Getting My Theme to Support Elementor

Resolved barnesew
(@barnesew)

8 years, 3 months ago

Hello,

I am the webmaster for the Bearcat Bands. We are currently trying to enable Elementor in our custom WordPress theme, however, we are having little to no luck. I just want to get a bare-bones theme up and running that can use Elementor so we can analyse why our theme isn’t compatible.

Here is the basic theme I set up to test Elementor:
index.php: https://pastebin.com/dyKyjkHU
page.php: https://pastebin.com/f60dXTV4
style.css: https://pastebin.com/q1MJkE8G

I apologize if I am missing something obvious, however, I only manage to get a “We’re sorry, but something went wrong. Click on ‘Learn More’ and follow each of the steps to quickly solve it.”

This is running on a brand new install of WordPress with no plugins enabled other than Elementor. I’ve torn through the documentation looking for anything about what I might have done wrong but I couldn’t find anything. I applied all the fixes found in the support pages as well:
https://docs.elementor.com/article/245-preview-could-not-be-loaded
https://docs.elementor.com/category/183-troubleshooting

Any help or direction is most appreciated.

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benpines
(@benpines)

8 years, 3 months ago

Try to use a theme like TwentySixteen and see if this is resolved. We don’t support bare-bones themes

Thread Starter barnesew
(@barnesew)

8 years, 3 months ago

@benpines

Thank you for the reply. Yes, the TwentySixteen works, but this doesn’t help me figure out what’s wrong with my own custom theme. What about the TwentySixteen theme makes it so Elementor works with it and not a theme with just “the loop”?

Thread Starter barnesew
(@barnesew)

8 years, 3 months ago

Turns out, a bare-bones implementation works. Elementor requires a loop implementation that outputs the content via the_content(). Guess I forgot to include that line in my test theme.

Thanks for the help!

sabrina1128
(@sabrina1128)

8 years, 2 months ago

Hi barnesew!
could you help me out with this?, i have the same problem but I dont know where tot put the line in the theme im using

Thread Starter barnesew
(@barnesew)

8 years, 2 months ago

Hi @sabrina1128,

My issue was with a theme I am developing from scratch. If you are using a downloaded theme, it might be a little more complicated; However, I will do my best to help.

Elementor seems to work based off of “the loop” (https://codex.ww.wp.xz.cn/The_Loop). Make sure that loop is in the theme template along with the line: “the_content();”. The specific template file might be different based on which theme you’re using, but a good bet is the “page.php” file for general pages.

Hope this helps!

Thread Starter barnesew
(@barnesew)

8 years, 2 months ago

@sabrina1128

Here is the only code I needed to get Elementor working:
https://pastebin.com/veknL8Hq

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