I’m not an Elementor user but I’ve encountered it on the sites of others that I was helping with. AFAIK you cannot edit Elementor content in the WP editor. There are Elementor specific elements that are incompatible with the WP editor. Elementor parses these on output so that valid HTML results, but the content as stored in the DB is not compatible with WP editor.
As long as you have pretty permalinks enabled, every page has a slug that can be used in a permalink as an alternative to the “plain” /?page_id=2 style of permalink. While the plain form is always valid, you should not be seeing it when pretty permalinks are enabled. Visit your permalinks settings screen and ensure some form besides “plain” is selected. The link followed from the “View” action of each page on the page list table should be in the selected permalink format.
@bcworkz
AFAIK you cannot edit Elementor content in the WP editor
When I select edit with elementor in the “pages” section of the dashboard I see this instead of the elementor editor. This was not the case until about the time the page broke, elementor would load immediately before. I find the “back to wordpress editor” button curious. Since I’m not in elementor and not in wordpress editor then where am I? If I select the edit with elementor button it opens normally. It is also possible this is how I broke the page as I was trying to get my logo to fit properly at the time and saw the Oceanwp settings logo option and used that instead of the theme panel. Is there a way to fix the DB?
I enabled debug and found this notice. Would this be causing php to quit and give me 404 errors?
Notice: Trying to access array offset on value of type null in /var/www/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/ocean-elementor-widgets/modules/button-effects/widgets/button-effects.php on line 39
Notice: Trying to access array offset on value of type null in /var/www/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/ocean-elementor-widgets/modules/link-effects/widgets/link-effects.php on line 36
The link followed from the “View” action of each page on the page list table should be in the selected permalink format.
Ok, I have done that and now the permalink has the /home slug again. The base url still has a broken page and /home shows a somewhat done page. How can I get this to show up when people come to my base url? If I edit .htaccess with a redirect from / to /home and don’t use wordpress(publish) will the edit stick? I put this address on my resume and expect some views in the next few weeks, so I am very glad you replied, thank you!
Your screen shot is the somewhat recent “Gutenberg” block editor that has replaced the tinyMCE editor of older WP versions. The back to editor button could be related to the PHP Notice messages you are getting. It’s starting to look like your theme and/or Elementor versions may not be compatible with your WP version. I suggest going back to the source of your package and seeing if an update is available.
The content shown with a base URL request is managed by the Reading Settings admin screen. The first item is “Your homepage displays”. Pick the static page option and select the desired page from the Homepage dropdown. You should select a posts page as well. WP manages the posts page content, so the only part that matters is the page title. If you don’t yet have a posts page, create one before going to Reading Settings. You don’t have to use the page if you don’t want to, but it should exist anyway.
