Elementor Pro 3.1 Experimental & New Features - My Thoughts!

Elementor Pro 3.1 has a range of new experimental features that are in the alpha and beta phases. Let's see if they make any difference to speed!

We'll also take a look at some of the other new features on offer and I'll give you my honest impressions of what's included.

Improved DOM Performance
Improved Asset Loading
Code Highlight Widget

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[ronrichardson]

"Code Snippets" is my go to... but I tried Elementor Custom Code and works as advertised. I did have a slight issue with then removing the one I created - there was no way to delete if from Trash. I found this when exporting / importing. Before I deleted it, I did a WP > Tools > Export. Then trashed it and then Tools > Import. It failed as it was still in Trash. If I created another Custom Code entry then Trash appeared and I could remove and then successfully Import.

[stratos-tutorials]

Thanks Paul. Shouldn't the load only active elements always be active? Propaboy it a safe switch for 3 party. Also you should check the requests of the page witch it a better comparing number than load seconds. Send you message through website form about Oxygen.

[coreykretsinger]

I tried enabling the experiments and it didn't do much at all. I did notice some problems with things not working right afterwards inside of the editor, so I wound up disabling it all again. Still trying to figure out the logic of adding experimental code into a product meant for live websites. This should have been an optional add-on, or set of add-on's in my opinion.

The other stuff is okay. Being able to add custom code was long overdue so I am happy about that.

[robfowler]

I had played with the alpha and had a few strange things occure and exactly as you said a long way to go, and yes I can think of other directions of development.
Recently I have been playing with Oxygen Builder which has some problems but seem to be heading in the right direction of being a complete site builder (Doing away with the Theme which in wordpress are the bigest limiter). Years ago when elementor started down the track of header, footer and templates builders and an attempt of a site styler which was counter active of most themes especialy OceanWP (Now the slowest in the bunch). Some time ago they seemed to have stoped that direction of development. Now they seemed to have realised the bigest disadvantage on the web these days is load times. I have found the speed problems with most sites is the Theme and the more options they use to sell there product and attempt to capture the market.

Interesting thing I did was using Oxygen Builder and Elementor together as I have invested lots of time into Elementor Plugins and was supprised how well they played together with just making a Header and Footer global template with a PHP code block in Oxygen and tested with GTMetrix and was reasnobly faster than using OceanWP or your beloved GeneratePress. There is food for thort for Elementor. Below is the code block;
<?php
while (have_posts()) {
the_post();
the_content();
}
?>.

[SevenMarketing]

Nice to see that Elementor is creating a structure for a soft rollout of features. We get early access to them ... and they get real world feedback on any problems that don't show up in testing.

It is pretty clear to me from this release that they are taking a conservative approach to implementing this conditional activation feature. Perhaps in the future we will see a wider list of options here as they identify portions of their code that dramatically affect performance and are only needed if your site utilizes certain features...

Any way, it is nice to see tgey are giving end users more flexibility on what features are ... and are NOT ... active.

[MariusH]

Just adding that in real life caching is necessary for any wp site, and when gzipping, minifying and combining assets (not to mention critical css), things change dramatically and speed issues barely occur. So any extra effort could just be idealistic.

[brentedg]

Thanks for the video. I hope they keep improving the performance. Are they going to add more conditions for popups? Like pop up 3 times, then not again for 30 days. This has been one of my issues with clients.

[WIThEMaN]

Thanks, the comparison is what I wanted to see. But custom breakpoints are already implemented in site settings is it not?

[thepurpleufo]

Thanks for the interesting and helpful video.

[louisooi]

Thanks for the comparison, for this test did u use any others plugin on the test site? And what theme did u used for the design?

[twmcmahan]

Why are the F'in around with code snippets, when there are plenty of good options and it has nothing to do with the front end development of your site, when they could be expanding out and fixing the half-assed stuff they already released?

[christianschneiderphoto]

56 requests?! That’s insane for a site like that. I bet on oxygen that would be 24 with a tot size of 259kb. And still no repeater support, custom loop support etc? They are really avoiding the stuff everyone needs.

[kjangmy]

Looks like Elementor has hit the wall and is now clutching at straws
BTW I have 22 site using Elementor :(

[srceko]

Bunch of patches and minor features and a massive price increase. All that time most requested features like Custom loops and Conditional logic are collecting dust on their GitHub for years. It seems like they are focused on milking their existing costumers and diversifying company portfolio with SaaS offerings.

[babakfp]

Who cares about optimization and SEO when the website doesn't. Elementor seems to be dead :)

[davidadams]

Alpha or even Beta code in a plugin designed for production, irrespective of whether such features can be toggled, shouldn't even be considered, let alone published! Totally irresponsible. If they want dev feedback, create a dev version of the plugin. Are you listening, Elementor?