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We are managing about a dozen websites that use the Enfold theme.
We always start by importing the “Enfold flat business demo”, and then change it to make a new site.Each time we change the layout of a page by moving sections around, or adding/removing new things, the footer becomes a mess. We have to revert the page back to a previous version, and loose all the work.
On sites that use the full width of the screen, the footer is reduced to a fixed width, while the rest of the page remains full width.
On sites that use a fixed width, the surrounding area looses it’s background and defaults to white.
On all sites, the color and styling of all the links in the footer is changed. Usually to blue and underlined.This only affects the page that was modified. Other pages still show a correct footer.
It only happens on pages that are already published.
Therefore the workaround that we are using for now when we need to modify a page is to save the page as a template, start an new page, import the template, and make all changes *before* publishing the page. Then delete the old page, and rename the new page. This is a huge slowdown for us.
Yesterday we set up a new website. We did not install or activate any plugin. So this is a default WordPress setup, with only the Enfold theme added. The problem is still there.
Hi Amazingdominik!
From what you describe to me, looks like you are using custom HTML elements for modifications.
Is that right? If so, that is why there might be elements having such mess.
When you also remove / add elements, there might be areas that while removed, making issues.
It looks strange as an issue. Always keep cache clear and to assist, would need a page that looks as a ” mess ” and backend access so we can review it!Best regards,
BasilisHi,
No, we do not use custom HTML elements for modifications. We just use the template as described in the original post, and make small modifications using the advanced layout editor. For example changing an element from size 2/3 to 3/5 already causes this effect.
So we only click an arrow on the element to change the size, we click to preview the page, and the footer is “destroyed”.Adding or removing elements also causes this.
We never modify the code directly. We only use the controls provided by the advanced layout editor.Since we only do basic editing and have this problem on all the websites we manage using the Enfold template, I a suprised that not more people are seeing this.
I would like to attach some screenshots here that show the problem, but I can not seem to find a way to do that here.
Hi,
Could you provide us with a step-by-step on how reproduce the error? You can upload screenshots to a service like imgur.com or a public dropbox folder for instance and then link to them here.
Best regards,
RikardHi,
It’s quite simple actually :-)
This is how we set up a new site:
We purchase a Linux hosting.
We create a database on that hosting.
We download the most recent WordPress installation.
We change the config file to add the database, pasword, and secret keys.
We upload the WordPress install to the server, and activate it (we only set an admin username and pasword, no other changes are made).
We purchase and upload the Enfold template.
In WordPress we apply the Enfold template .
We import the “Enfold Flat Business Demo”.
We delete the pages and blog posts that we don’t need. Usually we only keep the Home and Contact pages.
We changes some options like color scheme, logo’s and footer text in the Enfold menu.
We open the homepage and start modifying the page, and boom it happens as soona s the layout is changed!
We only use the Avia Layout builder for all changes.
So no plugins or special code.As soon as we add or remove a layout element the problem starts. For example changing a layout element from size 1/3 to 2/3.
Also when a layout element is moved or resized.
Changing Content elements or Media elements usually causes no harm if we keep them in the same layout element. However when we add a horozontal line or whitespace things move around, and the problem starts again.It also happens on all other pages that we create afterwards, and we have exact same the problem on all of the websites we manage.
I provided a dropbox link in the private content where you can see 2 screenshots of the bottom half of a webpage. One is OK, the other shows what goes wrong.
Hey!
could you provide us admin access, so we can take a closer look into it? Are we allowed to temporarily deactivate all your plugins? Post login details here as private reply.
Regards,
AndyOk, I posted the login details. You can disable all plugins, because we are not aware that any plugins are running :-)
Hi!
First off update Enfold to 3.4.7 and let us know when your done and we’ll take another look.
Best regards,
ElliottI’m having this exact same problem. Has there been a fix? I’ve used Enfold theme in the past and never encountered this problem.
Hi @jholtdesign,
Could you post a link to the site in question so that we can take a closer look please?
Best regards,
RikardHi,
@SurfSites
Please create your own topic and provide us with information so we can be able to access the site and review it.Thank you
Best regards,
Basilis
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