Revisions and Backups


No matter how careful you are, you're going to move something, or delete something, and you'll want to revert that change. WordPress has a robust revision history, and Elementor has a history function built into the editor. These protections make sure you can quickly and easily recover from a mistake and keep building without missing a beat.

If you're building a page in Elementor and you delete an element, or move something unintentionally, or make a change you're just not happy with when you're done, you can quickly revert that change by going to the History tab in the Elementor editor.

In the history, you can see each change you've made to the page during this session.

Important note: The Actions history is only what you've worked on for this session, that is from when you opened the editor until you close it or updated it. That history is not saved between updates, or after you close the window. To revert to a previous change after you have closed the sessions or the editor, you can use the Revisions tab in Elementor (see above), or the WordPress revision history.

To access the WordPress revision history you start in your WordPress dashboard, go to Pages > All Pages, and find the page you want to revert. Instead of clicking Edit with Elementor, you just want to click Edit.

On the right you'll see Revisions, click that.

That will open an editor that lets you select which revision you want to revert to, and it will show you the changes in the code for that revision, and the date on which the revision was created. An iteration of your page that you can revert to is created every time you publish your changes in Elementor, that is when you click Update.