themer override checkbox for post settings

[janhamer]

when you use bb themer + beaver bilder AND want to use beaver bilder for posts:

add a checkbox in the post settings to use singular themer layout OR not.
the current approach is not intuitive, absolutely misleading, and far too complicated!

[Dannyholt]

When you create your singular layout and assign it to a location, you select which posts it applies to, whether all posts or specific ones. Because of that, I am unsure what seems misleading or complicated.

Therefore, can you provide more detail? I am not sure what the issue is, and any additional information will be appreciated.

[janhamer]

The background is a communication with support. Ben recommended that I open a ticket here. Perhaps you can discuss this internally. We are now going to use a different post editor because it doesn't work properly with BB. This isn't a great solution, and I don't understand why BB is not working better for posts.

[Dannyholt]

Thanks for that info. I’ve found and reviewed your ticket, and unless I’m mistaken, it looks like you’ve been creating new posts and launching Beaver Builder.

If that’s correct, and you already have a Beaver Themer singular layout created and assigned to All Posts, you should see the following when you launch Beaver Builder on a newly created post.

This message indicates that a Beaver Themer layout is assigned to the post, and that launching Beaver Builder will replace the entire Beaver Themer layout, or you can choose to override only the post content.

If you’re not referring to newly created posts, but to existing posts that are currently using the Beaver Builder editor, you’ll need to switch back to the WordPress editor for the Beaver Themer layout to be used.

I’m not sure how adding a checkbox would provide any benefit, but we can leave this open for others to comment on and for our developers to review.

[janhamer]

you should see the following when you launch Beaver Builder on a newly created post.

Yes, but the message does not explain that there is no ‘undo’ afterwards, except with some hacks. A checkbox would make it possible to easily adjust the function later on.

[Dannyholt]

You can visit the relevant page or post and switch back to the WordPress editor, which will revert the content to use the native editor once again. We’ve made this process as straightforward as possible—no hacks required.

I don’t see how adding a checkbox would make it any simpler. Because if we added a checkbox all it would be doing is switching back to the WordPress native editor which you can already do on the page or post edit screen.

[janhamer]

hi, as I have already written, in my opinion this is not a good, intuitive, or manageable solution. as a result, we are no longer using BB for some of our websites.