Not working in a site with Elementor

  • Resolved CB

    (@cbrandt)


    4 years, 5 months ago

    Hi John,

    I’m very glad this plugin has been updated from the previous version. Thank you.

    I’ve successfully used it in a regular WordPress site, but when I tried using it in a site with Elementor, it didn’t work as expected:

    I click the Search button.
    The screen shows the matches and the replacement text properly highlighted.
    I click the Replace button. It finishes.
    I click the Finish button.
    I click the Search button again and the matches aren’t there (having apparently been replaced)

    However, when I check the page, the original strings are showing, and the pages template were changed from Elementor Canvas to Default (which results in a few changes in the page layout).

    At this point, if I go back to SR and hit the Search button for the same terms I had thought were replaced, they show as matches again.

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  • Plugin Author John Godley

    (@johnny5)

    Can you give an example of what you are searching for and replacing with?

    Thread Starter CB

    (@cbrandt)

    Trying to search for some uppercase letters with diacritical marks, and replace them with a string, like:

    Search for ê
    Replace with: kekeke

    Search for ?
    Replace with: ckckck

    These exact same searches were performed on the regular WP site, I only had issues in a site with Elementor.

    Plugin Author John Godley

    (@johnny5)

    Search Regex is working correctly, and it updates the post. However, Elementor works in a very non-standard way, and stores data in its own place. When you edit the post you are actually editing Elementor data, not the post.

    Thread Starter CB

    (@cbrandt)

    Interesting.

    I do see the posts in the database as changed by Search Regex, and yet when I visit them, it’s all reverted to whatever it is Elementor last recorded in its internal files.

    Thanks for taking the time to investigate this.

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