Designing My Travel Journal’s Elementor Template

Visited on: Tuesday, June 13, 2023
Departed: July 22, 2023

I’ve created an Elementor template for my journal entries where I could accomplish a number of things.

  1. Quickly record a location, showing a map and the day I visited.
  2. If I wanted, I also could record the date I left (like for a campsite), the cost of whatever was at the location, and a link to an appropriate website.
  3. I also wanted to be able to NOT have the map appear if I was journaling something that was not necessarily relevant to the journal entry
  4. I wanted to record the date I posted the entry at the bottom of the page, along with any Categories or Tags that are included in the post.
  5. I also wanted to be able to post items within a journal entry that only I can see – this is accomplished with Dynamic Content from Crocoblocks.

Elementor and Beyond

I’ve become a huge fan of Elementor for building websites, but I haven’t done too much blogging with Elementor. I’ve always used the native WordPress Classic Editor.

Of course, I’ve set up my Travel Journal so that I can use either.

Here’s a few items that I intend to be including in my Journal Entries.

Awesome Photos

Lion Lake 1 and Chiefs Head
Pinedale Public Library

Photo Galleries

Click on one photo, and it becomes full-screen with paging and other capabilities.

Embedded Videos

Video Playlists

Playlist

3 Videos

I’m pretty damn happy with how this tuned out!

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