enfold header with elementor footer

Thanks, Ismael, but I’m sorry, I misread what they (Elementor support) said and therefore described it wrong to you. They said “[Enfold] opens several div tags in the header template and then closes them in the footer template.” — plus, I missed that they had actually included screenshots (linked below) — does that make more sense, now? Thanks again and lmk if you have any other questions.

header opening tags: https://capture.dropbox.com/oYrHiQf977skxIW4
footer closing tags: https://capture.dropbox.com/Dp4mXtmqwdaJ4JnL

Thanks so much, Mike — sorry I didn’t catch that — I’ll bounce that back to Elementor support and let you know here what they say, either way, if you don’t mind keeping this open.

Thanks, Mike — here’s what they said:

Please note that Elementor doesn’t just hook to WordPress functions. It declares its own theme locations and replaces the theme header.php and footer.php files. For reference: https://developers.elementor.com/docs/themes/ Therefore, this is still valid feedback from my side: https://elementor.com/help/considerations-for-theme-builder-compatibility/

Do you think that leaves me any hope for a workaround? Thanks again.

Thanks, Mike! Can you tell me how often you’d guess I’ll have to update those files, due to theme updates? I mean, you don’t think it will be impractical in that respect?

OK, thanks so much — but it sounded to me like they said Elementor would replace the footer.php — “Please note that Elementor doesn’t just hook to WordPress functions. It declares its own theme locations and replaces the theme header.php and footer.php files.” — doesn’t that mean, as long as I’m using the Elementor footer, I don’t need to worry about the Enfold footer.php?

OK, so, I should be able to test this with just the page.php file, if I’m only looking at “regular” pages (eg https://gatcomdev.wpengine.com/about/), right? If so, I added the closing divs to the page.php file and it doesn’t seem to do the trick. In my testing it seemed like I had to remove the echo, like this: https://capture.dropbox.com/RmIFvQzocT49oUt0 — does that look right?

When looking at the source after adding those closing divs to the page.php file, I can’t find those new closing divs — I’m guessing maybe because I’m using Elementor to build the pages. If I add the closing divs to the header.php file and view the source, I can see them (https://capture.dropbox.com/hMUlWN8NYgc6dzpQ), but they still don’t seem to make a difference — when I turn on the Elementor footer the Enfold header still disappears — so I put them back in page.php, per your instructions, for now.

Any other ideas for me? Thanks again.

OK, I moved the closing divs back to the bottom of page.php (Is this the correct way to close those divs? https://capture.dropbox.com/ROwRW1tjKO7zxuXA ), added all the code from footer.php below that (I assume I’m supposed to remove the get_footer function, correct?), and removed the closing divs from that footer code. Does that all look/sound correct? It doesn’t seem to work — the header and footer both disappear as soon as I activate the Elementor footer. I’m including the info again in the private content, in case you have any other ideas for me :). Thanks again.

Thank you for the follow-through, Mike! Sorry about that link expiring — I’ve updated/extended it and repasted it in private content along with sftp info for that dev site — feel free to mess with that site all you want, I’m not worried about losing anything there. Thanks again and lmk if you have any other questions.

Hmm, you sure? I just tried it in multiple browsers, private windows, etc. — seems to be working, no? Oh, I guess you’re referring to the sftp info? But that seems to be working, too — I can’t reveal the pw in filezilla, but I just double-checked it with the pw I gave you and it seems to be working — here’s a screenshot, in case that helps: https://capture.dropbox.com/xpPsJaSF5AWS4lnY — lmk if you’re still having trouble.

Ah, ok, well, thanks for trying — is there anyone else you can run it by? Maybe Ismael could take a look? :)

Great — thanks so much, Mike (and the team)!!

No prob — thanks so much, Ismael — makes sense. Seems like a long-shot, but any chance I might be able to add a snippet in the Theme Builder header template that would call/get the Enfold header or code? Thanks again.

Thanks, Ismael. Looks/sounds a little over my head — unfortunately I still don’t actually *know* php. But I think I found a workaround: I can save my Elementor footer section as an Elementor “template”. The problem is, updates to those “templates” don’t apply to every page containing the template — Elementor wants you to use the Theme Builder to do something like that — and if I use the Theme Builder to create the footer, it cancels out the Enfold header (the reason for this ticket). BUT Elementor does provide shortcode for those “Saved Templates” (see https://capture.dropbox.com/N8yakpTKi7pSjcLE ), so if I just save my Elementor footer section as a template and drop the shortcode in at the bottom of every page, then, when I make a change to my footer via the Saved Templates, it applies to every page containing the shortcode. So then I have my goal: Enfold headers with Elementor footers (updatable from one file)!

Thanks so much for sticking with me on this — I think exhausting the possibility of using Elementor’s Theme Builder to handle the footers helped/forced me to look at the problem from a new angle and discover this workaround.

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