working with elementor canvas

  • Resolved flyfisher842

    (@flyfisher842)


    5 years, 2 months ago

    2/18
    When setting up a separate header and footer files then checking both to display on elementor canvas, I get both the header and the footer on each header and footer view when previewing either the header or the footer. This currently makes sense since both are checked to display on the elementor canvas. but it would more appropriate to have only the header or the footer display in the preview for each one. IMO. Having both display when building a page with elementor is a different scenario. After more looking at how this operates by producing a separate page for the footer and the header then appending them to the canvas where the body of the page is being built, I will say that I think this produces page bloat and increased http requests resulting in longer load times. I think having the header and footer stored in the db where they could be accessed as code blocks not as pages would be a lot more efficient way to go about this. Or fixing it so they could be embedded into the new canvas being worked on.

    • This topic was modified 5 years, 2 months ago by flyfisher842.
    • This topic was modified 5 years, 2 months ago by flyfisher842.
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  • Thread Starter flyfisher842

    (@flyfisher842)

    5 years, 2 months ago

    2/18 addendum

    Here is one of the issues with block editing vs whole page classic editing building.
    With block or page builder editing and page building you are in both putting blocks together to make a webpage vs putting text and image together to make a webpage. Admittedly the block method yields more freedom to create but it increases the load time with unnecessary http requests for the blocks to be rendered. I made a test page with just the header and footer blocks from your plugin and one image on it with elementor.
    Here is the pingdom results.
    Your Results:
    Download HARShare Result
    screenshot
    Performance grade
    B85
    Page size
    609.8 KB
    Load time
    4.53 s
    Requests
    50

    50 requests to render a bit of text, two menus with 9 links and 1 image. Not very efficient in my opinion. This not to say your plugin does not work because it does but something to think about in the process of block building ummm!
    using autoptimize and wp super cache gets this done to about 15 requests but still a lot.

    Plugin Author Nikhil Chavan

    (@nikschavan)

    5 years, 2 months ago

    Hello @flyfisher842,

    >but it would more appropriate to have only the header or the footer display in the preview for each one

    I am adding this to my list of tasks. I have plans to not display existing header if the user is editing header, Right now it displays header twice. Same for footer.

    Speed comparisons – Like I mentioned in your review of the plugin, This is a third party plugin for elementor. This plugin itself adds only few lines of CSS on the site. Rest all the JS/CSS that appear on your page come from Elementor or any third party elements that you are using on the layout.

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