Essential Addons for Elementor
by WPDeveloper
The largest Elementor widget library, adding sliders, tabs, pricing tables and WooCommerce elements.
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What Essential Addons for Elementor does
The largest Elementor widget library, adding sliders, tabs, pricing tables and WooCommerce elements.
It sits in the page builder part of a WordPress stack and is sold by WPDeveloper on a freemium basis. We recommend it in our page builder guides because it does that one job well without asking you to rebuild the rest of the site around it.
Every plugin adds work to a page request, so treat this as a decision with a cost. Record a speed test before you install it and run the same test afterwards, on the same page, so you know exactly what it charged you.
Real user ratings
Score
4.9/5
Reviews
4,118
Active installs
1,000,000+
Downloads
133.5M
Latest version
6.8.3
Last updated
2026-08-31
These figures come straight from the public WordPress.org plugin directory API for version 6.8.3, not from us. Check them yourself on the WordPress.org listing. Our own editorial score is 4.9/5.
Where Essential Addons for Elementor ranks elsewhere
Essential Addons for Elementor does not appear in the published "best of" lists we track from WPBeginner, TechRadar, Kinsta, Themeisle and similar sites. That is not a mark against it - those roundups are short and skew towards the biggest names.
What changed in the latest version
- Fixed: A fatal error that could break the site or the Elementor editor when Essential Addons Pro was active alongside the latest Lite update
- Few minor bug fixes & improvements
- Added: Angie AI Integration | Elementor's agentic AI can now discover Essential Addons widgets and their control schemas, so you can prompt Angie to build and customize EA widgets right inside the editor
- Few minor bug fixes & improvements
- Fixed: EA Gravity Forms | Submit and Next/Previous button styles stopped applying after the Gravity Forms 3.0 update
- Improved: EA Login/Register Form | Strengthened nonce and CAPTCHA validation on login, registration and password reset - thanks to Gaurav Popalghat for the security research
- Improved: EA Login/Register Form | Hardened Custom Profile Field handling during registration - thanks to Jakub Herman for the security research
- Improved: EA Advanced Tabs | Strengthened URL fragment handling
- Few minor bug fixes & improvements
Release notes are the developer's own words, published on WordPress.org. Read the full changelog
Pros and cons
- Covers nearly every widget people install Elementor for
- A free tier you can trial before paying
- Actively maintained and used on production sites we test
- Load only the widgets you use or asset weight climbs
- The features most sites need sit in the paid tier
How to use it
- 1Install on a staging copy first if the site takes money.
- 2Work through the setup wizard and connect any external accounts it needs.
- 3Configure the one feature you installed it for, and leave the rest off.
- 4Test the result as a logged-out visitor on both mobile and desktop.
- 5Re-run our speed test to confirm the plugin has not cost you load time.
How it compares
Other page builder plugins we recommend, with their rating and pricing model.
| Plugin | Our rating | WordPress.org | Pricing | Best for |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Essential Addons for Elementor | 4.9 | 4.9 (4,118) | Freemium | Covers nearly every widget people install Elementor for |
| Elementor | 4.5 | 4.5 (7,297) | Freemium | You can design any layout without touching code |
| ElementsKit | 4.9 | 4.9 (2,037) | Freemium | Mega menu and header builder in the free tier |
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