{"id":151966,"date":"2026-05-24T10:38:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T07:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elementor.com\/blog\/?p=151966"},"modified":"2026-03-31T07:33:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T04:33:13","slug":"elementor-vs-divi-which-better-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elementor.com\/blog\/elementor-vs-divi-which-better-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Elementor vs Divi: Which Is Better in 2026?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Elementor vs Divi: Which Is Better in 2026?<\/h2>\n<p>Choosing between two major visual editors isn&#8217;t a simple decision. You&#8217;re committing to an entire digital ecosystem. And changing your mind later costs thousands of dollars in migration fees.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Elementor<\/strong> and <strong>Divi<\/strong> dominate the WordPress space, but their philosophies have completely diverged in 2026. One pushes toward an integrated, AI-first platform. The other doubles down on lifetime value and aggressive backend overhauls. Let&#8217;s look at the hard data.<\/p>\n<div class=\"key-takeaways\">\n<h2>Key Takeaways<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Elementor powers 13%<\/strong> of the global internet (over 21 million websites), making it the undisputed market leader by volume.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Divi controls 1.2%<\/strong> of global websites, primarily serving agencies that buy its $249 lifetime unlimited license.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Elementor V4 (Atomic)<\/strong> introduces a CSS-first foundation in its early 2026 beta, directly targeting Core Web Vitals.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Divi 5.0 (Foundation)<\/strong> completely removes legacy shortcodes, resulting in a 50-80% increase in backend loading speeds.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Elementor One<\/strong> unifies hosting, design, and AI for $168\/year, while Divi relies strictly on third-party hosting partners.<\/li>\n<li>Sites loading in under 2 seconds maintain a <strong>9% bounce rate<\/strong>, making builder performance the top priority for 2026.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<h2>High-Level Platform Specifications<\/h2>\n<p>Here&#8217;s exactly how these two platforms stack up on paper before we break down the specifics. You&#8217;ll notice immediately where their priorities lie.<\/p>\n<table>\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th>Feature Category<\/th>\n<th>Elementor<\/th>\n<th>Divi<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Market Share<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>13% (21M+ sites)<\/td>\n<td>1.2% (974K+ users)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Primary Architecture<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>V4 Atomic (CSS-first)<\/td>\n<td>Divi 5.0 (No shortcodes)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Entry Pricing<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>$60\/year (1 site)<\/td>\n<td>$89\/year (Unlimited)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Lifetime Option<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>None<\/td>\n<td>$249 (Unlimited)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Native Elements<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>118+ widgets<\/td>\n<td>200+ elements<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Templates<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>100+ full website kits<\/td>\n<td>2,000+ layout packs<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Native AI<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>Elementor AI &#038; Angie (MCP)<\/td>\n<td>Divi AI ($18\/mo extra)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h2>The 2026 Market Reality and Adoption Rates<\/h2>\n<p>Market share isn&#8217;t just a vanity metric. It directly impacts the stability of your technology stack. When a platform has massive adoption, you&#8217;ll find more developers, better tutorials, and faster security patches. That&#8217;s just how open-source software works.<\/p>\n<p>Look at the raw numbers. Elementor currently powers an incredible 13% of all websites globally. That translates to more than 21 million active installations across 206 countries. It&#8217;s massive. Divi, by comparison, powers approximately 1.2% of the internet. This still represents a massive user base of nearly a million active customers, but the scale is fundamentally different.<\/p>\n<p>But here&#8217;s the thing: volume doesn&#8217;t automatically mean superiority. Divi&#8217;s smaller market share consists almost entirely of premium, paying users. Elementor&#8217;s massive footprint includes millions of free tier users. However, Elementor&#8217;s dominance guarantees a massive third-party ecosystem (which we&#8217;ll cover later). When a new SaaS product launches an integration, they build for Elementor first. They simply have to.<\/p>\n<p>Agencies face a tough choice here. If you build with Elementor, any junior developer you hire already knows the interface. If you build with Divi, you might need to train them. It&#8217;s a small friction point, but it matters when you&#8217;re scaling operations quickly.<\/p>\n<h2>Pricing Models and Long-Term Value<\/h2>\n<p>Software costs rarely tell the whole story upfront. You&#8217;ve to calculate the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) over a standard 36-month client lifecycle. Honestly, this is where the comparison gets complicated.<\/p>\n<p>Divi&#8217;s pricing is famous for its simplicity. Elementor recently revamped its entire structure to offer a unified platform approach. Let&#8217;s break down how you&#8217;ll actually spend your money.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Single Site Deployments &#8211; Elementor starts at <strong>$60\/year<\/strong> for the Essential plan (57 widgets). If you want the full 86 Pro widgets, WooCommerce builder, and popups, you&#8217;ll need the Advanced Solo plan at <strong>$84\/year<\/strong>. Divi simply charges <strong>$89\/year<\/strong>, but that covers unlimited sites. For one site, the costs are nearly identical.<\/li>\n<li>The Lifetime Advantage &#8211; Divi offers a <strong>$249 one-time lifetime license<\/strong>. For serial site builders and agencies, this is incredible value. You pay once and use it on a thousand client sites forever. Elementor strictly avoids lifetime deals, preferring recurring revenue to fund continuous development.<\/li>\n<li>The Unified Ecosystem &#8211; Elementor recently launched <a href=\"\/pricing\">Elementor One<\/a> for <strong>$168\/year<\/strong>. This isn&#8217;t just a builder. It includes AI credits, image optimization, accessibility tools (Ally), caching, and transactional email (Site Mailer). It&#8217;s built for users who hate managing twelve different premium plugins.<\/li>\n<li>AI Add-on Costs &#8211; Divi AI costs an additional <strong>$18\/month<\/strong> for unlimited text and image generation. Elementor uses a shared credit system. The Elementor One plan includes <strong>25,000 credits per month<\/strong> (an AI prompt costs 10-400 credits, while an accessibility fix costs 9 credits).<\/li>\n<li>Agency Scaling &#8211; Divi is $249 once. Elementor One Agency costs <strong>$444\/year<\/strong> for unlimited sites and 350,000 monthly shared credits.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>So who wins on price? If raw cost reduction is your only goal, Divi&#8217;s lifetime deal is unbeatable. But if you value an integrated stack where one vendor handles your caching, image optimization, and design tools, Elementor One offers a cleaner financial model.<\/p>\n<h2>Performance Architectures Face Off<\/h2>\n<p>Speed is no longer optional. Research shows that 47% of users expect pages to load in under two seconds. Furthermore, a Google and Deloitte study found that sites loading in two seconds have a <strong>9% bounce rate<\/strong>, whereas sites taking five seconds see that bounce rate spike to <strong>38%<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Both builders historically faced criticism for &#8220;code bloat.&#8221; In 2026, both companies have aggressively rewritten their core engines to fix this exact issue.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Elementor V4 (Atomic) &#8211; Releasing in beta in early 2026, Elementor V4 completely overhauls the rendering engine. It introduces a CSS-first foundation using Classes and Variables. This directly reduces DOM size (which they already cut by 22% in v3.20) and dramatically improves Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) scores.<\/li>\n<li>Divi 5.0 (Foundation) &#8211; This is Divi&#8217;s most significant update in a decade. They completely ripped out their legacy shortcode architecture. By removing shortcode dependencies, Elegant Themes reports a massive <strong>50-80% increase in backend loading speeds<\/strong>. The builder finally feels incredibly fast.<\/li>\n<li>Caching Approaches &#8211; Divi relies heavily on its built-in static CSS file generation and deferred JavaScript. Elementor tackles this through its ecosystem, offering native <strong>Element Caching<\/strong> and automated Image Optimizer tools (which reduce file sizes by up to 60% using WebP\/AVIF formats).<\/li>\n<li>Asset Loading &#8211; Both platforms now conditionally load assets. If you don&#8217;t use a video slider widget on a specific page, neither builder will load the associated JavaScript. This wasn&#8217;t true three years ago.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Honestly, Divi 5.0&#8217;s removal of shortcodes is a massive technical achievement. It fixes the dreaded &#8220;Divi lock-in&#8221; problem where deactivating the theme left your site full of broken bracket text. However, Elementor&#8217;s shift to Atomic CSS variables gives developers much tighter control over massive design systems.<\/p>\n<h2>The Interface and Workflow Efficiency<\/h2>\n<p>Your daily productivity depends entirely on how quickly you can move elements around a canvas. Interface preference is subjective, but workflow efficiency is measurable.<\/p>\n<p>Elementor uses a fixed-panel interface on the left side of your screen. You drag widgets from the panel onto the live canvas. Divi uses a floating, invisible interface. You click directly on the canvas, and small floating toolbars appear over your elements.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s how a typical build process compares in real life:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Step 1: Establishing the Grid.<\/strong> With Elementor, you drag in a Flexbox Container, set your directional flow (row or column), and define your gaps. It behaves exactly like standard CSS flexbox. With Divi, you add a Section, choose a Row layout (like a 3-column split), and insert Modules. Divi&#8217;s approach feels more traditional, while Elementor appeals strongly to modern frontend developers.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Step 2: Accessing Elements.<\/strong> Elementor gives you immediate access to <strong>118+ widgets<\/strong> directly in the sidebar. You always know where your tools are. Divi requires clicking a plus icon to open a modal window containing its <strong>200+ elements<\/strong>. Industry surveys show 64% of freelancers prefer Elementor&#8217;s fixed-panel UI because it requires fewer clicks.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Step 3: Starting with Templates.<\/strong> If you don&#8217;t want to build from scratch, Divi is an absolute monster. It includes over <strong>2,000 pre-made layout packs<\/strong> directly inside the builder. Elementor offers around 100+ full website kits. Divi provides vastly more out-of-the-box design inspiration.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Step 4: Global Styling.<\/strong> Both platforms handle global colors and typography beautifully. But Elementor&#8217;s Global Brand Settings feel slightly more intuitive when managing a massive 50-page corporate site. You change a primary hex code in one place, and the entire site updates instantly.<\/p>\n<h2>Artificial Intelligence in the Editor<\/h2>\n<p>AI isn&#8217;t a gimmick anymore. It&#8217;s a fundamental part of the web design workflow in 2026. Both companies have integrated AI deeply into their platforms, but they approach the technology very differently.<\/p>\n<p>Divi AI focuses purely on content and asset generation. For $18\/month, you get unlimited text generation, image creation, and custom code generation across all sites on your license. If you run a massive agency generating hundreds of images a week, this unlimited model is incredibly cost-effective.<\/p>\n<p>Elementor takes a much more systemic approach. They offer the Elementor AI creative assistant inside the editor (used by 1.5 million people), but they&#8217;ve also introduced something far more advanced: <strong>Angie<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Angie is an agentic AI for WordPress built on the Model Context Protocol (MCP). Unlike standard chatbots that just spit out text, Angie actually takes action. You can use natural language to tell Angie to build a pricing table, and it creates a production-ready WordPress asset. It&#8217;s a standalone plugin that works beautifully within the Elementor ecosystem, but it doesn&#8217;t strictly require the Editor. It&#8217;s built for rapid, conversational development.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The next era of web development isn&#8217;t just about writing faster code. It&#8217;s about AI agents that understand context, user intent, and technical SEO simultaneously. When your builder natively understands semantic HTML through AI, your search visibility improves automatically.<\/p>\n<p> <cite><strong>Itamar Haim<\/strong>, SEO Team Lead at Elementor. A digital strategist merging SEO, AEO\/GEO, and web development.<\/cite>\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>So, you&#8217;ll need to choose. Do you want unlimited, raw asset generation (Divi)? Or do you want an interconnected, action-taking AI agent that handles accessibility, performance, and design through a shared credit system (Elementor)?<\/p>\n<h2>Theme Building and Dynamic Content<\/h2>\n<p>You aren&#8217;t just building static landing pages anymore. Modern websites require dynamic templates that pull data directly from the WordPress database. Custom Post Types (CPTs) and Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) are the lifeblood of complex sites.<\/p>\n<p>Both builders offer strong Theme Builders. You can design custom headers, footers, single post templates, and 404 pages visually. But their handling of dynamic data differs significantly.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How does Elementor handle dynamic tags?<\/strong><br \/>\nElementor places a small &#8220;Dynamic Tags&#8221; icon next to almost every input field. Want a heading widget to display the current post title? Click the icon and select &#8220;Post Title&#8221;. Want an image widget to pull the author&#8217;s profile picture? Click the icon. It&#8217;s incredibly straightforward and integrates flawlessly with ACF, Pods, and Meta Box.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How does Divi handle dynamic content?<\/strong><br \/>\nDivi also supports dynamic content via a similar icon inside its module settings. However, applying dynamic data to background images or complex grid layouts occasionally requires workarounds. Divi&#8217;s Theme Builder excels in its visual mapping. You get a massive flowchart view of your entire website&#8217;s template structure. You can see exactly which header applies to which specific category page at a single glance.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What about WooCommerce?<\/strong><br \/>\nBoth platforms offer deep WooCommerce integration. Elementor provides specific widgets for product pages, listings, checkout, cart, and the My Account page. Divi offers Woo Modules that do exactly the same thing. However, Elementor&#8217;s grid controls for product archive pages offer slightly more responsive flexibility across mobile breakpoints.<\/p>\n<h2>Third-Party Ecosystems and Extensions<\/h2>\n<p>No page builder can do absolutely everything. Eventually, you&#8217;ll need a highly specific feature. A complex booking calendar. A real estate MLS integration. A specialized data table. This is where market share dictates your available options.<\/p>\n<p>Because Elementor is so massive, its third-party ecosystem is unparalleled.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Plugin Repository &#8211; There are over <strong>5,000 compatible plugins<\/strong> specifically built for Elementor listed on the official WordPress.org repository.<\/li>\n<li>Niche Functionality &#8211; If you need a widget that connects to a specific niche CRM, there&#8217;s almost certainly an Elementor add-on for it.<\/li>\n<li>Community Support &#8211; Finding solutions to obscure CSS conflicts is fast. You simply search the problem, and dozens of forum posts appear.<\/li>\n<li>Template Marketplaces &#8211; ThemeForest and other marketplaces feature tens of thousands of Elementor-specific kits.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Divi operates a much more tightly controlled ecosystem. Elegant Themes runs the official Divi Marketplace. It features hundreds of high-quality, vetted third-party modules and child themes. The quality control is fantastic. You rarely install a Divi extension that breaks your site. But the sheer volume of options can&#8217;t compete with Elementor&#8217;s massive open-market advantage.<\/p>\n<p>If you build standard brochure sites or simple ecommerce stores, Divi&#8217;s native tools are more than enough. But if you build highly customized web apps that require weird third-party APIs, Elementor&#8217;s massive developer community makes your life significantly easier.<\/p>\n<h2>Hosting Integrations and Infrastructure<\/h2>\n<p>Your page builder is only as fast as the server it lives on. Historically, you bought a builder, bought separate hosting, and hoped they played nicely together. In 2026, the lines have completely blurred.<\/p>\n<p>Elementor decided to build its own infrastructure. They offer Managed Cloud Hosting directly through the <a href=\"\/hosting\">Elementor Host Cloud<\/a>. This isn&#8217;t white-labeled quality hosting. It&#8217;s built on <strong>Google Cloud C2<\/strong> servers and uses the <strong>Cloudflare Enterprise CDN<\/strong>. The specs are impressive:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>They guarantee <strong>99.9% uptime<\/strong> for enterprise operations.<\/li>\n<li>Their architecture achieves an incredibly fast <strong>109ms Time to First Byte (TTFB)<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>They specifically optimize the server configuration to rank number one for Core Web Vitals among builder platforms.<\/li>\n<li>Plans scale logically: Cloud at $180\/year, Cloud+ at $300\/year, and Cloud x3 at $420\/year.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Divi took a completely different path. Elegant Themes doesn&#8217;t host websites. Instead, they partnered with established hosting companies (like SiteGround, Flywheel, and Pressable) to offer &#8220;Divi Optimized Hosting.&#8221; These hosts configure their server environments to meet Divi&#8217;s specific PHP memory and execution time requirements automatically.<\/p>\n<p>If you want a completely hands-off experience where one support team handles both server errors and builder glitches, Elementor&#8217;s Host Cloud is brilliant. If you already have a dedicated server architecture you love, Divi&#8217;s agnostic approach is perfectly fine.<\/p>\n<h2>Support Structures and Agency Scaling<\/h2>\n<p>When a client site crashes on Black Friday, you don&#8217;t have time to dig through community forums. You need immediate, professional help. Both companies handle enterprise and agency support differently.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Standard Support Channels &#8211; Elementor offers 24\/7 premium support for all paid users via ticketing and live chat. Divi also offers excellent 24\/7 live chat support for its active license holders.<\/li>\n<li>The VIP Experience &#8211; Divi offers a specific <strong>Divi VIP<\/strong> tier for an additional $15\/month. This is an incredible service. It guarantees a support response time of <strong>under 30 minutes<\/strong>, bypassing the standard 24-hour window completely. For agencies managing angry clients, that 30-minute guarantee is worth every penny.<\/li>\n<li>Agency Management Tools &#8211; Elementor counters with specialized agency plans. The Expert plan ($204\/yr) covers 25 sites. But the real powerhouse is the One Agency plan ($444\/yr). It gives you unlimited site licenses and <strong>350,000 AI credits per month<\/strong> to distribute across your client projects.<\/li>\n<li>Client Handoff &#8211; Both platforms let you hide specific builder features based on WordPress user roles. You can let a client edit text without allowing them to accidentally delete a CSS grid layout.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>If you&#8217;re an agency owner, your choice depends on your pain points. If slow support responses kill your workflow, buy Divi VIP. If you want a unified billing dashboard that handles licenses, AI credits, and accessibility tools in one place, Elementor One Agency is the better move.<\/p>\n<h2>Final Verdict for 2026 Builds<\/h2>\n<p>We&#8217;ve looked at the data. We&#8217;ve examined the architectures. You can&#8217;t make a wrong choice here, but you can certainly make a sub-optimal one for your specific business model.<\/p>\n<p>Honestly, the &#8220;best&#8221; builder depends entirely on how you make money. Both tools produce lightning-fast, highly converting websites in 2026. The real difference is the workflow philosophy.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Choose Elementor if &#8211; You&#8217;re a modern frontend developer who thinks in terms of CSS Flexbox and grid layouts. You want an all-in-one ecosystem (Elementor One) that handles your design, image optimization, and transactional emails. You rely heavily on third-party plugins. You want to use advanced, agentic AI like Angie to speed up complex development tasks.<\/li>\n<li>Choose Divi if &#8211; You&#8217;re an agency that prioritizes profit margins above all else. The $249 lifetime deal is the best financial value in the WordPress ecosystem. You prefer a floating, visual canvas over a fixed sidebar. You want unlimited AI asset generation for a flat $18\/month. You build highly visual brochure sites using massive template libraries.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Elementor is an expansive, performance-driven ecosystem. Divi is a highly refined, cost-effective design tool. Pick the one that fits your agency&#8217;s financial model, and don&#8217;t look back.<\/p>\n<div class=\"faq-section\">\n<h2>Frequently Asked Questions<\/h2>\n<div class=\"faq-item\">\n<h3>Can I migrate a Divi site to Elementor easily?<\/h3>\n<p>No. You can&#8217;t automatically convert Divi layouts to Elementor widgets. You&#8217;ll need to rebuild the pages from scratch. However, Divi 5.0&#8217;s removal of shortcodes means your content won&#8217;t be trapped in messy code if you deactivate the theme first.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"faq-item\">\n<h3>Does Elementor slow down WordPress more than Divi?<\/h3>\n<p>Not anymore. In 2026, Elementor&#8217;s V4 Atomic engine and 22% DOM reduction make it incredibly fast. Both builders conditional load assets now. Your speed relies more on good hosting and image optimization than the builder itself.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"faq-item\">\n<h3>What happens if I stop paying for my Elementor subscription?<\/h3>\n<p>Your existing website won&#8217;t break. It stays exactly as you designed it. However, you&#8217;ll lose access to Pro widgets in the editor, premium templates, and critical security updates. You won&#8217;t be able to edit Pro elements until you renew.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"faq-item\">\n<h3>Is the Hello Theme required to use Elementor?<\/h3>\n<p>No, but it&#8217;s highly recommended. The forever-free Hello Theme is under 30KB and gives you a completely blank, ultra-fast canvas. You can use any theme, but Hello guarantees zero compatibility issues.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"faq-item\">\n<h3>How does Angie differ from standard AI text generators?<\/h3>\n<p>Angie uses the Model Context Protocol (MCP). It doesn&#8217;t just write copy. It&#8217;s an agentic AI that takes actual action inside WordPress, turning natural language commands into production-ready assets and layouts automatically.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"faq-item\">\n<h3>Is Divi&#8217;s lifetime license really unlimited?<\/h3>\n<p>Yes. The $249 payment covers unlimited website installations for life. It also includes access to Extra, Bloom, and Monarch plugins. It doesn&#8217;t include Divi AI or Divi VIP support, which require separate subscriptions.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"faq-item\">\n<h3>Can clients break my designs in these builders?<\/h3>\n<p>Both platforms feature strong Role Manager settings. You can restrict your clients to &#8220;Content Only&#8221; mode. They&#8217;ll be able to change text and swap images, but they won&#8217;t be able to drag widgets around or break your CSS grids.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"faq-item\">\n<h3>Does Elementor support WooCommerce out of the box?<\/h3>\n<p>Yes, but you need the Advanced Solo plan ($84\/year) or higher. The free version and the basic Essential plan don&#8217;t include the specific WooCommerce builder widgets required for custom product pages and checkout flows.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"faq-item\">\n<h3>Which builder is better for accessibility compliance?<\/h3>\n<p>Elementor includes Ally, an AI-powered accessibility tool that scans for over 180 WCAG issues. It helps you find contrast errors and missing alt text. However, no automated tool can guarantee absolute legal compliance.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"faq-item\">\n<h3>Can I use both builders on the same website?<\/h3>\n<p>Technically yes, but you shouldn&#8217;t. Loading two massive visual builder engines simultaneously will destroy your page speed and cause severe JavaScript conflicts. Choose one and stick to it.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Choosing between two major visual editors isn&#8217;t a simple decision. You&#8217;re committing to an entire digital ecosystem. 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