Searching for a way to build dynamic websites with WordPress but without needing custom code?
WordPress makes it easy to add custom content to your site on the backend. But if you want to display that information in a standardized template on the frontend, you’d typically need to edit your theme’s template files directly, which isn’t possible if you’re not a developer.
Thankfully, there are WordPress plugins that can completely eliminate code from the equation and let you build dynamic WordPress sites no matter what level of technical knowledge you possess.
One of the best combinations is Toolset and Elementor Pro, which is what we’re going to focus on in this post.
You’ll learn how to build code-free dynamic websites using Elementor and Toolset – zero code required.
Below, you can see an example of two different posts using the same Elementor template, but pulling in dynamic information from Toolset so that each post’s content is unique:
While we’ve chosen a specific example for this tutorial (a directory of tennis coaches), you can apply the concepts from this guide to literally any type of dynamic WordPress website.
What You Need to Build Dynamic Sites Without Code
If you want to build dynamic WordPress sites without code, Toolset and Elementor Pro make a perfect pair.
In a nutshell, Toolset handles setting up everything on the backend of your site and then Elementor Pro handles everything on the frontend.
With Toolset, you can create custom post types and custom fields to make it easy to input and store your site’s dynamic information on the backend.
Then, Elementor Pro’s Dynamic Tags feature lets you take all of that custom data and build a template for it using Elementor’s visual, drag-and-drop editor.
Instead of creating a static design with Elementor, you can tell Elementor to dynamically pull in the information from the custom fields that you’ve added with
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This article was written by Colin Newcomer and originally published on WP Mayor.