Cannot Duplicate Elementor Items

Hi @upclickdigital,

We created a new Elementor template and found that the clone appeared under Templates and had the same post type as the original.

Could you give us more details about how to reproduce the problem or examples of what’s happening on your site? That will help us investigate the issue.

Are you using the latest version of the free Elementor or do you also have Elementor Pro installed?

Hi Priscilla!

I just created duplicated a saved template by going to Elementor>Templates, then duplicating a Section template, and when duplicated it was the Page type, and am unable to change that.

Latest versions of all plugins, WP Core, etc.

Elementor
Elementor Pro
Yoast Duplicate Post

Hey @upclickdigital

So we created a test site with WordPress 5.7.2, and the latest versions of Elementor and Yoast Duplicate Post as the only 2 plugins enabled.

We then went to Settings > Duplicate Post > Permissions > Enable for these post types and ensured that ‘My templates’ was selected and saved the changes.

Then we went to Templates > Saved templates and created a new Elementor template and made sure that the template type was set to ‘section’, added a bit of content, and then published it.

Then we tried to use the ‘clone’ feature for that section template, and we do see that the type changed to ‘page’ for the draft that was cloned, instead of retaining the ‘section’ type. Please see – https://snipboard.io/yiAXBm.jpg

Are we understanding the steps to reproduce this issue correctly?

If so, thank you for bringing this issue to our attention.

We apologize?for the trouble you are currently experiencing with our plugin. Luckily, a so-called “bug report” (a description of the issue, so we can fix it) is filed already.

What’s next?
Our product team will assess the severity of this problem in relation to other open bug reports and new features. Based on their assessment, the bug report will be given a priority level. Our developers work on the highest priority issues first. Unfortunately, this means we cannot give you an estimate of when they’ll start working on your report.

If you have any further information that may affect the prioritization or help our development team solve this bug, please feel invited to reply to this forum topic.

• This reply was modified 3 years, 6 months ago by Michael Ti?a.

Hi Michael,

Excuse the short reply, but yes those are the exact steps to replicate the problem. ??

• This reply was modified 3 years, 6 months ago by upclickdigital.

Hi,

Thanks for confirming! We’ve already added this forum thread to our internal reported issue.

While we don’t have an exact timeframe on when this will be fixed, it is already logged and on our radar. Please do check for updates to the Yoast Duplicate Post plugin and check the changelog for future fixes and enhancements.

Thanks!

Thanks so much, I really appreciate your time and help with this.

Hi @upclickdigital,

Since we’re now tracking this issue internally, we’re going to mark this topic as resolved.

In the meantime, you’re welcome to reply to this topic if you have any other questions.

Not the original poster, but struggling with the same issue of Cloned Elementor templates turning into Pages instead of sections.

I see this topic is now 5 months old.

Is there any update on resolving this issue?

Thank you

Would love an update here as well, in reply to @andycrossley

Hi, I am facing this same issue and I’d love to have an update on this topic. Thanks! @priscillamc

Hello,
Same issue! any developments? @priscillamc
Cheers

Hi all,

The issue is still open in our internal repository regarding this issue where cloning a template resulted in a change from the template type of ‘section’ to ‘page’.

We don’t have an estimate as to when this would be addressed, but I’ll try following up with our developers on this topic. Thank you for your patience.