both themes to be superb. Typical scores of 99% on Google Page Speed Score / Lighthouse analysis for both, but Hello Elementor may edge out a lead in mobile performance when using Elementor Pro.

Implementing Coding Best Practices

Implementing coding best practices is essential for any developer, especially for Elementor developers and WordPress developers, too. By following coding best practices, developers can ensure that their code is efficient, secure, and maintainable. For your organization, this will reduce the time needed to develop and maintain your website moving forward, as well as improve the overall quality of the codebase.

Broadly speaking, coding best practices involve writing clean code that is easy to read and understand, following a consistent style guide throughout the project, using appropriate language-specific features when available, and refactoring code regularly to keep it up-to-date with new technologies or changes in requirements. We think it’s really important for developers working as a part of a collaborative team to document their work so that other team members can quickly understand what was done. By following these best practices, Elementor developers and WordPress developers will be able to create applications that are more reliable and easier to maintain in the long run.

Best Practices for Global Styling

Global styling is an important factor to consider when developing with Elementor. Best practices include avoiding using more than two different fonts, selecting only a few global colors, generating fewer requests for improved loading speed, and repeating unnecessary code twice.

Here are the best practices for Global Styling:

  • Avoid using >2 different fonts that include multiple weights
  • Avoid selecting different colors for each element with the color picker
  • Minimize font requests
  • Avoid repeating unnecessary code twice

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Katrina Pfitzner

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