{"id":129187,"date":"2022-04-25T13:33:49","date_gmt":"2022-04-25T18:33:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wpengine.com\/?p=129187"},"modified":"2025-05-14T13:31:00","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T18:31:00","slug":"torque-plugin-madness-winner-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wpengine.com\/resources\/torque-plugin-madness-winner-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"The Plus Addons for Elementor Wins Torque\u2019s Plugin Madness 2022!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Competition was fierce until the very end, but a winner has emerged in this year\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/torquemag.io\/2022\/04\/the-plus-addons-for-elementor-wins-plugin-madness-2022\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Plugin Madness<\/a> tournament sponsored by <a href=\"https:\/\/torquemag.io\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Torque Magazine<\/a>. The voters have spoken, and <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/the-plus-addons-for-elementor-page-builder\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Plus Addons for Elementor<\/a> is the top WordPress plugin identified by Torque readers for 2022!\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theplusaddons.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Plus Addons for Elementor<\/a> allows you to supercharge <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/elementor\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Elementor<\/a> like never before with additional features for the popular page builder including expanded page-building functionality and a WooCommerce store builder. It also has a one-click unused widget scanner, allowing you to identify and disable unused widgets quickly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/theplusaddons.com\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Plus-Addons_1200x627-1024x536.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-129203\" width=\"768\" height=\"402\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wpengine.com\/resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Plus-Addons_1200x627-1024x536.png 1024w, https:\/\/wpengine.com\/resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Plus-Addons_1200x627-540x283.png 540w, https:\/\/wpengine.com\/resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Plus-Addons_1200x627-768x402.png 768w, https:\/\/wpengine.com\/resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Plus-Addons_1200x627.png 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><figcaption><em>Plugin Madness 2022 Champion, The Plus Addons for Elementor, is a popular WordPress plugin that supercharges the Elementor page building experience<br><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The Plus Addons for Elementor edged out <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/health-check\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Health Check<\/a> in the final round of Plugin Madness voting. Health Check is a plugin that scans your WordPress installation to detect common configuration errors and known issues, and also allows plugins and themes to add their own checks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now in its seventh year, Plugin Madness is a bracket-style competition in which Torque readers\u2019 favorite plugins go head-to-head in weekly competitions until a final winner is crowned. It begins with 64 of the top plugins identified by Torque readers, broken into four major categories: Optimization, Maintenance, eCommerce, and Marketing. From there, readers cast their votes until a winner emerges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cPlugin Madness is such a fun way to show our love for one of the most important parts of WordPress\u2014the incredible ecosystem of plugins and the developers and designers who make them available to the WordPress community,\u201d said Emily Schiola, editor of Torque Magazine.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cEvery year is a great opportunity to support established plugins that the community has relied on for a long time, as well as elevate new plugins that are providing users with a ton of value.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Every plugin included in the competition is available for free in the WordPress plugin repository, and this year\u2019s entrants include plugins that help site builders with everything from site security and speed to content translations and media compression.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Voting began on March 7 and with voting in the final round now wrapped up, The Plus Addons for Elementor joins an illustrious list of previous Plugin Madness winners including <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/elementor\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Elementor,<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/fluentcrm.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">FluentCRM<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-smushit\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Smush image optimizer<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you didn\u2019t see your favorite plugin in the bracket, make your voice heard during next year\u2019s Plugin Madness! Follow Torque to be notified when the competition kicks off next year so you can be sure to nominate and vote for your favorites.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Follow Torque on:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/showcase\/torque-magazine\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">LinkedIn<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheTorqueMag?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Twitter<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UC8kE-SmTc9DvcBnNNXhY-1w\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">YouTube<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/thetorquemag\/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Instagram<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Competition was fierce until the very end, but a winner has emerged in this year\u2019s Plugin Madness tournament sponsored by Torque Magazine. The voters have spoken, and The Plus Addons for Elementor is the top WordPress plugin identified by Torque readers for 2022!\u00a0 The Plus Addons for Elementor allows you to supercharge Elementor like never<span class=\"tile__ellipses\">&hellip;<\/span><span class=\"tile__ellipses--animated\"><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":318,"featured_media":129204,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[528,81],"tags":[645],"class_list":["post-129187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plugins","category-wordpress-community","tag-plugin-madness"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Plus Addons for Elementor Wins Torque\u2019s Plugin Madness 2022!<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The voters have 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