Can’t edit in Page Builder mode/view

Hi, thanks for reaching out.

Please, try checking for a working baseline. Does Page Builder load normally if all other plugins are temporarily deactivated?

I think this is what you are asking.
When I deactivate all plug-ins except for Page Builder by SiteOrigin, yes I can edit the home page in page builder mode.

I then added back my other plug-ins, one at a time, to test which “break” Page Builder. Each of the following seem to do this:

Page Builder does not load when the following are activated:
Constant Contact Forms for WordPress
Gutenberg
Read More
SiteOrigin Widgets Bundle ***(Really need this one)
Social Slider Feed
Titan Anti-spam and Security
Yoast SEO

Page builder DOES load when these plug-ins are activated:
Akismet Anti-Spam
Child Theme Configurator
Extendify
MetaSlider
Photo Gallery
SiteOrigin CSS
SiteOrigin Premium
UpdraftPlus – Backup/Restore

Standing by, with thanks, for your next suggestion.
Bridget

Hi Bridget

Please, could you try and narrow down the conflict? Page Builder should load when the Widgets Bundle and Yoast are activated. Gutenberg, also, shouldn’t cause an issue.

To confirm, deactivate all plugins except for:

Page Builder
Widgets Bundle
Yoast

Does the issue persist? If not, activate Constant Contact Forms for WordPress. Does the issue persist? When the issue does persist, go back to the baseline and activate only:

Page Builder
Widgets Bundle
Yoast

Then activate the issue plugin that caused the issue. Our goal is to isolate the conflict to one or maybe in rare situations two plugins.

Thank you for your quick response.

With all but the three plug-ins that you mention, deactivated, Page Builder does NOT load properly for Home page editing.

Out of curiosity, I deactivated Yoast, and left Page Builder and SiteOrigin Widget Bundle activated, and it did load properly. Not sure if that helps?

Thanks again for your assistance,
Bridget

Thanks. Which version of Yoast are you activating?

Yoast SEO 19.12

Thanks. We’re using 19.12 with all of our sites with Page Builder and the Widgets Bundle. Is the issue occurring on all pages or only one page?

The issue is occurring with ONLY the home page. I have spot-checked several (but not all) other pages, and Page Builder appears to be functioning properly. Only when I attempt to edit the Home page, does Pagebuilder “disappear”, leaving me only the text/visual edit options.

Thanks so much for your time!

Bridget

Hi Bridget

Thanks for the update. Does the issue persist if you create a new page and use Page Builder to duplicate the home page? You can do that from Layouts > Prebuilt Layouts > Clone: Pages within the newly created test page.

Hi Andrew,

I truly appreciate you sticking with me on this. I apologize, despite your clear instructions, I am not seeing the “layouts” option or menu item you reference. Is that accessed from my WordPress dashboard?

I do see (in a few different places) how to “add a page”. As an experiment, I added a new page; Page Builder appears to load properly so that I could create a new page from scratch. Not sure if that helps.

Thank you for your time.

Hi, no problem. The Layouts button is in the Page Builder interface. Add a new page and then within Page Builder, click Layouts and clone the existing home page.

Got it, thank you. Yes, that appears to work. The new, cloned home page is editable in Page Builder. Whew! I did not choose to “replace” the current page; (I was nervous to do so). Is it a correct assumption that I could walk through those steps again and replace my current home page, and all will be resolved?

Bridget

Thanks for the update. One way to proceed is to change your current home page title and permalink to say Home Old (home-old) and then name your test page Home (home) and then assign it as your home page at Settings > Reading. The text in brackets above is my suggested permalink.

The text in brackets above is my suggested page slug rather.