Conflict Between WP Bakery and Elementor on Careerfy Theme

Hello Themeforest Community,

I’m reaching out to share an issue I’ve encountered while working with the Careerfy theme, specifically involving a conflict between WP Bakery and Elementor page builders.

While making edits using WP Bakery, I noticed that the changes weren’t reflected on the live site. After consulting WP Bakery’s support team (who were very helpful), the root cause of the issue was identified: a conflict with Elementor.

The Problem:

When Elementor is active, it seems to interfere with WP Bakery, preventing changes from being displayed on the front end. To view or apply updates made with WP Bakery, Elementor must be deactivated temporarily.

Possible Solutions:

  1. Choose a Primary Page Builder:

    • If WP Bakery is your preferred tool, consider permanently deactivating Elementor.
    • Alternatively, migrate entirely to Elementor to avoid conflicts altogether.
  2. Deactivate Elementor While Using WP Bakery:

    • Temporarily disable Elementor when making changes with WP Bakery. Once the updates are live, you can reactivate Elementor if needed.
  3. Check Theme and Plugin Dependencies:

    • Ensure that the Careerfy theme and related plugins are optimized for the page builder you’re using. Some themes or plugins may favor one builder over the other.
  4. Use a Staging Environment:

    • Test changes in a staging site before applying them to your live environment. This can help identify conflicts without disrupting your live site.

Community Feedback:

Has anyone else experienced this issue with the Careerfy theme or found a permanent fix? If so, I’d love to hear your solutions or suggestions to improve workflow while avoiding these builder conflicts.

Thank you for your time, and I hope this post helps others facing similar challenges.

Best regards,

It’s fairly unusual to use two of the biggest page builders at the same time (for various conflict, bloat, etc. reasons) and would be better to pick one and stick with it.

As @charlie4282 stated, you’re not meant to use both at the same time.

I’m having the same issue right now, I used WP Bakery to edit a page and now elementor won’t work. I was okay with elementor not working but then I decided I wanted Elementor’s templates, so I bought the pro license, had to manually add the license, and then I couldn’t access the template library. So then I emailed back and forth with elementor and yes there is a conflict. So in the staging site deactivated all plugins except elementor and then it worked, but then my WP Bakery pages broke and reinstalling WP bakery didn’t return them to normal. So I’m trying to make a decision here at how I will proceed. I could just go back to how things were and make some ugly landing pages without templates (I’m a terrible designer), or I painstakingly switch everything over to Elementor.

Trying to use two page builders at once is inevitably going to create conflicts.

Your hosting should enable you to rollback to when it was all ok and from there you need to pick which you want to go with but bear in mind that deactivating a plugin that is responsible for compiling a page is going to create issues