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A lightweight, 100% free set of essential Elementor widgets that the free core doesn't include — performance-first, clean code, no upsells.

Features

Essential widgets that fill the gaps Elementor's free core leaves out, grouped under their own Free Widgets category.
Performance-first: each widget's CSS/JS loads only on pages where the widget is actually used (via Elementor's get_style_depends() / get_script_depends()). Nothing unused is ever queued.
No bloat: plain CSS and vanilla JavaScript — no jQuery dependency for the widgets, no heavy libraries, no build step.
Clean, accessible markup: semantic HTML, escaped output, focus states, and prefers-reduced-motion support on animated widgets (Flip Box, Countdown, Logo Carousel, Table of Contents).
Container ready: works inside Elementor's Flexbox and CSS Grid containers.
Admin dashboard to enable/disable individual widgets, set global design defaults (border radius, shadow, typography), and view system info — all in a single, lightweight option.
Translation ready & RTL friendly. 100% free, GPL licensed — no account or license key.

Included widgets

Widget	Notes
Pricing Table	Header, price, feature list, button, optional "featured" highlight
Flip Box	3D hover/click flip to a back face with a call to action
Team	Photo, role, bio, social links
Call To Action	Title, text, button, background
Countdown Timer	Counts down to a date/time, optional expired message
Post Grid	Responsive grid of posts (image, title, meta, excerpt, read-more)
Logo Carousel	Responsive logo/brand carousel with arrows, dots and autoplay
Table of Contents	Auto-generated, clickable page outline with smooth scroll and scrollspy

Requirements

WordPress 6.0+
PHP 7.4+
Elementor (free) — Elementor Pro is not required.

Install

WordPress.org — Plugins → Add New → search for "Free Widgets For Elementor".

Composer — for sites managed with Composer (Bedrock and similar):

composer require devmonowar/free-widgets-for-elementor

The package type is wordpress-plugin, so composer/installers drops it into wp-content/plugins/ for you. Composer is only a delivery mechanism here — the plugin itself has no runtime dependency on it and no vendor/ folder.

Architecture

Namespace FWFE, prefix fwfe_, CSS class prefix fwfe-.
Manual class loading (includes/Core/Loader.php) via require_once — no Composer, no PSR-4 autoloader, no vendor/.
No build tool — plain CSS/JS written straight into assets/. Asset cache-busting uses the plugin version (time() while WP_DEBUG).
includes/Core/ (Plugin, Loader, Assets) · includes/Hooks/ (Admin, Frontend, Elementor) · includes/Base/Widget_Base.php · includes/Helpers/ · includes/Admin/ · includes/Widgets/<Name>/Widget.php.
Single option fwfe_settings. Clean uninstall (uninstall.php).

Development

No build step and no Composer dependency are required to run the plugin. The dev dependencies are only the coding-standards toolchain:

composer install
composer lint       # PHPCS: WordPress-Core + PHP 7.4 compatibility
composer lint:fix   # phpcbf, auto-fix where possible

PHP 7.4+ compatible. Coding standard: WordPress-Core (see phpcs.xml.dist). CI runs PHP lint (7.4–8.3) + PHPCS on every push.

Release workflow

Bump the version in 2 places: the Version: header in free-widgets-for-elementor.php (the single source of truth — FWFE_VERSION is read from it) and readme.txt (Stable tag + changelog).
Commit and push to main. Wait for CI (lint + PHPCS) to pass.
Tag the release: git tag X.Y.Z && git push origin X.Y.Z. The Deploy workflow publishes it to WordPress.org.

Requires GitHub secrets SVN_USERNAME and SVN_PASSWORD (a WordPress.org account with commit access to the plugin).

License

GPL-2.0-or-later.

devmonowar / free-widgets-for-elementor

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