I’ve recently decided to switch from Elementor to Beaver Builder for my website.
Building the site I noticed a very weird and frankly unexpected behaviour. I’ve read that I can’t simultaneously use Builder to edit the content of the post AND use single post layout in Themer. This is quite unpleasant and something I would assume would be one of the basic uses (worked in Elementor too). This way as someone who owns a blog I’m either forced to use a pretty terrible WP post editor or build every post layout from scratch.
I realize it is said on your website, what I’m wondering is why go for a solution like that? It doesn’t seem to be hard to accomplish and the end effect is very limiting and frankly quite disappointing.
One more thing that I would welcome help with is making Polylang work with Themer, I configured everything as usual but it works with posts, pages but can’t seem to work with Themer layouts like headers etc.
About Themer layouts (header, footer, part…) and Polylang, you simply create a layout per language and assign the proper language in Polylang metabox, there’s no relationship between the translated layouts like for posts, pages, BB saved items…
For instance, this screenshot shows Polylang’s metabox for a header in the secondary language (EN).
As you can see, the primary lang layout (FR) is not related.
Thank you very much for the solution for Polylang, it works now!
As for the second thing, what you suggested doesn’t really work since:
When I have Themer layout applied to ‘All posts’ and I edit a post in BB, it automatically overrides the Themer layout rule and shows whatever I’ve got from the BB in the post edit.
If I make the Single Post layout, save it as template, turn off the rule for All posts and then go into the BB post editor and apply the templat, I can’t edit the post content anymore since it’s a ‘Post Content’ module.
Also I get no warning when I open the BB post editor while I have the Single Post active, as you said.
Well, i tried and it worked, but maybe i misunderstood what you’re after.
I have a CPT (not WP regular posts but it shouldn’t make a difference) with a Themer layout applied on the posts.
I’ve set BB to work on this CPT (it’s not by default).
For most of the posts, i inserted the content with the WP regular text editor in admin and let the Themer layout handle the presentation.
For a specific post, i want to build the layout differently so i open it with BB, which breaks the Themer layout, apply the template previously saved from the Themer layout, which helps to recover the Themer layout presentation, then i can insert the post content with BB AND customize this specific post by adding extra modules for instance.
You shouldn’t disable the Themer layout applied to the posts, only edit with BB the posts you want to customize, this will override the Themer presentation.
You don’t get a warning cause you disabled the Themer layout.
If I don’t disable it, I got no warning either. Then when I go into BB post edit, I apply the template and can’t edit the post content since it’s a module from the Themer.
Yes I can edit but the ‘Post Content’ is a module that gets created automatically once you create a Single Post layout, you can’t edit the actual post content from it, same as you cant edit any post content when editing the Single Post layout.
First screen is the setup for Single Post layout - All posts.
Second screen shows the ‘Post Content’ module inside the Single Post template applied in the BB post edit, I can’t edit the inside of it (actual text).
About editing posts with BB - if I understand you correctly you can apply a template and still use Elementor for the content itself? Interesting need to check that… I can see the issues with that if e.g the template displays the_content() just in a small column - all sort of issues can arise…
Two ways I would try/think to go about that with Beaver
just use Gutenberg to create post content when needed…
or use Beaver Themer Template Parts as additional stuff before and after the_content() that way either the_content() is renderd by the Template or by BB but the surroundings stay the same - does that make sense?
I would love if BB allowed the editing of different themer templates on the same page…
Yes, in Elementor when you apply a Single Post layout to All posts and then go and edit a certain post in Elementor, it automatically shows the post inside the template so you see what limitations you have, there are no issues whatsoever.
Well, it kind of sucks to be forced to use Gutenberg when BB has all the cool stuff, especially since I’ve got the Ultimate Beaver too with lots of modules that I want to use inside the post.
I’ll try the solution avanti proposed once I’m back home, I don’t think you can replace the Post Content module inside the Singular Themer layout, it appears automatically to show where the post content would be but maybe it works.
I’m not sure you really tried my suggestion given you didn’t get any alert when overriding the TH layout.
I tried it, it works to completely edit specific posts with BB and keep the TH layout presentation.
Obviously, the TH layout is overriden but finally the post is visually close to it AND you can freely add your customizations with BB, UABB or whatever.
you can remove that at any point, like any other module in a template it’s just a starting point.
To clarify my suggestion was not to remove it - my suggestion was to just have “the content” in the Themer template and move stuff like Post title or Author or whatever you need into Themer Parts displayed before and after it… this way if you activate BB on a Single Post (Post Type) with a themer layout you still see all the parts and just the “main the content” section is replaced…
and it just opens without any warning