ZipWP + Elementor: The Dynamic Duo Revolutionizing Website Creation

Creating a website used to feel like climbing a mountain in flip-flops.

You either need to learn how to code (and who has time for that?), hire an expensive developer (goodbye, vacation fund), or use a website template that thousands of your competitors use.

But if AI can help us write emails and generate images, why not build websites with it?

That’s exactly what ZipWP and Elementor can do!

Elementor, the visual page builder loved by millions, is now fully integrated within ZipWP’s AI website builder.

This thoughtful pairing brings in more features and flexibility to your website without coding or design skills needed.

Just tell it what you need in plain English, and watch your site take shape.

Here’s everything you need to know.

What Is ZipWP?

ZipWP is an AI website builder that makes creating your dream site simpler than ever before.

It asks you a series of carefully crafted questions about your business, gathers the essential information, and generates a fully functional website tailored specifically to your needs.

It builds all the important elements including:

• Professional page layouts customized for your industry
• Relevant images that make sense for your business
• Compelling copy that doesn’t sound like it was written by a robot from the 1980s
• Color schemes that complement your brand without making visitors reach for sunglasses

ZipWP users typically experience what psychologists might classify as “website creation euphoria”, a condition characterized by excessive smiling, spontaneous fist pumps, and the irresistible urge to show everyone how quickly they built their professional-looking site.

Key ZipWP Features

• Lightning-fast website generation: Use the try.new link or work from the ZipWP dashboard and you can create a website in minutes.
• AI-powered content creation: ZipWP’s AI generates professional content, from compelling homepage text to detailed service descriptions and about pages.
• Seamless integration with other tools: ZipWP integrates smoothly with other website creation tools like Spectra and Starter Templates, expanding your options and capabilities.
• Customization options: While ZipWP creates the foundation, you maintain full creative control. Every element can be customized to match your vision precisely, ensuring your site reflects your unique brand identity.

What Is Elementor?

Elementor is a page builder that transforms the standard WordPress editing experience into something more visual and intuitive.

Elementor operates on a simple premise: website building should be visual, intuitive, and accessible to everyone regardless of technical skill.

Its drag and drop interface eliminates the complexity typically associated with WordPress customization.

Key Elementor Features

• Real-time visual editor: Elementor’s interface shows you exactly what your changes look like in real-time. This eliminates the traditional publish-preview-adjust cycle, making website customization much more efficient.
• Extensive template library: With over 300 professionally designed templates, Elementor provides excellent starting points for any project. Templates cover everything from landing pages to blogs to eCommerce storefronts, each fully customizable to your specific needs.
• Comprehensive widget collection: Elementor offers more than 100 widgets for adding elements to pages, from basic text blocks and images to complex pricing tables, testimonial carousels, and animated counters.
• Advanced theme builder: Elementor Pro users gain access to the Theme Builder, which allows customization of typically restricted areas like headers, footers, single post templates, and archive pages.
• True mobile responsiveness: Every design created with Elementor automatically adjusts to different screen sizes. Users can fine-tune how elements appear on tablets and mobile devices, ensuring consistent quality across all viewing platforms.

ZipWP + Elementor: The Perfect Combination

Combining ZipWP and Elementor creates a powerful website development workflow.

ZipWP’s AI-generated website provides an excellent foundation, while Elementor’s design tools allow for comprehensive customization.

Key Benefits of the Integration

• Significant time savings: Using ZipWP and Elementor together dramatically accelerates the website creation process. What traditionally required weeks of development can now be accomplished in hours or even minutes.
• Balance AI assistance and human creativity: ZipWP’s AI handles the technical aspects of site creation, while Elementor gives you the tools to add your personal touch and brand identity.
• Professional results at accessible prices: The combination delivers professionally designed websites without the traditional costs associated with custom web development. Small businesses and entrepreneurs can now create sites that rival those of larger competitors, without straining their budgets.
• Streamlined, logical workflow: Rather than piecing together different tools and hoping for the best, ZipWP and Elementor form a seamless pairing.

Who Benefits From This Digital Dream Team?

The feature integration is great. But where can you actually use them? How will they benefit you?

Small Business Owners (Who Wear Too Many Hats Already)

Small business owners typically have multiple roles – CEO, accountant, marketing manager, and occasionally, office caretaker.

Adding “web developer” to that list seems a bit much.

With ZipWP and Elementor, a small business owner can generate a beautiful website during their lunch break, complete with great images. All without knowing how to code.

ZipWP creates the structure with all necessary pages (Home, About, Services, Contact).

Elementor helps you adjust colors to match branding, add a gallery of your most Instagram-worthy creations, and add your own personality.

The entire process takes less time than you’d take to call a web dev and tell them what you need!

Freelancers and Agencies

Freelancers and agencies can use ZipWP to create foundation websites for clients in minutes rather than days.

Elementor then adds client-specific customizations that make each site unique.

A freelance designer or design agency working with multiple clients simultaneously can use ZipWP to generate baseline websites for each project.

You can then schedule focused Elementor customization sessions to add unique elements, speeding up time to delivery.

Bloggers and Content Creators

Content creators should spend their time creating content, not fighting with website layouts.

A fashion blogger can use ZipWP to generate a content-ready website with appropriate categories and post structures.

You can then use Elementor to design a unique homepage layout that showcases your latest articles, Instagram feed, and newsletter signup form.

The integration allows you to create content-focused designs with features like reading time indicators, related posts sections, and category highlight areas, without touching a single line of code.

Getting Started: Your Step-by-Step Guide to Website Bliss

How can you actually use ZipWP with Elementor?

Step 1: Create Your ZipWP Account (Painless, We Promise)

Visit the ZipWP website and sign up for an account.

You just need to provide basic information like your email address and create a password.

Step 2: Choose Your Plan

ZipWP offers plans tailored to different needs:

• Free plan: Perfect for dipping your toes into the AI website-building waters
• Premium plans: Offers additional features like unlimited websites, premium templates, and advanced customization options

Select the plan that aligns with your needs and budget. The premium plans cost significantly less than hiring a web developer or spending countless hours learning to code.

Step 3: Navigate the Dashboard (No Compass Required)

After logging in, you’ll land in the ZipWP dashboard, your command center for website creation.

The interface is very intuitive, but play around and familiarize yourself with the layout.

The important sections are the number of sites you have created, the option to create additional sites, blueprints, projects, and blank sites.

You’ll also be able to see the staging websites and the live websites from the dashboard menu.

Step 4: Generate Your Website (The Magic Moment)

Now for the best part, creating your website with ZipWP!

Click Complete Site from the dashboard menu and you’ll be greeted with the below screen:.

Start by answering the questions about your website so ZipWP’s AI has enough context to create it.

• What’s your business name?
• What industry are you in?
• What’s your target audience?
• What key features do you need?

The AI uses these answers to generate a complete website structure with appropriate pages, sections, and content.

The process typically takes less than 2 minutes (about the same time it takes to microwave popcorn, but with significantly more impressive results)

Step 5: Select Elementor As Your Website Builder

Next you’ll be asked to pick between the WordPress block editor and Elementor.

• Elementor gives you a lot more features and functionality that you can add to your website.
• The Block Editor is less feature-rich but is also lighter.

As we’re discussing the ZipWP + Elementor combo, we recommend trying that.

Depending on what you pick, ZipWP will now create a complete website using the information you provide.

Step 6: Updating Your Content

ZipWP has already created content personalized to your business but you’ll probably need to tweak things to make sure your site is perfect.

WordPress and Elementor make editing easy.

Access your WordPress dashboard via ZipWP and go to the page or post you want to update.

Click Edit with Elementor.

Make your changes using the visual editor. Once done, save and publish.

Visually Editing Websites With Elementor

Elementor turns the traditional WordPress editing experience into something that feels alive, responsive, immediate.

Simply click the plus icon, select from dozens of widgets, and drag them exactly where you want them. Text blocks, images, videos, buttons, forms, all available right at your fingertips.

Need to edit text? Just click and type. Want to adjust spacing? Grab any element and resize it.

The changes appear instantly. No more preview-adjust-preview cycles that drain your creative momentum.

The most amazing part is how seamlessly Elementor is integrated with ZipWP’s AI.

It automatically creates a full website which you can further customize by dragging and dropping elements like we’ve shown below.

It’s literally that easy!

Tweaking styles becomes second nature with the Style tab.

Select any element, access the style options, and adjust colors, typography, borders, and more.

All with precise control that doesn’t require understanding a single line of CSS.

When you’re satisfied with your changes, simply click the Publish button.

And just like that, your website is ready to be shared with the world!

This is exactly what makes the Elementor and ZipWP integrations so amazing.

You have an extremely powerful drag and drop designer combined with an AI website builder, helping you bring your vision to life in the shortest amount of time possible, with almost no technical skills!

Make Sure Mobile Works

Your website needs to look fantastic on all devices, from 27-inch monitors to the smallest smartphones.

Elementor makes this process painless.

While editing a page, click the responsive editing mode icons at the top of the editor.

Switch between desktop, tablet, and mobile views and make any device-specific adjustments as needed.

Responsive editing is a way for you to see exactly what your website looks like on different devices.

You can customize each element to be easily visible (you shouldn’t need to zoom in or out) and clickable on each of those devices.

For instance, when in mobile view, you may notice that a three-column section becomes unreadable as it stretches across the screen.

With Elementor, you can simply select it and set it to “stack” on mobile screens and set margins and padding specifically for mobile devices.

Text too small? Adjust font sizes for mobile only. Image too dominant? Set mobile-specific dimensions. That beautiful animation that works on desktop? You can disable it on mobile to improve performance.

And with all of this customization, your website is now fully responsive on different screen sizes.

You don’t need to custom code anything separately because Elementor identifies what device is being used and shows the most appropriate version to the user!

Migrating to Your Web Host

You have a complete website ready to go live on your custom domain. The text, images, pages are all customized and your site is ready to go.

How can you transport it to your web host? ZipWP makes it easy!

The easiest way is to migrate your website from ZipWP by downloading a backup and uploading it to your web host.

Here’s how:

• Update your admin password on your ZipWP site before migration to maintain access after transfer.
• Install All-in-One WP Migration plugin on your ZipWP site (free for sites under 64MB) or use alternatives like MigrateGuru for larger websites.
• Install WordPress on your new host if you haven’t already.
• Export your website using the migration plugin and import it to your host.
• Use your login credentials to access your migrated website.

Your website is now fully transferred with all customizations intact and running on your preferred hosting service!

Website Creation Reimagined

With ZipWP and Elementor, what was once a complex, time-consuming process requiring specialized skills has become accessible to virtually anyone!

The intuitive ZipWP interface and powerful AI make it easier than ever to create amazing websites.

The addition of Elementor adds a whole new level of freedom in how you design and customize the sites you build.

It’s a powerful combination that levels the playing field so anyone, with any skill level or budget can build something to be proud of!