neilpollick

Thanks for trying to help but it seems I was misunderstood.
I CAN create new pages with elementor, elementor IS NOT the problem.
The problem is wordpress, the problem is that I cannot create new pages via Dashboard>>Pages>>NewPage and therefore I cannot make a page where I can remove the elements that the OceanWP theme automatically inserts, like sidebar, title, top bar etc.

That function was working perfectly until a few days ago.

I have tried some of the suggestions here, I put the wordpress installation in a sub directory of the root folder, instead of the root folder. The problem persists.

I always had Elementor set up to “switch loader editor method” set to enabled.

I cannot edit in Elementor unless I first can access the OceanWP settings for the page, only then can I turn off the elements that OCeanWP inserts (even editing the OceanWP theme won’t stop these “compulsory” elements being added).
When you edit in Elementor it does seem that you are editing on a blank canvas (you can make the side bar and title go away) but when you view the page you have been working on then you see that the compulsory OceanWP elements are still there and the Elementor insert (template or whatever) is confined to a container.

Quite simply there is no getting around this, I cannot develop my site until I can create or edit a page through Dashboard>>Pages>>New Page or by clicking on the EDIT link on the page where the existing pages are listed.
These functions WERE working perfectly, it was designed to work that way, that’s even the route that the Elementor doumentation tells you to go. But now it just gives me a white page.

I don’t need to learn how to create a website with Elementor, I had one up and running!

It almost seems like there is some kind of block from the WordPress organisation.