Elementor 3.26 (late 2024): removed legacy Schemes API + enabled Element Caching by default — risky for shortcode-dependent themes
Claim: Elementor 3.26 (late 2024) removed the legacy Schemes API and enabled Element Caching by default. Elementor team's own warning:
"This change is considered very risky, especially for websites that use Elementor add-ons not hosted in the official plugin repository."
Source: https://sitecare.com/elementor-326-errors/
Confidence: Verified (Elementor team's own statement).
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 Pronto Marketing: Elementor FAQ Accordion + Element Caching breaks FAQPage JSON-LD ("Missing field text") for the FAQPage JSON-LD failure mode it introduced.
Referenced by (3)
- reference Elementor 3.24.1 (August 2024): widespread reports of broken sites + entire designs lost in update relates-to
- reference Pronto Marketing: Elementor FAQ Accordion + Element Caching breaks FAQPage JSON-LD ("Missing field text") depends-on
- reference Research brief: The Case Against Page Builders (piece 10 of 15) relates-to