Folders for GeneratePress Elements

GP Premium Elements run a big part of a site: hooks, layout rules, page heroes, site headers, footers and loop templates. The Elements list keeps them all in one table.

Plathix PRO adds private folders to Appearance → Elements. Group elements by site area, campaign or client and open just the folder you need. Elements and their display rules stay as they are.

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Part of PROHooks, layouts, block elementsDisplay rules unchanged

One long list

Every element in one table

The Elements list mixes everything: a hook for the top bar, a layout rule for archives, three page heroes, last year’s sale notice and two drafts nobody remembers.

The type filter helps. It does not tell you which elements belong to which part of the site, which campaign or which client.

In people’s words

Three pages of elements in one mixed list

Nobody minds one element. The trouble starts when a site has dozens of them, of every type, in one table.

Hooks, headers and layouts sit in one mixed list, so you set the same filter every time you open the screen.

Over forty elements on one site: page heroes, calls to action, layouts and many custom hooks. The list keeps growing.

One header element for each page, more than a hundred of them, plus as many hooks that may not be needed any more.

Three pages of elements on one build. Whoever looks after that site has a lot to keep track of.

Folders sort the Elements list by site area, campaign or client. Every display rule stays as it is.

Folders that match how your site is built

By site area

Header, footer, sidebars, heroes, archive templates: one folder for each part of the page.

Campaign hooks

Seasonal notices and banners live in a campaign folder, so you find them again when the next sale starts.

Hooks with code

Keep Hook Elements that run PHP or shortcodes in one folder, so you know where to look when something on the page changes.

Retired elements

Old elements you may need again get their own folder. Set them to Draft too: a folder alone does not switch them off.

What you get

One folder panel on Appearance → Elements

A folder tree next to the list

The panel sits beside the Elements list. Click a folder and the list shows only its elements.

One tree for all element types

Hooks, layouts, headers and block elements share one list, so they share one folder tree.

Drafts are counted

Folder counts include drafts, scheduled and private elements, not only published ones.

A link for each folder

The address changes when you open a folder, so you can bookmark it or send it to a teammate.

Virtual folders

GeneratePress never sees your folders

What you do	What changes	What stays as it is
Put an element in a folder	Its Plathix folder	The element, its type and its settings
Rename or move a folder	The folder tree in wp-admin	Its Location, Exclude and Users rules
Open the site	Nothing	Each element shows where its rules say
Trash an element, then restore it	Its Trash state	Its folder: it comes back to the same place
Turn Plathix PRO off	The list looks like plain WordPress	Your folders wait in the database and come back

Folders have no URLs and never appear on the site.

Evidence

How we test GeneratePress Elements

We run each check on a live site with Plathix PRO, the GeneratePress theme and the current GP Premium version, on the real Elements screen.

Status Planned

Results go to Plathix Lab. Each row turns into a link once it has run.

Check	What we verify	Status
Enable Elements	Tick Elements (gp_elements) in Enabled Sections; the panel appears on Appearance → Elements.	Planned
GeneratePress tabs	The panel sits correctly under the GeneratePress dashboard tabs on the Elements screen.	Planned
Type filter	Folder view together with the All types filter and the status tabs.	Planned
Display rules unchanged	Move a Site Header element between folders: the site shows the same header.	Planned
Trash and restore	A trashed element comes back to its folder.	Planned