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Composer ​

Elementor Pro Advanced

Developers can install Elementor and Elementor Pro via Composer instead of using a web browser. It can be done using a few simple CLI commands.

What is Composer? ​

Composer is a PHP dependency management tool. It simplifies the process of installing dependent libraries in PHP projects.

However, Composer doesn't contain WordPress plugins and themes. For that developers use wpackagist.org which is an open source service that mirrors WordPress plugins and themes as Composer repositories.

Install Elementor ​

Register WordPress Packagist repository on your composer.json file:

json
{
	"repositories": [
		{
			"type": "composer",
			"url": "https://wpackagist.org",
			"only": [
				"wpackagist-plugin/*",
				"wpackagist-theme/*"
			]
		}
	]
}

Install the latest Elementor version:

bash
composer require wpackagist-plugin/elementor

Or choose a specific version:

bash
composer require wpackagist-plugin/elementor:3.25.0

Install Elementor Pro ​

Register Elementor repository on your composer.json file:

json
{
	"repositories": [
		{
			"type": "composer",
			"url": "https://composer.elementor.com",
			"only": [
				"elementor/elementor-pro"
			]
		}
	]
}

Configure composer to use a Elementor Pro license key:

bash
composer config --global --auth http-basic.composer.elementor.com token <license-key>

To install Elementor Pro on wp-content/plugins folder instead of vendor folder, use composer custom installers:

bash
composer config --no-plugins allow-plugins.composer/installers true
composer require composer/installers

Install the latest Elementor Pro version:

bash
composer require elementor/elementor-pro

Or choose a specific version:

bash
composer require elementor/elementor-pro:3.25.0

Activation ​

To activate Elementor & Elementor Pro, use the folowing WP-CLI and Elementor CLI commands.

Activate Elementor plugin:

bash
wp plugin activate elementor

Activate Elementor Pro plugin:

bash
wp plugin activate elementor-pro

Activate Elementor Pro license:

bash
wp elementor-pro license activate <license-key>

Optionaly, you can activate Elementor & Elementor Pro on multisite network:

bash
wp plugin activate elementor --network
wp plugin activate elementor-pro --network
wp site list --field=url | xargs -n1 -I % wp --url=% elementor-pro license activate <license-key>