April Contest: What’s Your Top Widget Feature? Tell Us and Win 3 MONTHS FREE!🎁

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Spring is in the air and we’re feeling extra inspired to kick off a new challenge! :sun:

This time, we want to hear about your favorite Elfsight widget and what makes it stand out. Your insights not only help us improve but also give you the chance to win some awesome prizes!


Your Task

Just answer a simple question:

[!question]​ What’s the most useful feature of your favorite Elfsight widget and why?


Think about how this feature helps you reach your goals — whether it’s boosting conversions, simplifying workflow, or improving user experience. We’d love to hear why it’s the best for you :blush:


What are the prizes? :trophy:

  • 5 winners will get a 3-month extension on any one of their active subscriptions.

  • All participants will be rewarded with a 2-week extension bonus.


Picking the winners

Our team will select the 5 most interesting and well-thought-out responses!


Deadline :date:

You’ve got 2 weeks to take part! The topic closes on April 28, and we’ll announce the winners shortly after.

Best of luck to everyone :smiling_face_with_sunglasses:

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Again, the most useful feature for me is the filtering system in the Event Calendar widget.

At first, I was just using it in a basic way, but then I realized I can use things like Event Type, Tags, and Venue to organize everything almost like a mini marketplace. So instead of just showing events, I can actually let users filter experiences by category, location, or type. which makes a huge difference.

What I like about it is that it saves me from building something complicated from scratch. I can structure everything inside the widget, and it still feels clean and easy for the user.

From a practical side, it helps a lot:

  • People find what they want faster

  • The page doesn’t feel messy even with many options

  • I don’t need heavy development to make it work

So for me, it’s not just a “calendar” , it becomes a smart way to organize and present services. That flexibility is what makes it stand out.

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I LOVE the portfolio widget because I’m obsessed with visual grids. Everything just looks better in a grid. As someone who can’t code, I find the portfolio widget an effective solution for me to build simple directories that just a need a basic category structure with the use of tags.

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The store locator was a surprising but incredibly useful tool for us. We were paying for an ancient piece of expensive software to host details of energy testing facilities in the UK. We were paying hundreds for it annually, but after a quick play with the store locator I realised it could do everything we needed and more.

I rebuilt the content in the widget then cancelled then (very pleased with myself) got rid of the ancient software.

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I love the fact that I can have my latest Instagram posts shared on our website and also the Google reviews. We’ve gotten a lot of great compliments on them because we’re able to extensively modify them and make them look on brand and on point, and maintain the nice user experience and coherent branding.

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Loving the AI Chatbot widget because it’s just pure amazing, and I can’t believe you guys even could make this. Keep it up! :tada: The AI Chatbot is a great addition to my website!

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My vote goes to the POPUP — and here’s why it’s the best investment Elfsight has ever given me.

I run marketing strategies across multiple niches — e-commerce, coaching, services, local businesses — and I can tell you one thing with absolute certainty: no page I build goes live without a popup. Not a single one. Why? Because popups work, and the Elfsight Popup Widget is the cleanest, most versatile tool I’ve found to make them happen.

Here’s what makes it my number one:

It closes sales. Every time. Whether I’m pushing a limited-time offer, capturing leads before someone bounces, or announcing a flash discount — the popup is the last line of defense between a visitor and a lost conversion. My clients have seen immediate lifts in opt-ins and purchases simply by adding a well-timed popup to their pages. It’s not subtle. It’s measurable.

It works across every niche I touch. A dentist office running a new patient promo? Popup. A fitness coach launching a program? Popup. An online store with a weekend sale? Popup. A consultant offering a free discovery call? You guessed it — popup. The flexibility to customize design, timing, triggers, and targeting means I can deploy it anywhere and it always feels native to that brand.

No page is complete without it. I genuinely believe this. A website without a popup is leaving money on the table. Visitors are busy, distracted, and won’t always scroll to your CTA. A well-placed popup meets them where they are and gives them one clear action to take. That’s the difference between a pretty website and a website that converts.

And Elfsight as a whole? The best business investment I’ve made. One platform, dozens of widgets, zero dev headaches. I’ve replaced tools that used to cost me 3x more. The popup alone has paid for my subscription many times over — and that’s before counting the reviews, countdown timers, and social feeds I stack on the same pages.

If you’re building pages that need to perform, you need the Popup Widget. And if you’re not using Elfsight yet, you’re simply working harder than you need to.

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"My absolute favorite feature in the YouTube Gallery widget is the ‘Automatic Source Update’ combined with the ‘Popup Play Mode’. :rocket:

As a new content creator with both a Blogger site and a YouTube channel, these features changed the game for me! I don’t have to manually add every new video to my blog—Elfsight does it for me instantly. Plus, the Popup mode keeps my visitors on my blog while they enjoy my videos, which improved my ‘Time on Site’ metrics significantly.

It’s the perfect bridge between my video content and my written articles. It makes my blog look professional and highly interactive without writing a single line of code! :gem_stone:

#Elfsight #YouTubeGallery #ContentCreator #Blogger"

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Our most-used widget is the ‘Contact Form.’ We love how adaptable it is and have already installed it on nine websites. It’s incredibly reliable and hasn’t transmitted a single spam message. Great work, Elfsight team!

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Elfsight’s widgets have been such an incredible part of expanding my websites, and honestly, it is hard to narrow it down because I use almost all of them in so many different ways. They have helped me grow, automate, and enhance my sites far beyond what I could have done so easily on my own. I especially use the Pop-Up widget and the Events Calendar constantly, and I also deeply appreciate the Countdown Timer, Sales Notification, and Contact Form. But my absolute favorite feature of all is the email notification system connected to the Contact Form, especially the ability to offer coupon codes, receive people’s details instantly by email, and have them added directly to my email list. It has made it so much easier to automate outreach, connect with people, and provide our services efficiently. I genuinely love seeing those emails come in, especially when I have them customized with cute little emojis so I instantly know where they came from. Thank you so much for creating tools that have been so helpful and empowering.

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My favorite Elfsight widget is the Order Form, and the story behind why says everything.

My mom is a nurse practitioner. I’m the creative one. For years, we’d have these flashes of inspiration, a business idea, a vision we both got excited about, and then watch them fade. Not because the ideas weren’t good, but because neither of us had the technical ability to build anything with them.

Elfsight changed that.

This fall, we’re launching a medical scrubs customization business. It’s a real market, a competitive one, full of established players, and we’re stepping into it anyway because we believe our vision deserves to be seen. Building it has required us to meet in the middle: my mom’s pragmatism and my near-obsession with the visual details and the finer things. The Order Form widget is where that middle ground lives.

The customization depth is what won us over completely. Our product isn’t one-size-fits-all, it’s actually the opposite of that, and we needed a form that could reflect that complexity without overwhelming our customers or requiring a developer to pull it together. The Order Form delivered exactly that. It’s made us look like pros in a space that’s genuinely full of them.

We’ve been using Elfsight alongside Canva, and together they’ve given a non-technical mom and son the tools to build something we’re both really proud of. And honestly, more than that, this whole process has brought us closer in a way we didn’t expect. A creative partnership neither of us saw coming.

So thank you. Not just for a great widget, but for making space for people like us to show up and compete.

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I’ve been using the Elfsight contact widget on my website and it honestly exceeded my expectations. The integration was very smooth, and the design fits perfectly with my website’s overall look. What I like most is how easy it makes it for visitors to get in touch. I’ve clearly seen an increase in messages since adding it. It’s one of those tools that not only looks great, but actually delivers real results.

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AI Chatbot widget from Elfsight, the most useful feature is its ability to deliver instant, context-aware responses 24/7.

What makes this especially powerful isn’t just that it replies quickly—it’s that it can be trained on your own content (FAQs, product info, policies), so it feels like a knowledgeable team member rather than a generic bot.

Here’s why that matters:

  • It eliminates wait time completely. Visitors get answers the moment they have a question, which is often the difference between staying and leaving.

  • It captures and nurtures leads automatically, even outside business hours.

  • It reduces repetitive support work, freeing you (or your team) to focus on more complex issues.

  • It creates a smoother user experience by guiding people to the right pages, products, or actions.

In short, the chatbot turns your website from a static page into something interactive and responsive. When it’s set up well, it doesn’t just answer questions—it actively helps convert visitors into customers.

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I started out using Instagram Feed, but now I’m curious about AI chatbots.

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La opción que más me gusta es la de poder agrupar las recomendaciones de Google y Facebook!

My favorite option is being able to group recommendations from Google and Facebook!

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My favorite Elfsight widget is the AI-powered Live Chat, and its most useful feature is the ability to give visitors instant, automated answers 24/7 without needing someone from my team online all the time. It’s especially valuable because it helps capture leads, answer common questions right away, and keeps the website responsive for visitors, which improves the overall user experience

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I love the Audio Player Widget. It has a beautiful design, looks gorgeous on the website, can be customized easily including uploading music files, the style of your player, cover photos, adding a custom button or music website brand buttons, free download button, titles, and adjustable settings for autoplay, shuffle and loop. The Audio Player Widget gives a polished, professional look to your website while being easy to use, giving website visitors an enjoyable listening experience. Thank you for such a great Widget!

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I love how customizable they are to company brand and needs!

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The Review Response feature in the Google Review Widget is my top pick. Being able to add this widget to a landing page or website and demonstrate that the business is actively involved with the customers experience - and not just how the widget shows the review but that it shows the Owners Response. Appreciating the 4-5 stars (as we all love to be appreciated") and handling 1-3 stars which almost any real business gets from time to time. The openness to make things right is huge. Trust is such a large part of doing business that it’s hard to believe businesses don’t think like the consumer when running their business and realize the need to respond to every customer should be one of their highest priority daily tasks. It can make them so much money. I have clients that credit me with higher profits due to the handling of this one platform alone. Come on people. I’ll Google it…how do you miss that Mr. or Ms. business owner. That is why this is my fav.