Elementor Q1 Roadmap Event - 2024 Product Vision & Focus

[Music] [Music] hi there and a warm welcome to Elementals first road map event of 20124 I'm ziv your host for today and I'm excited to walk you through our vision and plans for the the year ahead we've prepared an in-depth roadmap detailing our upcoming releases and exciting new features you can expect this quarter this year is all about redefining web creation and equipping you with Advanced professional tools that will put you ahead of your website building game enabling you to create more sophisticated and effective websites with better efficiency and grow your business success so what's on the agenda for today first we'll have a quick look at our year- end video highlighting key Milestones from 2023 then we'll explore how we're enhancing the editor to make it even more professional and we'll delve into Elemental hosting to see what to expect this quarter and see how it is set to be the ideal hosting for Elemental websites following that we'll introduce our new images Optimizer plug-in a real Advantage for your sit's performance and last but not least we'll talk about how AI is revolutionizing the way you build websites so stick around till the end for a special teaser all right let's start with a flashback to [Music] 2023 2023 is over and we know you've been busy so are we how busy youve built over 3 million sites just this year that's so many that by this point over 99.5% of the web uses Elemental and that's a lot of Internet so maybe we should take a moment to see how 2023 helped us get there let's start with [Music] performance every time you update to the latest version of Elementor your site gets faster and when you enable performance improving features or use new tools like flexbox containers you get an extra boost and your Elemental websites are even faster if they're hosted by us Elemental hosting is optimized for Speed they're so fast that they outperform the industry average so your websites got a lot faster and you got more design on freedom that's right and thanks to creators from all around the world during 2023 we became the most popular plugin for WordPress and you received eight versions of Elementor that included 238 improvements and 41 brand new features that resolved an astounding 72 of your GitHub requests adding features that Empower you as web creators like nested elements that turn content areas into containers so you can place widgets inside other widgets like the Mega menu tabs Carousel and accordion we also improve the loop Builder adding alternate templates to make poster product Stand Out Ajax loading taxonomy filters with multi- select capabilities and the loop Carousel custom units grid containers date and time triggers for popups and dynamic due date in the countdown widget what up thanks man are we not done yet disable Google fonts to enhance performance and remain gdpr compliant give yourself a gold star with a new rating widget or upload a custom SVG we also introduced features that improve your workflow like copy and paste elements between websites and the new top bar that keeps all your tools and web pages at the tip of your fingers all right pretty impressive and I can't believe we did all that and integrated AI into our buildup oh don't get me started on AI it all started with a prompt that Unleashed built-in AI tools that generated text images and code but we didn't stop there giving you AI image editing capabilities like expand image generative fill resize image generate references remove and replace backgrounds and right before the year ends you brought all of those capabilities together to supercharge your workflow with AI generated containers all right that was a lot Z could you dive into what Elementor hosting's been doing in the past year well for starters we made sure that Elemental hosting matches the IND industry's best with top-notch development features like Advanced staging and cloning as well as full sight control through SFTP and database access we also added a brand and business Hub where you can easily set up your domain and professional email alongside other branding tools ensuring a strong online presence we made sure that hosting your Elemental websites with us is faster than anywhere else with our unique accelerated plugins an integrated caching tool and a leap to Google Cloud's top tier with elemental hosting your visitors notice the difference we also shorten the time it takes to get started on your website project whether you're starting from scratch using our kits or migrating a site setting up is now a matter of minutes thanks to our intuitive tools and setup checklist and with features like the recent Pages tool and ongoing enhancements we're constantly innovating to further improve your workflow 2023 has been good for web creators giving you Foster sites more advanced tools Elemental Ai and the perfect home for hosting and managing your websites Z do you want to do the [Music] honors now before diving into the editor let's celebrate you our incredible Global Elemental Community with over 15.3 million websites built which makes up 99.7% of the internet and the growing community of 147,000 members you've made Elemental the top WordPress plug-in wow that's quite something now we've been receiving lots of great uh comments uh such as this one elemental is terrible for page speeds me setting up uh Elemental properly uh quite funny These are nice updates conditions are amazing thanks for this we really love getting your feedback it really fuels our passion to keep Elemental at the Forefront of web creation um so please keep them coming now let's hear from Miriam about Elemental and WordPress and what you expect in the coming [Music] months can you tell us about 2023 in the nsh show 2023 was an exciting year for elementer because we had the opportunity to attend all of the major Flagship WordPress events around the world we were at word Camp Asia Work Camp Europe and Work Camp us as sponsors and as speakers we love the opportunity to meet our users face to face get their feedback and also to help them find better ways to use our products we also had the opportunity to attend Matt Mullen wag's keynote address at the state of the word event Matt is the co-founder of Wordpress and every year he shares his vision for the future of Wordpress and also looks back at the accomplishments of Wordpress in the past year it was an amazing event full of passionate WordPress users and it was really really exciting exting to be part of it where can we see you next we're going to be at all of the flagship Work Camp events around the world Work Camp Asia Work Camp Europe and Work Camp us the next one coming up is Work Camp Asia and Taipei and we will be there as sponsors and also I'll be speaking which I'm very excited about so I hope you'll come hear my talk and also please come visit us at our booth it will be easy to find as usual very pink and very bright and we'll be there with a strong presence and we all want to meet you and talk to you and hear about your experiences with Elementor and also again help you use our products in the best way possible so looking forward to another strong year with WordPress WordPress is incredibly important to us and we love being connected to the community and supporting it in whatever way we can all right it's time to talk about the editor and see how we plan to make it even more professional I'm excited to welcome Dean and Seline who will share and demonstrate some really impressive stuff Dean the stage is yours [Music] all right thanks Eve so the last quarter has been packed with tons of great features from version 317 and 318 including new tools that Empower you to build engaging listings that help your visitors find the posts or products that they're looking for now seline's here and she's prepared a demonstration that shows some of the new listing features like the taxonomy filter and the Ajax loading right thank you Dean yes I did but I would like to explain more what it means to us professional web creators even more with 3.17 and 38 we change entirely how you can display posts and products the latest Improvement came with the taxonomy filter recently in 3.18 we added the end or logic to taxonomy filters this allows us professional web creators to allow visitors to customize their content browsing experience this is mainly useful for online store with many products from different categories where we want our users to be able to filter true products and reduce the distraction using the or logic we can display results that meet any of the visitor selected criteria so here for example I selected jeans and stickers and the filter shows us all the results that belong to both of these categories and we use the N logic we see that results displayed have been narrow to show items that meet all categories or tags selected as in this example I select sneakers and sale categories and you can see that we started to see less results shoes that are only on sale because results need to be in both categories when you design your website you'll have to choose whether you want your visitors to filter through listing using the end or or operator based on what will give your website visitors the best browsing experience another Improvement that came with 3.17 is Ajax loading we know this is something you professional web creators were really looking forward seeing an Elementor Pro Ajax loading was the fourth most requested feature in the GI up community so we added a loading type selector in the loop grid widget as you can see here I selected Ajax loading and now each time I browse through pages of loop grid widget it doesn't reload the entire page it only loads the next content set that is supposed to be displayed and also each Loop grid page will get its own URL this makes it easier for your visitors to share or save a specific page of your listings having the ability to choose what loading type is incredibly handy sometimes you'll want entire page to reload and others you'll just want the loop grid to reload so now you get to choose another update we added with Loop grid relates to pages that display more than one Loop Bridget with pagination on the same page previously when visitors would interact with the pagination of one of them this action would affect both Loop grids resulting in visitor confusion and potential loss of exposure to content to avoid that we also added the individual pagination option thank you Dean thanks elen it's awesome to see those taxonomy filters in action and how much smoother the loop grids got with that with the Ajax loading alongside those new listing features the last quarter also introduced some great features that improve your professional workflow and your website's performance like the element manager that allowed you to improve your editor's performance and personalize your widget panel by disabling widgets we're also happy to solve some more of your top GitHub requests like adding the FAQ scheme option to the accordion widget to boost your site's SEO another request of yours that made it into the editor is the ability to turn on horizontal scrolling in your mega menus so your design state intact on every screen size and let's not forget the rating widget that allows you to upload custom svgs and set whatever rating scale you'd like so make sure you don't miss out on these great features and more by updating to the newest version of Elementor now it's time to look forward to the exciting year that we have [Music] ahead so during 2024 plug-in releases will be focused on giving you professional and advanced feat features in four main areas Dynamic content the form Builder motion and animation and enhanced woocommerce tools you could check out the beta version in 319 to see how we've already gotone to work on improving some of these features and to and to continue improving and innovating while maintaining your site's performance and security we need to make sure that you're using the most up-to-date technology so to be able to update to version 319 you'll have to update your website's PHP to version 7.4 or new newer these software upgrades among others allow you to enjoy the exciting new features like display conditions for elements these features this feature allows you to create Dynamic visitor experiences by setting conditions for when elements are displayed on your site now we know you're excited about this as much as we are and it's a big feature so we're releasing it in two phases the first phase is part of version 319 and it includes the conditions and parameters that can be connected with the and logic a later version will include the second phase allowing you to string conditions with the or logic and adding more condition types and parameters we're really excited to see all the creative ways you use display conditions and we've decided to make a special exception and make the feature available for creators who are using the Legacy essential plans those are essential plans purchased before December 4th of last year and there are tons of professional ways to use display conditions to create Dynamic visitor experiences and is here to demonstrate just a few of them so Seline it's all yours thank you s De I'm so excited to present use cases for this feature starting with 3.19 we'll have display conditions on each widget and container in the editor you will see this icon that you familiar with from the popups it's an advanced feature that will allow you to create the marketing machine that you were always dreaming of using Elementor Pro and fewer plugins than ever the first phase of display conditions will include parameters like page and post details date and time user role or status currently you can add multiple conditions using the end operator meaning if all the conditions are met it will enable us to create unique user experiences on our websites for each of our visitor personnels it also allows you to Target your content to the Right audience and increase your conversion here I prepared two use cases for you where the use of display conditions is incredibly beneficial one is a premium content website like a Blog and the other one is a woocommerce online shop so without further Ado let's start with the blog you can see that I added a login button and an icon list widget to the header this is a very common practice among online stores and membership based online businesses so the login button will be displayed only when the user login status is logged out and the icon list widget that dynamically shows the username will be displayed when the user login status is logged in let's try and see how it works on the front end so I logged out to preview it you can see that here the header displays only the login button and once I log in now we see the username the user is logged in parameter is also extremely handy when we want to monetize or or enclose our content in other terms when we would like to create gated content as you can see in this example we have a single post template we will keep displaying the title The excerpt and the featured image for everyone but we can hide the post content widget by adding the display condition for subscribers [Music] only [Music] actually any plugin that allows you to create a membership website whether it's an online course exclusive content or any subscription-based business model their main functionality is to create different user roles in the WordPress back end like a customer user role on woocommerce any extra roles added to Wordpress users with the help of other plugins will be available able here on their display condition screen next we can display containers that has call to action for limited time offers let's say we want to display this promotion only on and between January 17th and January 21st so to show the promotion only on those dates we'll set the first condition to current date is after January 16th and then we'll add the condition that says the date before January 22nd now visitors will only see the spanner when they visit the website on these dayses as you can see on the day of recording this use case it was before January 16th and we don't see the banner on the actual page and when I go back and remove the conditions so you'll see that the banner becomes visible to the end users and finally in the next example I will show you how to display a specific piece of content based on the area of interest of the user for example I want to add a CTA banner on my single post template and invite visitors to apply to become a writer on my blog but I don't want any influx of applications and want people only with a specific interest in a topic to apply so I set the conditions for this Banner to display the post is in categories let's say Digital Life in this example when we preview the website pay attention to the breadcrumbs we don't see the banner on this post because it's in another category but when I go back and click to read another post that belongs to the chosen category you can see that our Sticky Side Banner is visible here all right we talked about enough opportunities on a Content website and let's see what we can be doing with online stores on online stores display conditions creates a huge opportunity to create Customer Loyalty benefits such as is creating a coupon code and displaying it in a banner on the page but visible only to a specific group of users in this example I want to display friends and family discount and let's say I want to display this spanner to visitors who have been customers for a certain amount of time for example at least a year so I select the role is customer and the registration date is on and before 17th of January 2023 another example for a custom sale is to display a coupon code if visitors come from a certain URL let's say if they are members of the global Elementary community on Facebook and their previous stop was this URL then they can display this coupon code actually this parameter was created with Facebook or other online advertisement campaigns in mind so you can create and use affiliation links and discounts before I finish I would like to remind you that display conditions feature has countless sophisticated opportunities for professionals where you can create countless personalized experience pets for your visitors based on their based on their interests and what you want to promote and this is only the first ways more conditions and other capabilities will be added soon or constraint will be added to the product in the near future it means that currently we won't be able to directly dictate a condition like if any which also means that at least one of the conditions below are met however you can still achieve similar outcomes by applying display conditions to other elements on your website since we have the since we have the ability to apply them on every widget and container thank you Dean thanks elen that's some great stuff and last but not least let's talk about elementary 319 it includes a seamless aism integration akismet is a plugin that uses machine learning to scan identify and mark spam submissions all this happens in the background without adding any extra interactions to your visitors using the form it's an excellent way to protect your form submissions from spam 319 also makes the element manager even more powerful giving you Advanced ability to customize which widgets appear in the teammate's widget panel based on their assigned roles so this is great for when you want to disable certain widgets for clients but you don't want to remove the actual widget from the website you just say don't want them to be able to add the widget on their own and there are more features coming in this quarter like the loop taxonomy query that helps you display Dynamic content professionally this Advanced feature allows you to display a grid of your taxonomies which is perfect for websites that have a specific listing for each taxonomy so those are some of the exciting features that will be rolling out this coming quarter and we can't wait to see them on your websites back to you zeve thank you very much uh Dean and Seline for those great demonstrations and insights uh so moving on let's discuss another piece of the puzzle Elemental hosting which is specifically optimized to work best for Elemental websites and it represents an important Leap Forward in how we approach website performance and the process in which WordPress websites come to life and are managed I'm excited to introduce bar who will update us on our latest Innovations and the road map for 2024 focusing on what's coming in the first quarter bar the stage is yours [Music] thanks Steve let's first talk about what's crucial in worldpress hosting performance as shown in the graph from our recap video our hosting isn't just keeping Pace it's raising the bar as you can see here the core web vitals of Elemental hosting as measured by Google have dramatically improved and rapidly reached the top of the chart this means hosting your Elemental website with us gives it the ideal environment for exceptional performance both for you and your site visitors this is because our dedicated R&D hosting team is obsessed with delivering the best hosting for Elemental websites and with deep expertise in Elemental development and WordPress hosting we are uniquely positioned to achieve our ambitious goals with features like Advanced caching accelerated plugins and our unique integration of intelligent autoscaling infrastructure we ensure fast and reliable performance for all websites Around the Clock powered by Google Cloud premium service and reinforced by Cloud Flare's Superior CDN this really is a setup you can trust our team often engag with web creators who use Elemental hosting by actively listening and collaborating we are able to enhance and expand features and are happy to receive fantastic feedback like this for many of you so I invite you to try it for your next project and share your thoughts and with a 30-day money back guarantee you can test it out risk-free our Focus for 2024 is straightforward to make Elemental hosting the top choice for your Elemental website and businesses to achieve this we are developing new plans and capabilities specifically designed for a range of website requirements from small scale project to extensive online stores and Enterprise level business sites this solution will be more taor to meet your unique business needs allowing you to operate more effectively grow your business handle more clients and build all different type of website with great is so what can you expect from this quarter first up site sharing collaboration is key in web development our site sharing feature will allow you to provide site management access to your team and client and this is just a start expect roles and permission to add even more flexibility and efficiency we'll also introduce a static hosting plan based on the advanced technology of Str a company we acquire last year this will be a premium service perfect for website where unable sec security blazing fast load time and consistent up time are vital as you can see Elemental hosting already exceed the industry standard but study hosting is in a league of its own that's why leading fintech companies such as Pioneer rapid and honeybook choose our static hosting technology for their website and soon you'll have the opportunity to do the same in this quarter we'll also add Google kit integration so you can seamlessly get better insight for running your business out of the box Direct in your worldpress dashboard without needing to install more plugins last but not least migration migrating your site can be challenging therefore we've teamed up with my good Guru and already made the current process as simple as possible this quarter the migration process will be even more sess and I'd like to remind you that our support team is ready to assist at any step for free to make sure your website migration is successful so to sum it up 2024 is said to be an exciting year for Elemental hosting our focus is clear to make Elemental hosting the top choice for your Elemental website and businesses back to you ziv thanks bar now let's check out our new image Optimizer plug-in which is a cool tool to ramp up your website's performance so here's a quick video to show you how it [Music] works so you finished building your website you're awesome and you did a great job as you though exceptional websites require visuals and not only that they also need Speed and top-notch Performance the problem exceptional websites equals falling short in loading speed the main villain image size the solution introducing the image Optimizer by Elementor effortless image optimization set it and forget it choose bulk or single image two levels of image compression optimize on upload resize larger your images remove exit metadata convert to webp for even better optimization and for better pie of mind you can always revert back to your original image image optimization is a GameChanger for performance and SEO faster loading times improved Google page speed scores elevated search engine rankings reduced bounce rates resource efficiency and even saving on mobile data plans revolutionize your website's performance embrace the power of image optimization to wrap things up we're going to dive into how AI is revolutionizing our building process making it faster and smarter sheilo the stage is yours to unveil this exciting development by the way this ties back to the surprise I hinted at earlier you won't want to miss it so please go ahead thank you Z 2023 was a year that was packed with AI features and capabilities that we introduced in a mentor AI capabilities were introduced to the world and shuffled everything it works like magic providing features and tools that are not just for Buzz or for hype is the hard part during 2023 we released the essential building blocks for web creation these building blocks included the ability to generate and edit text code and images with AI and right before the year ended we released the AI containers features that helps you generate any container you'd like just by describing textually what you want so what 2024 have in store for us we will focus on main three pillars that will Empower your professional work and professional is the key term when working on a project you will probably want to focus on the important and meaningful things and not to repeat yourself with repetitive and redundant tasks we will help you do that and will speed up your workflow by doing that in terms of creativity AI can help you draw inspiration and bring additional ideas to your mind when designing and creating a website the third pillar couples you with the more tools that will strengthen your web creation toolbox and will remove limitations that you used to have so let's FOC focus on the first quarter of 2024 we will release features that will smooth up your creation flow much more intuitively save time bring more contextual results for what you asked for and refine the existing features when speaking of improving the existing capabilities just in 2023 we released the image generation AI capability the same prom that used to describe the nighttime cityscape for New York City was looking like this generating responses like this now with our improved model we get images like this another example I'd like to share with you is a brunette P woman portrait the same prompt was used to generate this image and now it generates this image so improving is our bread and butter and will go on during 2024 before we finish reviewing our plans it's important to say that 2024 was already begun and we have a lot of on our drawing board so let's give you a sneak peek on what's coming up [Music] shortly [Music] excited want to give it a try scan this QR code and follow the instructions in the form and don't forget to share your feedback with us back to you Z thank you very much for this exciting things sheilo H and that brings us to the end of our event so thank you for joining us on this exciting journey into 2024 and I hope that you're as inspired as we are to create more sophisticated and effective websites so keep an eye out for our new releases and make the most of these features to grow your success here's to a transformative 2024 with elemental where we continue to create innovate and Lead so keep creating stay inspired and let's make this yeah our best yet see you next [Music] time

Channel: Elementor

Views: 13,455

Keywords: elementor, elemntor, wordpress, wordprss, page builder, elementor pro, elementor tutorial

Id: hD-P5hLmNMo

Length: 34min 10sec (2050 seconds)

Published: Wed Jan 17 2024