Essential Addons for Elementor vs Gravity Forms Advanced Post Creation Add-On
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| Feature | Essential Addons for Elementor v6.8.7 · checked 23 Oct 2026 Free + paid · ★ 4.9/5 Visit Details | Gravity Forms Advanced Post Creation Add-On v1.6.2 · checked 23 Oct 2026 Paid Visit Details |
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| At a glance | ||
| Active installs | 1M+ | — |
| Last updated | October 19, 2026 | — |
| Editions | Essential Addons for Elementor · Essential Addons for Elementor - Pro ($) | Gravity Forms Advanced Post Creation Add-On ($) |
| Pros | Large set of widgets added to Elementor; Form widgets for Gravity Forms, WPForms, Contact Form 7, Fluent Forms and Ninja Forms; WooCommerce product widgets such as product compare | Maps title, content, excerpt, taxonomies, custom fields and featured images; Front-end post editing through a form page; Posts list output for posts created by forms |
| Cons | Premium widgets and extensions need the Pro version; Some widgets call third-party services such as OpenSea and Facebook | Needs a Gravity Forms licence key for updates; Front-end editing needs a form page set up per feed; Many feed settings to configure for each post type |
| More features | ||
| Other features | Filterable gallery widget, Data table widget, Event calendar widget with Google Calendar source, WooCommerce product compare widget, NFT gallery widget, Twitter and Facebook feed widgets, TypeForm embed widget, Essential Addons admin menu page | Create WordPress posts and custom post types from submissions ($), Map title, content and excerpt from form fields ($), Map form fields to post custom fields ($), Assign taxonomy terms from form fields ($), Featured image from a file upload field ($), Front-end post editing through a form page ($), Posts list output via the apc_posts_list Gravity Forms shortcode action ($), Create a post after a user registration feed runs ($) |
| Integrations | ||
| Analytics | WP Insights usage tracker (opt-in) | — |
| Social | X (Twitter) API, Facebook Graph API | — |
| E-commerce | WooCommerce | — |
| Plugins | Elementor, Gravity Forms, WPForms, Contact Form 7, Fluent Forms, Ninja Forms | Gravity Forms ($), Gravity Forms User Registration Add-On ($) |
| Other | Formstack, Google Calendar, TypeForm API, OpenSea | — |
| Requires WordPress | 5.3 | — |
| Requires PHP | 7.0 | — |
| Tested up to | 7.1 | — |
| Phones home | Only if you agree | No |
| External services | api.twitter.com, graph.facebook.com, send.wpinsight.com, www.googleapis.com, opensea.io, magiceden.io, api.typeform.com | — |