Elementor vs Divi: Which is a better fit?

Mike: Hi, I'm Mike. I'm the founder of E-Motion. We are a digital marketing agency based in Spain. We serve clients mainly in Spain and in Latin America. We do website building, social media, email marketing, sales funnels with webinars, et cetera. We are, at the moment, four people with some freelancers as well, and we give five stars to Elementor. So our workplace environment goes back way, more or less, 10 years ago. We started using the building workplace editor, which if you have used it, it's very hard to work with, especially back in the days. There's no really visual way to develop your website. You need a lot of coding experience. Then we started using DV, we call it here, maybe it's Divi in English, I have no idea, but that's another plugin visual editor, let's say it for WordPress, but it's a half-baked one. You have some control over what you can do, but really you still need some abstract understanding of how a website works. So definitely compared with Elementor, they're really bad. That's my thoughts about it. When we first knew about Elementor, we thought it was like yet another one of those so-called solutions, what you get, what you see editors that don't work. But once we tried it out, we soon realized that this is totally different, and it was really working great. We could actually put more design people on the website as well, which is actually one of the main things that we were looking for. That people without that much of coding experiences could actually, who are good in designs that actually could build them visually. And that was actually the main reason. The drag and drop really worked well. The way you would build it actually was 95% already what people would see, and nowadays, I would say 100% of what people are seeing already, both on their mobile or on their laptop. So for existing websites, the integration was a bit tough in the sense that we had to create them from scratch again. Nowadays with Elementor, the great thing that you have, you can actually, if you already have an existing website made by another platform, another builder, you can actually copy it and Elementor will use that, know the codes, and will create the templates for you within Elementor, which makes it really, really easy to have it up and running. So that's not an issue anymore. But for every new website that we do, we definitely, we just start with Elementor and it's really easy to set up. It's really easy for everyone to work with. You don't need any coding experiences. Just if you know how to drag and drop some elements that you have a baseline understanding of how you want to create your website, then you're done. And actually, if you don't have any idea, there's so many templates already made for you that you can just select those templates and adapt into the colors and your branding actually. So it's really, really easy to work with nowadays. Okay, so if you're new to website building, definitely start with Elementor if you were using WordPress as a platform, the basic version is for free, which already gives you a lot of things. As I mentioned, the drag and drop is really easy to use. I think if I put my grandmother on it, she would know how to use it. So that's really a plus. And then if you want to go a step further, you can go and pay for the Elementor Pro, which just has some features that you don't have within the basic version, and it's really not expensive. So definitely go for it if you want to have a nice looking website for your goods or services that emits a professional design for your customers, then no doubt about Elementor.

Joel: Hi, my name is Joel. I'm the pastor of a growing church called Pentecostal Lighthouse Church in Ajax, Ontario, and I give Divi a five out of five rating. We switched from using Squarespace to run our website platform. We were really trying to use something that was easy to navigate and edit on the fly without knowing a lot of backend code. So we ended up switching from Squarespace to Divi based on the cost. We chose Divi because there was, A, lot more cost savings. Squarespace was raising its prices to the point where it was getting too much to navigate on a monthly basis. And then, we loved the flexibility of Divi. It gave us a little bit more customization than we had with Squarespace. Onboarding with Divi was a little bit more of a curve, learning curve than it was with Squarespace. There was a little bit more of learning the how things work. Thankfully, we had someone walking us through it, so there was some great tutorials available online, which helped a lot. And also, we had an expert graphic designer who had used Divi before, and he helped us navigate some of the challenges that we had. So onboarding it was a little bit more laborious than it was with Squarespace, but the end result is better. My recommendation, if you're considering using Divi, is find someone who's used it before. They are super helpful in walking you through some of the learning curve issues. If you don't have that ability, really lean heavily into their training videos. Take the time. I know a lot of times you just want to get it up and get it going, but do take the time to invest in your learning the back end so that you can use it to its full extent.