Can't import templates after update (Error - "Invalid template type")

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Can't import templates after update (Error - "Invalid template type")

MichaelDarko opened this issue 6 years ago · comments

MichaelDarko commented 6 years ago

Prerequisites

I have searched for similar issues in both open and closed tickets and cannot find a duplicate.
The issue still exists against the latest stable version of Elementor.

Description

I have a problem with importing Elementor templates after the last update.

If i try to import templates i get this error: "Invalid template type "footer".."

It only happens when importing templates that have a template type assinged to them - like header, footer etc.

Importing other templates (page or section) works normal.

Two days ago everything worked fine. It started happening after the latest update, but i'm not sure if it's related to the Elementor or Elementor PRO plugin.

Steps to reproduce

Update to the latest version of Elementor and Elementor PRO.
Ty to import header, footer or single template type (Section or page templates work fine.)
You get an error "Invalid template type"

Isolating the problem

This bug happens with only Elementor plugin active (and Elementor Pro).
This bug happens with a default WordPress theme active.
I can reproduce this bug consistently using the steps above.

Environment

== Server Environment ==
Operating System: Linux
Software: Apache
MySQL version: Source distribution v5.6.38-83.0
PHP Version: 7.1.5
PHP Max Input Vars: 10000
PHP Max Post Size: 32M
GD Installed: Yes
ZIP Installed: Yes
Write Permissions: All right
Elementor Library: Connected

== WordPress Environment ==
Version: 5.0.1
WP Multisite: No
Max Upload Size: 32 MB
Memory limit: 128M
Permalink Structure: /%postname%/
Language: cs-CZ
Timezone: Europe/Prague
Debug Mode: Inactive

== Theme ==
Name: GeneratePress
Version: 2.2.1
Author: Tom Usborne
Child Theme: No

== User ==
Role: administrator
WP Profile lang: cs_CZ
User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/70.0.3538.110 Safari/537.36

== Active Plugins ==
Classic Editor
Version: 1.3
Author: WordPress Contributors

Elementor
	Version: 2.3.6
	Author: Elementor.com

Elementor Pro
	Version: 2.3.0
	Author: Elementor.com

GP Premium
	Version: 1.7.7
	Author: Tom Usborne

== Debug ==
Errors: There are no errors to display

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MichaelDarko · Answer 1 · Wed Dec 19 2018 05:05:28 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Also just noticed that after the update it is not possible to save a global widget. Other people on Facebook are reporting the same problems.

WAN Didgital Media · Answer 2 · Wed Dec 19 2018 14:24:40 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Here is the same with the latest version

Erik Magnethi · Answer 3 · Thu Dec 20 2018 02:37:12 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Same here, can't uploade templates (Footer & Header) gets: "elementor Invalid template type", after update to Elementor 2.3.6 an Pro 2.3.1

Akhbar Ibnu Shalih · Answer 4 · Thu Dec 20 2018 14:52:33 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

I have the same problem.

Sean Burdick · Answer 5 · Sat May 11 2019 05:50:42 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Was this ever resolved? I'm unable to import an archive template. I get Invalid template type "archive".. when uploading the json file.

akaobelo · Answer 6 · Tue Jun 15 2021 08:35:35 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Hi! I have this issue with the newspaper theme. I'm trying to import footer from cloud templating and this is popping on my console. Wordpress beginner, Thank you!