Love Elementor Pro and no more themes needed – BUT required sidebar workaround –

Has potential, requires lots of design for anything you need though.
Disappointing also is their documentation on sidebars, since this theme offers zero sidebars and lacks the ability for multiple sidebars.

Appearance > widgets tab is gone when this theme is activated. At first I panicked as was the first time ever this happened to me…

Wasted a lot of time online hunting for info.
Their support was not adequately trained on this topic and just gave me links to basic tuts on making a sidebar and adding the sidebar widget.

Unless you add custom code to functions file or PHP inserter plugin [aka, My Custom Functions; instead of a child theme and a custom functions.php in there].

Snippet:

add_action( 'wp_enqueue_scripts', 'hello_elementor_child_enqueue_scripts' );

if (function_exists("register_sidebar")) {
register_sidebar();
}

Of course, as a pro user I can [and anyway need to] make templates for all post types [WC, regular blog posts etc], so in them, one can make a column for the sidebar.

Better still, make the sidebar/s as templates and add them to whatever page/post templates as needed where needed.

No point using the Elementor sidebar widget with this theme… Unless you have added custom function and a plugin to make multiple sidebars.

Nor much fun using WP widgets in a custom sidebar area template. You’ll need to CSS every single WP widget you drag into it from the Elementor editor panel.

However, all they have for now as far as widgets for sidebar is posts widgets and of course video or images widgets.

BUT, when you have an eCom site, you may want to show your shop visitors their recently viewd products.

Elementor posts widget is cool and can bring in WC products but not recently viewed ones.

If you want to order WC products in your sidebar you cannot drag and drop so you need another plugin ‘Post Types Order’. Once you set the order of products in WC thanks to this plugin the Elementor posts widget can be used to showcase the selected number in the order you want them to appear in your sidebar.

• This reply was modified 5 years, 5 months ago by tekgirlymama.