Plugin profile · observed daily since 02 Aug 2026
Elementor Website Builder – more than just a page builder
Active installs10,000,000+ at API ceiling
Current authorElementor
Owner changesNone while we have been watching
Last release7 days ago 31 Aug 2026
Support29 / 49 resolved, last 2 months
Releases on record448
Rating4.5 /5 · 7,297
Added to directory30 May 2016
Requires WP6.8
Requires PHP7.4
Version lag0 up to date
Tested up toWP 7.1 up to date
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Ownership
Held by Elementor throughout, with no change of ownership observed since daily tracking began on 02 Aug 2026.
Full observed history, including every field transition
Committing accounts
Read from the plugin’s public release log, so these predate this registry. A committing account is not an owner. Thirty accounts commit to WooCommerce and it has never changed hands.
| Account | Releases | First | Last |
|---|---|---|---|
| KingYes | 446 | 25 Aug 2020 | 06 Aug 2026 |
This registry did not observe a transfer; it read these names off a public log. Whether that reflects a change of ownership is not something the directory publishes.
Adoption
How widely the plugin is installed, and what the people running it think of it. WordPress.org rounds install figures to one significant digit, so they describe an order of magnitude rather than a headcount, and this plugin sits at 10,000,000, the highest figure the API will report, so its true install count is unknowable and cannot be compared against another plugin at the same ceiling.
Very widely adopted: 10,000,000+ active installs. In the top tier of the directory by install count.
559,502 downloads a day over the last 7 days, rising 362% against the 7 days before. Downloads are counted exactly and without a ceiling, so they show movement the rounded install figure cannot.
07 Aug 2026peak 3,356,225/day07 Sep 2026
6 ratings left in the last 39 days, averaging 3.7 out of 5 against a lifetime average of 4.5 (2 of them one or two stars). Recent ratings are running below the lifetime figure, which an average built over years would hide.
From recent reviews
What reviewers wrote on wordpress.org between 29 May 2026 and 27 Aug 2026: 54 reviews, counted by theme. Every count links to the reviews behind it.
What reviewers praise most in this window is how easy the plugin is to build with: 19 of 54 reviews credit its ease of use or design flexibility, several of them from people describing client sites built without code. The complaints cluster on two themes. Performance is raised in 16 reviews, from editor slowness to the weight of the pages it produces, and the version 4 'Atomic' editor rework is mentioned in 12, eleven of them critically, chiefly over changed workflows and time lost relearning them. Two smaller threads run through the window: four reviews object to upgrade prompts inside the WordPress admin, and four describe support requests that ended unresolved.
- 19 of 54 praise ease of use or design flexibility. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] [15] [16] [17] [18] [19]
- 16 of 54 mention performance: editor speed, page weight or server resource use. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] [15] [16]
- 12 of 54 mention the version 4 'Atomic' editor rework, 11 of them critically. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12]
- 4 of 54 mention promotional messages or upgrade prompts in the admin. [1] [2] [3] [4]
- 4 of 54 describe support requests that did not resolve their issue. [1] [2] [3] [4]
Counted from the public review forum on 27 Aug 2026. The reviews are their authors’ own words and their own claims; the counts are ours.
Daily record
Every field we record, one column per observation. Fields that never moved are named once rather than repeated across every column. A row of identical numbers would be padding.
| Field | 25 Aug | 26 Aug | 27 Aug | 28 Aug | 29 Aug | 30 Aug | 31 Aug | 01 Sep | 02 Sep | 03 Sep | 04 Sep | 05 Sep | 06 Sep | 07 Sep |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Downloads that day | — | 142,974 | 147,588 | 110,363 | 116,993 | 88,367 | 74,815 | 182,570 | 2,650,479 | 442,725 | 255,975 | 174,915 | 109,933 | 99,915 |
| Ratings total | 7,296 | 7,296 | 7,296 | 7,297 | 7,297 | 7,297 | 7,297 | 7,297 | 7,297 | 7,297 | 7,297 | 7,297 | 7,297 | 7,297 |
| Version | 4.2.3 | 4.2.3 | 4.2.3 | 4.2.3 | 4.2.3 | 4.2.3 | 4.2.3 | 4.2.4 | 4.2.4 | 4.2.4 | 4.2.4 | 4.2.4 | 4.2.4 | 4.2.4 |
| Support threads | 43 | 42 | 41 | 41 | 41 | 42 | 42 | 43 | 44 | 44 | 49 | 50 | 50 | 49 |
| Threads resolved | 32 | 32 | 31 | 31 | 31 | 31 | 30 | 30 | 33 | 32 | 30 | 30 | 30 | 29 |
Unchanged throughout: active installs (10,000,000+)
37 days of observation, most recent 14 shown.
Maintenance
When it was last released, and how far its declared compatibility has drifted from current WordPress.
Added to directory10 years ago 30 May 2016
Requires WP6.8
Requires PHP7.4
Version lagcurrent
Is anyone still maintaining this?
- Last released 31 Aug 2026, 7 days ago.
- Declares compatibility with WordPress 7.1, which is current.
- 29 of 49 support threads answered in the last two months.
- The same account maintains 13 other plugins, 7 of which were updated in the last 90 days. the account is active.
A plugin that does one thing correctly may need no changes for years; a long gap is not, by itself, evidence of neglect.
History
Everything dated that this registry holds about the plugin, most recent first. Releases carry the author’s own release date; everything else is dated to when it was observed.
Entries marked from the release log predate this registry, and daily observation began 02 Aug 2026. They were read from the plugin’s public SVN history after the fact, not watched as they happened. Everything else was observed directly.
- 31 Aug 20267 days agoVersion 4.2.4 released
- 27 Aug 202611 days agoVersion 4.2.3 released
- 06 Aug 20261 month agoVersion 4.2.2 released
- 02 Aug 20261 month agoFirst observed by PluginPediaDaily snapshots of this plugin’s directory record begin here. Everything above this line is observed; anything before it comes from fields the API itself reports.
- 28 Jul 20261 month agoVersion 4.2.1 released
- 20 Jul 20262 months agoVersion 4.2.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by KingYes.
- 14 Jul 20262 months agoVersion 4.1.5 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by KingYes.
- 14 Jul 20262 months agoVersion 4.2.0-beta2 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by KingYes.
- 14 Jul 20262 months agoVersion 4.2.0-dev2 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by KingYes.
- 22 Jun 20263 months agoVersion 4.2.0-beta1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by KingYes.
- 21 Jun 20263 months agoVersion 4.1.4 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by KingYes.
- 10 Jun 20263 months agoVersion 4.1.3 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by KingYes.
- 08 Jun 20263 months agoVersion 4.1.2 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by KingYes.
- 27 May 20263 months agoVersion 4.1.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by KingYes.
- 26 May 20263 months agoVersion 4.1.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by KingYes.
- 20 May 20264 months agoVersion 4.1.0-beta3 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by KingYes.
- 20 May 20264 months agoVersion 4.1.0-dev3 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by KingYes.
- 25 Aug 20206 years ago432 earlier releasesfrom the release logBetween 25 Aug 2020 and 19 May 2026. Listed individually in the public release log rather than here.
- 30 May 201610 years agoAdded to the WordPress.org directoryReported by the plugin API as the date this plugin was added.
Media coverage
Writing about this plugin elsewhere, collected by this registry. The links go to the sources; what they claim is theirs.
- 06 Apr 2026 · 4 WordPress Plugins Patched in March 2026 (Elementor CVE-2026-1206, fixed in 3.35.8)mySites.guru
- 28 Dec 2025 · web.fwrd 2025 recap: Unveiling the next generation of web creationElementor
- 08 Jun 2022 · Elementor Acquires Strattic To Redefine WordPress HostingElementor
- 08 Jun 2022 · Elementor Acquires StratticWP Tavern
- 28 Feb 2020 · Elementor Raises $15 Million, Plans to Invest in the Team, Product, and CommunityWP Tavern
What we know, and what we don’t
Everything on this page in one place, including the gaps, so that nothing here is mistaken for a clean bill of health.
What we know
- It has been held by Elementor for all 39 days we have observed it.
- It was last released 7 days ago (31 Aug 2026).
- Its author declares it tested up to WordPress 7.1, which is current.
- WordPress.org reports 10,000,000+ active installs.
- It carries 7,297 ratings, averaging 4.5 out of 5.
- 29 of 49 support threads in the last two months are marked resolved.
What can’t be known
- Its true install count. WordPress.org stops counting at its ceiling, so this plugin cannot be told apart from another reported at the same figure. More observation does not help; the source is not measuring it.
Every record on this site, this one included, works under the same limits. We read what WordPress.org publishes about a plugin, never the plugin’s own code, so nothing here says whether a plugin is well built or safe. Install counts reach us already rounded; a change smaller than a band step doesn’t show. We don’t track security advisories yet. For anything older than our first observation we rely on the plugin’s public release log, where one exists. What this registry can and cannot see
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