How to Create a WordPress Website with Elementor | 2021

Brainstorm use cases to define your audience, their needs, and obstacles, then align your site goals with showcasing your portfolio, services, and leads.

Map a WordPress site with a sitemap, linking home, about, contact, and three service pages. Visualize hero sections, value proposition, pricing, social proof, and FAQs to plan content.

Create a site map and design sketch to plan page layout and navigation, include a service dropdown and about page, and place calls to action that drive contact requests.

Gather and organize media assets, including images, videos, icons, logos, and copy, by following your site map and wireframes, label files for seo, and use appropriate formats under one megabyte.

Use Colors Echo color generator to craft a cohesive palette by cycling colors with spacebar, locking favorites, adjusting shades, and exporting the palette as a PDF for WordPress with Elementor.

Design a free logo using a logo maker, prioritizing simplicity and few colors, separate the icon from text, and save both the logo and site icon for your WordPress site.

Discover how to download, install, and activate the Astra WordPress theme, and observe how it reshapes layout, typography, and menus compared with the default Twenty Twenty-One.

Install and activate essential WordPress plugins for Elementor, add header and footer tools, set up an Instagram feed, apply starter templates, and upload all media to the library.

Create and organize your WordPress site by adding pages, including home, about, contact, and service pages. Publish them, delete the sample page, and set a static home page in settings.

Learn to create and customize a WordPress header navigation using the header builder, set a primary menu, add items and dropdowns, and style a start a project button.

Enable a transparent header for the site, use a light logo for contrast, adjust logo size, switch to the dark logo when needed, set the site icon, and publish.

Apply global typography and color settings in WordPress using Elementor and the Astra theme, choosing heading and base fonts, adjusting text, link, and hover colors, and configuring a transparent header.

Build and customize a WordPress footer with Elementor by adding a footer, arranging sections and widgets, styling colors and alignment, and applying a site-wide display.

Edit the home page in Elementor by dragging widgets into sections and configuring global colors and fonts. Use the design system to set typography and update the site.

Build a full-screen hero in WordPress with Elementor using a background image and gradient overlay, a centered heading with typing text, and diagonal shape divider for a sharp value proposition.

Learn to build a services description section in WordPress with Elementor, adjusting headings, typography, colors, shape dividers, and buttons for a polished layout.

Create a three-column services section in WordPress with Elementor by adding flip boxes from Essential Addons, configuring tilt shape dividers, hover 3-D effects, and customizable front/back content and links.

Design a call-to-action section in WordPress using Elementor, featuring a large side image, a dual heading with colored parts and an icon, and two hover-ready buttons.

Learn to build a WordPress testimonial section with Elementor, including full width styling, a background image, testimonial cards, an image carousel, and template reuse for multiple pages.

Apply motion effects in Elementor to the home page, including fade in, slide from left or right, and timed delays, then adjust width, size, and letter spacing before preview.

Learn to customize an about page in WordPress using Elementor and the Astra starter templates, import templates, and edit the header, about me section, and motion effects.

Edit a photography services page in Elementor by importing a template, customizing the header background and titles, building a filterable gallery for mountains and cities, then add an Instagram feed.

Learn to add an Instagram feed to a WordPress site with Elementor using Smash Balloon. Configure the account, paste the shortcode, and customize the grid (8 per page, 4 columns).

Create and customize pricing tables in Elementor for a WordPress site, adding standard, plus, and premium packages, styling with padding, hover effects, colors, icons, ribbons, and motion effects.

Duplicate the saved services page as a YouTube page template, then customize the header, embed YouTube videos, and apply dividers, icons, colors, and motion effects.

Learn to build a WordPress web design services page with Elementor, editing templates, adjusting backgrounds, typography, dividers, pricing blocks, images, motion effects, and testimonials.

Create and customize the start a project contact page in WordPress with Elementor, building a hero section with a background image, overlay, and a WP forms contact form.

Learn to build WordPress forms with WP forms using drag-and-drop templates, add required fields like phone and a type dropdown, and configure notifications and a weekly newsletter form.

Learn to add a WordPress form to a contact page with the Elementor WP Forms widget and customize its style with colors, padding, border radius, shadows, labels, and hover effects.

Learn to add a weekly newsletter form to the WordPress footer with Elementor, configure name and email placeholders, and refine input styling and the submit button.

Edit the homepage in mobile mode to ensure a proper smartphone display, using Elementor's responsive view to adjust typography, alignment, and padding without affecting the desktop layout.

Review a fully functioning portfolio website built with WordPress and Elementor, highlighting the logo, value proposition, portfolios, call to action to start a project, testimonials, and a filter gallery.

Brainstorm and compile your website content, set up domain and hosting, and download themes and plugins. Customize pages using elements and ensure mobile responsiveness for your site.