Got it working for Elementor Pro

Perfect for what I needed but didn’t work with Elementor Pro straight out of the box with their Theme Builder nor the Theme (I’m using the Hello-Elementor Theme, you can put the “function” call (not the shortcode) inside the Hello Theme, in the files located in the Template Assets folder, archive.php, header.php and so on, there is another thread here where someone got it working with Divi, that function call worked for me).

After some searches, however, I found “Elementor Custom Skin” plugin (free version does the job), which allows you to build custom post/archive loop templates within the Elementor page builder. Use the Shortcode Widget to call the Plugin Caption, the Featured Image Widget in the same column/row and it all works as it should.

Create an archive template within the Theme Builder of Elementor Pro, which will now allow you to pick the “custom” option from the “Skin” dropdown within the Posts or Archive Posts Widget, no child theme necessary and it works sweet, allowing me to use all the cool Elementor designy things they have ??

I also added a line of jQuery, adding the “rel” attribute on the link. To me, that should be an option in the plugin itself but isn’t hard to have 1 line of script that will jam it in there.

$('.ccfic-source a').attr('rel','nofollow noopener noreferrer');

Hope it helps someone else out there ??