I’ve been struggling with the buggy Page Builder. I was nearly done with the home page after a lot of problems and now it is a mess. I need help understanding if I can wrap a new row around what was an inner row containing 3 columns. How can I save the work I have done with these columns without deleted and starting over again.

Today I wanted to add a row near the bottom of the work I have finished. I wanted it to contain 2 things: a special header in an inner row and below that another inner row with 3 columns, one column with text on the left and the other two columns with lists. I struggled for hours trying to get this to work. I could never get the special header into a inner box inside the row properly, the header would only be as wide as one of the columns. I gave up and put that aside for a while and went on to get the content put into the 3 columns.

It seems like I am always chasing down handles trying to get them to show me the various things I want to do. It’s like chasing a greased pig to get an inner row into a row. Saving is near to impossible, publishing first and then trying to get to SAVE takes forever. And I don’t get a “saved” message so I can never be sure if my work is being saved. Sometimes the row save box comes up, after I have published the page, and even if I click SAVE it just sits there as though it didn’t do anything.

Finally I thought I could use an already made element on the page that had a special header in the inner row inside the row so I made a clone of the entire box. It also contains a row with 2 columns. I though I could just delete the stuff inside the columns, make it three columns and put in my own information.The header only needed the text to be different. That was a mess also so I just deleted the clone and started fresh with a new row. I wasn’t able to get the special header inner row into the box and struggled getting a 3 row column.

I managed to get the 3 columns in an inner box and made the first text box. I was going to select “list” in the next column. But when I did this the page flashed and jumped. The “list” was missing and I couldn’t figure out where it was. I finally found it at the top of the page, just under the slider but above my first 3 columns. It had copied the first finished list of the three lists that are in a group of columns at the top of the page (so a duplicate) and put it above the 3 column lists, floating alone. So it was like a screwed up row, just below my slider.

I deleted it and then all the other three columns at the top of the page disappeared that I had spent days making. Luckily I didn’t save this but backed out. Where is the WordPress revisions history for the page??? If that was available I could just go back to the beginning of today.

I went back in and explored this “rogue list container” that flew up the page. It appears that in trying to enter a new list template into one of the columns below, it just made a copy of a single finished list at the top of the page and then grabbed the “row” container that had surrounded the 3 columns. Thus isolating the remaining 3 columns without a surrounding row. So there are two of the same list items, one floating above the other one, almost as if I had cloned it.

Is there some way to recapture this row around these three columns? They are now floating free without a row around them as far as I can tell. I think if I can capture them into a row I can delete the single item that “stole” the row.