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Addon Elements for Elementor (formerly Elementor Addon Elements)
Great widgets that won't stop begging for top ratings.
HealthyGrowing
68/100
The plugin provides useful widgets but features aggressive review nagging and a restrictive paywall.
Active installs
~95,000
our estimate · wp.org shows 90k+
Rating
4.8★
172 ratings
Trend · vs a year ago
+72%
Growing fast
302 → 519 installs/day
Downloads over time
real new installs per day · release spikes shown separately from the trend2025-04-302025-08-082025-11-162026-02-232026-06-03
organicrelease spikerelease tailorganic trend · 14d rolling median
Growing fast · +72% in the last year
302/day a year ago→519/day today
Reviews
what people actually sayAddon Elements for Elementor is generally well-regarded as a lightweight, free Elementor add-on with responsive support, but a notable complaint exists that many features are locked behind a paid upgrade, and the plugin draws repeated criticism for aggressively prompting users for reviews.
What people like
- +Responsive and effective support team×2
- +Useful individual widgets/features that complement other Elementor add-ons×3
- +Lightweight due to ability to enable or disable individual features
- +Free to use (at least in part)×2
- +Solves specific problems other plugins could not×2
Common complaints
- −Many or all features reported as locked behind a paid upgrade, making the free version effectively unusable
- −Plugin repeatedly and intrusively prompts users for ratings/reviews×2
Review trustMostly organic
- 4.91★Verified rating — holds steady vs the raw 4.80★
- 16%One-shot reviewers — most reviewers are active community members
- past spikeReview timing — up to 33% of all reviews landed in a single month
Reviews per month · 5★ vs lower
2023-10-182025-02-092026-06-04
5★ reviews1–4★ reviews
All-time ratings · 172 total
Latest reviews · 90 analyzed
- 2025-03-15★★★★★Every Feature is disabled for Pro Use Only!preechamon
- 2024-01-23★★★★★Super solid support!crklzr
- 2023-10-07★★★★★Intuitivehegonza
- 2023-06-07★★★★★Annoyingdirtymike1-shot
- 2023-05-15★★★★★Puts Clutter everywhere constantly asking for rating!derspace
- 2023-05-05★★★★★Gemakkelijk en goedjakobsen
- 2023-05-02★★★★★great editor!!jerrychang925
- 2023-04-23★★★★★Very usefultotamal
- 2023-04-21★★★★★Great support!alektid
- 2023-04-12★★★★★Helped me out with modal and repeater blockkgknora1-shot
Releases
recent versions from WordPress.org SVNFor developers & the curious
the raw signals behind the grade — none of this is on the friendly summary aboveDownload signals
Baselines are computed on organic days only — release spikes and their tails are excluded, so they're not inflated by the auto-update wave.
456
Baseline · median of last 7 organic days
442
Prior 7-day baseline
334
Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days
1,885
Mean release-day peak (30d)
479
Latest day · 2026-06-03(organic)
+3.2%
Week-over-week organic trend
Review signals
Concentration and drive-by metrics drive the review-burst and fake-review flags. 30–40% solo reviewers is normal; we only flag the extremes.
33%
Max month share · biggest single 30-day window
3.16
Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty
94%
5★ share in analyzed sample
16%
Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity
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Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo
4.83 → 4.91★
Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered