[Support request] Recover Elements from Trash

[Joona]

It seems that Elements can be deleted (trashed), but there is no way to restore them, because the elements trash tab is not enabled. It would be nice to have the option to send Elements to trash and restore them, if needed.

[David]

Hi there,

odd, this is what i see on my installs:

Are you seeing something different?

[roadlink]

I don’t have trash too.

[Leo]

That’s weird. It should be there by default.

Perhaps there is a plugin or custom function conflict somewhere?

Worth going through some debugging steps.

[Frank]

I do not see a Trash button either.

[David]

Hi there,

i assume you have deleted some items and NOT permanently deleted them ?

[Frank]

I haven’t deleted anything. All I did was make a change in the Global Header element from type “element” to type “page.” Then the Global Header disappeared from the Element List in the Admin and from all pages using the Global Header.

[David]

Where did you change the Type from ‘element’ to ‘page’ – as this would have effectively broken the element.

[Frank]

There was a Global Header element (it is now gone). But when you edited it in the Admin area, there was a Publish section in the top right. It was set to element. But, it also had the option of setting it to Page or Post. I was trying to work it out on my own so I changed it to page and hit Update.

The Global Header element disappeared entirely.

[Frank]

I’ve just noticed that the Global Page Headers element was moved to a page called by that name. So it isn’t listed as an element anymore. And because it’s only a page, it no longer has all of the settings like Heroes, etc.

[roadlink]

just unsubscribed from new replies. You can go on 🙂

[David]

The option to change the Element Type to Post or Page must be a feature of a plugin – its not part of WP by default.
Elements are a Custom Post Type – by changing it to a page you basically have ‘broken’ the post.

If you wanted the element to be displayed on Pages then you would set that in the Elements Display Rules.

[Frank]

How do I get that element again from the GP theme I originally got it from?

[David]

It may be best to raise a new topic, so as the OP doesn’t get bombarded with notifications.
Let us know what Site you originally imported and ill see what we can do.

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