Header and footer for Elementor is a new feature that allows you to create your own template and display them with any post type, categories and tags you want.
You also have basic widgets so you don’t have to load other plugins to build a layout with sections/containers.
This feature supports shop page, single page and cart page for WooCommerce.
Feature Header - Footer is disabled if Elementor Pro is installed and active.
For optimal operation designing a header without using the plugin footer is not a good practice because the footer closes some tags that were open in the header. Pages can get corrupted. It's best way to use the plugin's header AND footer templates.
Enable Header & Footer feature and related widgets
In the admin panel select EAC components settings page and Header & Footer tab.
From there activate the feature and widget you want to use.
Create update your Headers and Footers
Create Header or Footer
Under dashboard Templates you will find two new tabs ‘Header and Footer’ under which you will find the templates you are going to create.
Select the template type and give it a name
After clicking on the ADD NEW button.
In the dialog box choose template type and give it a name then click CREATE TEMPLATE button.
Create header and footer content using related widgets
This feature comes with the necessary widgets to build your templates without other plugins.
It includes a simple menu, title of the site as well as the slogan, the current logo and page title and finaly the widgets to fill in the footer.
Tips: if you have filled in the excerpt of your posts you can add it dynamically in a text field with the dynamic tags ‘Post/Excerpt’.
You can also use other plugins/widgets.
Define display conditions
Open the page settings panel with the gear icon at the top bar and expand the ‘Display condition’ section.
In the list select the target with which the header/footer will be associated and displayed.
The list includes Woocommerce pages/single page/categories.
List of headers and footers
You will find in this screen the list of templates that you have created as well as their display conditions (Show on).
Export import Header and Footer templates
As with other Elementor template types, you can export/import your own header/footer templates to reuse them in another site.
Duplicate Header and Footer templates
The plugin provides a link (EAC clone) that allows you to duplicate a template for reuse. After clicking on the link the duplicate template opens with the status ‘Draft’. You can then change the name, save and edit it with Elementor and apply new display conditions.
Themes compatibility
There are thousands of themes available on the WordPress Repository. It is quite difficult for us to test each and every themes.
This feature partially supports blocks based theme.
Then this feature has been tested only with the free versions of the popular themes in 2023 such as Hello theme, Astra, Ocean WP, Neve, Generate Press, Sydney, Blocksy, Zakra, Storefront, Go, Customify…
Manage user roles
Explore Elementor online help for role management and the implementation made in the plugin to adjust the rights defined for certain components. Follow this link.
I also noticed that if you insert the menu widget into the container, the submenu does not go beyond it – it is cut off. You can see this error in this screenshot: https://paste.pics/371dd00e769d3b4dc839d3931848d4ba
Hello Kred,
Sorry for these problems you are having,
Could you please send me an url of a staging server that I can test.
Rgds
https://xxxxxx.xx
hello Kred,
As for the horizontal menu, this is normal operation since the top menu item as well as the submenu item have an active link (href=’something’).
Put an inactive link (‘#’) on your Custom links.
For the second issue we found the bug which will be fixed in the next version (v1.1.3).
You will have an menu option to enable/disable overflow.
Rgds
“As for the horizontal menu, this is normal operation since the top menu item as well as the submenu item have an active link (href=’something’).
Put an inactive link (‘#’) on your Custom links.”
No, it’s not normal. I checked how it works in the menu widget of the Elementor itself, as well as in the Elements Header & Footer Builder plugin – there, when you click on the submenu icon, the submenu opens, and does not follow the link.
Hello Kred,
You are right, it seems that this is not the normal operation but that is how we have designed it.
You can therefore without regrets use another plugin which will give you satisfaction.
Despite everything, thank you for the feedback which will allow us to improve.
Rgds
Hi am trying to place the menu on specific pages if i search a page it says no results found, what could be the issue
Hello Yvonne,
Sorry, but it is not yet possible to select a specific page and associate it with a template and therefore a specific menu.
Rgds