Possible issues with the plugin and Elementor?

StevenJ
(@stevenj)

4 years, 2 months ago

I have this site on a staging server using the ‘Hello’ them and ‘Elementor’.
The home page of the site is using the Elementor ‘Posts’ widget to display a grid of posts but the plugin isn’t working on these posts.

I have also created ‘Category Archive’ template using Elementor and the same ‘Posts’ widget and the post grid for all these pages is working as expected. See the pages at ‘https://hcstaging-2.com/category/ufua-news/’ and ‘https://hcstaging-2.com/category/tafm/’

So the question is, “why does the plugin work on the Category Archive pages and not on the home page?”

You can access a screen shot of the plugin settings here: https://cdn.loom.com/images/originals/1063157ebd574734bf3ebf0ace111d84.jpg?Policy=eyJTdGF0ZW1lbnQiOlt7IlJlc291cmNlIjoiaHR0cHM6Ly9jZG4ubG9vbS5jb20vaW1hZ2VzL29yaWdpbmFscy8xMDYzMTU3ZWJkNTc0NzM0YmYzZWJmMGFjZTExMWQ4NC5qcGciLCJDb25kaXRpb24iOnsiRGF0ZUxlc3NUaGFuIjp7IkFXUzpFcG9jaFRpbWUiOjE2NDU5NTc5MjV9fX1dfQ__&Key-Pair-Id=APKAJQIC5BGSW7XXK7FQ&Signature=fHZa4vbdfCEfvQge5QR8t4zeyEBovWp9NoRojd7XLdHIUwRyuhRq6CYEtw1je7utwyrsJPD6XjUyMbMK4eYYRtpAUNLjM3AhYMsRZX8sMWs7qgeYm90en-7d7-Bh7m0o1OUUnXZ1xnA-gBjXlcmPyzl6Aw8iyq66XdMP3NiSC0KzV9oQMPmJ7oU2%7E5hftLe5YmLRPNYyJg7NiOiK1U-W1mSiNylNz9YmTLbSIxyMVueVKz79r8pyGkM8KIxMipit0EQfmu1IfcslCYmha-ME60AcocSIRRfcEjE32moneaRSK3Zcmj3TUuehfhqXlTV%7E5CGrvvha5MmKAHwmxl5-IA__

I’m sure you’ll have an answer for me on this so I look forward to your response.

Thanks,
Steve J

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Plugin Author WPKube
(@wpkube)

4 years, 2 months ago

Hi @stevenj

The plugin skips regular pages (the ones that are in WP admin > Pages).

The reason for that is so it doesn’t filter the actual page content output. Excerpts use both the_content() and the_excerpt() so the plugin filters both of those.

In this specific case all those sections you created with Elementor are coming from the_content() and then inside of that is the posts grid which also has either the_content() or the_excerpt() to output those excerpts. Visually we can figure out which should be filtered, but the plugin can’t figure it out, so it would end up just filtering the whole output.

That’s why it filters archives but not regular pages.

And unfortunately, at the moment we do not have a solution for that.

Thread Starter StevenJ
(@stevenj)

4 years, 2 months ago

Hi WPKube,
Thanks for getting back to me with your explanation.
I’ll just have to make do with a ‘Read more…’ link on all the home page listings but I really like what the plugin is doing for us on the archive pages.
Thanks
Steve J

Plugin Author WPKube
(@wpkube)

4 years, 2 months ago

You’re welcome.

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