Convert articles made with Guthenberg to Elementor

[DotCat1985]

Hi,
I activated Elementor plugin on my WordPress website containing hundreds of articles made with Guthenberg.
How can I automatically convert those articles from Guthenberg to Elementor?
I wouldn't like to waste much time to convert them manually.

[WebsiteDons]

There is no simple single method to bulk convert posts/pages within elementor's tool box. However there may be a third-party plugin in existence since it's likely other people have the same desire.

The conversion process is quite complex since there are multiple rows created in each post's postmeta database table. The basic rows to make a page editable with elementor are

meta_key _elementor_edit_mode
meta_value builder

meta_key _elementor_template_type
meta_value wp-page

meta_key _elementor_version
meta_value 3.5.6 //set to current version installed

You could then create a process to loop through each post and update the postmeta table with those rows. To get an idea of the basic rows created, manually set a single post to edit with elementor then view that post's postmeta columns for _elementor values to see what was inserted.