SP Page Builder Frontend Editor is Not Working With Gantry 5 Framework
Lars Kolmos
I am using the Gantry 5 framework and SP Page Builder. I can't use the frontend of SP page builder, it does not display any error but just displays the home page when I try to open the frontend editor. I tried to use the backend editor but I can't get full width row there. How can I solve these issues
Ofi Khan
Accepted AnswerHello Lars Kolmos
Apology for the inconvenience. Please share your administrator access here to check the issue. Use the Hidden Content box to share the credentials. Make sure that you have a full site backup with you before sharing.
Best regards
Lisa K
Accepted AnswerI flagged this same issue over a year ago and for this reason never updated to the SP Page Builder 4. Only version 3 allows you to stay in the same template and edit on the front end. I just discovered that version 5 has the same issue as 4 did on all Gantry sites. It opens in the home page template, which is often very, very different than the internal pages. Can someone please fix this issue? Why isn't there a way to force the front-end builder to open in the correct template?
Ofi Khan
Accepted AnswerHello Lisa K
I have checked this with SP Page Builder 5 and it is working fine. My default template is Helix Ultimate. I have assigned one page to Casseopeia template. This page is opening in Casseopeia in Frontend Editor.
Best regards
Lisa K
Accepted AnswerHello Ofi, perhaps you missed the subject line of this thread. It's about Gantry 5 and SP Page Builder. Not Casseopeia. I will note it only appears to be an issue with Joomla articles that are using SP Page Builder, and not pages created in the builder.
Pavel
Accepted AnswerHi.
Why isn't there a way to force the front-end builder to open in the correct template?
If the page is not assigned to the menu item, the system does not know anything about a specific template, so it opens in the default template.
This is the expected behavior and nothing can be fixed there.
Advice. Create a technical SP page, assign it to the technical (hidden) menu item with the desired template style. Create page layout with content there, then export/import result page layout to the article.
Lisa K
Accepted AnswerThank you Ofi and Pavel. The site already has a default template that is not the home page, and the pages in question all have menu items. So there is another issue causing this.