dluman

Hi, mammadz,
I just went through this, so even if you’re not looking for tips anymore, I thought I’d share my process to document a way forward for those who are stuck between this plugin and new versions of Elementor.

My process is multi-step and features some work directly with the WordPress database (particularly the post meta table). Here’s a step-by-step:

• Find the post IDs of all of the loop templates made using Ele Custom Skin
• Locate them in the post meta table by running a query like:

SELECT * FROM {DB}_postmeta WHERE post_id IN (LIST, OF, POST, IDs) AND meta_key = "_elementor_template_type";

• I use phpmyadmin to do database management, so you may need to run a query to do the following, but I replaced all of the “_elementor_template_type” values that were “loop” with “loop-item”
• This may make them available to add to the new “Loop Grid” control in Elementor; if not, drop into the template in Elementor’s editor, type and erase a space in the custom CSS portion of the control and update — this should allow you to search for it by name and add it back to your templates

I surmise that this works because the controls that Ele Custom Skin used were, after all, Elementor controls. While it was a few hours’ work to do this for my customer, it beat the alternatives of having to fix the errors in the plugin (which it’d be better to migrate away from anyway) or rebuild the templates.

In any case, I hope this helps somebody. Remember: everyone has a development environment, but only some folks’ environments are different than production!

(Do this work on a dev environment, suffice to say.)

• This reply was modified 1 year, 1 month ago by dluman.
• This reply was modified 1 year, 1 month ago by dluman.
• This reply was modified 1 year, 1 month ago by dluman.