@kollinio I also thought at first it was only related to auto-updates. But in my case, all automatic updates are disabled, and the issue still happens, even when nobody touched the site.
That suggests Elementor itself sometimes deletes/regenerates the CSS files automatically in the background, and the caching plugin then stores HTML pointing to missing CSS.
As a workaround I built a small MU-plugin for myself. It hooks into updates, daily cron and cache purges, flushes Elementor’s CSS cache and then “prewarms” some key pages so the CSS files are recreated right away. I’m currently testing it on one of my sites – if it works reliably I’d be happy to share it here so others can try as well.
I’m seeing the same problem. At first I thought it was related to my cookie tool (Complianz), so I set Elementor cookies to functional and added Elementor as a script. I even created a small MU-plugin that preloads pages after WordPress updates to re-generate the CSS files, but the issue still happened again last night – even though there were no updates or changes made on the site.
I’m using WP-Optimize as my caching plugin. The first time I noticed this was a few weeks ago on another site, and since then it has happened on at least 4 different websites. For now I’ve disabled caching temporarily, since switching to inline CSS doesn’t make sense on larger websites.
Right now I really don’t know what to do. From what I can see this has been an Elementor issue for quite a while, but if the CSS files are now being deleted not only after WordPress or plugin updates but also regularly without any changes, that’s a big problem for anyone using a caching plugin. Wouldn’t it make sense if Elementor automatically rebuilt the CSS files right away, instead of waiting for a page visit?
I would have to test it too if it’s fixed. I made a workaround by just not displaying the month’s names at all and just display them as for example “30.10.2024“.
@netzzjd I’m stuck with the exact same issue, I don’t want to rebuild everything with ACF because I like the PODS Plugin. Did you find a solution for this? This should be possible with the PHP code provided by @ivelinjpashev I think, maybe it’s just a small change for the PODS custom field?
I tried your code. The youtube link is passed to the feed, but I don’t think I can map it like this. In the tutorial you sent, the custom fields are in their own brackets as in the example <yt:channelId>. For me, the link is now simply in a <div> element within the content, see screenshot:
You know what I mean? Maybe we can somehow pass the custom field with the youtube link in his own brackets <yt:link> </yt:link>. If I read it right, I can map namespace and custom fields in RSS Aggregator afterwards.
