Sharing Kadence Elements between sites

[Fraser Smith]

Fraser Smith

May 30, 2024 at 9:47 am

My site has a child theme based on Kadence and a plugin with some custom ACF Gutenberg blocks. I’ve got a fairly standard setup, in that I do most of my dev work locally, then push to staging for testing before deploying to production.

My designs rely heavily on Kadence Elements and, so far, I’ve not found a simple way to copy changes in any of my elements from local to staging to production. To date, I’ve been able to use WP-All-Export to copy them from one site to another, which works, but is an additional manual process every time I make changes. I originally tried using Kadence child theme builder, in the hope they would be bundled in the child theme but, unless I was missing something, it didn’t seem possible there.

Ideally, I’d love to include the elements in my child theme, so that they automatically carry across when I push updates to my theme. Is there an ‘official’ way of doing this, or at least any other ways of copying them over that don’t rely on third party software?