Templately Review: The New Elementor and Gutenberg Cloud
Using a design from one website to another is tedious, especially when you are working with a team.
Yes, it may help you save time from redoing the design yourself on a new website. But imagine if you can save and use various templates from one location, no matter how many websites you have or how many teams you run?
Well, that is exactly what Templately is for. It is nowhere near your average template factory for Elementor and Gutenberg. It is a different beast altogether, which may entirely change the way you apply templates to various websites.
Let’s dig deeper!
What is Templately?
Templately is an Elementor templates factory and a cloud workspace that is perfect for people and teams that design a lot of websites using templates.
If you use Elementor, then you must have heard of Essential Add-ons for Elementor, a popular add-ons plugin with more than seven million downloads. Templately is created by the same team that is behind the success of Essential Add-ons.
Since the templates are designed with unique and advanced elements from Essential Add-ons, you can already see how good their products are. What you get are absolutely beautiful templates!
However, the real gem about Templately is its cloud workspace functionality. It doubles as a cloud management tool for templates where you can create designs, upload them to the cloud, and use those designs whenever you want.
Let’s dive into the details of Templately’s features.
Feature: Template Factory
Templately’s library is massive, with more than a thousand templates and more than a hundred packs, enjoyed by more than 30,000 users (and will positively increase as more people get to know this plugin).
One simple look at Templately’s own website design and you will get the feeling of how gorgeous their templates are.
For example, one of their featured items is “Pawwelfare”, an animal welfare website template.
This website template pack is built using Elementor and Essential Addons. It is completely customizable even for those that do not know anything about coding. It is also responsive, loads quickly, and is ready to use.
It also has premade pages including:
- Home
- About
- Pet Adoption
- Donate
- Blog
- Blog Details
- Contact
That is only one example of their template packs. On Templately’s homepage, you can see everything that they offer and even filter them out according to blocks, pages, packs, tags, and dependency. You can also use the search function to look for templates that fit your needs.
As for blocks, Templately has templates for header, footer, hero, block, and Gutenberg. If you only need templates for individual pages, you can also filter to see only pages for archive, single product, single post, landing page, and other single pages.
It is also important to look at the dependency part, since there may be plugins that you will need in order to customize certain templates. For example, there are a lot of templates where you will need Elementor Pro and Essential Addons Pro, which as you know, are not free.
Feature: Cloud Workspace
This feature is the ultimate gamechanger as template factories do not have any cloud functionalities. Because of this, it will be surprising if some of them, especially the popular ones, end up copying Templately’s cloud workspace.
From the name itself, this cloud workspace is exactly what you are thinking — it will allow you to save and store your page templates and use them whenever you want to on whatever website.
With this, you will definitely be able to increase your productivity and save time that you otherwise spend in retrofitting every single template that you have and develop a way to use them on every website.
The benefit of this cloud workspace is even more profound when working with teams on multiple websites. For example, you may have to send a template to another member and he or she will then apply that template to his or her assigned website or page.
But with Templately’s cloud workspace, you can invite your team members and give them access to your cloud. That means no more sending templates back and forth. Your team will be able to see all the templates that you want to share with them.
Templately: Ease of Use
Now that you know what features to expect from Templately and how each one could benefit you, it is time to answer some of the most crucial questions: How easy or hard is it to install and use?
The answer: Too easy. In fact, using it feels like using any other template plugin and cloud storage.
How to install Templately?
To install it, you must go the usual route of installing a plugin within your WordPress website. That means you got to visit your “Add Plugins” page by clicking on “Plugins” > “Add New” on your WordPress dashboard.
The next step is to search for the plugin on the search bar and install it. Simply enter “templately” and you will see it immediately. All you have to do now is to press the “Install Now” button and activate it.
Note that you can also upload the plugin directly into your WordPress website right after downloading it from the WordPress plugins repository.
Once the plugin is installed and activated, you will have to sign up (or sign in if you already have an account). Don’t worry about having to pay anything as Templately has a generous free starter plan.
How to use Templately?
First off, if you would like to insert and use a ready template from Templately, click on its cloud button while editing a page using Elementor (or Gutenberg) as shown below:
You will then see a window open where you can select any page, block, or pack template that can be accessed with your current user plan. You can also choose templates that you saved from your own cloud.
Select the template of your choice, see its preview, and click the “Insert” button to use the template.
To save a template or design on your cloud, all you need to do is open that page with Elementor. Then, on save options found on the lower left side, choose “Save Page in Templately”.
A Templately window will then appear you can “Save & Push” your design to your cloud. Don’t forget to name your design so you will not have a hard time finding it later on.
As for creating a new workspace and inviting others into it, all you need to do is to visit your workspace via the plugin. Once you click on “My WorkSpace”, you will see a button where you can add a new workspace.
Once you click it, you can name your new workspace and invite others into it by entering their email addresses. After adding everyone from your team, simply click on the “Create WorkSpace” button to proceed.
As you can see, installing and using Templately is easy. Most of the things you have seen above are the usual operations that you will be doing. In the event that you are stuck, you can always visit Templately’s Documentation and find a solution to your problem.
How much does Templately cost?
If there is something more amazing with Templately besides its features, it is the price. Basically, Templately has a free “Starter” plan. However, make sure to grab it now while you still can since the usual price of their starter plan is $9.99 per month.
It comes with the following:
- My Cloud 100 Items
- No Pro Item
- 1 WorkSpace (Only)
With the free plan, you can also make use of any product that they have that is labeled “Starter” (which is a lot if take a look at their product list). This is already a generous offer so this offer might go away anytime soon.
The “Premium” plan costs $5.99 per month (originally $19.99 per month). When paid annually, the price becomes $59.99 per year, which is reduces to around $4.99 per month. There is also a lifetime plan for this which costs $299.99.
This plan comes with:
- My Cloud Unlimited Items
- Unlimited WorkSpace
If you are a heavy user, with your own design team at your disposal, then the premium plan is the perfect fit for your needs. The starter plan is only good enough for design enthusiast that do not have their own teams (or only has one team to work with).
Make Your Design Workflow Easier
Using a plugin like Templately will definitely make your design workflow easier. Reusing an old template does not have to be a pain anymore as you can save all your templates straight into your cloud.
Since your templates are in the cloud, you can use them on whatever website that you want. Simply install the Templately plugin, enter your credentials, and you will then have unlimited access to your own templates (as well as with other products from Templately).
In terms of reliability and support, there is no need to worry since Templately is made by the same company that is behind Essential Addons. There is a live chat right inside Templately’s website, extensive documentation, and other contact features.
