It happens all the time! You find an amazing WordPress template that will be the future of your online business and once it’s LIVE and ACTIVATED, you see nothing but short codes and you cannot edit anything like you are supposed to.
Below is a screen shot of how my most recent build was rendering the page builder code. Look familiar?
I have your answer. I’ve run into this issue more than once and it’s been maddening every time until I finally found this simple fix.
This issue typically happens with various page builder plugins web designer use to expand the functionality of their WordPress template design.
In the world of constant updates and new code, plugin conflicts are a daily occurrence, this is a simple plugin conflict where your page builder plugins are missing some backward compatibility with the WP editor.
Classic Editor Plugin • Download Classic Editor Here
This is a SAVIOR!
And look now! Your ability to use the template page builder is back!
I hope this helps you out as much as it did me. Again, Classic Editor Plugin saved my client’s new WordPress template and I haven’t ran into any more page builder plugin errors or conflicts.