Conflicts between Elementor and Pinnacle

[Julia]

Julia

January 28, 2019 at 4:01 am

Hi, I’ve been building some new bits of my site using Elementor Pro, but there seems to be some conflicts (I’ll be passing them on to Elementor, too).

1. On pages built with Elementor, when I hover my mouse over my top menu, the secondary menus don’t drop down like they should (it works fine on pages not built with Elementor).

2. Elementor’s maintenance mode tool doesn’t go full screen – it just sits at the top of the page (I’d had the maintenance mode template set as per Elementor’s instructions, and it had previewed correctly). I was working on updates on my site for two days before I realised that people were still able to see everything! (Solved by using a different maintenance mode plugin.)

3. Pages built with Page Builder don’t seem to transfer into Elementor. Even when I choose to transfer to the WordPress editor, then go into Elementor, any changes I make don’t show up. It’s not too much of a problem – I can just remake a page in Elementor from scratch. It’s just more of an FYI.

4. Some blocks don’t display properly. I haven’t been able to use an Elementor template like I wanted to for my Woocommerce store, because the products and sidebar don’t display. When I put the Elementor products archive block in, the products are all there, they’re just invisible (I can hover over the products and see the link, I can click on them to go to the product page, but the page *looks* like it’s blank). The sidebar isn’t there at all. I tried using just an Elementor header template with the default archive (I have a nice, pretty header image I want to use), but although I could see the archive and sidebar, they didn’t display properly (the price filter was two input boxes instead of a slider bar, for example).

For the time being, I’ve had to ditch the Elementor template, go with the default archive page and use MasterSlider for the header image (which isn’t great, because the text doesn’t display properly on mobile pages or smaller screens).

Similarly, the Elementor testimonials carousel doesn’t ‘carousel’ – it’s just stuck on the first one, and I tried to make a slider gallery with images of sample pages, which didn’t display, so, again, I’ve used a MasterSlider for that (which isn’t such a problem for me; just thought I’d let you know).

The problem with the shop archive disappeared when I switched to the WordPress TwentyNineteen theme. I’ve checked most of my plugins, none of which made a difference, so I assume these are theme conflicts.

Any tips on workarounds, particularly for the product archive and top menu, please?