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Help? Quick recommendation about how to switch page builders painlessly
3 replies · Started by Michael on November 27, 2018
Hi guys
Love the theme and everything about it (as usual)!
My inexperienced self jumped into using Siteorigin page builder with both feet and realized I don't like it after building several pages/ posts.
I want to use beaverbuilder, but as you know, siteorigin (in their sly ways) has all kinds of widget markup sprinkled about, and as soon as I deactivate, everything turns into a jumble.
Luckily I don't have that many pages/posts to fix because the site is still young.
WPengine offers a staging area, but bluehost doesn't seem to have any offline way to work under the hood without having the whole mess visible.
Two questions:
1. I want to use a better page builder. The WP blog editor and others are terrible. WYSINWYG (NOT what you get). I would like to compose in MS word, another buider, or something better than the stock tools. Don't like elementor. Beaver builder seems great. Any others you'd recommend?
2. Any way to work on this transition as painlessly and invisibly as possible? As soon as I deactivate siteorigin, things get hairy.
Thanks for helping- I know this isn't necessarily Generatepress-related, but I respect your opinion and was wondering if there might be one system that works better with your theme than others.
Cheers
Michael
Hi there,
1. Beaver Builder comes highly recommended by our community. Aside of that, i can't really recommend an alternative.
2. Unfortunately not, site origin uses its own shortcodes / markup which gets left over when its disabled. I did find this article on that matter, not sure if it is still relevant:
https://siteorigin.com/thread/deactivating-and-activating-website-builders/
Thanks for the quick reply David! Much appreciated.
After toying around, I realized that I don't have to disable the siteorigin editor to edit with beaver builder. I just duplicated the page, then revert to the WP editor. This makes the page editable with BB. (before, the widgets weren't able to be edited.)
So I'll just duplicate each page, then when they are all cleaned up with BB, I'll disable SO, and delete the old pages.
Any SEO or indexing pitfalls in using this process?
Cheers
Michael
Awesome, glad you found a reasonable solution.
There shouldn't be any issues if the permalinks remain intact.
