Essential Addons for Elementor Review: Worth the AppSumo Deal?

What Is Essential Addons for Elementor?

Essential Addons for Elementor is a plugin that extends WordPress's most popular page builder with over 60 additional widgets and extensions. If you've ever felt limited by Elementor's default widget library — or didn't want to spring for Elementor Pro just to get a few extra elements — this is designed to fill those gaps.

The AppSumo lifetime deal priced this at $39 for a single code, which covers all features across five websites. Stack a second code for $78 total and you unlock unlimited sites — a genuinely strong value proposition for agencies or freelance web designers managing multiple client projects. Even if you're just running a single business site, five sites at $39 is hard to argue with.

It's worth noting that there is some overlap between Essential Addons and Elementor Pro. They're not interchangeable, though. Elementor Pro covers broader functionality like theme building and WooCommerce integration at a deeper level, while Essential Addons focuses on giving you a wider variety of design widgets and creative elements.

A Quick Elementor Primer

For the uninitiated, Elementor is a drag-and-drop page builder for WordPress. Think Squarespace or Wix, but running on your own self-hosted WordPress installation. You drag widgets from a sidebar onto your page canvas, style them visually, and publish — no coding required.

Elementor's free version is available in the WordPress plugin repository and has over two million active installations, making it one of the most popular plugins in the entire WordPress ecosystem. The free tier is surprisingly capable on its own, and the pro version adds advanced features like theme building, popup creation, and deeper WooCommerce integration.

Essential Addons plugs into this ecosystem by adding new widget types to your Elementor sidebar. Once installed, you'll see additional drag-and-drop elements alongside Elementor's built-in ones, each with its own specific functionality and styling options.

Standout Widgets: Logo Carousel

One of the most practical widgets in the pack is the Logo Carousel. If you do any kind of digital marketing or client work, you know that logo bars are a staple of modern web design — they create instant social proof by displaying client logos, press mentions, or partner brands.

The perennial challenge with logo carousels is that logos come in wildly different dimensions. Tall ones, short ones, wide ones, narrow ones — getting them to line up neatly usually involves a fair amount of manual resizing and CSS tweaking. Essential Addons handles this with preset styles that keep everything aligned automatically.

The carousel offers several animation effects including slide, fade, cube rotation, cover flow (reminiscent of Apple's old iTunes interface), and a flip animation. You can control the gap between items, the number of visible logos, autoplay behavior, and navigation arrows or dots. The styling options let you add background colors, borders, border radius, and opacity — all through Elementor's familiar visual editor without touching code.

Dynamic Content and WooCommerce Widgets

The dynamic content elements are where Essential Addons gets genuinely interesting. If you already have blog posts, products, or other content on your WordPress site, these widgets let you display that content in new visual layouts without redesigning your templates or writing custom code.

The Woo Product Collections widget stood out as particularly useful. It lets you create visual category displays for your WooCommerce store — grouping products by category, tag, or even product attributes like color. Imagine a clothing store with sections for "Women's," "Black," "White," and "Colorful" items, each displayed as an attractive, clickable collection card.

This kind of organized, visual product browsing keeps visitors engaged longer and helps them discover more of your catalog. That's good for both your Google rankings (longer session times signal quality content) and your conversion rate. It's a simple concept, but building it from scratch would require either custom development or cobbling together multiple plugins.

Pricing Tables and One Page Navigation

Pricing tables are table stakes (pun intended) for any Elementor add-on pack, and Essential Addons delivers a solid implementation. Four preset styles ship out of the box, ranging from clean and modern to more elaborate designs with ribbons and header images.

What elevates these beyond basic pricing tables is the attention to detail. You can mark items as active or inactive — inactive features get a strikethrough with a faded color treatment, which is a clean way to differentiate plan tiers. Each feature line can also have its own tooltip, so you can provide extra context like "This is our most popular option" without cluttering the table itself. Sale pricing is built in too, with the ability to show a crossed-out original price alongside the discounted rate.

The One Page Navigation widget is another creative element worth highlighting. It adds a sleek sidebar navigation dot menu that lets visitors jump between sections on a single-page site. If you're building landing pages or portfolio sites that live on one long page, this is an elegant way to improve navigation without a traditional menu bar.

Form Stylers: Making Contact Forms Look Professional

If you've ever installed Contact Form 7 or Gravity Forms on a WordPress site, you know the default styling leaves a lot to be desired. These plugins prioritize function over form (no pun intended), and making them look polished usually means writing custom CSS.

Essential Addons includes dedicated form styler widgets for the most popular WordPress form plugins — Contact Form 7, Gravity Forms, Ninja Forms, and others. These stylers let you customize backgrounds, button colors, field styling, and typography directly through Elementor's visual editor.

It's a thoughtful inclusion that solves a real pain point. Rather than hunting for CSS snippets or installing yet another plugin just to style your forms, you get visual control over form appearance right inside the page builder you're already using.

Extensions: Particles, Parallax, and Tooltips

Beyond the standard drag-and-drop widgets, Essential Addons includes a set of extensions that add effects to your existing page sections. These work a bit differently — rather than being standalone elements, they're options you enable on sections you've already built.

The Particles extension adds animated background effects to any section. Out of the box you get presets like snowflakes and bubbles, but you can also paste in custom JSON to create your own particle effects using any SVG. It's the kind of visual flourish that would be expensive to have custom-coded but takes seconds to enable here.

Parallax effects let you create that familiar fixed-background scrolling look, with options for standard scroll parallax, scroll with fade, and a multi-layered mode where you can stack multiple images that react to mouse movement. The multi-layered option gets advanced quickly but enables some genuinely impressive interactive effects.

Tooltips round out the extensions. You can apply a tooltip to any individual Elementor element through the Advanced settings tab — hover over the element and a customizable text popup appears. Simple, but useful for things like explaining features, guiding users through an interface, or adding context to icons and images.

WordPress Setup and Configuration

Installation is straightforward. When you purchase through AppSumo, you download the plugin from the manufacturer's site, and it installs both the free and pro versions automatically — no need to manage two separate plugins yourself.

Once installed, an "Essential Add-ons" menu appears in your WordPress sidebar. The settings panel includes a license activation area and, more importantly, a master toggle for every single element in the pack. You can disable all 60+ elements with one click and then selectively enable only the ones you actually use.

This is a genuinely smart design choice. Loading 60 widgets every time you open the Elementor editor would slow things down noticeably. By toggling off elements you don't need, you keep the editor snappy and your sidebar uncluttered. There's also a simple cache-clearing tool in the settings if you ever run into display issues after changing your configuration.

Final Verdict: 8.8 Out of 10

At $39 for five sites or $78 for unlimited sites as a lifetime deal, Essential Addons for Elementor is a strong pickup for anyone building WordPress sites with Elementor. Sixty-plus widgets covering everything from logo carousels and pricing tables to dynamic WooCommerce displays and interactive parallax effects — that's a lot of functionality for the price.

The widget quality is generally solid, with thoughtful touches like per-feature tooltips in pricing tables and the ability to selectively load only the elements you need. There are a few rough edges — the fade effect on the logo carousel didn't render perfectly during testing, and some of the more advanced features like multi-layered parallax have a learning curve.

The score lands at 8.8 out of 10. If you're already using Elementor or planning to, this is close to a no-brainer. The sheer volume of well-executed widgets would cost significantly more if purchased through Elementor Pro or built with custom development. For agencies managing multiple client sites, the unlimited plan at $78 is an especially easy decision.

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