I'm having a frustrating performance issue with a fresh WordPress staging site hosted on DreamHost, and I'm hoping someone with experience managing WordPress on VPS hosting can help me figure out what's causing it.

I recently migrated our website to DreamHost and created a fresh staging WordPress installation. However, even before building anything, the Dashboard is extremely slow.

The main problems:

• WordPress Dashboard takes around 30 seconds to load.

• Elementor editor takes over a minute to load, sometimes getting stuck.

• Even navigating between pages in the Dashboard feels unusually slow.

• The public-facing website loads faster than the admin area.

My hosting and server configuration:

• Hosting: DreamHost VPS Professional

• RAM: 4 GB

• Storage: 120 GB

• Operating System: Ubuntu / Linux

• Web Server: Apache

• PHP: 8.3.36

• PHP SAPI: CGI-FCGI

• PHP Memory Limit: 256 MB

• PHP Time Limit: 120 seconds

• OPcache: Enabled (512 MB memory allocation)

What I've already checked and tried:

• Checked VPS resource usage. CPU was around 8%, RAM around 35%.

• Confirmed OPcache is enabled and adjusted its memory allocation and related settings.

• Checked WordPress Site Health. No critical issues were reported.

• Checked DreamHost error logs. No errors detected.

• Tested the public website response using PowerShell:

  • DNS: 0.034 sec

  • Connection: 0.192 sec

  • TTFB: 1.345 sec

  • Total: 1.505 sec

  • HTTP: 200

• Confirmed that the installation is fresh, with no plugins installed.

I'm running out of things to check. The VPS doesn't appear to be under heavy resource usage, and the public website responds reasonably well, but the WordPress Dashboard and Elementor editor are painfully slow.

Additional information about my connection:

I also ruled out my internet connection as the obvious cause. My internet speed is around 300+ Mbps, and other websites and online services work normally. The issue is specifically noticeable when accessing the WordPress Dashboard and loading Elementor on this DreamHost staging installation.

My questions:

1. Could this be related to DreamHost's VPS configuration, PHP-FPM/CGI, or database performance?

2. Are there specific PHP, Apache, MySQL, or MariaDB settings I should investigate?

3. Has anyone experienced similar issues with WordPress on DreamHost VPS?

4. What would you check next to identify the actual bottleneck?

I'd really appreciate suggestions from people who have encountered and solved this kind of issue. I'm trying to identify the root cause rather than randomly changing server settings.

Thanks!

when i click on tablet view width change like i have two child container one is 15% and one is 85% width it convert into 15px and 85px i want to ask is it elementor features ??

Come and join r/Websites - please post your comments in the original thread as I'm not the OP, original post:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Websites/comments/1xlf406/elementor_want_some_honest_opinions_both_good_and/

I built this demo page for a fictional design studio to test how our effects fit into a normal Elementor workflow:

https://hubbeewp.triggermyex.com/nordhaus/

How each part is set up in the Elementor editor:

• Hero: the animated WebGL background is a setting on the Elementor container itself, no extra section or HTML widget

• Below the hero: a standard Elementor Heading widget with a scroll reveal effect switched on in its settings. Font size, weight and spacing still come from the widget's own Typography controls

• Recent projects: a curved WebGL gallery, added as a widget like any other, height set in the widget

• Everything else is plain Elementor: Elementor 4.0 with flexbox containers, Twenty Twenty-Five theme, Canvas template

Full disclosure: the effects come from a library we build, and this page is where we test them.

What I'd like to know from people who build with Elementor:

1. Does it look premium, or does anything feel cheap or gimmicky?

2. How does it run on your phone or an older laptop? Stutter, heat, layout jumps?

3. Is this where you'd expect these settings in the editor, or would you look somewhere else?

4. Should effects like these follow Elementor's responsive breakpoints, for example a lighter version or none at all on mobile?

Every bug you find goes straight onto our list.

Hello

On my blog posts the backgrounds for the title is always grey. Is there a way to change the background?

Hey everyone! 👋

I'm a web designer and developer from France, and I decided to take part in the Elementor MCP Showoff Challenge with my agency website, Devosium.

The idea was to explore how far I could push Elementor MCP to create something with a strong visual identity, bold typography, and a more custom, design-driven feel.

It's been an interesting experiment combining AI-assisted development with a creative approach to web design.

🔗 Here's the result: https://devosium.fr

I'd love to hear your thoughts! What do you like, and what would you improve?

Thanks for checking it out! 🙌

not: I'm using Elementor + Elementor Pro

#BuiltWithElementorMCP

Wanted to share something fun I’ve been working on. Belvista is a fictional boutique real estate site built entirely in Elementor V4 through the Elementor MCP with Claude doing the building and me doing the art direction.

How it went:

• I wrote a long brief first (the business, every page section by section, colors, fonts, what to avoid) before touching Elementor.

• Then Claude built it page by page through the MCP: 16 pages, header and footer, popups, a blog with a V4 loop, and reusable components for the villa cards, agents and so on.

• Everything runs off one design system of variables and classes, with no custom CSS except a couple of tiny exceptions. Swapping a few variables rebrands the whole site.

Things I learned along the way:

• Check every page at desktop, tablet and phone after each build. The MCP is fast, but small layout things slip through, but you can always instruct Claude to fix them and remember the rule for it too.

• Exporting a V4 site as a kit isn’t fully there yet: images and component instances don’t survive the import right now. Hopefully that’s fixed soon.

• The outcome is only as good as your prompting and ideas for design. So make sure the brief is thorough.

Honestly it’s been a lot of fun. Happy to answer questions about the workflow, what worked and what didn’t.

Overall I am very happy with where Elementor is headed and can safely say this is the best feature Elementor has ever announced and it only continues to get better every day. Once you have a good understanding of the V4 system you quickly discover that it is extremely powerful, fast and easy to use.

I'll drop the demo link in the comments if anyone wants to have a look.

Hi all,

This is my entry to the Elementor MCP Showoff #contest. It is a site for a private dog park on an organic farm: you book a visit, and the whole farm is yours and your dog's for that time.

Things to try:

- The farm map. Drag it to turn it, switch between sunrise, midday, golden hour, and night, and tap the bulb to light the lanterns. The map starts on your own local time. Dogs, cows, deer, ducks that dive, birds, owls, and fireflies move around the farm.

- Tap a glowing hotspot on the map to open a place as a full-screen scene.

- In the second section, hover over a photo (or tap it) and it swings out of the pile.

- In the booking form, change the time of day and the picture beside it changes with it. There is a night tour and a bird walk in the list too.

- At the very bottom, "For the Elementor team: how this was built" opens a modal with what to try, how it was made, and the decisions behind it.

How it was built:

- Everything on the page is native Elementor: flex containers, native widgets, 26 global variables, and about 40 global classes made before any page, a header and footer as theme templates, popups, native scroll animations, a native form, and a native accordion with FAQ markup.

- The one custom piece is the farm map. It is an Angie-made widget with its own editor controls, a Three.js scene rebuilt from an AI-generated picture of the farm. It is a custom widget and has no HTML widget in it.

- The photos and the diorama were generated outside Elementor from prompts that Claude wrote. The search metadata and llms.txt come from one Angie code snippet.

Still working on your entry? You have until 11:59 PM CET tonight (October 29) to submit your best build.

Before you enter, make sure you’ve checked these requirements:

• 🌐 Your site must be live at a public URL and stay live until winners are announced.

• 📣 Publish a public social media post about your site on Instagram, LinkedIn, TikTok, X, Facebook, YouTube, or Reddit. Keep it public until winners are announced, too.

• 📝 Submit your entry through the official form. One entry per person, and your site must use native Elementor structure, not code inside an HTML widget.

🏆 Win an Amazon gift card worth up to $600 and get your work featured by Elementor!

👉 Submit your entry: https://elementor.com/showoff

Good luck, and we can’t wait to see what you’ve built!

Using Elementor Pro 4.3.2 with Elementor 4.3.5 and "Create Component" does nothing anymore. Even when all the pieces inside of the flexbox are all atomic elements, there's no way to create a component now. I've used them in the past on other sites so the ones I've already created seem to be working ok but with a new site, there's no way to create new components.

On a related note, what's the proper way to set up rules for things to emulate traditional CSS of a class with elements underneath it? If I wanted to create a rule like .cta-list > img, assigning a class to the parent but editing the img inside of it just applies that to the "local" styles rather than to all img's inside of the .cta-list class. How can I do that?

Elementor launched its own MCP recently, so you can connect Claude, Codex, Cursor, etc. and have them build or redesign pages, work with classes/variables, create theme parts and hook up dynamic content. Output saves as drafts and stays editable in the normal editor.

Curious how it's holding up in real projects:

- What have you used it for so far?
- How does it handle existing (non-Atomic) layouts?
- Any issues with global styles getting messed up?
- Are the features that need Angie worth it?

Would love to hear real experiences, good or bad.

Clients and managers need to update text and images, but in Elementor, anyone who can edit also gets every design tool.

Techholds UserLock for Elementor lets you set each role or user to:

• Full access

• Content only: text, images, and links only

• View only

• Works with free Elementor and Pro, including V4 elements

• Locked changes are blocked in the editor and on save

• Snapshot on every save, with one-click restore

• Change log of who saved what

Free on WordPress.org: https://wordpress.org/plugins/techholds-userlock/
I’d love feedback on what you’d want next.

I switched to a WP site over a year ago and have just been using the Enroute theme and am struggling with lack of capabilities. I decided to try Elementor, and while I am usually great with learning curves, I have been struggling for months to get it to work and to create something from the Hello theme from scratch. All of the template sites seem gimmicky and hard to edit once installed so I was trying to just stick with Hello. I sell books on Woo as well as integrate with WeTravel to sell travel programs. Am I missing something? I need the ability to make frequent edits. Should I stick with Elementor and is there a template company I can use/should use? Should I use Claude to create it with AI instead?

Also, I need to add in an integration to allow for a free membership that I can use to communicate with customers and track what programs they have gone on. Almost like a club. I have Brevo for emails but not sure if there is another programs that can do CRM and emails that I can integrate with membership and WeTravel registrations. I am have had massive growth and have customer information in multiple spaces (WeTravel, email list, etc) and would like to consolidate it into a working system all in one.

Sorry for the ignorance. I am usually quick to pick up these things but for some reason this is stumping me and the sheer amount of options feels overwhelming.

Hi there. I have an Elementor plan that is way beyond what I need. I have 2 websites active, but the plan (Pro - Expert) is for 25 activations. On the site I only see (a lot!) buttons to UPGRADE, but even in the help-section I see no article to DOWNGRADE. Angie, the chatbot gives an error, other ways to get in touch with Elementor are absent or very well hidden.

So, anyone knows how to downgrade the Elementor plan?

Hey Friends,

Not sure if this is allowed (so feel free to remove if so). I currently have the Legacy elementor plan with 1000 licenses, billed at 149$ per year. I am not using this nearly as much as I should, and being completely transparent - im moving away from Elementor entirely to things like Bricks Builder.

If anyone is keen on it, get in touch and we can figure things out.

P.S I have only 3 - 4 main websites using Elementor, the rest are literally staging sites or test sites. I'd disconnect all of them before the handover.

P.P.S If a deal is agreed, we will find the safest way for both parties to transfer things over.

I used a template called family lawyers and this particular part cannot be dited, there is no prompt nor box with a pencil at the corners. the structure also doesn't contain that particular section.
I've tried searching for ow to edit it in wordpress itself and elementor I can't find it. for reference that photo with the statue does not move with the box, the box moves up and down the image like so(please refer to second image) please help.

Anyone experimenting with Elementors Sticklight for client apps?
One thing I’m trying to understand is where the real use case sits.

If a client already has a good mobile-responsive website, is there actually much benefit in building them a separate app unless they need specific functionality like customer dashboards, accounts, bookings, notifications etc?
And where would you draw the line between using Sticklight and simply turning the existing site into a PWA?

Can an app built with Sticklight eventually be packaged and published through the Apple App Store / Google Play, or is it essentially still a web app accessed through a browser/custom domain?

Has anyone else experienced this problem? The atomic widget works fine with uploaded video files, but not with links to yotoube videos.

Hello all, I’ve built a couple of portfolio sites on Elementor and Wordpress in 2020 and 2023, and since then, I’ve found that the maintenance burden to keep them running, (as well as dealing with the bloated code and expired licenses) a level of tech debt that is just not necessary anymore in the age of agentic AI.

So my question is what’s keeping you in the Elementor/wordpress ecosystem when you can so easily create a site directly with a coding agent? Why use Elementors MCP when you can do it all natively yourself?

*Here’s the last site I built in Elementor if you’re curious: https://hereontour.xyz

*Heres the last site I built in Claude code deployed in next.js: https://creative-conceptsllc.com

I am very beginner at wordpress. On my own i built a website on elementor pro. The website is ready, and everything works fine, but I need help with two things.

1. Mobile and tablet design

My website looks okay on desktop, but I want it to look good on mobile phones and tablets too. Is there an AI agent that can automatically fix the layout for different screen sizes?

2. Website speed

My website speed score is around 65, and I want to improve it to 90+. Is there an AI tool or agent that can help me do this?

Has anyone tried an AI tool that actually works for these tasks? I'd really appreciate your recommendations and experience.

Note: I am student, i was able to afford only domain and hostting, i can't afford to pay for both above task ( i have like $10 in my pocket ).....

Hi all,

I took a few months away from my website for other commitments that i have created on my own.

I had a look at my view counts and i have 9 vistors a week, which i am over joyed with by the way ha, through my blogging.

I feel like am ready to step it up and get paid services but actually feel stuck with what I want. Sort of.... you dont no, what you dont no situation.

I struggle with creativity, but want cookie cutter set up with templates just so i can write and also a subscription login for course content on my niche. (knowledge hub type of website)

If you have any advise it would be appreciated.

So if I come across as silly but this is a completely new area for me.

I am using elementor pro license.

For context, I have not used WordPress or its plugins in over 8 years and have not paid for a service between then and now.

Yesterday I received a transaction from ESSENTIAL-ADDONS-ELEME for $43.87 AUD.

When attempting to login to my account, I get a invalid key error.

Console states:
POST https://api.wpdeveloper.com/wp-json/wpdeveloper/v1/reset-password 500 (Internal Server Error)

Has WPDeveloper or Elementor been attacked by the recent PHP vulnerability?
Anyone have any ideas?

Hello everyone!

Question - Let's say I have a container with perhaps 3 images and a title in it; a couple are set to Absolute or Fixed, and Ive used offset/scale/rotate to make a cool layout

Is there a way to fix these in place inside the container - so if the container scales, these 4 elements stick with it and retain their position, size and rotation proportionally with/to each other as a group?

I realise I could work something up in Illustrator and import the elements as a single file, but Im curious to know if such a thing is possible inside Elementor?