✅ Elementor Pro 2.0 (Beta Release)

[bainternet]

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Beta 6 UPDATED - PLEASE READ BELOW!

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Elementors, here is the much awaited Elementor Pro 2.0 Beta!

This is the biggest release we have done since Elementor Pro launched, and we need your help now more than ever. We are launching this Pro beta, packed with new features, but there is still much work to be done.

It will take a while until all these features are released out of beta, meanwhile, we plan to make many tweaks, improvements and fixes, some of which rely on your feedback.

Elementor Pro v2.0 beta requires Elementor v2.0 active, otherwise, it won't work, so make sure you have both plugins active.

Let's go over all the amazing features lined up:

New Template Types

We added several new types of templates, all compatible with almost any theme.

The new template types are:

• Header
• Footer
• Single
• Archive

Each template has its own corresponding area in your WordPress website where it can be applied.

Template Display Conditions

Each template includes display conditions that determine where the template is applied. For example, if you create a header template and want to display it ONLY as the header of your single posts, you can do it easily. Simply set the conditions using our straightforward interface. These conditions determine exactly where your templates will be implemented.

Theme Compatibility

The entire functionality of this version has been verified for several popular themes, including:

• GeneratePress
• OceanWP
• AstraWordPress
• Default themes ( TwentyXX )
• And many more...

If you are a theme developer, you should use our detailed documentation regarding how to register a new location and manually integrate to our Locations API.
https://developers.elementor.com/theme-locations-api/

Demonstration theme for developers: https://github.com/pojome/elementor-hello-theme

Dynamic Content

We added dynamic content capabilities to all our major widgets. This way, you can choose to display the widget title for the currently viewed page, instead of entering it manually.

The dynamic content tags include:

• Posts: URL, Title, Featured Image, Content, Excerpt, Meta, Date, Time, Terms, ID, Attached Files.
• Archive: Title, Description, Meta, URL.
• Author: Name, Profile Picture, BIO, Meta.
• Comments: URL, number of comments
• Site: Site Name, Site Tagline, Site URL.
• General: Current Date.

Eight New Dynamic Widgets

To make it easier to build your templates using any dynamic content (eg: post title, posts loop, etc… ), we created several new theme element widgets.

Among the new widgets:

• Post Title
• Post Excerpt
• Post Content
• Post Featured Image
• Post Info
• Archive Title
• Posts Archive
• Site Name
• Site Logo

Role Management

We added the option to allow “content only” editing mode for certain user roles. Content only mode means the user can only edit content and doesn't have access to style, design change layout or add content. This option is extremely useful when you design a website for a client and you don’t want him “mess up” the design and layout.

How to Install Beta Version

If you still haven't enabled beta testing in Elementor, please follow these steps:

1. Go to Elementor > Tools > Versions
2. Enable the beta tester feature
3. Go to Dashboard > Updates and update to the latest beta version.

This will get you testing the new Elementor Pro 2.0.0 Beta.

As we wrote above Elementor Pro v2.0 beta requires Elementor v2.0 active, otherwise, it won't work, so make sure you have both plugins active.

Stable release: April 9, 2018 (Estimated) April 16, 2018

Many thanks for your support and help!

For bugs and remarks, please reply with a comment below!

Cheers,

Update: here is a short video guide: https://youtu.be/748mocjz9o0

[atMaarten]

Having a conflict with installing elementor.2.0.0-beta3 and it's needed to run Elementor Pro 2.0.0 Beta 1.
It's not downloadable at https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/elementor.2.0.0-beta3.zip

[deckerweb]

WOW, just played with Beta 3 and Pro Beta 1 - AWESOME!
You guys killed it with the new theme builder!!!
So happy, thanks for your hard work to make our lifes so much easier!

[deckerweb]

@atMaarten Try again, it's live now at .org -- sometimes the .org system has some delay (in regards to 50,000 hosted plugins there...)

[atMaarten]

WOUUWW Pro 2.0 had just blown my mind. Great job! 👍

[Jorihlen]

Where can I found the download of EPro Beta?
I do not want to deal with anxiety :-P

Note: Automatic update is unavailable for this plugin.

[KiQdev]

Superjob:-) Nice and even better and more powerful then I expected already:-) Just have some job to do and implement Theme locations in my theme:-) Just realized there´s a basic theme to build on too, saves time, Elementor Hello theme:-)

[deckerweb]

@bainternet Suggestion: Add support for Genesis - should be easy with all their hooks (and could mean 200,000 potential new users/customers ;-) ) - Thanks in advance!

[asgerteglgaard]

Congratulations on the launch of pro beta.
Looking forward to the final version.
Do you plan to add the feature of pulling in custom fields, like they do in Anywhere Elementor?
Would be just perfect with Advanced Custom Fields combability.

EDIT: Just realized how the Dynamic fields work. Brilliant!
How many ACF types are compatible?

[avermat]

This is awesome! First issue I'm seeing...

When I create a header, footer, or single template (in the template library), it's not publishing when I initially click publish. I have to go back into the editor and publish it again for it to appear on the site. Here's a screencast of the issue on my end:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/hks5n3fmpg6ohwp/templates-not-publishing.mp4?dl=0

Local install, Astra theme, E-beta-3, EPro-beta-1, no other plugins

[maxwellhibbert]

Is there somewhere we can download the Beta outside of updating the plugin inside an installation?
I'm having the same problem as @Jorihlen, the update fails in my localhost install.

I didn't see Role Management coming, this sounds great. One of the main reasons I've wanted to be able to pull in dynamic content is to keep clients out of the design and focus on managing the content. Can't wait to check it out..

[SniffleValve]

For those having troubles updating on a local install on Windows, install and activate the Windows Compatibility Fix plugin. The Pro beta installed fine on a local install running the Laragon local server :)
https://wordpress.org/plugins/fix-windows-compatibility/

[maxwellhibbert]

Thanks for the info @SniffleValve, I'm not using Windows though.

[Jorihlen]

The problem was solved using an installation on Desktop Server, only if it is accompanied by Windows Compatibility Fix plugin. Thanks again SniffleValve.

[shenickisland]

Been waiting for this for a new project. Loving the new dynamic feature (especially the ACF integration!) Unless I'm missing something I don't see a way of showing placeholder text/images etc when creating a template (in my case a single blog post). I know I can do this in Anywhere Elementor. This makes it a lot easier to see the layout. For now, I'm setting it up normally, styling it and then switching on the relevant dynamic choice. Is there or will there be a way to do this?

Edit: I missed it. Its under Settings > Preview Settings.

[rja66]

Issue with Posts Archive set as single column,
it displays as 2 columns on smaller screens

[popsantiago]

Edit to reply @bainternet :
Hello,
First Great job and sounds promising.
1/ Editor Role Manager > Edit Content Only the preview seems have problem
Any idea ? it's an import form template library.

Edit : I import a Template from EPro. Preview is ok with my admin user. I edited Role manager to Editor Content Only. I switch to Editor and try to Edit the Page and the preview look like to the image... Not really like the initial template. Is that normal ? (working on localhost)

2/ I have some strange fact with Themer and ACF for a textarea and Drop Cap ?

Edit : Drop CAP need a

to work on Elementor widget so i need to add ACF textarea filed > "Add paragraph Automatically". Any chance to have to works with "No formatting" option ?

3/ Conditionnals are not CPT compatible yet ?

Edit : You right i tried with OceanWP Portfolio who was not archive true. I added filter on argument to activate archive and now that works. Thx.

Thx

[Basilou38]

I use the theme OceanWP, I would like to customize CPT (custom post type) of the portfolio (OceanWP plugin) but the button "edit with elementor" is disabled. In elementor> setting> I check "portfolio"
https://www.useloom.com/share/3f9184090400490ea07a7dcae16b9080

[JoelEadeDesign]

Amazing stuff! I noticed when editing an Archive template, the keyboard command Cmd+P no longer hides the editor pane. It still works to show the editor pane, and both actions work when editing a Page.

[elnipa]

Great work! Just playing a while and most features seem to work pretty good.

I realized when I insert the given archive template and switch to "masonry" mode the live-preview is broken (no images are shown). However, the masonry layout works on the site after saving.

Will it be possible to customize the single items in the archive loop or will the post archive element be the only way to edit the archive?
I would love being able to add CPT custom fields to the archive loop and style my own loop layout.

[eoaejeff]

Looking great so far!

Are there plans to add dynamic connections for section/column background color/images/videos? This is a pretty important part of "keeping clients out of the Elementor interface."

[SencilloDS]

WOOOOWWWW !!! I love Elementor and you guys. Great work.
Maybe you can tell me what this is for:

[AlanRezende]

The auto update link does not apear for me. I`m on Linux Server. The Elementor is on B3 but the EPro does not want to update to Beta. (I have the beta tester enabled)

After like 30min the option to update to beta appeared, so if you are not seeing, just wait a few minutes

[dudaster]

I'm sure you're working on it but would be amayzing to be able to change it on the template list.

And please add the terms for templates or maybe something to be able to hold more than one template. For example easter is coming and you have archive, single, header, and footer with a easter design to be able with a click to change between the regular design and easter.

[mlebarron]

Shows at the top of every page now:

Warning: Declaration of Elementor\TemplateLibrary\Astra_Sites_Batch_Processing_Elementor::process_element_export_import_content($element, $method) should be compatible with Elementor\TemplateLibrary\Source_Base::process_element_export_import_content(Elementor\Controls_Stack $element, $method) in code/wp-content/plugins/astra-sites/inc/importers/batch-processing/class-astra-sites-batch-processing-elementor.php on line 37

Astra 1.2.5/Pro 1.2.2 with just a starter site added

[deckerweb]

@SencilloDS That is for "dynamic data" - let's say from the current page: you can use the Page Title (is dynamically replaced with the current page title), and there define a text before that, and text after that. And if no page title is found, you can use the text from "Fallback"

That feature is pretty genius, IMHO! 👍

[ghost]

Great work!

What i would like to see (or missed?) is some sort of conditional processing in single templates, e.g when a heading is linked to an ACF field and that field is empty, the widgets html with all its margins, background-colors etc is still shown. Would be great to have an option to completly hide a widget or a section in such cases.

I understand that it is impossible to catch up with all this weird nested if-then-else stuff you can do with coding, but if the most basic stuff is missing it is hard to use this visual approach for more complex needs.

[SniffleValve]

UPDATE:
Turns out it is an issue with the Astra theme (1.2.5). GeneratePress works fine and as expected. Support ticket sent to Astra.

An odd issue that showed up on two local test sites using the latest Astra (1.2.5) and Astra Pro (1.2.2).
Created a Header and Footer with E Pro-2-b and added them to their respective locations with Astra Pro.
All fine and dandy as expected.
Then after a while (perhaps 20 -30 minutes), and having not done anything else, both header and footer show up as "Draft" in their respective locations in My Templates. The header is still working but the footer is gone.
No problem, go in and Publish the footer.
Now all the pages are entirely grey, i.e., no content.
Note that I built both the header and footer using the respective Elementor Blocks.

[bainternet]

We just released a new beta version, please update your version to v2.0 Beta 6.

This beta release includes:

• New: Added API elementor_location_exits function for theme developers
• Tweak: A few strings corrections & UI polish
• Tweak: Add native context to archive title in Dynamic Tags
• Fix: Code optimizations for Price List widget
• Fix: Some posts-archive widget issues ( thanks @HelmutGoebel )
• Fix: Avoid wrap and handle oEmbed fields in ACF Tag
• Fix: Added clearfix for Header & Footer locations to better handling with various themes
• Fix: Added more compatibility for ACF: Gallery, Select & Text
• Note: This version requires Elementor v2.0.6

Beta 6 is the final release candidate version before launching.

Please keep this related to the Current beta Only! any other issue, feel free to open a new issue.

Thanks again to everyone.

[magiceupho]

Hi,
I've a problem with the footer template :
When I create one, it doesn't have a content zone and I can't add any widget...
Can you help me plz ?

I'm on GeneratePress with Elementor 2.0.6 and Elementor Pro 2.0 beta6.

[HelmutGoebel]

After updating elementor to 2.0.6 and than hit the "View version 2.0.0-beta6 details", I get this screen:

[codeagencybe]

Hello everybody

I have a strange issue with 2.* beta and not sure if the issue is Elementor Pro or not.
I'm trying Pods for the very first time, so my apologizes in advance if I'm addressing the issue wrong here. Just checking all possibilities right now.

I'm working on a project to make a simple listing of crane trucks for a client.
For this project I'm using Pods for the very first time and so far it works very nice although I don't see any official support yet for Pods.

I have created a single page template "crane-item". All my custom fields I have created with Pods are showing up nicely.
So it seems E Pro 2.* is supporting Pods already?

There is just 1 issue I have, and that's with the gallery images.
I can add images, and they show up very nicely with the post gallery element.
But when I delete and image, they seem not to be not deleted. In the backend, the list is empty but on the frontend they are still there.

For all clarity: I have NO caching plugins, no server side caching, absolutely nothing caching as this is still a work in progress.
I also already cleared all browser cache, tried incognito, other browser, ... the images just stay put on frontend while in backend the list is empty or revised with other images (then the other images just are added so the gallery just become bigger).

Is Elementor Pro somewhere messing up the rendering or caching something itself?
Or is there an incompatibility with the post gallery element?

I attach screenshots to show you the issue visually:

http://sharing.codeagency.be/3u3k091x2N2o
http://sharing.codeagency.be/17013N2w1s0Z
http://sharing.codeagency.be/3i0t0h0N2P3L

[bainternet]

@HelmutGoebel

can you contact our support and provide access details, also please describe any standing issues you have.

[HelmutGoebel]

Elementor: 2.0.6
Elementor Pro: V2-beta6
Post terms: As separator it does not accept blanks. I love to use a „ · “. But it displays only „·“

[OrinocoDelta]

@bainternet:

Thanks, it would be great to see smoother multi-lingual integration/support in V2.0 :-))))

[codeagencybe]

Post terms: As separator it does not accept blanks. I love to use a „ · “. But it displays only „·“

@HelmutGoebel can you try adding   (don't forget the ; at the end) before and after so like below. Not sure if it accepts this kind of code, but this is the HTML code for adding a spaces.
I know it should support spaces too, but at least you can make it look cleaner.

  . 

[HelmutGoebel]

@codeagencybe It should work with a regular space. But with   it works. Funny effect, when I insert " " and left " ", it inserted 2 " ".

[cristian-ungureanu]

There's a problem with the footer theme location. When I add a new footer template, in preview, the footer shows in the content area (where the_content function is called) . After saving it, the footer is in its place. The problem appears when you don't use 'register_all_core_location' and you only register header and footer.

[codeagencybe]

@HelmutGoebel
Yes I know, but I see this issue with spaces alot also in other places.
In top bar for example if I want to added e.g. a Font Awesome icon (phone) and then a phonenumber, it usually sticks them together even though I put a space. But with this trick it show up good.
Or another example that usually fails, try something like this:
custom link here | second link here.

As you can see, I have added 5 spaces before and after the | sign.
Usually it only adds 1 space and skip the 4 others.
** edit ** Github also fails to show 5 spaces and only show 1
It's a common problem I see a lot in themes, builders, ...

Hence the reason why
 
usually always works for me if I want to force a space and you can add it multiple times after eachother too

Just keep this trick in mind, anytime you have issue with space or need to add multiple spaces.

[KiQdev]

I saw that there are no conditions when creating a section template? Correct? I guess there should be, or am I wrong?

[bainternet]

@ everyone

thanks so much for all your help.

Elementor Pro V2.0.0 is now live.

[KiQdev]

Conditional settings for Sections? Or there shouldn´t be any? mån 16 apr. 2018 kl 13:11 skrev Raz Ohad <notifications@github.com>:

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[Perchpole]

@KiQdev - Elementor could use its own internal page hooks. You could then assign a section to a hook on a page which meets certain conditions.

[maxwellhibbert]

Is there a changelog for B6 -> 2.0?

[arielk]

You can see the full changelog of Elementor Pro here: https://elementor.com/pro/changelog/

2.0.0 – 2018-04-16

• New: Introducing Theme Builder – Release Post (Render Library Layouts in Theme Hook #417)
• New: Introducing Locations API to inject custom location templates
• New: Introducing Display Conditions for all dynamic templates
• New: Introducing Dynamic Tag feature – a new way to add dynamic content to your design
• New: Introducing Role manager to allow "Content Only mode" ([Feature Request] Roles Control #483, Editor Role  #653, deactivate native templates view? #885)
• New: Introducing 9 new dynamic widgets: Archive Posts, Archive Title, Post Content, Post Info, Post Title, Post Excerpt, Featured Image, Site Logo & Site Name (Post Elements - Page Title, Content, Etc #543)
• New: Introducing Developers area with guides and API documentation – Release Post (Need API soon #451)
• New: Introducing Elementor Hello Theme – A demonstration theme for developers
• New: Added new type of templates: Header, Footer, Single and Archive (Filter to extend CPT's with elementor_library features automatically #2761, Support for wp_nav_menu()? #2623, [PRO filter request] - Ability to override the post widgets wp_query with the global passed on archive pages etc #2109, Elementor in wordpress categories #2061, Feature: Header and Footer with Elementor #2439)
• New: Design 404 page with Single template (Feature request: 404 page #1558)
• New: Design Search Results with Archive template ([Feature Request] Custom Search Results page / Search results Widget #3196, Feature request to modify the search result page #2590)
• New: Added Scrolling Effect for sections including Sticky Element per device ([Enhancement] Sticky Header Navigation #2412)
• New: Integration with Custom Fields (Is it possible to add custom field in widget? #2054)
• New: Partial support for Toolset integration (Elementor & Toolset Integration #2949)
• New: Partial support for Pods integration (theme layouts - integration with pods - field connections #2169)
• New: Partial support for ACF integration (using ACF and Elementor #2041, ACF Widget fields not rendering in Elementor #2059)
• Tweak: Add custom fields support for ActiveCampaign (Feature Request: Extend Form Widget with ActiveCampaign custom Fields #3531)
• Tweak: Allow brackets in Forms Tel field
• Tweak: Added currency format control for Price Table widget
• Tweak: Reduced API request for some servers
• Fix: Dropdown border-radius in Nav Menu widget
• Fix: Price List widget layout breaks in edge cases
• Note: This version requires Elementor v2.0.6

[HelmutGoebel]

Since official release of Elementor 2.0.0 (or 2.0.1) the font-size of my menu items ar displayed with 20px, no matter what font size I define in the Elementor editor. In the Elementor editor the font-size is displayed correctly. The font size of the fly-out menu is displayed correctly, as well.

[rcasunshare]

the new beta 6 new service works directly. It goes blank when you load the editor

[donwattz1459]

Beta 6 is old. 2.0 is released yesterday. Then 2.0.1 today.

[HelmutGoebel]

I made a list of posts in a template with the posts widget. I've that via shortcode in an other template with the tab widget. When using "card" design, it works fine:

When using classical design, it produces php-errors: