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4+ Best Free Elementor Addons (2022 Updated)

Kevin David — Tue, 11 Jan 2022 05:30:36 +0000

From its inception back in 2016, Elementor page builder has gained massive popularity and market share. Currently, Elementors installations reach up to seven digits and counting with no end in sight.

Elementor has always been a user-friendly platform, that is geared towards catering to every kind of web professionals including web developers, designers, and marketers in various markets, boasting a wapping record of new websites being created every 10 seconds on its open-source platform. Elementor page builder’s mission is to radically simplify website building process, letting people from all walks of life build their own platforms to unleash their true potential.

With this massive uproar in popularity, there comes an added demand for more features & a better user experience, and Elementor has delivered. But still, the people wanted more and independent developers and companies have started making addons plugins to provide a better Elementor experience with more features and functionality.

There are a lot of awesome Elementor plugins out right now, and we’ve picked the best of the best for you in this roundup of our top 5 Elementor addons for 2022.

Droit Addons for Elementor

Droit Addons for Elementor is a rather new addons plugin for Elementor but has gained massive popularity among its growing user-base due to its roster of useful features that makes customizing and building a WordPress website super easy and intuitive.

With an impressive collection of 70+ robust widgets that lets you create interactive blocks/sections such as - Sliders, accordion tabs, FAQ sections, WooCommerce product listings, graphs, and charts, Google Maps integration and so much more.

And not only that, this plugin comes with over 250+ stunning pre-built elements/blocks and 25+ pre-set template page designs to make your website building process faster & smoother. It even has an advance Header, Footer, & Mega Menu Builder, which makes multiple page creation so much easier.

For all these awesome qualities, Droit Elementor Addons has won the prestigious TemplateMonster round-up award for the best Elementor Plugin of 2021 with an overwhelming majority of upvotes, among 26 other awesome Elementor plugins.

Key Features Include

70+ Widgets
250+ Elements/Blocks
25+ pre-built Template Pages
WooCommerece Widgets
WPML Compatibility
Live Copy-Paste
Header, Footer, & Mega Menu Builder

ElementsKit Elementor addons

Same as the previous plugin, ElementsKit features an array of extensive improvements over the Elementor page builder - all under one roof. With ElementsKit’s pre-built layouts users can create stunning designs for their website in no time. ElementsKit’s layout library comes with 80+ complete demos and over 400+ blocks from which users can create unique, interactive & creative websites.

In addition to its massive library of pre-built content, ElementsKit comes with 70+ free/premium widgets to make the web page building process smoother with many creative possibilities.

Key Features Include

70+ Widgets
400+ Elements/Blocks
WooCommerece Widgets
One Page Scroll
Widget Builder
Header, Footer Builder

Essential Addons for Elementor:

Essential Addons for Elementor is one of the most popular addons plugins on WordPress.org, with its rapid growth of its million+ active installations and counting. Essential Addons has gained notoriety for its aesthetically pleasing UI experience.

This Elementor addon comes with both free and premium versions. The free version comes with over 50+ widgets that are comparable to Elementor pro’s feature set. These widgets are enough to fulfill the user's basic web page building needs.

And for further complex projects, Essential Addons has a Pro version with more features packed widgets. With these widgets, users can create Parallex effects to interactive responsive blocks with ease. It’s a lightweight plugin that doesn’t slow down your site.

Key Features Include

70+ Widgets
1700+ Elements/Blocks
Pre-built Template Pages library
WooCommerece Widgets
Parallax Effects creation

Premium Addons for Elementor

Premium Addons for Elementor is a lightweight, fully responsive, user-friendly Elementor addon plugin, that is cross-browser compatible, WPML ready, and much more. With its sophisticated feature set, you can create a stunning website in no time.

In addition, Premium Addons is a fully modular plugin that enables ultra-fast performance by enabling the items you use and disabling the rest. This Elementor add-on plugin offers both free and premium versions.

Premium Addons offer over 20+ widgets in the free version and over 30+ in the premium version. The free version doesn't have much to offer, but the few free widgets that are included are versatile and can improve the look, feel, and functionality of your website.

Key Features Include

60+ Widgets & Addons
350+ Template library
Floating Effects
Lottie Animation Intregration

Happy Addons for Elementor

Happy Addons for Elementor is a robust Elementor addon plugin that is designed and built to improve the user experience with more added web page building elements.

This plugin comes with intuitive designs, powerful widgets, and customization modules to improve your website's visuals and functionality.

Happy Addons for Elementor has both free and premium versions, with the free version you get 25+ feature-rich widgets, & 20+ premium widgets that comes with a library of preset demos and elements to improve your Elementor page builder experience and speed up your WordPress website creation process.

Key Features Include

90+ Elementor Free & Pro Widgets
400+ pre-built elementor blocks
Mega Menu Builder
70+ full-page Elementor Templates

How To Add Dark Mode To Your WordPress Website

Kevin David — Wed, 07 Apr 2021 06:54:12 +0000

We start with the Dark Mode plugin for WordPress, which allows you to activate the night mode on the WordPress Dashboard and Frontend. It’s easy to use and free.

The first thing you need to do is install and activate the Droit Dark Mode plugin. Upon activation, you need to visit the Settings > Droit Dark Mode Setting page and check the box “Enable Frontend Darkmode”, “Enable default Dark Mode” & “Enable backend Dark Mode” option.

Don’t forget to click on the save changes button to store your settings. Your WordPress admin area and frontend will now switch to the night mode.

For instance, you just need to click the Display Settings tab to change the style of the floating switch:

You can also customize the dark mode colors using the Style in Preset Design tab:

Now, you can comfortably write and work on your website at night without straining your eyes.

Credit: DroitThemes

How Can I Protect My WordPress Website from Hacking?

Kevin David — Thu, 22 Oct 2020 11:44:44 +0000

Want to protect your WordPress site against hacking? But you don’t know about web security? It’s really crucial and you must know “how can I protect my WordPress website from hacking efficiently”. Or else, you could lose your website.

Many of the professionals I advise for their internet marketing overlook the risks of piracy. They think this only happens to the most visible sites, or to those who host sensitive data. Here's how to set up good protection for free.

For example, know that the last of my sites to have been targeted by a hacker is nothing like a web giant: it receives an average of 150 visits per day, and I don't sell anything directly on it.

This site simply receives links from other sites that my prospects frequent and it is in the top 3 of Google for several keywords in its theme. This is the best way to attract as many qualified visitors as possible, and unfortunately, it does not take more to bring in pirates and spammers of all kinds.

I don't know your web strategy, but I'm pretty sure it involves promoting your site. So it's best to take 5 minutes to prepare for unwanted visitors.

7 Ways to keep your WordPress website from hacking

Keep WordPress up to date

WordPress is popular; a large number of users imply a large number of hackers, on the lookout for any forgotten update to exploit possible security bugs. It is therefore imperative to carry out the updates as quickly as possible via your administration panel.

Updates are indicated directly as soon as they are released, and the same goes for plugins. Do not forget to update your plugins; they are often the source of a successful hack.

Back up database and files regularly

In the event of a problem, you can always find your files and databases if you had previously backed them up. To save the database, you can do it on the command line, via your PHPMyAdmin- style administration interface, or via a plugin provided for Backup.

Change username

Don’t ever keep your main admin user name; try to change it. If you keep the main user name on your admin panel surely hackers will find a way to hack your website.

Protect the server

To properly secure your WordPress site, you must also think of the server. Delete the readme.html file installed in the root of your installation which contains the version of WordPress.

Use HTTPS

HTTPS allows encryption of data transmitted between a client and a server. When this data is not encrypted and is recovered on the fly, I do not describe the problem that can happen if it is the administrator password.

Install essential security plugins

The Better Wp Security plugin is very effective in automating certain tasks that we have seen. It allows you to secure your WordPress site with a ton of options. Hide the option "My WP protects" your site by hiding sensitive files and folders. The Baw anti-Csrf plugin protects you from CSRF attacks.

To remain vigilant

A complicated password is worth 10 simple ones. Do not use this same password for several different sites/services. Do not click on offers that are too attractive, even less if you are asked for your password.

Avoid logging on to a computer that does not belong to you, because even in HTTPS you are not safe from key loggers.

Wood fence the best WordPress security plugin (recommended)

The first thing you have to do that is to install the plugin. You can do it automatically from the dashboard of your site (by searching for Wordfence security), or else get the Plugin here and install it manually. It will take not more than a maximum of 2 minutes.

Then activate the plugin, and follow the guided tour if you want to familiarize yourself with the menus. You have it for 1 minute.
Once Wordfence is activated, you need to configure it. Open the administration menu (by clicking on the Wordfence tab which appeared in the left column) and click on Options. In the first window to fill, you will indicate to which email address Wordfence will send alerts in the event of an attack.

The second window contains an activation code that has been automatically assigned to you; you do not have to touch it. Below is a drop-down menu, which allows you to choose the level of security you want.

If you do not want to configure everything by hand select Level 2, this is the security level that is best suited. Then click on save changes, just below. This configuration step will take you a minute to break everything.

To finish you will simply launch a first full scan of your site, by clicking on Scan in the left menu; then on the blue Start a Wordfence Scan button.

Wordfence will now scan all of your files as I explained earlier, and it will notify you if any have been changed.

This will be the case if you have WordPress in other languages. In this case, do not panic, when you will see the alert messages you will only have to click on See how the file has changed to see precisely what has been changed in the file. These are normally passages in English that have been translated.

Once you have verified that your files have not undergone any dangerous modifications, you just have to click on Ignore until it changes and Wordfence will consider them as healthy files during its daily scans.

There is a paid version of Wordfence, which offers you more possibilities and a higher level of service. But even the free version of this plugin is superior to most of the paid tools that exist.

Final Thoughts

According to Google, the number of pirated sites worldwide increased by more than 30% in 2019 compared to the previous year. The attacks come from all over the world, and they are obviously automated.

These are malicious programs that automatically scan large amounts of sites for vulnerabilities. So, Follow my steps properly or use wood fence for your website. These are the only way to know how can I protect my WordPress website from hacking.