{"id":19019913,"date":"2026-09-14T16:58:59","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T16:58:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/topic\/first-and-last\/"},"modified":"2026-09-14T17:00:37","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T17:00:37","slug":"first-and-last","status":"publish","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/topic\/first-and-last\/","title":{"rendered":"First \u2026\u00a0and last"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Went out on a limb with Elementor 4. I had to really sell my company on the idea of building websites quickly and handily with this tool. Sure, it was going to be a major update and there&#8217;d be some bumps along the way. Well \u2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;ve seen a lot of new software, but I&#8217;ve never experienced a major release so shot-through with significant bugs\u2014not annoying little minor issues, but serious problems that never should&#8217;ve been inflicted on actual users in production environments. And the folks at Elementor said version 4 was ready for production environments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;ve lost too much time, suffered too many headaches, and had to offer too many explanations to my superiors for all the delays Elementor 4 has caused. The site I&#8217;m working on is nearly complete, but there&#8217;s technical debt to be paid: I will likely have to return to it to upgrade elements I had to downgrade to v3 in order to get them functioning properly. Basic things, like using the Featured Image as a background image in blog page headers. (Seriously\u2014it&#8217;s a known issue a user documented in GitHub back in June. There&#8217;s still no indication that the development team is addressing it.) It&#8217;s my first Elementor site \u2026 and it&#8217;ll be my last. Future sites will be built with Bricks and\/or Gutenberg, and my goal is to rebuild the Elementor site before I have to renew my Elementor One subscription.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-19019913","topic","type-topic","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/19019913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/topic"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/19019913\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19019913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}