Migrate Elementor to Gutenberg

Version: 2.1.0 Updated: 2026-08-04 Freshly updated: v2.1.0 adds design-token awareness: conversion writes now register the colors and typography they carry as named design tokens in the block editor's own global styles, and converted pages reference those tokens instead of carrying value copies. Reuse registered tokens instead of re-inlining raw values, and report the registration in the migration summary.

Converts Elementor-built WordPress pages to native Gutenberg blocks. Reads Elementor's JSON widget tree from post meta, maps each widget to its closest core block equivalent, generates a migration plan for approval, and writes clean block markup to the target pages. Use this skill whenever someone wants to move from Elementor to Gutenberg, eliminate page builder dependencies, go back to native WordPress blocks, or simplify their tech stack by dropping Elementor.

What This Skill Does

Moving from Elementor to Gutenberg is one of the most common — and most complex — builder migrations. Elementor stores content as a deeply nested JSON tree in _elementor_data, while Gutenberg uses HTML comments (<!-- wp:block -->) inline with content in post_content. Every layout decision Elementor makes with JSON settings must be translated into block attributes, CSS classes, or Group/Columns block structures.

This skill handles that translation systematically: it reads every Elementor widget, finds the right Gutenberg block, maps settings as closely as possible, and flags anything that needs manual attention. The result is clean, dependency-free WordPress content. Elementor and Gutenberg are both among the 16 page builders Respira reads and writes natively, so extraction and the block write run through the same builder-aware tooling Respira uses everywhere else.