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My website ([www.roadhousemag.com](https://www.roadhousemag.com)) used a theme I purchased from Themeforest which has zero support, and hasn’t been updated in years which I didn’t know upon purchasing. Because of this, editing the page is quite cumbersome and the page builder the theme comes with is hard to work with and I get error messages every day.
Would it be worth purchasing Elementor Pro and rebuilding my website through Elementor but keeping a similar layout?
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It’s a lot of work but the short answer is yes. I do it for clients all the time and have for years.
It can be messy since most of those ThemeForest sites were built with shortcode-formatted builders like WPBakery, Avada, etc. so when you open a page in Elementor you’ll get a single text module full of all kinds of shortcode “hair.”
I thing you’ve got two choices.
* clean out all the shortcode chaff on each page to preserve the actual content and then use Elementor to recreate the structure and copy the content from the cleaned up text blob
* open the page on a different browser (showing the complete, old content) and recreate the page on your working browser, copying and pasting content into your new modules.
Like I say, it’s a pain but after you’ve done a couple of pages you’ll get the hang of it. I’ve got practice, obviously, but I’ve converted a ~90 site in a weekend.
One trick: a lot of pages that are technically built with a page builder are really just a text block and a couple of images with shortcode wrappers at the top and bottom. (This is how I could convert that 99 page site so quickly — most of the pages were laid out very simply.)