Elementor: How to Create Global Widget

Elementor: How to Create Global Widget

Last modified: May 17, 2023

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Elementor is a very good page builder for WordPress. It has versatility, ease of use, and other features that make it one of the best options for your website to be designed to the highest of standards. Despite this, there are some challenges. One of these is making changes to an element on a page that also needs changing on other pages. Editing the widget can be tiresome if it is on several pages, but there is a way to do this. So in this Elementor: How to Create Global Widget article, we look at this question.

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What is a Global Widget?

A global widget is an element on a website page that sits on numerous pages across the website. When you change what is on one page, the changes will be pushed out to all the other pages across the website. Therefore, the amount of time it takes to make a simple change can be reduced significantly.

Another advantage is that typos are reduced. You need to just make the change once and then check that everything is correct on one page.

You can also benefit from not missing a page when you’re making updates. This is very common when making changes to one section over numerous pages and articles.

So learning how to create a Global Widget is vital for the success of a website.

How to Create Global Widget on Elementor

It is relatively easy to create a Global widget on Elementor. All you need to do is to find the widget that you want to edit on your website, and then you can right-click on the widget’s handle pencil icon. On the options that are displayed, you can select the option: ‘Save as a Global’.

From there you will be provided with the opportunity to name the new ‘Global Template’ for the widget. Once you’ve given it a name that will be easy to remember, you can click on the ‘Save’ button.

Once the widget has been saved as a Global widget, it is instantly surrounded by a yellow border, instead of the standard blue border that you will have around other widgets on the page. In addition, in the panel, all of the saved global widgets will be displayed for you to see in a two-column widget list.

Therefore, you can always find the global widget that you’re looking for on the page. It is important to note that while the widget has been made global on that page, it is not likely to be made global on other pages yet. If you’ve already created the other pages, you will need to go into them and replace the widget with the new global widget that you’ve created.

Remember to always save the page before exiting the page. And you don’t have to have the widget in the same location on every page. You can move the widget around, to the required position for that page.

Final Word: Elementor: How to Create Global Widget

Are you looking for a way that you can create a section on a website that appears on many different pages? Then you should consider creating a global widget. In the above ‘Elementor: How to Create Global Widget’ article, we discussed how you can create a Global widget and how it can be applied to different pages across your website.

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