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Troubleshooting Common Essential Addons Post Grid Issues

67 threads Sep 9, 2025 Plugin → Essential addons for elementor

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The Essential Addons for Elementor Post Grid widget is a powerful tool for displaying your content. However, like any complex feature, users can sometimes encounter problems. Based on community reports and solutions, this guide covers the most frequent Post Grid issues and how to resolve them.

1. Layout and Display Problems (Overlapping Posts, Blurry Images, Column Issues)

Many visual glitches, such as posts overlapping, images appearing blurry, or columns not displaying correctly, are often related to cached asset files.

Why it happens: After updating the Essential Addons plugin or your theme, the old cached CSS/JS files can conflict with the new ones, leading to broken layouts.

How to fix it:

  1. Regenerate Assets: Go to your WordPress dashboard, navigate to Essential Addons → Tools, and click the 'Regenerate Assets' button.
  2. Regenerate Elementor Files: Go to Elementor → Tools → General and click 'Regenerate Files & Data'.
  3. Clear All Caches: Clear any server-level, plugin-based (e.g., WP Rocket, W3 Total Cache), or browser caches.
  4. Check Image Resolution: In the Post Grid widget's Layout Settings, ensure the 'Image Size' option is set to a sufficiently large resolution (e.g., 'Full', 'Large') to prevent pixelation.

2. Load More / Pagination Not Working or Repeating Posts

A common issue is the 'Load More' button not functioning, causing posts to repeat or not load at all.

Why it happens: This can be caused by a conflict with certain query parameters (like using 'Random' order) or, again, caching issues.

How to fix it:

  1. Follow the caching and asset regeneration steps outlined above.
  2. Avoid using the 'Random' (RAND) order option if you need to use the 'Load More' feature, as this combination has been known to cause problems.
  3. Note that the native Post Grid widget does not support traditional page-number pagination; it only offers a 'Load More' button.

3. Specific Features Not Showing (Author, Avatar, Tags)

Sometimes, specific features like the author avatar or tags may not display, even when enabled in the settings.

Why it happens: This could be a temporary bug in a specific widget style or a conflict with your theme or other plugins.

How to fix it:

  1. Plugin/Theme Conflict Test: Deactivate all other plugins except for Elementor and Essential Addons. Switch to a default WordPress theme (like Twenty Twenty-One). If the feature works, reactivate your plugins and theme one by one to identify the culprit.
  2. Check for Updates: The Essential Addons for Elementor team frequently releases updates to fix bugs. Ensure you are using the latest version of the plugin.

4. Excerpt and Title Problems

Issues can include excerpts pulling text from the middle of a post, extra characters appearing, or HTML title tags not being applied correctly.

Why it happens: Excerpt issues are often related to how your theme handles post excerpts. Title tag issues are typically due to a bug in the plugin code.

How to fix it:

  1. Excerpt Length: You can manually control the excerpt length in the Post Grid widget's Layout Settings under 'Excerpt Words'.
  2. Theme Function: If excerpts are not pulling the correct text, the problem may originate from your theme. Testing with a default theme (see above) can confirm this.
  3. Plugin Updates: Bugs related to title HTML tags have been fixed in previous updates. Always ensure your plugin is up to date.

5. Mobile-Specific Issues (Hover Effects, Tap Targets)

On mobile devices, hover effects can require two taps (one to show the hover card, another to follow the link), which creates a poor user experience.

Why it happens: This is the default behavior for hover effects on touch devices, not necessarily a bug.

How to fix it: Currently, modifying this mobile-specific behavior requires custom CSS to disable hover effects on mobile screens. This is a known UX limitation of the widget's design.

General Troubleshooting Steps

If you encounter an issue not listed here, always start with these steps:

  1. Update Everything: Update WordPress, Elementor, Essential Addons, and your theme to their latest versions.
  2. Regenerate Assets & Clear Cache: This is the most common fix for a wide range of issues.
  3. Conflict Test: Isolate the problem by disabling other plugins and switching themes.

By methodically working through these steps, you can resolve most common problems with the Post Grid widget and get your site displaying perfectly.

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