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Well, I see my post was moved. It WAS hard to figure out which topic this fit under. Regardless, I am closing it because there hasn’t been much interaction with my questions. I will say, after digging even deeper, I have decided NOT to start a forum at this time, it seems that it would be more trouble than it is worth (arguing and spammers).

Thanks for the tips @threadi!

Yep, user roles will be very important. Have done a test with multiple dummy “users”, and in a small environment, it worked. Was wondering if anyone else had scaled such a project. I know of one site that does something similar with a different topic, but they have the text emailed to a group of reviewers, they screen/adjust, then if applicable, they will post it (old early Yahoo style screening). I am trying to avoid as many human interactions as possible. Might be impractical, I am not sure.

Good point on customizing for my application. I am hoping to not to have-to get “fiddly” with it right from the jump. My goal is to roll in slowly, take the bumps that are sure to arise, and adjust. “My focus” needs to be on getting buy-in and not learning code.

BBPress.
For sure I will ask this same question in their forum. I wanted to start here, because in “my mind” WordPress is the base which I am building up from. The BBPress documentation that I have found so far is pretty basic. I have even found some from way back when a few universities used it for internal communications.

Again, your tips are GREAT, and I hope others will chime in with thoughtful and informative guidance.

Update 07-22-2022

RESOLVED!
Not what i was looking, but…..

FINALLY got a host tech person that stuck it out with me, the first few kept telling me there was nothing wrong ??. Had a multi part “concern” on their end. A disk space warning, server caching, and the dreaded “you are using too much of our resources” (small site on a small package, but i AM hitting it hard while rebuilding the site).

“Due to over disk space usage there is chances that cpu resource conduption will be breaching allocated 25% which is the limit for the shared packages”.

So, I hope that by me posting my question and eventual answer here helps someone else.

Again, THANKS @talmo !

Thanks @talmo.

Been working on it. Tried everything on my end, those did not work. Dealing with host is taking awhile ??.

2 – Thanks for the text editor info. Glad it’s not just me.

3 – After trail and error, I found that the post page title is being inserted by my theme. I still have no idea WHERE it is getting the text from, but regardless. I decided to just go into the theme and disable title and breadcrumbs. That cleared that one up.

I will leave this conversation open until my host and I meet in the middle with a proper resolution to the 404 error, then I will post the resolution here in hopes that it helps others.

THANKS @talmo !

Here’s my next questions. All are related to the original post, so i will keep going here.

1 – When i go to post, add new post, edit with elementor, sometimes, (often), i get the error popup “the preview could not be loaded. Not found 404”. Choosing safe mode does not help. The link to the help file does not mention “sometimes it doens’t work”. I have disabled all plugins (except elementor) and that did not help, (they have been reactivated).

2 – IF i can get past the edit with elementor choice, i CAN chose one of my templates to create a post. My question here is, is there a better choice for a text block? Currently i am using the Text Editor and it seems to get quite funky with displaying text if i insert a lot of text.

3 – On ALL of my blog post, at the top left under my logo is the words “Blog – Latest News”. I realize this is where the page title shows up. I do not have a page by that title. I DID use this wording for a blog category in the past, but have deleted it. WHERE is it being pulled from now, and how can i prevent that line of text from showing up in the future? My intentions, and correct me if i am going down the wrong path, is to stop listing, say, attractions on a singular page, and start listing them as a blog post. Actually, most everything as blog post with different categories. Of course I will have static pages where static pages should be.

WHEEEEEWWWWW! Sorry about all the “yea buts” here y’all, trying to troubleshoot this myself on a Sunday while most everybody else is off.

Figured out how to use a PAGE template for a POST template while using the free version of elementor (THANKS @talmo !!!). Here is a link to my first post with a template https://enjoyncwithme.com/elementor-2838/. Yea, lots of tweaking needed, but at least i am on a path again and not lost in the woods.

Now i have several questions directly related to this. Do i continue asking on this thread or start a new one for each question since technically my original question has been answered?

A Update 2+ hours later:

According to https://elementor.com/help/how-to-fix-the-preview-could-not-be-loaded-error/?utm_source=editor-panel&utm_medium=wp-dash&utm_campaign=learn#permissions, I need Elementor Pro to do this. ALSO,(occasionally), when i try to create a new blog post with Elementor I get the error pop up window “The Preview Could Not Be Loaded, not Found 404”. Activating safe mode does not help. I have yet been able to reliably create a test blog post using Elementor, and not been able to use a template at all. Still digging for answers though.

Aaaahhh! Everything I found (so far) on the internet said chose “post template” when creating a new post template, which I have no option to make in the free version of Elementor.

So now I have created a “page” template and saved it, yep, I can see it under templates, BUT, when I go to create a new post, chose edit with Elementor, I see nowhere to pick a template, except under the Pro options, and as stated, I am not using pro. Am I missing a step? ??

THANKS! That helped. I follows your instructions and it appears to be a theme issue. I will contact the theme provider. Had no idea a theme could do this. Again, thanks!

Ok, thanks.

Did that. All images are set at 300×300 in those inner sections. Images ARE various sizes in the media library though.

Basic. Inserting inner section (four of those), then adding an image to each inner section. Then adding a Heading text Field below each image. The images and any text below them are hyperlinked to another page.

Sorry about the bad link, I had the page set to private while i was working on it. That has been reset to public until i find the answer.

https://enjoyncwithme.com/elementor-2432/

I do not see a way for me to insert screenshots here.

Thanks Sky Shabatura! I will check it out.

Thanks y’all for answering back, and I apologize for not responding quicker, I did not get notifications about responses.

I have read the articles referenced. If I am reading them correctly, there is no way to TOTALLY remove the “subscribe to calendar” button from everywhere. This is a show stopper for me, because I don’t want to put in the hard work of listing events just to have other folks harvest the listings and auto populate their calendars.

I am using version 5.14.0.3 of the events calendar.

Elementor is my page builder.

Enfold is my theme.