Platecraft Addons brings 76 widgets, a Theme Builder and 57 dynamic tags to the
free version of Elementor. Build a whole site – header, footer, blog, shop, cart and checkout – with full design control and without Elementor Pro. Made with restaurants, cafés and shops in mind, and just as useful for any business, blog or portfolio.
Why Platecraft
- No Pro needed – every widget, the Theme Builder and the dynamic tags work with free Elementor.
- Style every part – typography, colors, spacing, borders, shadows and hover states, separately for desktop, tablet and mobile.
- Light and self-contained – no chart, slider or animation libraries from other sites. A widget's small CSS and JS files load only on pages that use it, and widgets you switch off are not loaded at all.
- Made for WooCommerce – product, shop, cart, checkout and account pages use WooCommerce's own forms, so payment and shipping plugins keep working.
- Easy to find – all widgets sit together under "Platecraft", right after Elementor's Basic widgets, each with a small Platecraft mark.
Widgets
Basic
- Advanced Heading – highlighted words with a gradient, image or outline and a hand-drawn underline, circle or strike that draws itself in; or a heading built from parts, each in its own font and color; a small line above and a big faded word behind.
- Dual Color Heading – two parts, each with its own color, gradient or outline.
- Creative Button – 15 hover backgrounds, 13 text animations (letters that roll up one by one too), attention effects, a spinning gradient border, click ripple and magnetic pull.
- Icon Box and Icon List – icons, images or numbers with fill, light, 3D tilt or shine on hover; lists in columns or a row.
- Accordion / FAQ – questions that open and close, with FAQ data for search engines.
- Counter and Progress Bars – numbers that count up, bars and circles that fill when they come into view.
Creative
- Marquee – an endless band of text, logos, image cards (a team, dishes, projects) or saved templates that speeds up while the page scrolls.
- Animated Border Box – a spinning, beaming or flowing gradient border around any content.
- Countdown – to a date, to a time every day, an evergreen timer or the end of a product's sale.
- Flip Box – a card that turns, slides, pushes, fades or zooms to its back (12 effects) on hover, a tap or keyboard focus.
- Offer Banner, Rotating Text Badge and Image Grid (mosaic or masonry photos with a lightbox).
Showcase
- Content Slider – big slides with a title, text and buttons, or any saved template; fade, zoom, parallax, cube or flip, with a slow zoom on the picture and content that animates in.
- Chart – column, bar, line, area, pie and doughnut charts drawn by the page itself, with a legend and values on hover.
- Image Comparison – before and after pictures with a handle to drag (or that follows the mouse), side by side or up and down.
- Hotspots – points on a picture (icon, word or number, placed per screen size) that open a card with text and a link.
- Testimonial Slider (six designs), Team, Logo Grid and a Timeline that fills as the page scrolls.
General
- Contact Form – any fields in any widths. Every message is emailed to you and kept under Platecraft → Inbox – who sent it, from which page and when – with replies by email, notes, CSV export and spam protection that needs no outside service.
- Popup – opens on a click, after some seconds, on scrolling or when leaving; designed with Elementor.
- Social Icons – 36 networks in brand colors, brand gradients or your own colors and gradients, with hover effects and tooltips.
- Data Table – typed cell by cell (icons, pictures, links, cells spanning rows or columns) or pasted from a spreadsheet; sorting, a search box and one card per row on phones.
- Breadcrumb (with structured data), Search Form (a box or full screen) and Share Buttons.
Shop (WooCommerce)
- Product Grid and Category Grid – grids or carousels with tabs, AJAX add to cart and pagination.
- Mini Cart – a side panel or dropdown with a "free delivery from …" progress bar.
- Cart, Checkout and My Account – WooCommerce's own pages in a new layout: totals beside the products, − / + buttons, a cart that updates by itself, an account menu with icons and your own words.
- Products Toolbar and a WhatsApp Order Button that writes the product name, price and link into the message.
Product page
- Product Title, Price, Add to Cart (variations and − / + buttons), Rating, Stock, Meta, Description (with "Read more"), Short Description, Tabs, Badges and a Product Gallery with thumbnails, swipe and lightbox.
Blog and archive
- Posts – a grid, masonry, list or carousel with a drag-and-drop card layout, filter tabs and pagination.
- Table of Contents – the page's headings as nested or numbered links that mark the part being read; it folds and can stay on screen.
- Reading Progress – a bar along the screen's edge, a ring in a corner or a bar in your sticky header.
- Archive Title, Short Description, Post Meta, Featured Image, Author Box, Post Navigation and Term List.
Site and Theme Builder
- Nav Menu (dropdowns, and a side panel or full-screen menu on phones), Site Logo, Site Title, Copyright (the year updates itself), Post Content and a Back to Top button with a progress ring.
Menus and business
- Pricing Table and Pricing Switch – plans with features, badges and buttons, and a Monthly / Yearly switch (switch, sliding pill, buttons or underline) that changes their prices.
- Price Calculator – questions with priced choices add up to a live estimate (a range, a total or "From"), with a summary and a button; a Contact Form field sends the estimate with the message.
- Food Menu and Tabbed List – price lists with dotted lines, diet tags, sizes, old prices and photos.
- Hover Image Menu, Field List and Product Details – options, extras, ingredients and allergens from a built-in product tab, from ACF / Secure Custom Fields or typed in.
- Opening Hours, Open Status ("Open now / Closed", right on cached pages too) and a Reservation Form whose times follow your opening hours; bookings are kept under Platecraft → Inbox → Bookings.
Loop Animation
Any widget, container, section or column can keep moving: 20 looping animations – bounce, float, sway, drift, orbit, hop, spin, spin-and-rest, swing, rock, wave, coin flip, wobble, pulse, heartbeat, jelly, tada, shake, ring, blink – or keyframes you write yourself. Set the speed, delay, distance, angle or size, easing, direction and turning point; play it all the time, while it is on screen or only on hover; pause it on hover, stop it on phones, or move only the pictures and icons. It works together with Elementor's Entrance Animation and Transform, is pure CSS, and loads only on pages that use it. Find it under Advanced → Loop Animation.
Glass
Turn any widget, container, section or column into frosted glass (Advanced tab): a see-through panel that blurs what is behind it, with light on its edge – like Figma's Glass effect. Start from a look (Figma glass, Clear, Frosted, Dark glass), then set the tint, frost, where the light comes from and how strong it is, the depth, a faint rainbow on the edges and the shadow below. It can be turned off on phones.
Theme Builder
Design the header, footer, single post or page, archive, search results, 404 page, product, shop, cart, checkout and My Account page with Elementor, then choose where each one shows – the entire site, some pages, a category, an author – with exceptions and a priority. Sticky and transparent headers. Works with any theme, classic or block. While you design, pick the post, product or category the template shows under ⚙ Settings → Preview.
Dynamic Tags
57 dynamic tags for any Elementor field with the stack icon, with or without Elementor Pro: post, archive, site, author, visitor, comments, custom fields and ACF, links (call, email, WhatsApp, maps, log in / out), WooCommerce (price, sale badge, stock, rating, live cart count …) and Platecraft (open a popup, opening hours of a day). Text tags have Before, After and Fallback. Switch groups off under Platecraft → Widgets → Dynamic Tags.
Trademarks
Platecraft Addons for Elementor is an independent plugin by Platecraft. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by Elementor Ltd., Automattic Inc. or Meta Platforms, Inc. Elementor, WooCommerce and WhatsApp are trademarks of their respective owners and are named here only to describe what the plugin works with.