Post content not showing on the front end

[vsolanic]

Hi,

I have the following issue. When I create a loop template, the post content (items created via ACF and CPT UI) shows just fine in the back end, but when I view the page in the front end, the post content does not appear there. I saw that others had a similar issue – in my case reverting to an older version of ECS did not help. I tried also different display conditions, but no luck. I am using the following configuration:

Elementor and Elementor Pro (2.8.3) ECS (1.3.10) Advanced Custom Fields (5.8.7) Custom Post Type UI (1.7.1) Hello Elementor Theme (2.2.2)

Example of pages where the loop template is used: page 1, page 2. And here is a view of the back-end.

Since it seems that I am not the only one experiencing this issue, it would be great if this could be looked into.

Best regards,

Vladimir

[dudaster]

Thanks for posting here. My account on wordpress forums is moderated and my replies can take up to a day to be posted online.

Can you please take a screenshot with the content selected?

[vsolanic]

Hi,

sorry for the delayed reply. What exactly do you mean by 'taking a screenshot with the content selected'? I provided a link to the screenshot of the back-end where the things work and a link to the front end pages where the things do not show up as should.

Thank you for clarification.

Best,

Vladimir

[dudaster]

Please describe how you added the content.

[vsolanic]

OK. I will describe the whole process although it is a bit lengthy.

• I created several custom fields with the Advanced Custom Fields plugin
• I created a new post type (which I called 'Staff') with the CPT plugin
• I created a new entry with this new post type called 'Staff'. I gave it a title and put some text in the text field as I would in a regular post.
• Next, I used Elementor Custom Skin (free version) to create a loop template where I used the 'Post Content' widget, where the content indeed displays well (this is also true when previewing the loop).
• Then I created a page where I used 'Posts' widget to display 'Staff' posts which I wanted. I chose 'Custom' skin created in the previous step to do so. Here again, the post content is displayed in the back end, but disappears in the front end (also when only previewing the page).

I am not sure if this is what you were looking for, but I hope it is a good description of steps, which I took to create the posts where post content is not displayed when using 'Post Content' widget.

[dudaster]

Thanks that’s what I need it. I’ll try to recreate it myself. I’ll let you know what I found.

[dudaster]

I'm unable to recreate the issue for me works fine. Is the content Elementor content or regular one?

[vsolanic]

Hi. The content is a regular one. So I am pulling from the 'regular' text area.

[vsolanic]

A few screenshots of various steps:

• Custom post type creation
• Post group creation
• Post
• Loop
• Page back end
• Page front end

[dudaster]

This is wierd it should have been working. What other plugins do you have installed?

[vsolanic]

Here is a list of plugins, which I have currently installed:

Advanced Custom Fields | Version 5.8.7 by Elliot Condon Childify Me | Version 1.2.1 by Rocco Aliberti Custom Post Type UI | Version 1.7.2 by WebDevStudios Duplicate Post | Version 3.2.4 by Enrico Battocchi Ele Custom Skin | Version 1.3.10 by Dudaster.com Elementor | Version 2.8.3 by Elementor.com Elementor Pro | Version 2.8.3 by Elementor.com Envato Elements | Version 1.1.7 by Envato Instant Images | Version 4.2.0 by Darren Cooney Modern Events Calendar Lite | Version 5.0.0 by Webnus Team Post SMTP | Version 2.0.9 by Yehuda Hassine Post Type Switcher | Version 3.2.0 by John James Jacoby Smush | Version 3.4.1 by WPMU DEV Sticky Header Effects for Elementor | Version 1.3.2 by Rwattner Wordfence Security | Version 7.4.2 by Wordfence

I tried to deactivate all of them except the ones necessary for testing the ECS. So I left the following ones: Advanced Custom Fields | Version 5.8.7 by Elliot Condon Custom Post Type UI | Version 1.7.2 by WebDevStudios Ele Custom Skin | Version 1.3.10 by Dudaster.com Elementor | Version 2.8.3 by Elementor.com Elementor Pro | Version 2.8.3 by Elementor.com

But I still did not get the post content on the front-end.

[shamrick]

If I may, I would like to jump in here to ask about the same thing.

I too can't seem to get the plug-in to show the regular post content to display. Custom fields are fine, just not the regular old post content.

[dudaster]

do you have an URL?

[davidofchatham]

I'm having the same problem, intermittently with one loop and always with another loop. In these screenshots you can see both working in the editor and failing in display mode (the first loop is the quote banner; the second is the orange cards). @dudaster, I can give you a login if you would like.

https://build2.hargrave.edu/admission/facts/

[davidofchatham]

I have temporarily worked around this issue for the page above by moving the third-line content to another custom field. I still have the previous loop template to demonstrate the issue, though.

I was hoping to register this plugin for the pro features, but am now looking for alternatives.

[dudaster]

Make sure you don’t have any display conditions. If you do please remove it and let me know if it works.

[davidofchatham]

@dudaster, there are no display conditions that I am aware of. I have checked the posts widget for the page and the loop template for the card. Here's the editor view of the card:

[dudaster]

For all the people having this issue, please try and see if Full Content skin works. If not it could be an add_filter gone wrong somewhere.

You need to disable plugins one by one maybe one of them is the culprit.

If it is a plugin that you need to keep there is a way to go around this problem by using shorcode. Here is a little code that can help you (add it to functions.php):

function post__shortcode( $atts ) {
    global $post;
    return $post->post_content;
}

add_shortcode( 'post', 'post__shortcode' ); 

And you can use [post ] shortcode from a text/heading widget with dynamic value > shortcode , and will have the effect you want it.

[davidofchatham]

I apologize for blaming ECS for this. I switched to the Full Content skin, disabled everything except Elementor/Elementor Pro (via Plugin Detective), and still have the problem. I even tried switching to the 2020 theme. I guess I should have been bugging Elementor instead.