Feature Request. A Visual representation of My Templates

[Flipback8]

is there any reason that My Templates cannot be displayed just like the Predesigned Templates section?It would be nice to visually see the template sections that I create.

[dudaster]

Also if you can put them in categories would be awesome.

[Flipback8]

Thanks. I will look into how to use Github. First time I visit that site.

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Also if you can put them in categories would be awesome.

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[IDESIGNSTUDIO]

Oh, yes +2 for this one! Very end-customer friendly. Great UX7UI proposal

[Giffordcl]

With the addition of a hover over magnification, actually on all the libraries to get a larger view of the thumbnail without having to preview.

[pulla]

+1 My template is not user friendly. inconvenience.

[devstrong]

+1 It's a must have feature request. Curious to know its progress.

[redlagoon]

Continuing the discussion here.

This is huge. While I do understand the fact that Elementor needs to get PRO subs to keep going (I'd pay you guys $1,000 for a license, great plugin), this will, for me, be a game breaker.

It means that I cannot use Elementor for any of my themes and I DON'T WANT to go back. Elementor's great, fast, but a way to add my own Templates' data, filters, previews is necessary.

I've built my own way to insert a template to a page, but it's out of Elementor, this has to be added.

Not trying to be a fatalist, the world doesn't die, but dang, this is very useful.

[PwrSrg]

YES! YES! YES! I can't believe there aren't a LOT more +1's in this thread. I also can't believe this isn't one of the most popular feature requests. Lastly, I am kinda surprised that 2.0 even released without this. The "My Templates" feature is practically USELESS without it. We currently have to create a public draft page in every one of our websites and insert every template individually just for a visual reference. Very inefficient. =(

[redlagoon]

@KingYes

Any updates on this? Can you at least confirm you guys are not working on it as of now, so that we may work on a PR?

This is a critical feature to any developer using Elementor and legitimately this is the only feature that VC is better at. Elementor rocks, but there's absolutely no way to reliably build pages using developer provided widgets without this.

[iamntz]

Hey guys. So I did a bit of dig in this direction and here is what I found:

1. Templates already supports thumbnails. Templates are basically post types and you can set a feature image on these.
2. Templates also supports categories. There are only a bunch of categories though (Page, Section, Single and Widget) used internally.
3. The magic happens (or... rather not happening) in the view. Because is a list view, thumbs are a bit harder to display. In order to fix this we need a grid view, similar to the blocks or pages template.

That being said: I could build it and submit a PR, but considering how open is pojome towards accepting PRs (or even providing feedback on PRs), I'm very demotivated to do so. :)

However, if you'd like fiddling around, you could use a combination of wp_footer and elementor/editor/footer hooks with output buffering, search & replace and completely override the view.

Adding

    <# if (thumbnail) { #>
        <img src="{{{ thumbnail }}}" alt="">
    <# } #>

is a good start :)

https://github.com/pojome/elementor/blob/master/includes/editor-templates/templates.php#L174

[redlagoon]

@KingYes @bainternet Can you please review @iamntz 's updates and approve of it or give it green light?

I understand you can't give a "yup, we'll accept anything", but if it's actually good, would it be something you'd accept in a PR?

[iamntz]

For those that are looking for a workaround, try this:

https://gist.github.com/30d3fddd6cd26db05a44a87605edc92a

It's all condensed into one function, for brevity, but you should at least split CSS to a separate file. This code will look like this:

You can either override the existing CSS (this would be tedious i guess) or try to rename all css classes to a different thing, to avoid clashing.

[bainternet]

@redlagoon

We are working on something that makes a screen capture on template save, no ETA but its in the works.

[redlagoon]

@bainternet

Amazing, please know that this is a feature any developer that's serious about selling his theme to more people needs, I'm in touch with people who've built successful themes with Elementor and they have users complaining about this.

Here's how VC does it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OtucEWLEoDI&t=26s

So, we need a featured image, a search and if possible, a filter for categories (such as buttons, hero images, etc.).

Thanks a ton and I can't wait to see it.

[davidmabelle]

Would love to see Templates be sortable, editable and viewable the way Admin Columns Pro does it. https://www.admincolumns.com/ Hoping someone makes a plugin for this if the Elementor team is too busy.

[made-man-12]

yes, we need this feature as soon as possible

[black-eye]

+1

[redlagoon]

I've been praying since at least 5 months ago.

I believe in you guys. 🙏

(Just bumping)

[juanpasolano]

I hope elementor does this, I think they know that we need this as much as they need it for their blocks. There's a reason they added the feature for them so I think It makes total sense for us dev to have it to.

[kalnode]

+1

[franciscodias89]

+1

[PwrSrg]

Over a YEAR later and still nothing... 😑😑😑

As a result, developers are having to completely bypass Elementor all together, and create their own interfaces to make it work correctly. Sad.

https://envato.com/elements/free-elementor-templates/

[arielk]

ref: https://github.com/elementor/elementor/issues/2184

[hkmsadek]

Still nothing? How do happy adon, essential adon and other plugin does these things? You see a custom icon of their own and then you can simply install the templates easily from the custom template library