Elementor – Bimber Theme Documentation

Elementor is a drag-and-drop page builder plugin for WordPress.

Installation & Updates

The Elementor plugin is available for free on wordpress.org. You can:

download it from wordpress.org
install via WP Dashboard › Plugins › Add new panel
install via WP Dashboard › Appearance > Install Plugins panel, it’s a part of the theme integration

As any other plugin from wordpress.org, if a new version of the plugin is available, you will be notified about it directly in your WP Dashboard.

Theme Integration

The theme integration bases on the free Elementor version. You don’t need to buy the Elementor Pro version.

The integration covers:

custom styling applied to Elementor built-in blocks
theme custom blocks
enabling the use of an Elementor page on the homepage, before the main posts feed

Theme Responsibility

The theme is not responsible for plugin-related issues. Read more

Theme Custom Blocks

Bimber adds to the Elementor two powerful blocks:

Bimber Collection – a collection of posts
Bimber Categories – a post categories
Bimber Newsletter Form – a newsletter form, a part of Mailchimp for WordPress plugin integration

To add a theme custom block, open a page to edit with Elementor, open Elements panel, and scroll down to the Bimber section where you can find all available blocks.

Display Elementor Page Before Posts Feed on Homepage

Normally you have to choose if your homepage will be a Static page (most frequently built using a builder) or Lastest Posts page. The theme allows you to display an Elementor created page into your homepage, right above the main posts feed.

To display Elementor powered page on your homepage, please follow these steps:

Create a new page. Let’s call it Home – Elementor
Go to the WP Dashboard › Appearance › Customize panel
Switch to the Homepage Settings panel and check if the Your homepage displays is set to Your Latest posts. This step is crucial is you want to use both an Elementor page content and posts feed together

Go back and now switch to the Home panel
Choose the Elementor Page Builder Content section

Choose the Home – Elementor page for the Inject content from page field

Click the Edit page link below to start editing your custom homepage elements on the backend side
Click the Edit using front-end builder link below to start editing your custom homepage elements using the live frontend editor
Save a page. You don’t need to publish it
The Home – Elementor page should now be displayed above the main posts feed on the homepage.

Links to Resources

Here some useful links that should help you get started with the Elementor: