Visual Composer: Page Builder for WordPress

Visual Composer: Page Builder for WordPress

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Plugin Popularity 5.0
Author Activity 4.7
  • 🎖 Not a chartbuster, but still good. This plugin ranks amongst the Top 1000 plugins.
  • 🎂 This plugin celebrated it's 12th anniversary 4 months ago.

Description

Visual Composer – current version 5.0 available for download!

Visual Composer WordPress Page Builder Plugin with Frontend and Backend Editor

Have you ever noticed how much time you waste while manually coding layouts? No more trial and error with shortcodes or CSS! Now you have everything it takes to design anything and for any page. Yes, Visual Composer works with any WordPress theme!

Say hello to the most popular WordPress page builder plugin! Visual Composer is easy to use drag and drop page builder that will help you to create any layout you can imagine fast and easy. No coding skills required!

Access Frontend editor (Inline editor) or Backend editor at any time. Yes, Visual Composer comes bundled with 2 types of editors allowing you to choose your preferred view. Create your WordPress website with backend schematic editor or move your page building process to frontend and see your results live.

Not only that, Visual Composer gives you full control over responsiveness. Create responsive websites automatically or adjust preferences you need to ensure your WordPress website looks perfect on mobile or tablet. Visual Composer has everything it takes to create a responsive website. Save your money on purchasing different devices with Visual Composer Responsive Preview available out of the box.

It is really easy to start building your WordPress website with Visual Composer – there are just a few clicks to make:
  • Add rows and columns to your page;
  • Choose from over 45+ predefined content elements or start from proffessionally designed template;
  • Drag elements around your page;
  • Simply adjust element settings via intuitive controls and options.
  • Publish your page.

And that’s not all! With page builder, you don’t have to be a developer to create a page. With Visual Composer you don’t have to be designer either.

  • Extensions: 200+ unique addons with hundreds of content elements available exclusively to Visual Composer;
  • Template Library: Downloadable layout templates with pro templates updated regularly. Build your layouts literally in seconds;

Your web developer (if you have any) will love Visual Composer as well. We offer a comprehensive knowledge base describing our developer API so you can extend Visual Composer. For those who don’t wish to code, Visual Composer offers Shortcode Mapper allowing you to add 3rd party shortcodes to your Visual Composer content elements. With Visual Composer you can work on new or existing websites as it will recognize your existing content and adapt to any WordPress website. Forget about page builders tailored for a specific theme to get you locked up – Visual Composer works with any WordPress theme.

Visual Composer is the #1 Best Selling drag and drop frontend and backend page builder plugin on the market – already powering 1,500,000+ websites. Join now and start creating beautiful WordPress websites in no time with minimum effort, and – of course – no coding and [shortcodes].

Try Visual Composer in real action, before you buy it.

Visual Composer Features

Intuitive Drag and Drop Interface
Lightweight, easy to use interface that you and your clients will love. Creating pages and posts is easier than ever. No programming knowledge required!
    
Easily Extendable
Third party developers, please join the party! Create your own plugins for Visual Composer for your themes, or for sale here on CodeCanyon.
 
Frontend Editor
Enjoy a “What You See Is What You Get” page building experience with our amazing frontend editor. See how your content will look on the frontend, instantly, with no additional clicks or switches.
Backend Editor
Prefer to work on backend? No problem! Visual Composer still supports native content management on the backend, with all the important functions and options at your fingertips.
 
Object Oriented Code
Visual Composer uses the most advanced and most effective programming patterns, to get the best results for your site.
Multilingual Ready
.po and .mo files included, for easy translation (BG, DE, ES, IR, FR, IT, JP, NL, PL, BR, RU, TW contributed by users).
 
Template System and Library
Copy or re-use existing pages, save pages or parts of pages as templates. Set default templates for your post types. Access Template Library for free downloadable layout templates crafted by web design professionals and updated regularly.
Responsive Design
Your content will look great on both desktop and mobile sites. Take full control over responsive design – define column size, offsets and display options. Instantly check out how your content is displayed.
 
User Role Manager
Control user group role access to the features and options of Visual Composer – manage WordPress default and custom roles.
Custom Post Types Support
Works with any post type… Yes, even custom post types!
 
Lifetime Update – Free of Charge
We offer automatic updates, free of charge. Stay up to date with Visual Composer and receive our latest releases and enhancements.
Professional Dedicated Support
Our high quality, dedicated support team is always on hand to help you out.
 
Shortcode Mapper
No more shortcode copy/paste. Add any third party shortcode to the list of VC menu elements for re-use. Edit params, values and descriptions.
Design Options
Control how elements look with new Design Options. Set borders, margins, paddings, border radius and background with a few simple clicks. Use color panel and alpha to enhance your design. Create up to date design solutions with ease.
 
Multi-language Support
Visual Composer is compatible with qTranslate X, Polylang and powerful WPML. Build multi-language websites with Visual Composer.
SEO Friendly
Visual Composer is fully compatible with most popular SEO plugins by Yoast. Make sure your page is getting the attention it deserves!
 
Woo Commerce Support
Running a Woo Commerce powered e-shop? No problem. Visual Composer is fully compatible with Woo Commerce. Even better – all of the Woo Commerce shortcodes are now available in the Visual Composer Element Menu, once you have both plugins installed.
Advanced Grid Builder
Visual Composer has 40+ predefined grid templates for displaying posts, pages, custom post types and media, in grid or masonry grid. Don’t like predefined templates? Create your own grid element using Grid Builder.
 
Full Width and Height Rows
Create full width and height rows with smart stretching options. Control stretching params – stretch just the background, or background with content. Control element placement – in the middle or on top. Build sections in seconds.
Parallax Background for Rows
Add parallax style background to Visual Composer rows. Combine Design Options and parallax background to create even more advanced layouts.
 
Video Background
Insert YouTube videos into row backgrounds to create dynamic and visually appealing effects. Combine YouTube video background with Visual Composer parallax effect.
Image Filters
Transform your images by applying unique professional image filters to any image from your Media Library. Align your image style in every Visual Composer image-powered element – and even featured images – by choosing filters from 20+ available presets.
 
Element Presets
A simple Visual Composer template tool for content elements, to streamline content management. Save content element presets directly from the element param window, and set default states for even faster access to your styles.
Column Height, Gaps and Position
Control height of your columns by applying equal height option. Set gaps between columns or merge them together with one click. Control position of columns and content within columns with vertical alignment.
 
Advanced Custom Fields Support
Visual Composer is fully compatible with Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) plugin allowing you to combine power of both plugins to manage and display custom fields on your WordPress website.
Icon Sets and Social Icons
Add icons from most popular icons libraries like ‘Font Awesome’ with one click only. Add social icons to your WordPress website with icon libraries and specify links.
 
Hide Content
Hide parts of content from your website visitors with one click Disable Row option. Manage your campaign of hide work in progress easy.
Easily Extendable
Third party developers, please join the party! Create your own plugins for Visual Composer for your themes, or for sale here on CodeCanyon.

45+ Built In Content Blocks

Text Block            Row            Separator            Text Separator
 
Message Box Facebook Like Google+ Pinterest
 
Tweetmeme FAQ Single Image Image Gallery
 
Tabs Tour Section Accordion Icon Element
 
Posts Slider Widgetised Sidebar Button Call to Action
 
Video Player Google Maps Raw JS Raw HTML
 
Flickr Widget Progress Bar Pie Chart Empty Space
 
Custom Heading Post Grid Post Masonry Grid Media Grid
 
Media Masonry Grid Pageable Content

Visual Composer is smart: To save your time and bandwidth, it includes only the javascript files that are used on the page – no extra traffic and faster loading!

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Visual Composer Addons

Awesome Testimonials

“WordPress can be limiting to the average users when it comes to how you want your page layout to look. Even though you can do anything with HTML and CSS, most users do not know these coding languages. That’s where Visual Composer for WordPress can help.

Visual Composer transforms the default WordPress page editor into a robust feature-rich editor that allows you to add columns, image galleries, accordions, tour sections, call-to-action buttons, videos, and much more.”Haris Bacic, Forbes.com

“Visual Composer is a fantastic plugin developed by WP Bakery that adds a drag & drop page builder to your WordPress theme.” - WPExplorer

“This plugin is the best thing to happen to WordPress since the invention of WordPress.” – jeffreysummers

“Just downloaded this today and am loving it – would you believe I knocked out 5 pages on a site in less than 10 minutes?!? AWESOME!”theaer

“I’m loving this plug-in. But more importantly the customer support has been Stellar!!!!”Matt Harper

“WOW. Thanks for being born! I just downloaded the plugin without thinking twice.”Chip

“Anyone not sure of purchasing this, needs to stop and just go buy it, this is truly one awesome product and makes creating a static homepage a breeze with some amazing results.”RedDan

Extend Your WordPress Theme

There’s a reason why Visual Composer is the most popular page builder plugin for WordPress theme authors. You can extend Visual Composer with your own set of shortcodes – define them in themes functions.php – and Visual Composer will handle everything else. Start creating “Visual Composer ready” themes! 8-)

Real examples of websites powered by Visual Composer

Visual Composer is already powering 1,500,000+ WordPress websites worldwide, and the number is growing rapidly. Below, you can check out a few examples of all that is possible with the help of Visual Composer. See what it could do for you!

Thank-you for your interest in Visual Composer, Michael M

UPDATES

09.11.2016 - ver 5.0
   Added: Visual Composer Template Library with downloadable templates
   Added: Section element to combine rows
   Added: Material icon set to icon libraries
   Added: Animate CSS animations
   Added: template saving for section and row
   Update: all elements has CSS animation attribute
   Update: UI of element preset saving
   Update: editor controls with retina friendly icon set
   Update: IE8-9 support files removed
   Update: compatibility with Ninja Forms
   Update: less.js version update for better performance
   Update: activation/deactivation mechanism
   Update: iconpicker performance
   Fix: php notice for default post type
   Fix: php notices for post save
   Fix: autocomplete element removing indexes
   Fix: warning foreach for acf grid shortcodes
   Fix: activation state on multisite
   Fix: custom heading google fonts loading
   Deprecated: class license methods in favor of 4.8
   Deprecated: droppable and draggable methods in javascript for rows

07.09.2016 - ver 4.12.1
   Fixed: backend editor loading - getContent in case if #content doesn't exists
   Fixed: Grid item background image URL quoting
   Fixed: Entypo icons
   Fixed: Templates preview element icons
   Fixed: Remove extra next/prev buttons for prettyPhoto
   Fixed: Lightbox in firefox
   Fixed: Empty content welcome block for latest woocommerce
   Fixed: Hook into the YoastSEO:ready event directly.
   Fixed: Disable scrollTo when autoplay enabled
   Fixed: PrettyPhoto is-single hover controls
   Fixed: Grid Item ajax response rendering when no posts found
   Updated: Make old names for deprecated elements
   Updated: Old buttons and CTA removed from add element list
   Updated: FontAwesome to 4.6.3

08.06.2016 - ver 4.12
   - Added: Set default templates for post types
   - Added: Option to disable/hide row
   - Added: ’nofollow’ attribute option for links
   - Added: onclick action option for links
   - Improved: CSS file loading
   - Improved: Custom Heading added to Toggle(Faq)
   - Improved: Compatibility with qTranslate X and Polylang
   - Improved: French translation files
   - Fixed: White line in grid on mac chrome
   - Fixed: vc_vendor for Yoast
   - Fixed: Post grid and post masonry grid settings
   - Fixed: Lightbox prettyPhoto JS
   - Fixed: Shortcode mapper default value
   - Fixed: Server resource control
   - Fixed: textarea_raw_html in param_group
   - Fixed: Image doubling in masonry grid
   - Fixed: Locale file for Japanese
   - Fixed: Contact Form 7 search by title
   - Fixed: Version display on Welcome page
   - Fixed: Equal Height on IE11
   - Fixed: ‘js_composer_front.min.js and Masonry component
   - Fixed: Ability to disable accordion scroll
   - Fixed: ‘Add Template’ and WPML conflict
   - Fixed: Autocomplete field
   - Fixed: PrettyPhoto navigation in Image Carousel
   - Fixed: Loop builder in grid
   - Fixed: Woo Commerce product settings

07.04.2016 - ver 4.11.2
   - Added: Compatibility with WP 4.5
   - Added: Filter for database query limits
   - Improved: Input Sanitization
   - Improved: TGMPA compatibility
   - Improved: Pageable Container Back button behaviour
   - Improved: vc_siteAttachedImages now uses get_posts instead of direct query
   - Improved: Ordering by meta key in grid elements
   - Improved: loop param work with multiple taxonomies selection
   - Fixed: Google maps scroll behaviour
   - Fixed: Initial loading for Masonry Media Grid
   - Fixed: Advanced Custom Fields vendor initialization
   - Fixed: Post Grid filter taxonomy names collapsing

16.03.2016 - ver 4.11.1
   - Fixed: WPML + Image selection is working again
   - Fixed: vc_remove_param() + Custom WP Theme Front-end editor broke Text block

10.03.2016 - ver 4.11
   - Added: New predefined templates added
   - Added: Mono Social icons added to icon library list
   - Added: 'All' text in grid element filters can be modified in param window
   - Added: Gradient button style for buttons
   - Added: Grid element initial loading controls (including 'Disable' option)
   - Added: TweetMe Button content element params description added
   - Update: WordPress 4.5 compatibility added
   - Update: Additional element description in Backend editor
   - Update: Video background autoplay on mobile devices
   - Update: Refactor grid params array system
   - Update: In some cases relative path to admin-ajax.php returned 404, replaced with full path
   - Fixed: Russian language adds new content tab
   - Fixed: Content display on video background in IE10
   - Fixed: wp_get_attachment_url work with arg
   - Fixed: php7 array slice indexes
   - Fixed: '_self' attribute fix in CTA and button
   - Fixed: get_currentuserinfo() updated
   - Fixed: Full height row and iteration issue
   - Fixed: ACF foreach warning fixed
   - Fixed: Link stripping from images added from "Add Media" 

09.02.2016 - ver 4.10
    - Added: Compatibility with option to add ACF to page
    - Added: Video width and alignment controls
    - Added: Parallax speed parameter added
    - Added: Category and Author elements added to Grid Builder
    - Added: Link to author in Grid Builder
    - Update: License tab available with 'set as theme’
    - Update: TweetMe button updated to support new styles
    - Update: Fontawesome library updated
    - Update: Grid Builder templates include user templates
    - Fixed: Add Media image sorting in WYSIWYG
    - Fixed: Single image preview in Grid Builder
    - Fixed: WP Theme 2016 underline fix
    - Fixed: Tabs outline style fix
    - Fixed: Iconpicker icons rendering on category change
    - Fixed: ACF fields rendering in Grid Builder

12.01.2016 - ver 4.9.2
   - Fixed: "Editing an existing Post Grid, page IDs are displayed instead of titles." 
   - Fixed: Extra CSS class name for single image in post grid
   - Fixed: Third elements not working in templates
   - Fixed: Visual Composer button is now added even if post doesn't support title
   - Fixed: Yoast + single image without default value
   - Fixed: Grid builder on multisite
   - Fixed: 404 error on WP multisite
   - Improved: Tab activation through menu (links on same page)
   - Improved: PHP7 compatibility

<a href="http://go.wpbakery.com/release-notes">Past versions changelogs.</a>
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