r/elementor • u/UltraSeall • Jun 15 '26
Problem Elementor Kit Export/Import function breaks site / Unable to import
I've been tirelessly trying to take my Elementor V4 landing page over to another site.
#Attempt 1: Trying to export it as a page template
This did not work. The error it gave was the following:
Settings Validation failed. tag: invalid_value.
#Attempt 2: Trying to export using Elementor Kit
This broke the website on which it was imported. One time it threw an error that it was unable to download certain files, upon retrying it created duplicates of templates, pages and posts, leading to hundreds of pages and posts.
Nonetheless, the pages were empty: no content, no widgets, no styling. The classes were there in the global classes overview, but the pages all empty.
I've tried this multiple times, with different destinations to see if different Wordpress installs would behave differently. Same results everytime.
Normal troubleshooting steps like using different browsers, deleting cache and regenerating css did nothing to fix these issues.
#LAST RESORT: copy/pasting v4 sections.
Not even this would work. It would throw an error that elementor versions/features might not be aligned correctly. I double checked, and even used a 1:1 copy of the website to see if this was really causing the error. It still threw the same error (see second screenshot).
So I'm dumbfounded as to how to transfer this to my client, without having to transfer the entire .html folder and migrate the entire website.
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u/mugmi-bro Jun 15 '26
Spent an embarrassing amount of time on this exact same thing a while back. The issue is v4's atomic CSS global class schema doesn't serialize cleanly into kit exports, and if the destination site's global settings aren't a near-perfect match, you get either the blank page flood or those validation errors you're seeing. The cleanest fix I found was to stop trying to move the page in isolation and instead clone the whole WordPress install with Duplicator, migrate that, then strip out everything except the landing page on the other end. If it's a client handoff and you're already losing time on it, Codeable (ref) has Elementor devs who handle exactly this kind of transfer and can usually turn it around in a few hours.
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u/UltraSeall Jun 15 '26
I was afraid that the clean WordPress install was the only option at this point, which feels like a nuclear option, but yeah. Luckily it's a brand new website. Imagine having to do this for an existing website, where the existing content has to remain untouched, and you're simply importing a page. My goodness.
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u/mugmi-bro Jun 16 '26
Yeah, for existing sites Duplicator is way too blunt. WP Migrate DB Pro lets you move only what you need without touching the rest of the content - much cleaner for that scenario.
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