But I really wish the term "without a theme" would not be used. Technically, you are still using a theme. Newbies get confused when they here that term.
Thank you VERY much for this video. It was really like a wakeup call for me! Spent so much money into the wind by paying all those companies selling Themes that are overloaded with stuff and they never explain properly how it works! A simple custom-built page is WAY better than all those themes taken altogether!
The single most helpful, concise and well thought out video I've watched on Elementor - seriously this is incredibly useful. Loads of tips on things that have been frustrating me for what feels like weeks!! Great stuff & thank you! :-)
As I'm brand new to WordPress, this video made the difference between me getting my site done versus continuing to struggle for hours on end. You got me to smash that SUBSCRIBE button. Thank you!! This was very valuable to me in a time when I really needed it.
This is exactly what I've been looking for.! 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥 I've created a blog page and an archive template and have been searching for how to make the archive template appear on the blog page for months. You're a real life saver!
Great video. Once again you killed it! Is amazing the amount of things one can learn from this channel and the more you watch this videos the more you become and expert and develop better skills to create better websites for your clients. Thank you.
Answered everything I was wondering about how to create my blog page from scratch. Now I just need to go through the video again (and again) in slo mo. Thanks!
Thanks for showing that the Hello "theme" can be very useful and fairly simple. Started using Elementor with OceanWP thinking Hello would be too daunting, but will now consider Hello in the future.
Thank you, I have always used ocean wp - but after watching this I believe the project I am working on now will be using Hello - It makes since to not load what you are not using. I have been working on reducing the load on sites but never thought about the load from the theme as a starting point - I find this exciting. - thank you for all your work.
Hi WPTuts, an excellent, concise but complete tutorial. I learned a lot through it, answered most of my questions and helped me resolving some issues when using templates with Elementor Pro. I have seen several videos and 99% of those on RU-vid try to concentrate on how to build the page but your is way different, effective and short. Thanks for this brilliant work.
great tutorial, i am pretty new to elementor and some basics of wordpress and i have primarily used it for creating websites and not blogging, it has always confused me on how to show list of posts (archives), single posts etc... but this cleared it up for me! slightly weird but when you consider wordpress was designed to just be a blogging platform understandable... thanks.
WordPress and the development community have come a very long way over the last few years. Certainly not the WordPress that we all first saw many moons ago. 😀
Thanks very much for this information. I have an issue with the Astra theme overriding Elementor's Woocommerce theme builder. Hopefully, the Hello theme resolves this issue. Thanks for all you do for the Wordpress community and beyond.
😍😍 this video!!!! I was looking for it since I purchased elementor pro! I was thinking not to go with elementor just because of this theme issue, this video solved that issue and many more issues that i was going to face !!! Thank you so much!
First video we have watched on Elementor. Very precise, understandable, and a great start for us regarding using Elementor. Unfortunately, we purchased a theme that was designed it seems using Elementor Pro and only given the free version with the theme, we are faced with redesigning each page using all the demo content layout and design in the site. Also found that when the site was offered it was listed with it's "name-Elementor" leaving us to think it was just compatible with Elementor and not realizing it was designed with Elementor Pro. So now we feel we must purchase the Pro version to edit and personalize all the design and all pages etc. If so, we could use any assistance from you if you have seen this happen on how to use the free version of Elementor first to edit the site to learn Elementor first, and possibly purchase the Pro version later on. Thank you for a great video that encourages us to watch your Elementor library of videos.
As a beginner this was a great video. Straight to the point, precise and clear instructions with loads of useful information between. Am I wrong to assume if I use this method to create my own unique template I can use that as a basis for brand new designs, or does that simply save as a theme that can't be customized?
You could Export all the theme files created with Elementor alongside the Hello theme, then when you want to use them as the basis for another site, simply upload and activate Hello, install EPro and then Import those Elementor templates in and you're good to go. I hope that helps. :0)
When You Subscribe, like and Comment before you even watch the video, that's how much i've been looking for a tutorial like this! Thank you soooo much! now if y'all excuse me, i have a tutorial to watch, see y'all later !!
Best educative video about Elementor I have ever watched. Now, is there a need for me to dive into theme development really? I was interested in it because I didn't like the idea of using other premade themes.
Nice video. A note only, at 13:50, the Hide Title option is not a global change, but only for the current page. Thanks Paul, Your videos are amazing, so keep going that way...!
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This. There should be an option to hide all titles... I mean an easy one, on the Customizer, without needing to use any code. Also, if you check the "Hide title" option and then add a Page Title widget inside the layout, this new "dinamic" title is also hiding... pretty annoying!
Hi Paul, love this method and I'm using it now. BUT .... then I tried to create a sidebar and I couldn't find the widget area! Is that left out? So how do I create my sidebar then? I already found the answer: when creating a page template, don’t select the Elementor sidebar widget, just add whatever widgets you like in the page template in of of the columns. Works beautifully!
Exactly, by removing the theme files you have to manually add in those various different aspects of the page layout you want to build, including things like the widget areas in the sidebars, etc. Glad you found how to add those in. 😀👍
I am so happy you created this video as it has cleared up so many questions I have as a new Elementor Pro user. Great explanation and tutorial!!! Question: Do you need to add any css or html code to the header for SEO purposes?
Great tutorial as always. You touched on a more general concept that has been puzzling me for months: when I create an archive page, then click Read More to go to a specific post, the post shows up with no styling. If I understand what you said here, I need to create a Single Post page, then identify that page in the dashboard as the one to use. Did I get that right? A while back, you asked if there was any interest in having you do more "concept" videos (as opposed to your more common design-this or look-at-this-new-function videos). I would really appreciate a beginner's video on how the various pieces in WordPress fit together. I'm a database designer, so I understand more than most beginners how the fields in the records work, but I'm having trouble getting my head around how WordPress "knows" which archive page to use when a customer clicks Necklaces (for example) from my main menu. This tutorial helped, but I'd love to see more.
Yup, you got that right. The archive page is basically the listing. So, by default, WordPress requires an archive template to display a list of posts and then a Single template to display the individual post. Then, if you want to go off into more complex areas of creating Custom Post Types, you can also create Archive and Single templates and then use the Elementor Pro template conditions (the last section you see when trying to publish a template) and set that to work with your new Custom Post Type. Once you get your head around it, it's really simple and you can create some way more unique designs. If you have a good solid grasp of database creation you'll soon grasp the concept of creating archives and single templates to display your custom post info. I'll be covering these types of things in a LOT more detail over the coming months. So, you can expect to see full custom site designs using Custom Post Types as well as smaller projects like creating a bespoke portfolio, etc.
Fast and very clear Thanks for all. I'm a complete beginner.Does this need pro? Is there nay way to build a complete website with basic elementor?And do I need to find a specific page for the industry I'm building for?Can I design my own?
Thanks Paul! I find that Ocean WP and Astra are always a pain because there's so many options to go through...very confusing. If you have any knowledge of Z-index settings for sticky headers and sliders, that would be helpful too. __Appreciate your videos... very informative and professional. Cheers!__
WPTuts: Thanks for inquiring back Paul. I finally figured out what I was doing wrong. Really appreciate you reaching out to me here. I really enjoy your channel!!!
Interesting! I'm going to look at some of the footer blocks in elementor to see if I can create all my links to pages like privacy policy and terms and conditions. Currently I use generatepress premium as a theme but I've had couple of issues on blog archive template styling where elementor blame GPP for CSS conflict and vice versa. I might use this method going forward or switch to Astra agency lite for access to larger range of templates. A video showing a switch from GPP to this and what needs to be considered would be good. My thoughts are that it should be pretty painless but don't really have a dummy site to test it.
Hi Paul. Can you perhaps do a video for motion effects that allows you to create layers of images on top of each other. It allows you to create a scene effect. Might be good if we can download some assets like images to follow allow rather than having to search for some images. Elementor have a video on this but they don't provide any of the assets so you can copy what they are doing. Thank you.
Thank's Paul this is extremely useful. I was always overwhelmed by all the settings of the Astra theme and how they overlapped with Elementor , this makes so much more sense now that Elementor has given us all these options. By the way I won't be making any Post's on my site is there still a need to create a default Archive & Single template?
Thanks Paul, how would we define the sizes of headings H1 - H6 globally? We'd need to do do it on a page by page basis wouldn't we? Which seems a bit of a pain.
You could define them through CSS in the Hello theme CSS panel or you could use a tool like CSSHero to gain additional styling throughout the entire site. It's a shame that EPro doesn't offer full control over those aspects through the theme building tools. Maybe a future update!
I think that would be just about the only thing holding me back from the Hello theme. If we wanted a website with more than two levels of headings, we'd be into the world of CSS - and I don't like to venture there!
Hello theme works fine with WooCommerce but it's worth bearing in mind that the WC pages will only have WC styling applied unless you apply your own styling to them.
Great content! Thanks! Can i aks how to create a smaller height on header scroll? And is it possible to show only one part of the header after scroll? Like the top top to dissapear and the navigation and logo to stay...
Excellent video tutorial! When you added the blocks e.g. home page is there a way that it takes on the default font set? I noticed whenever I use a block I had to go through all the font settings. Secondly - am i correct in assuming the page would load better with an Elementor header, footer than e.g. using Astra?
Finally, there is an option to use Elementor without Theme. But, there is "Hello Elementor" theme that has been made by Elementor developers for Elementor users. What the difference?
Hi Paul. This is exactly what i was looking for with the question ." do i need a theme to produce my website " this was in 2019 do you have the same thing fro 2021
Hello, nice video! As a non-native user, I can follow the video well. hat off !! However, I have 1 comment. Via nav menu you have made the basic settings for the menu. Then you go to the dashboard ,menu, and enter in the name of the menu . Suddenly a menu appears with menu-items as Home etc. !! Did you create this menu in advance via the dashboard "menu" ? because I don't see where it comes from. I'm a beginner in PRO. Thanks in advance and regards, Jos
Thank you Paul. This appears VERY helpful, but I can't seem to get started. I have the free version of Elementor installed (5.3) on WP, but your instructions are to download Elementor Pro. Yet when I go to free download iit looks like it might be the same basic Elementor. I am confused at the start and would appreciate your clarifying if I need to pay to get the Pro version. I would like designing the site to be simplified in process, and beautiful in results. Thanks!
Hi, yes you need to purchase Elementor Pro to be able to follow along with this guide as it has the Theme Builder functions to be able to make your own theme files. :0)
Just to clarify, there is a theme required to be chosen, it doesn't need to be used, correct? It's not that you can build the site without a theme altogether.
Having done web design for a while I am so surprised to see such a nice tool. How well does this work using this blank theme and then integrating woocommerce into the mix?
thanks for your video, I would like to ask if I can build a complete ecommerce store from this blank theme ? including Homepage, Product page, single product page, checkout page....?
Sir, as of 10/10/21, the choices and selections on these pages are so dramatically different from the newest version of elementor it is difficult to follow along. Still, gratitude arises for the conceptual framework. Will you be adding a new RU-vid for the newest elementor theme builder soon?
I'm trying to build a site with articles on 8 different subjects. I'd like to have 8 cards on the second page that will direct visitors to one of the 8 archives with the articles in that subject. Is it better to create 8 archive pages or use categories to pull up the article?
As you can build custom WooCommerce pages with the Elementor Pro Theme Builder, you should be able to manage things fairly well. You will probably need to manually edit some styling through CSS. I'll investigate things in a little more detail and hopefully release a video covering adding WC to the mix. 😀
@@WPTuts I think you should address this situation, Paul, in a future tutorial. Adding WC to the mix can get things complicated very fast, but the number of WC-specific widgets that are in Elementor Pro should allow most folks to create what they visualize.
