Title: Elementor Compatibility
Last modified: November 13, 2018

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# Elementor Compatibility

 *  Resolved [blackeye0013](https://wordpress.org/support/users/blackeye0013/)
 * (@blackeye0013)
 * [7 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/elementor-compatibility-8/)
 * Recently I decided to leave SEO YOAST and I’m starting to like your plugin for
   it’s simplicity (absolute Yoast opposite).
 * Nevertheless, I was wandering, whether is your plugin [Elementor](https://cs.wordpress.org/plugins/elementor/)
   compatible. It seems that automatic description is unable to grab the content
   from a page made by Elementor.
 * Is it an intention or have I overlooked some setting?
 * Thanks

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 *  Plugin Author [Sybre Waaijer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cybr/)
 * (@cybr)
 * [7 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/elementor-compatibility-8/#post-10877211)
 * Hi there!
 * I’m glad you’re starting to like the plugin!
 * Yes, it’s intentional.
 * The plugin can’t parse all widgets outputted by Elementor, and some widgets can
   be protected from public view. So, precautionarily, it disables the automated
   description feature when it detects the page is set up with Elementor.
 * On the positive side, Google is also able to generate descriptions for you; however,
   it’s always best to enter one yourself.
 *  Thread Starter [blackeye0013](https://wordpress.org/support/users/blackeye0013/)
 * (@blackeye0013)
 * [7 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/elementor-compatibility-8/#post-10880515)
 * Thanks for your reply, it sounds reasonable.
    For now it’s sufficient for me 
   to know, that I have to write down the description for Elementor pages on my 
   own, instead of expectiong it’s done automatically.
 * For the future – are there any chances you’ll try to improve your parsing to 
   include Elementor or other page builders? At least in some partial way, for example
   parsing only text and headings widgets?
 * I know it’s allways the best practise to write the decription yourself, but sometimes
   it’s hard to explain it to the clients and in this cases the description stays
   empty.
 *  Plugin Author [Sybre Waaijer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cybr/)
 * (@cybr)
 * [7 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/elementor-compatibility-8/#post-10881419)
 * I just dove into the code, and there seems to be a standard way of determining
   if the content is publicly parsable: `render_plain_content`, as [seen here](https://github.com/pojome/elementor/blob/master/includes/widgets/text-editor.php).
   However, I don’t know if pulling content from Elementor is a straightforward 
   task; let alone the performance impact it brings as we check each widget.
 * The SEO Framework, as of v3.1.0, doesn’t emit warnings when no description is
   generated. So, I don’t think your clients should be too worried :). Moreover,
   descriptions aren’t a ranking factor anymore; the fields only give _some_ control
   over what’s displayed in the search engines.
 * In any case, I’ve opened a feature request:
    [https://github.com/sybrew/the-seo-framework/issues/380](https://github.com/sybrew/the-seo-framework/issues/380)

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 * Last reply from: [Sybre Waaijer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cybr/)
 * Last activity: [7 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/elementor-compatibility-8/#post-10881419)
 * Status: resolved