starting questions

  • hi there,

    although this is fairly new and currently beta, its never too early to post some stupid questions… ??

    just stumbled upon this a few days go and started to fiddle out the possibilities. havent digged completely deep into it, it seems to have very big potential to expand elementor into a complete new direction.
    especially for creating different page layouts within one site, and for my demands a light in the dark towards creating pages and single views for ctps. (btw: any chance to create custom archives for post-types? would be awesome!)

    first thing i encountered when fiddling around:
    loaded some styles for testing and found no way to get rid of the ones i dont want to use any longer – just for better overview… not intended to, or overlooked something?

    second thing:
    wanted to try out the add-ons, but they’re only listed – no way to activate. some bug or error on my side, or just not implemented yet?

    then css:
    already encountered some little clitches with generate press theme (which is mostly hassle-free in general) regarding css and front-end interferences. did no real deep research till now to this, but that leads me to the question of how this is intended to be used? as i am a friend of defining styles mostly global via (child) theme there seems to be two possible ways: eighter complete css from theme or complete disabling and takeover from stylepress/elementor. by now this doesnt really seem to be the choice. apart from that i couldnt completely figure out how exactly the ‘stylepress styles’ are working and where they are comming from…?

    so as stylepress could be a perfect tool for displaying ctps in different styles theres two things i stumbled over at this point.
    ‘dynamic fields’ and what they possibly might represent and how they might be expanded… (why only three?) also tried for some time to figure out how to get hands on custom ctp fields to show them on frontend via stylepress and elementor. should work in priciple, but although they are stored in native wp postmeta table i couldnt figure out a (simple) way to fetch them… so far. any hints to this? cos that really would be the thing!!

    so although this is really promising, some great tool so far and without a big learning-curve it would be really handy to have some how-to’s. faq’s or documentation. (maybe specially on the ‘dynamc fields’ thing)

    keep on with this. great step so far. looking forward for further information and development!
    and thanks for little reply in advance – greets.

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  • Thread Starter dasigna

    (@dasigna)

    sorry, but being a little bit worried…
    anybody there who cares? or is this not intendend to be kept up?

    please dont get me wrong – even if its free etc., a week with completely no answer (and no replied answers in support at all) seems a little bit long for my taste. no?
    no accuse at all, but i am just thinking of using this thing in production and no way of getting help when facing problems… know what i mean?

    From my own findings…

    First thing: Not sure if this is what you mean but I found I could delete styles only from within editing them.

    Second thing: No more or less a coming soon FYI

    Third thing: I prefer to use elementor Pro custom css for the one-off’s and use theme css for global. I’ll use inline style tags and an html element during design process then move it out. On the other stuff, CPT and advanced fields etc I’ll let the author chime in as I haven’t investigated that myself yet either.

    Thread Starter dasigna

    (@dasigna)

    having investigated some more after last update, an update to this too:

    1. still not found an option to remove unused styles under ‘your styles’ …

    2. obviously meanwhile ??

    3. the interfering css is removed – so no glitch on this side any more

    cpt-stuff: works really good after some additional testing. custom fields can be adressed and hooked into content. great option!!
    sometimes a little hard to work through the possibilities at first, but big thing in the end.
    some little things that still seem to call for a closer look from developer side, but in general a really cool thing.

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