Recently, I got a project to build an ecommerce website, and it’s been an interesting one.

Some pages were built with WPBakery while others used Elementor. I’m much more comfortable with Elementor, so I tried importing the demo content for the Elementor pages.

The problem? Some of those pages were apparently built specifically for WPBakery. When I tried opening them with Elementor, the layout was completely messed up.

So I decided to bite the bullet and rebuild the page from scratch in Elementor.

Then I hit another issue.

It’s a contact page, and I wanted to use Contact Form 7. But apparently, adding a CF7 form directly through Elementor requires the Pro version.

What confuses me is that Contact Form 7 is a separate plugin and isn’t even an Elementor feature. Why should I need Elementor Pro just to drop a CF7 widget onto a page?

Has anyone else run into this limitation with Elementor Free? What’s your preferred workaround?