Starter Templates: AI-Powered Website Templates for Elementor & Gutenberg

89 Quality Score

Active Installs

27/30

One million active installs is a strong indicator of real-world adoption, though it is dwarfed by Elementor's 10 million, so it lives mostly in the Astra ecosystem rather than the broader WordPress mainstream.

Update Freshness

25/25

Updated within the last release cycle and clearly maintained against current WordPress core, which earns a perfect maintenance score.

User Rating

15/15

A 98 out of 100 across 4,743 ratings is unusually high and signals very low friction in the user experience.

Support Health

8/15

Only 6 support threads and an 83.3% resolution rate is a small sample that makes it hard to judge, so the middling score reflects thin data more than known problems.

WP Compatibility

15/15

Compatible with WordPress 7.0.1 and PHP 7.4+, and tested against the major page builders and themes it targets, so compatibility risk is low.

Scores higher than 99% of indexed plugins

About

300+ free WordPress website templates, page templates & block patterns. A starter sites library for Elementor, Gutenberg & any theme.

Active Installs 1M+

Rating ★★★★½ 4.9/5

Last Updated 2026-09-17 5:16am GMT

Requires WordPress 6.6+

Tested Up To 7.1.1

Requires PHP 7.4+

Security History

10 known vulnerabilities, all patched

2 High 8 Medium

Most recent: September 10, 2026

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Starter Templates: AI-Powered Website Templates for Elementor & Gutenberg <= 4.7.5 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Insecure Direct Object Reference Medium

September 10, 2026 Patched in ["4.7.6"] CVE-2026-62134

Starter Templates <= 4.4.41 - Authenticated (Author+) Arbitrary File Upload via WXR Upload Bypass High

December 5, 2025 Patched in ["4.4.42"] CVE-2025-13065

Starter Templates <= 4.4.9 - Cross-Site Request Forgery Medium

January 24, 2025 Patched in ["4.4.10"] CVE-2025-24568

Starter Templates <= 4.4.0 - Authenticated (Author+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting Medium

September 27, 2024 Patched in ["4.4.1"] CVE-2024-47345

Starter Templates — Elementor, WordPress & Beaver Builder Templates <= 4.2.1 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting Medium

May 10, 2024 Patched in ["4.2.2"] CVE-2024-4630

Starter Templates — Elementor, WordPress & Beaver Builder Templates <= 4.1.6 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Server-Side Request Forgery Medium

May 8, 2024 Patched in ["4.1.7"] CVE-2024-1467

Starter Templates <= 3.2.4 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Server-Side Request Forgery Medium

September 5, 2023 Patched in ["3.2.5"] CVE-2023-41804

Starter Templates <= 3.2.5 - Incorrect Authorization Medium

September 5, 2023 Patched in ["3.2.6"] CVE-2023-41805

Starter Templates — Elementor, WordPress & Beaver Builder Templates <= 3.1.20 - Cross-Site Request Forgery in add_to_favorite Medium

February 20, 2023 Patched in ["3.2.21"] CVE-2022-46851

Starter Templates — Elementor, Gutenberg & Beaver Builder Templates <= 2.7.0 - Missing Authorization to Stored Cross-Site Scripting High

October 4, 2021 Patched in ["2.7.1"] CVE-2021-42360

What It Does

Starter Templates imports pre-built website templates (300+ designs) into a fresh or existing WordPress site, populating pages, posts, menus, and widgets in a single click. It works with both the block editor (Gutenberg) and Elementor, and imports cleanly into Astra, Hello, OceanWP, GeneratePress, and most other themes. In practice it lets a non-developer spin up a complete, editable site in minutes instead of building layout by layout.

Who It's For

Small business owners, freelancers, and agencies that need to launch client or internal sites quickly without designing every page from scratch. It is a particularly good fit for anyone already using (or open to using) Astra, Hello, OceanWP, or GeneratePress. Users comfortable importing demo content and then customizing it will get the most value.

Who Should Skip It

Developers who build fully custom designs or anyone who needs pixel-perfect, theme-agnostic templates will find the imported sites too opinionated and will spend as much time stripping content as they would building it. If you only need a handful of pages, a dedicated page builder like Elementor or Spectra Legacy may be a lighter alternative.

The Bottom Line

Starter Templates is a polished, well-maintained shortcut for launching WordPress sites fast, and its 89.07/100 quality score reflects strong adoption and ratings tempered only by limited support thread volume. It is not a design tool, and it will not replace a real theme or page builder, so think of it as a starting point you will customize rather than a finished site. For most small business and agency use cases it delivers exactly what it promises.

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