What’s the difference between BoldGrid and Elementor?

Hi Steven-

Thanks for the question! I’ll do my best to answer everything for you.

1. Do you do plug-ins or page builder or site builder

Actually, all three. Our “Site-Builder” is a plugin called BoldGrid Inspirations. Install this plugin on a brand-new site to choose one of BoldGrid’s themes and starter content set, along with all of BoldGrid’s other plugins and working contact forms by weForms.
Our Post and Page Builder plugin then lets you create your pages by using our professionally designed library of layouts to quickly build your pages, and get fine-grained control over every design aspect of your pages.
Our other plugins include BoldGrid Easy SEO and Total Upkeep to complete the BoldGrid suite.

2. What is difference with BoldGrid vs. Elementor or Brizy

Elementor and Brizy are both “Front-end” editors, while BoldGrid’s editor is “back-end” (although it is WYSIWYG). The biggest difference between the Post and Page Builder and other builders is the enormous library of professionally designed “blocks.” These aren’t like the blocks in other builders, like paragraph, button, image or other primitive elements (although you can use those too). BoldGrid’s block library is full of layouts for different sections of your site, like pricing tables, calls-to-action, video embeds, and many others.

3. I assume you use WooCommerce or what other?

Yes, BoldGrid’s suite of plugins and themes is compatible with WooCommerce, or any other WordPress e-commerce solution you’d like to use.

For you, I’d highly recommend trying it out in our Cloud WordPress system, which lets you create testing WordPress websites in our cloud. That way you can try it easily to see how you like it without making any changes to your website. If you create something you’d like to keep, you can easily use Total Upkeep to migrate your Cloud site to your host.

Hi Steven-

Haha! Yeah, I get that a lot with such a famous namesake.

The BoldGrid Theme Framework comes pre-installed with the popular Google Fonts library since all of those fonts are licensed to be used for free for any website. If you have a website license for Another Typewriter, however, I recommend checking out the plugin Use Any Font which will let you upload your font and use it directly in the BoldGrid Customizer, just as if it were built-in.

That plugin also works with Elementor as well, so it might solve your immediate problem without changing your whole workflow.

Sizing images is also pretty easy. You simply use our drag-and-drop interface to modify your image size:

We recommend weForms as our forms plugin of choice, but you can use any forms plugin you’re comfortable with. A new BoldGrid Inspirations site includes several pre-made weForms forms for you to choose from or modify, already configured with the contact information you enter when you go through the sitebuilding wizard.

Sidebars are handled in the Theme Customizer, where you’ll find all of WordPress’s widgets available for you to use, as well as some specialized ones we include in the BoldGrid Theme Framework.

InMotion is one of our closest hosting partners, and your subscription there already includes BoldGrid’s Premium products (other than the Crio SuperTheme).