14 custom widgets
Marquee, Flip Card, Counter, Animated Heading, Skill Bar, Glass Card, Hotspot, Before/After, Dual Heading, Pricing Table, Accordion, Countdown, Team Member and Buttons.
★ Free plugin
Elemance — Elementor widgets without the bloat.
Fourteen custom Elementor widgets, thirty-two section templates, and a header/footer and popup builder that work on free Elementor. Turn off the widgets you do not use and they stop loading their CSS and JS entirely.
14custom widgets
41templates
WP 7.1tested up to
- Install Elemance
- Pick the widgets you want
- Insert a template
- Publish
Overview
What this Elementor widgets plugin does.
Most Elementor addon packs give you two hundred widgets and load assets for all of them. Elemance goes the other way: fourteen widgets we actually use on client work, and a manager that stops a disabled widget from registering or enqueueing anything at all.
The header/footer builder and the popup builder both run on free Elementor, so a small site does not need a Pro licence to get a custom header or an exit-intent popup. Everything is built on core WordPress and Elementor APIs — no external services, no phone-home, no account to create.
Screenshots
What it looks like.
Pricing
Free. All of it.
Elemance
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The whole plugin. Every widget, every template, both builders. No tiers, no upsell inside the editor.
- 14 widgets and 32 templates
- Header/footer and popup builders
- Works on free Elementor
- GPLv2 — use it on client sites
- No account, no external calls
Something bespoke
Quoted
Elemance is what we needed often enough to package. When a project needs something it does not do, we build that instead.
- Custom Elementor widgets
- Plugins built to order
- Yours to keep, GPL, no licence
- Built on core WordPress APIs
Elemance is on the WordPress.org plugin directory, so you install it like any other plugin — search for it from your dashboard, or download it from the listing. Updates arrive through the normal WordPress updates screen.
Changelog
Release history.
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v1.20.0
A widget’s CSS and JavaScript now load only on pages that use that widget, instead of every enabled widget loading on every Elementor page. Adds five full-page templates for the free Consultation Booking theme, shown while that theme is active. Fixes the FAQ accordion showing both the plus and minus icon, and a console error when a widget script ran before Elementor had started.
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v1.19.0
A second design for About, Services, Testimonial, Features, CTA, Pricing, FAQ, Contact and Stats, bringing the library to 41. Every template has a real preview image, and 19 older templates now apply their layout settings as designed.
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v1.18.0
Spacing, sizes, radius, icon sizes and alignment can now be set separately for desktop, tablet and mobile across the widget library — Marquee, Team Member and Animated Heading had none before. Also fixes a fatal error when importing the Team Cards template with current Elementor, and adds a one-time, dismissible request for a WordPress.org review.
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v1.17.0
Approved and listed on WordPress.org. The demo images in the Team Member, Hotspot and Before/After widgets and in ten section templates were loaded from an outside placeholder service; they now ship with the plugin as SVG files. The last inline script and style blocks moved into enqueued files, and the sync button that fired a second request under the wrong nonce is fixed.
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v1.16.6
The run-up to the WordPress.org submission: every remaining unescaped output now escapes where it is printed, a Requires Plugins header makes WordPress itself block activation without Elementor, the Header/Footer and Popup screens no longer render unstyled, and the setup wizard fills the screen instead of sitting inside the admin chrome.
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v1.16.0
Links opening in a new tab now carry rel="noopener"; Glass Card and Team Member honour the nofollow setting they previously ignored. Tested against WordPress 7.1.
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v1.15.0
New Buttons widget with five types — solid, outline, gradient, icon slide and border glow — bringing the library to 14 widgets and 32 templates.
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v1.13.0
New Team Member widget with card, overlay, horizontal and minimal layouts, and social icons that reveal on hover.
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v1.6.0
Added the setup wizard and the widget manager — disabled widgets stop registering and stop loading assets.
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v1.5.0
Added the header/footer builder and the popup builder, both working on free Elementor.
Questions
Questions about this Elementor widgets plugin.
Questions about a custom plugin built for your site are on the plugin development page.
How do I add a custom header and footer in Elementor without Elementor Pro?
Elemance includes a header and footer builder that works with the free Elementor. Design the header or footer as a normal Elementor document from Elemance → Headers & Footers, choose where it appears, and the theme's own header or footer is replaced. It works out of the box with Hello Elementor, Astra, GeneratePress, OceanWP, Neve and Storefront, with a universal fallback for other themes.
Can I build a popup in Elementor for free?
Yes, with Elemance's popup builder. Design the popup as an Elementor template, then pick a trigger — a time delay, a scroll percentage, exit intent or a click — and how often it may show: once, once per session or every visit. It does not need Elementor Pro.
Does Elemance need Elementor Pro?
No. Every part of it runs on free Elementor, including the header/footer builder and the popup builder — the two things people usually buy Pro for. If you already have Pro, Elemance sits alongside it without conflict.
Elementor itself must be installed and active. WordPress is documented at wordpress.org.
Which WordPress and PHP versions does it need?
WordPress 6.0 or newer and PHP 8.0 or newer. Version 1.16.0 was installed and tested on WordPress 7.1 with Elementor 4.2 before release — all 14 widgets register and render.
Is it really free, or is there a paid tier waiting?
Free, GPLv2, and you can use it on client sites. There is no locked widget, no watermark, and no upsell interrupting the editor.
If a Pro version ever exists it will be additional widgets, not a ransom on the ones already here.
Will it slow my site down?
Only the widgets you leave enabled load anything. Turn one off in the widget manager and it stops registering with Elementor and stops enqueueing its CSS and JS — it is not hidden with CSS, it is genuinely not there.
The plugin also makes no outbound HTTP requests at all, so there is no licence check or remote template fetch slowing down your admin.
Is it on the WordPress.org plugin directory?
Yes — it is listed at wordpress.org/plugins/elemance. You can install it straight from Plugins → Add New in your dashboard by searching for “Elemance”, and updates come through the normal WordPress updates screen.
What happens if I deactivate it?
Pages built with Elemance widgets keep their content but lose the widget rendering, the same as with any Elementor addon. Templates you have already inserted are normal Elementor sections and are unaffected.