PROS
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> Easy to use
> Social & review widgets for Yelp, Google, and Facebook
> Modular design so you can enable only the features you want
> Pricing is affordable and simple
> Lifetime license is available
CONS
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> No WooCommerce widgets
> Templates are only available for blocks and landing pages
Premium Addons is an addon plugin for Elementor that offers both free and paid widgets and features. Notable widgets include image hotspots, tables and data, testimonials and reviews, cross-domain copy paste, and others. The plugin claims to be the most innovative plugin for Elementor but will it live up to the expectations?
In this review, we’ll take the Premium Addons plugin for a spin, take a look at its features, go over the support and pricing options, and cover the pros and cons.
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Let’s take a look at the ease of use of the Premium Addons plugin by going through the installation and setup process. .
Premium Addons follows the same installation process as other WordPress plugins. Since it offers both free and pro version, you can either install it from the official repository or by uploading the zip folder with the plugin files. Here’s a quick rundown of the process.
If you’re starting with the free version of the plugin, log in to your WordPress dashboard and go to Plugins > Add new. Search for Premium Addons and click the Install button. When the plugin is done installing, click the Activate button.
If you’re starting with the premium version or if you’ve downloaded the free version from their official website, save the plugin folder somewhere where you can easily access it. Then, in your WordPress dashboard go to Plugins > Add new > Upload. Click Choose Files and locate the zipped plugin folder on your computer. Press Install and once the plugin is installed, click Activate.
You can then begin using the plugin and exploring its features.
The Premium Addons Dashboard is nicely organized into different sections. You’ll notice a general screen that has links to their Facebook group, community forums, and support section with the documentation.
You’ll also find tabs where you can access various widgets and activate them individually or in bulk. Each widget has links to its demo, documentation, and video tutorial.
You can filter the widgets based on categories using the sidebar on the left-hand side or you can use the drop-down menu on the top right to filter through free and premium widgets.
In addition to that, you can add your API keys for various integrations and configure the white label options if you’ve purchased the premium version of the plugin.
Once you’ve configured all the widgets, it’s time to see the plugin in action. To use the plugin, you can edit an existing page or create a new one by going to Pages > Add new > Edit With Elementor.
Once the Elementor’s editor loads, select a Premium Addon widget you want and drag it over to your page. As you can see, using the Premium Addons widget offers the same experience as using the built-in Elementor widgets.
You can easily modify the contents, style the widget to your liking, duplicate it, or save it as a global widget.
Now that we’ve covered the plugin’s ease of use, let’s go over the core features.
Widgets
Premium Addon plugin offers 55+ free and premium widgets for Elementor. Most of the widgets are on par with similar plugins and include widgets such as:
• Advanced headings
• Fancy animated text
• Buttons
• Calls to action
• Team members widget
• Bullet lists
• Countdowns
• And more
However, you’ll also find several unique widgets such as:
• Reviews and testimonials widget
• Image carousels
• Image separators
• Blog carousels
• Image comparison widget
• Image hotspots with freehand design experience
• And others
The reviews and testimonials widget can be set up to include online reviews from websites like Facebook, Google, and Yelp and the image widgets make it easy to display your images in unique and creative ways.
It’s worth mentioning that most of the unique widgets offered by the Premium Addons plugin are available on the paid version of the plugin so you’ll need to upgrade your license to be able to use them.
Templates
When it comes to templates, Premium Addons offers an ever-growing library of templates. In other words, new templates are added every month.
However, looking at the templates, you’ll find only block or section templates. There are no dedicated page templates except for coming soon and very barebones landing pages.
The templates can be filtered based on the widget or addon you want to add to your page. You can preview them and then insert them onto your page with a click of a button.
They do have a modern design and they are quite easy to edit and customize. They will save you some time while designing your website but if you’re looking for premade page templates, you’ll have to start from scratch or wait until more page templates are added to Premium Addons.
If you’ve used Elementor for any period of time, you know that you can copy any element and paste it anywhere else on your site. The problem is that this feature only works as long as you’re copying and pasting the content on the same site.
If you’re working with multiple websites, you can work around this limitation by saving and exporting your layout and then importing it to your other website. However, this solution is less than ideal.
Premium Addons has a nifty feature that solves that problem. Thanks to Cross-site Copy Paste, you can easily copy and paste any Elementor content from one website to another with just a couple of clicks. What’s even better, this feature is available for free!
Premium Addons offers several different animation effects for your website. You’ll find the standard parallax background as well as animated gradients, background transitions, ken burns effects, particles, and more.
In addition to that, every element that has an icon or an image can be animated using the Lottie animations. If you want to make your calls to action really stand out, this could be an interesting way to do it.
However, be careful when enabling animations and adding them to your site as too many of them can slow your site down or make it look unprofessional.
Aside from the features listed above, Premium Addons has a few more notable features that are worth mentioning. These include:
• Magic sections which allow you to display additional content when a trigger like a button, image, or icon is clicked. The section can show up in a few different ways: slide in above the content, push the content aside, placed at the top or bottom, and more.
• Duplication feature allows you to easily duplicate existing pages and posts. This is useful if you want to recreate the same layout and make minor modifications to the content without saving the layout as a template in Elementor.
• Freehand design allows you to design awesome layouts with your mouse. This feature is available in most of the widgets and addons.
• Modular plugin design so you can enable and disable widgets as needed. This keeps the plugin lightweight and reduces the load time on your server so your website keeps loading fast.
• WPML support so you can use the Premium Addons plugin to create a multilingual website.
• Chart and data widgets so you can easily create Line Chart, Bar Chart, Doughnut Chart, Radar Chart, pricing tables, and other types of data widgets.
The Premium Addons plugin has more than 300,000 active installations on the official plugin repository and features a 5-star rating. The plugin is also regularly updated with new features being added frequently.
On top of widgets, the plugin offers an ever-growing library of premade page and block templates that you can use in your website design.
Some of the widgets offered by the plugin are quite similar to what you’ll find in other similar plugins. However, if you want to make your images stand out or if you’re interested in displaying online reviews, the Premium Addons plugin could be the perfect solution for you.
The support section is rather extensive so you should have no problems finding answers to any issue you might encounter.
Overall, the plugin is rather easy to use and pretty straightforward so if you’ve used Elementor for any length of time, you’ll have no problems with the widgets offered by the Premium Addons plugin.
When it comes to support, there is no shortage of available resources. For starters, you’ll find a detailed knowledge base with documentation for each and every widget included in the Premium Addons plugin.
If you prefer visual explanation, they have video tutorials on their Youtube channel.
You can also join their Facebook community and get answers about the plugin from other plugin and WordPress users.
In addition to that, Premium Addons has support forums where you can browse through previous tickets and if you’re a PRO user, you can submit a support ticket. According to their website, their average response time is between 24-48 hours.
The Premium Addons plugin can be downloaded for free from the official plugin repository. The free version of the plugin comes with 50+ highly customizable Elementor addons and widgets and 200+ premade Elementor templates.
If you want more advanced features, you can upgrade to the Pro version of the plugin that comes in three different pricing plans.
