My complicated site has been built with an early beta of Elements and has accumulated a morass of problems, ranging from a bug with the wrong default character encoding (endless problems!) to slow publishing/rendering times and even memory leaks/system freezes while doing so. It’s driving me mad and…

Hi @Adam Sorry to hear about these issues. A site started in the early Elements beta still shouldn’t accumulate bugs like this. I’m happy to help you fix the current project rather than starting over if you’d like to try that first. We’ve been working on speeding up publishing and rendering, and h…

Hello Tom @tpbradley Thanks; will do. Maybe this new site assistant can set some things straight. It’ll be a darn good test for it, doubtless! Currently my site only manages to function courtesy of a whole array of edge rules to rehabilitate encodings to UTF-8 (even though that’s been the Page Sett…

Hi @Adam There’s no 1GB allowance on Help → Upload to Support. That 1GB limit is for cloud documents on your own account. If you’re happy to upload the large file, that’s fine. I’ve added a right-click → Reveal Resource on dropwells, which shows the resource in the Project Resources. This will be …

Hi @Adam More good news. I’ve added copy and paste that retains formatting, and it can convert from HTML as well while retaining links and some formatting like bold etc. This will be in the next Elements 3 beta :tada:. Cheers

WOW :star_struck: that’s bloody brilliant, @tpbradley . (As is the other fix too.) Many many thanks, Tom!!

Hi @Adam Thanks for uploading the project, I’ve taken a look. The folder and filename settings were in a bit of a muddle: some pages that need PHP were set to HTML (gallery and form pages), some were stored under one folder but pointing somewhere else, and there were inconsistent slashes. The 404 …

[image] tpbradley: We’re aiming to get a first preview of the Elements AI Assistant out next week. I’m planning to pay for Claude Pro. Should I wait or is your AI something completely different not using Claude? @tpbradley

You’ll be able to use Claude Pro account via the Elements MCP, or add your own Anthropic/Claude API Key into Elements. We’re keeping things open and flexible!

@dan in elements or only elements CMS ?

This will be available in Elements, hopefully next week :crossed_fingers: Oh, and it already works in the Pro CMS :slight_smile:

Trying to copy/paste from old page to new loses formatting, hyperlinks & resource names

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tpbradley (Tom Bradley) September 2, 2026, 5:45pm 12

Hi @Adam

The new Elements 3.0.10 beta is ready if you’d like to try it:

Copy and paste that retains formatting and links, and Reveal Resource, are in this one .

Cheers