{"id":398,"slug":"elementor-3-26-schemes-api-removal","title":"Elementor 3.26 (late 2024): removed legacy Schemes API + enabled Element Caching by default — risky for shortcode-dependent themes","kind":"reference","scope":"business","status":"current","audiences":["claude-code","candid-team"],"topics":["wordpress","page-builders"],"reference_body":"**Claim:** Elementor 3.26 (late 2024) removed the legacy Schemes API and enabled Element Caching by default. Elementor team's own warning:\n\n> *\"This change is considered very risky, especially for websites that use Elementor add-ons not hosted in the official plugin repository.\"*\n\n**Source:** <https://sitecare.com/elementor-326-errors/>\n\n**Confidence:** Verified (Elementor team's own statement).\n\n**The \"very risky\" admission from the vendor itself.** When a platform vendor characterizes its own release as \"very risky\" for sites running third-party add-ons, every Elementor maintenance contract is exposed to that risk. Schema markup bugs cascaded from this release — see [[elementor-faq-schema-element-caching-bug]] for the FAQPage JSON-LD failure mode it introduced.","rationale_body":null,"metadata":null,"links":{"outgoing":[],"incoming":[{"slug":"elementor-3-24-1-breakage-aug-2024","title":"Elementor 3.24.1 (August 2024): widespread reports of broken sites + entire designs lost in update","kind":"reference","scope":"business","link_type":"relates-to"},{"slug":"elementor-faq-schema-element-caching-bug","title":"Pronto Marketing: Elementor FAQ Accordion + Element Caching breaks FAQPage JSON-LD (\"Missing field text\")","kind":"reference","scope":"business","link_type":"depends-on"},{"slug":"research-brief-case-against-page-builders","title":"Research brief: The Case Against Page Builders (piece 10 of 15)","kind":"reference","scope":"business","link_type":"relates-to"}]},"created_at":"2026-05-22T20:21:39.873Z","updated_at":"2026-05-22T20:21:39.873Z"}