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Fundamento

Fundamento creates the ability to easily add custom skins and padding-presets into your Elementor-based Wordpress website.

Active installs70+10+ tier
Downloads · 30d274▲ +3.4% vs prev. 30d
Rating5/52 reviews
Health score35/100At risk
All-time downloads10.4KSince Mar 2022
Support resolved—No recent threads
RequiresWP 5.2PHP 7.4+
Downloads · 7d63▼ -14.9% week over week
Our verdict

Consider an alternative

Fundamento shows warning signs in 2026 — compare the alternatives below before installing. It runs on 70+ sites, is rated 5/5 and was last updated 2 years ago, and scores 35/100 on our health check.

  • Small user base (70+ active installs)
  • Very few reviews so far
  • No update in over a year
  • Only tested up to WordPress 6.7 (latest is 7.1)

How does it stack up?

Side-by-side on installs, updates, ratings & support

Daily downloads

3711Jun 30Aug 13Sep 27
Yesterday8
Daily average (1y)6
Peak day20May 29, 2026
Last 12 months2.2K

Download spikes usually follow a new release — each site that auto-updates counts as a download.

Rankings

Where Fundamento stands today

WordPress.org search rankings

Live position in the plugin search, top 100
KeywordPositionCompeting pluginsCategory
elementor >100 6,531 Best elementor plugins →
globals >100 6,926 Best globals plugins →
skin >100 530 Best skin plugins →
template >100 10,000 Best template plugins →

Version adoption

Share of active sites per release.

  • 1.1100.0%

Rating breakdown

★★★★★★★★★★ 5 from 2 reviews

  • 5★100.0%
  • 4★0.00%
  • 3★0.00%
  • 2★0.00%
  • 1★0.00%

About Fundamento

From the official readme · v1.1.10

Description

Have you ever wanted to alter the way Elementor renders one of its widgets on your website?

Fundamento provides an easier way to achieve this by allowing you to inject extra CSS classes into Elementor’s widgets.

Usage

Tell Elementor that you have a new skin available by utilizing the following code in your functions.php file:

  1. Add an action to initialize Fundamento, then add a call to Fundamento’s register_skin() function:

    if(is_plugin_active('fundamento/fundamento.php')) {
        function fundamento_init() {
            // create a new Fundamento instance
            $f = \Fundamento\Plugin::instance(); 
    
            // register a new skin
            $f->register_skin([
                'name'       => 'Red',                                                      // The name of your new skin, as it will appear in Elementor
                'element'    => 'button',                                                      // The elementor element you are skinning
                'is_default' => true,                                                          // optional - should this skin be set by default on all elements of this type
                'css'        => get_stylesheet_directory_uri() . '/skins/button/red.css',   // optional - have Fundamento enqueue an extra css file
                'js'         => get_stylesheet_directory_uri() . '/skins/button/red.js',    // optional - have Fundamento enqueue an extra js file
            ]);
        }
        add_action('elementor/init', 'fundamento_init');
    }
    
  2. Add the selector to your css file:

    /* Class will always be .skin-{element}-{name} */
    /* Name is transformed to lowercase and spaces are replaced with "-" */
    .skin-button-red {
        background: #f00;
    }
    

Tell Elementor that you have a new padding preset by utilizing the following code in your functions.php file:

  1. Add an action to initialize Fundamento, then add a call to Fundamento’s register_padding() function:

    if(is_plugin_active('fundamento/fundamento.php')) {
        function fundamento_init() {
            // create a new Fundamento instance
            $f = \Fundamento\Plugin::instance(); 
    
            // register a new skin
            $f->register_padding([
                'name'       => 'Standard',                                                    // The name of your padding preset, as it will appear in Elementor
                'element'    => 'section',                                                     // The elementor element you are skinning
                'padding'    => '30px',                                                        // The value and unit of the amount of padding this preset should apply
                'is_default' => true,                                                          // optional - should this skin be set by default on all elements of this type
            ]);
        }
        add_action('elementor/init', 'fundamento_init');
    }
    

Installation

  1. Upload the fundamento folder to your plugins directory
  2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
  3. Add the Fundamento function call to your WordPress theme’s functions.php file
  4. Select a widget on your Elementor-enabled page and choose the custom skin you created
    or
  5. Select a widget on your Elementor-enabled page and choose the padding preset you created

Changelog

1.1.10

  • Updated version alignment/support.

1.1.9

  • Add padding-top/bottom/left/right for inline and block padding on Elementor 3.16+.

1.1.8

  • Fixed bug where classes were not always being added to frontend in Elementor v3.14+.

1.1.7

  • Moved container padding presets to a custom controls section

1.1.6

  • Tested in updated WP / Elementor environments

1.1.5

  • Update padding-control.php to work with section/container templates

Full changelog on WordPress.org →

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FAQ

Fundamento: quick answers

Straight answers, pulled from live WordPress.org data.

Live data from WordPress.org · checked Sep 28, 2026

Is Fundamento free?

Yes. Fundamento is free to download and use from the official WordPress.org plugin directory.

Is Fundamento safe to use in 2026?

Fundamento shows warning signs in 2026 — compare the alternatives below before installing. It runs on 70+ sites, is rated 5/5 and was last updated 2 years ago, and scores 35/100 on our health check.

How many websites use Fundamento?

Fundamento is active on 70+ WordPress websites and has been downloaded 10,350 times since it launched in March 2022. It was downloaded 274 times in the last 30 days.

Does Fundamento work with WordPress 7.1?

Fundamento is officially tested up to WordPress 6.7.9, while the latest release is 7.1.2. It may still work, but try it on a staging site first.

What PHP version does Fundamento need?

Fundamento requires PHP 7.4 or higher. Most hosts run PHP 8.x today, so it works on any modern WordPress hosting.

When was Fundamento last updated?

The latest version, 1.1.10, was released on October 28, 2024 (2 years ago).

Who makes Fundamento?

Fundamento is developed and maintained by w3dev.

What are the best alternatives to Fundamento?

The most popular alternatives to Fundamento are Ultimate Addons for Element… (2M+ installs), Essential Addons for Elemen… (1M+ installs) and Royal Addons for Elementor (600K+ installs).

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