> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.wpbevel.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Bevel Kit

> The theme builder, widgets, popups, forms, dynamic tags, fonts, icons, tools and page cache that make the free Elementor editor a complete site builder.

Bevel Kit is one plugin that adds to the free Elementor editor everything a site needs and Elementor Pro would otherwise sell: a Theme Builder with display conditions, popups, loops, a mega menu, forms with a submissions inbox, dynamic tags, custom fonts, icons and code, sticky and motion effects, and 24 widgets of its own. It also carries the parts no page builder ships: a Site Settings screen in wp-admin, a one-click optimizer, WebP conversion, a database cleaner, a site-kit importer and a disk page cache.

Everything is free and runs on your site. There is no licence key. A [Bevel account](/kit/account-and-templates), free to start, holds Bevel MCP's daily AI generations and opens the pro template library, and nothing inside the plugin waits on it.

## What it adds

| Area                   | Pages                                                                                                                                                                                        |
| ---------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Building the site      | [Site Settings](/kit/site-settings), [Theme Builder](/kit/theme-builder), [Popups](/kit/popups), [Mega Menu](/kit/mega-menu), [Loops](/kit/loops), [Page Transitions](/kit/page-transitions) |
| Content                | [Widgets](/kit/widgets), [Forms](/kit/forms), [Dynamic tags](/kit/dynamic-tags), [Element options](/kit/element-options), [WooCommerce](/kit/woocommerce)                                    |
| Custom elements        | [Custom Fonts](/kit/custom-fonts), [Custom Icons](/kit/custom-icons), [Custom Code](/kit/custom-code)                                                                                        |
| Performance and upkeep | [Tools](/kit/tools), [Page cache](/kit/page-cache)                                                                                                                                           |
| Everything else        | [Extras](/kit/extras): duplicate posts, front-end edit buttons, meta descriptions, SVG uploads, shortcodes, font preloading, Polylang, the admin bar                                         |

## Requirements

* WordPress 6.8 or newer, PHP 8.0 or newer.
* Elementor 3.25 or newer. The Kit declares Elementor as a required plugin; WordPress will not activate it without Elementor.
* Any theme. The [Bevel theme](/theme/overview) is the natural pairing, but the theme builder takes over any theme's header, footer, single and archive.

Elementor Pro is not a requirement and not a conflict. See [Working next to Elementor Pro](/kit/elementor-pro).

## Install

Upload the plugin under **Plugins → Add New → Upload Plugin**, or copy the folder to `wp-content/plugins/bevel-kit`, then activate it. A bare site fills itself in on the next admin load: the starter site settings, a front page, header, footer, single, archive and 404 templates and a main menu. Nothing is downloaded; the starter set ships inside the plugin. See [Starter Templates](/kit/tools#starter-templates).

## The Bevel menu

The plugin adds one top-level menu, **Bevel**, right after Dashboard:

| Entry               | What it is                                                                                             |
| ------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| **Site Settings**   | Elementor's Site Settings as a full admin screen, plus the Kit's own settings, tools and account tabs. |
| **Theme Builder**   | Templates, conditions, import and export.                                                              |
| **Custom Elements** | Custom Fonts, Custom Icons and Custom Code.                                                            |
| **Submissions**     | The inbox of every form on the site.                                                                   |
| **Starter Sites**   | The hosted catalogue of complete sites.                                                                |
| **MCP Connectors**  | Added by [Bevel MCP](/mcp/overview) when it is installed.                                              |

Elementor's own menu entries for Theme Builder, Custom Fonts, Custom Icons and Custom Code, which open Pro upsells in the free editor, are pointed at the Kit's screens instead.

## What it pins

Elementor 4 ships its next-generation editor experiments on by default and hidden. Every widget, control and template in the Kit is built against Elementor's current element model, so the Kit keeps those experiments off unless a site chose them deliberately. The `bevel/elementor/pin_to_v3` filter turns the pin off. See [Extras](/kit/extras#the-editor-pin).