Daniel Men?ies

Hi Tessa, thanks for picking it up. I transferred ownership. Good luck and happy coding.

I should work with Astra. I say should since all these plugins and themes constantly change and I do my best to keep up with it. I think Astra too changed and the integration is broken at the moment. I hope I find some time on the weekend and fix it.

Generally speaking downgrading is not an option for most plugins. If you have a relatively new site with little content it is less work to set-up a new site and install Elementor 2 and disable auto-updates for it.

If I would know of a work-around for integrating a palette with Elementor 3 I would have already added an integration for Elementor 3. Like I said, I do not know of one, I am afraid.

Hi, Elementor was recently updated and so far I can not integrate the central palette with Elementor 3. Elementor 2 is still supported though.

Hi Cliff, sorry for the late reply. I can add such a feature to the plugin and got it lined up for the next release. Do you prefer a shortcode or a block?

No, like I said before, I do not know how the programmers from Divi added the classic editor to their page builder. Let’s say there used to be a “right” way to add it, but the classic editor is deprecated since WordPress 5. Before version 5, WordPress would offer various ways to alter the now called classic editor. For example, you could change the toolbar, add or remove buttons, or change its settings. That way I add the central palette to the colour picker of the classic editor. Since I do not know whether Divi is adding the classic editor the “right” way I can not tell from afar why your palette does not show up. I am sorry, but this is a common problem with commercial plugins and themes.

Since Divi is a commercial theme I do not have access to its code. From my side I can not help since I do not know how Divi is setting up the classic editor.

Hi, what version of WordPress are you using and/or do you have any plugins installed that bring back the classic editor?

G’day to you Lyle!

Yes, I remember, you’ve suggested support for Kadence a few weeks (month?) ago.
Back then I had a look at it and it seemed not possible but now – Yep – they added a nice filter so I can add the central palette to the palette choices inside Kadence/Customizer. I could overwrite the active colour palette but I chose not to do that to give the user more control over Kadence.

Just have to wrap things up and then I publish the next version.

No, the palette is made available inside colour pickers both for the Customizer and Beaver Builder. So far, only the WP’s Block Editor uses css-names (actually CSS-Variables, see here for details) to decouple usage and definition. To my knowledge Beaver Builder does not have such a feature.

Hi Oliver, thank you for your feedback! I’m glad it’s of use to you.

Internally Elementor 3 change significantly in such a way that it is not possible to integrate my plugin. They haven’t published a API documentation and when I had a look at it a few weeks ago, I could not integrate it at all. May in the future it will be possible.

Hi, thanks for your report. Version 1.15.5 will correct integration with Astra.

Hi,

The functionality that you are describing is commonly called CSS Variables.
Please have a look at Using CSS custom properties (variables) / Basic usage for a brief introduction.

Now, my plugin can generate those variables for you. Simply tick Add global CSS variables to themes, assign CSS names for your colours and – after saving your palette – you can use theses names as follows:

(Assuming you assigned a CSS name, let’s say maintheme)

/* mouse over link */
a:hover {
  background-color: var(--maintheme);
}

As long as you do not change these CSS names you can change your palette and every place they are used they get automatically updated.

Hope this helps!

• This reply was modified 4 years, 1 month ago by Daniel Men?ies.

Hi,
that seems to be indeed a bug.
Version 1.15.4 will fix this.

Hi,
could you post the contents of your export, the one you’ve mentioned, and two additional ones, one after you’ve changed your colours and before you import the first one, and a third one after you’ve imported the first one? I need to compare them.

Internally CCP assigns unique indices to each colour. If you import a palette it tries to reuse your current indices by comparing all current colours with those of the import. If they are “close enough” it keeps the current index but overwrites its colour with the imported one. That way it tries to minimise chaos.

Now, as you’ve mentioned, if you change your colours and they differ to much, their indices are not reused and you loose any association that might depend on them, although you’ve imported the same colour.

If what I’ve tried to explain is the case, then this is not a bug but intended behaviour.

Does this make sense to you?