Title: Adding the_content’ function on website pages
Last modified: September 28, 2017

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# Adding the_content’ function on website pages

 *  Resolved [salahsaqr](https://wordpress.org/support/users/salahsaqr/)
 * (@salahsaqr)
 * [8 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-the_content-function-on-website-pages/)
 * Hi,
 * I need to add the_content function into the all pages template’s code.
    This 
   is the line I need to add:
 * <?php the_content(); ?>
 * The reason is that when I try to open Elementor I get an error message says:
 * “Sorry, the content area was not found in your page.
    You must call ”the_content’
   function in the current template, in order for Elementor to work on this page.”
   >> Screenshot: [https://imgur.com/rng7SKa](https://imgur.com/rng7SKa)
 * And Elementor suggest this line I mentioned above as a solution for this issue.
   
   Here is their reference >> [https://goo.gl/RoNNPN](https://goo.gl/RoNNPN)
 * I’m using GeneratePress child theme by the way. Any thoughts on where & how to
   place this code to impacts ALL website pages at once?
 * Thanks in advance!

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 *  [Leo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/leohsiang/)
 * (@leohsiang)
 * [8 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-the_content-function-on-website-pages/#post-9540830)
 * Hi there,
 * That shouldn’t be needed.
 * Sounds like you are trying to edit the blog page with Elementor? Unfortunately
   that’s not possible. See these couple replies here: [https://generatepress.com/forums/topic/the-content-area-was-not-found-in-your-page/#post-282573](https://generatepress.com/forums/topic/the-content-area-was-not-found-in-your-page/#post-282573)
 * Let me know.
 *  Thread Starter [salahsaqr](https://wordpress.org/support/users/salahsaqr/)
 * (@salahsaqr)
 * [8 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-the_content-function-on-website-pages/#post-9542391)
 * Hi Leo,
 * I’m not trying to edit blog page at all. I just cannot use Elementor anymore 
   on all my website pages (homepage and others) that have been built with Elementor
   on my localhost environment. I always get that annoying error message. I tried
   to deactivate all plugins except Elementor but nothing happened.
 * Any thoughts?
    -  This reply was modified 8 years, 8 months ago by [salahsaqr](https://wordpress.org/support/users/salahsaqr/).
    -  This reply was modified 8 years, 8 months ago by [salahsaqr](https://wordpress.org/support/users/salahsaqr/).
 *  [Leo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/leohsiang/)
 * (@leohsiang)
 * [8 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-the_content-function-on-website-pages/#post-9543217)
 * Have you tried contacting them?
 *  Theme Author [Tom](https://wordpress.org/support/users/edge22/)
 * (@edge22)
 * [8 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-the_content-function-on-website-pages/#post-9543533)
 * GP adds `the_content()` for you by default – no need to add it anywhere.
 * Unfortunately this is just a poor error message that needs to be re-worded/improved.
   I’ve seen that sometimes people need to edit their .htaccess for it to work.
 * Either way, it’s an Elementor issue which they should be able to fix for you.
 * Let me know 🙂
 *  Thread Starter [salahsaqr](https://wordpress.org/support/users/salahsaqr/)
 * (@salahsaqr)
 * [8 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-the_content-function-on-website-pages/#post-9545906)
 * Hi friends,
 * I didn’t contact them as I realized that it’s not related issue. I see that all
   permalinks lead to 404 pages except the plain one (default). And Elementor is
   working only with the default permalink setting.
 * Editing .htaccess file didn’t work for me.
 * I would update when I find a solution. Thanks!
    -  This reply was modified 8 years, 8 months ago by [salahsaqr](https://wordpress.org/support/users/salahsaqr/).
 *  Thread Starter [salahsaqr](https://wordpress.org/support/users/salahsaqr/)
 * (@salahsaqr)
 * [8 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-the_content-function-on-website-pages/#post-9548496)
 * Hi there,
 * I figured out that there were 2 things causing this issue at the same time (for
   this certain issue) since disabling all plugins didn’t solve the issue at the
   beginning.
 * 1. A server-side issue, where I was having to add this snippet inside the server
   block in nginx.conf file since pretty permalinks were leading to 404:
 *     ```
       if (!-e $request_filename) {
       rewrite ^.*$ /index.php last;
       }
       ```
   
 * 2. Really Simple SSL plugin.
 * Only, when I added this code & disable this plugin, Elementor start working!
 * Hope this helps someone 🙂
    -  This reply was modified 8 years, 8 months ago by [salahsaqr](https://wordpress.org/support/users/salahsaqr/).
 *  Theme Author [Tom](https://wordpress.org/support/users/edge22/)
 * (@edge22)
 * [8 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-the_content-function-on-website-pages/#post-9550657)
 * Glad you got it working, and thanks for sharing the solution! 🙂

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