Newbie Question on Elements

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Hi there,

I’m very interested in buying and getting used to Elements, but before I do…

I have a production site built in Classic, which is on the same Mac I’d like to install Elements on. If I do so, is there any chance the Classic app will be “damaged” or otherwise influenced by Elements? Also, assuming this is not the case, can I “migrate” the Classic site into Elements or build a new one in Elements based on Classic?

Any and all recommendations and/or calming confirmations are welcome. :wink:

Cheers!

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They will not interfere with each other they can coexist. I have both installed on my machine and have not had any issues.

I have ported three sites from Classic/Stacks to Elements and it went very smoothly. I recreated and enhanced the sites, so I primarily copied the content over from the old sites.

Elements and some of its features made the process very smooth and effortless. The time consuming part was dealing with all of the assets from the old sites.

I have one more site to port and then I will happily put Classic/Stacks out to pasture as there are much greener pastures in Elements.

I should add that these were not trivial sites all three had e-commerce solutions and a lot of content. All of the sites look so much more professional now, which is encouraging.

The only missing piece for one of the sites was a blog solution, but that is coming to Elements in the near future. One remaining issue is some sort of cookie banner solution.

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Many thanks, Robin. Particularly the first paragraph is what I was looking for. Appreciate your time!

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Thanks @handshaper for the quick reply here! :slight_smile:

Just wanted to jump in a confirm what Robin has already said.

You can run both Classic and Elements alongside each other without any issues — they won’t interfere with each other in any way.

There is no automatic migration tool, however, and as Robin said, we think you’ll find moving your site(s) over to Elements a joyful experience!

If you have any questions along the way, just ask and we’ll be happy to help :slight_smile:

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Thanks, Ben. I’ve purchased and installed Elemnts in the meantime and will start “fiddling” asap. Since my Classic site relies heavily on Stacks, it’ll likely be a challenge to get it to “match” in Elements, but I have a feeling there will be various improvements along the way. Looking forward to the journey.

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That’s great, thank you for the support :smiley:

As I said, if you can’t work out how to recreate something from Stacks, just let us know — often there’s an easier way to do it in Elements, or we can whip up a custom component to do exactly the same thing :slight_smile:

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