20250126-1903. Okay, I’m baffled. I do NOT know how this happened. But I got the Site Parts (Header and Footer) to work. There appears to be a conflict between Hello Biz and Hello Elementor.
Two weeks ago, I tried theme Hello Elementor, bought the Essentials Pro and then Advanced Pro – Solo, created Site Parts to include the Header, Footer, Single Post, Single Page, Archive, Search Results, Loop Item and Error 404.
That went well until I got fed up with designing. I was NOT a designer and floundered horribly on what should look like a professional business website. (I just love coloring and wanted to try “designing” my weblog site. I had good practice with the Gutenberg blocks and I felt ready to try my hands/paws on this new project.
I failed miserably and refunded the Advanced Pro – Solo upgrade plan, only to COME BACK (after having filled-out the customer survey feedback per usual for the sake of team advertising and marketing) and purchasing (again) the Essentials Pro.
After one week of frustration and just a few minutes ago, I finished the last of four pages (actually there was fifth generic page called “Terms”). The Feature page was just a dump of the Elementor widgets for WordPress. I liked the OLD-fashion feel of these WordPress widgets. Only the “Posts I Like” widget failed to save its Title. All the other WordPress widgets had its own VERY small/tiny Titles.
That was fun. Within a couple of days of signing up again: I completed the four of five pages: Home, About, Contact and Features. That was kinda sorta straightforward. The mess was dealing with both the Header and Footer.
The Footer was saved successfully the first try. The header, however, was messed up. I had a difficult time navigating between both themes: Hello Elementor and Hello Plus. Whenever I would click on the Hello Plus links for Header and Footer, the system would link one of my test pages. I have about one hundred trials-and-errors that are Published (meaning these are neither in Draft mode or Private mode.
I then renamed/Quick Edit all files by plugging the Post ID in FRONT of the hand-crafted filename will working through the Theme Builder (Customize) links of theme Hello Elementor. That was the main site that allowed me to customize and pretty much wasted my time added all these Site parts!
The Theme Builder (Customize) links of theme Hello Plus had made up its OWN post ID pages that I was able to save as Templates (page) and as Containers, too. But something was fishy when the Hello Plus Header kept burping incorrectly!
I had to use my BIG/HUGE brain and stormed many thoughts on how to handle these conflicting /numerous Post ID pages!!! For the past one hour, I found the solution. After studying and testing how these two damned themes handled my stuff, I received the usual nagging/incoming thoughts from GOD/THEM.
For the past one hour or so, I did just that: I first uninstalled the Elementor Pro plugin and then the Elementor (regular) plugin. And then for whatever reason, I was “lead” to switch away from theme Hello Biz and then activate theme Hello Elementor (regular).
This worked out tremendously well! I navigated from my Dashboard to the Elementor > Home page > Theme Builder (Customize) link. Voila! I went straight to the Site Parts > Header and studied the Display Conditions to see which Post ID showed Instances: Entire Site | Edit Conditions versus Instances: No Instances | Edit Conditions.
“Where Do You Want to Display Your Template?
Set the conditions that determine where your template is used throughout your site.
For example, choose ‘Entire Site’ to display the template across your site.”
So I forgot to mention earlier that I removed any/all Instances showing Entire Site and made sure all my Post ID (which are the WordPress post id pages) items shows No Instances.
So after cleaning up the Display Conditions, uninstalling two plugins [first Elementor Pro then Elementor (regular)] and then switching from Hello Biz to Hello Elementor (regular), I was able to “see” the two resurrected Site Parts (Header and Footer)! These were knocked-out from uninstalls and deactivations and I had to put them back in their places!
And as I navigated to the Header first and then the Footer next, I saw the “originals” or maybe the new site parts but with different WordPress Post ID numbers! I knew these were the workable site parts because there were the Containers AND the words Hello Plus!
So I kept those two site parts and didn’t bother customizing anymore than necessary and let the “system” take care of the single post, single page, page 404, archives, search results and whatever the heck is the loop items.
With that said, I’m happy and won’t be tweaking my weblog site anymore. I worked hard on this stuff and wanted to show y’all that I’m still smart enough. And gosh darnit I’m good enough, too!
That’s all. End of status report 1938 PST? It’s time for another late supper with my hungry elderly father.
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