Elementor

Raised as a usability problem by 4 people on Hacker News over 9 years (2018–2026), in 4 threads.

People raised many different problems with Elementor, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.

Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.

The newest 4 complaints

Using custom CSS was hard, especially when first starting out2026-02-05
Page builder is slow and frustrating to work with2024-05-28
Page editors are very slow and produce indecipherable markup2022-02-02
Combining Elementor and Toolset plugins breaks dynamic display of shortcode-generated content2018-12-08