Visual Composer – current version 4.8.1 available for download!
Visual Composer Page Builder Plugin for WordPress, with Frontend and Backend Editor
Welcome to the first extendable page builder plugin for WordPress! Visual Composer is a drag and drop frontend and backend page builder that will save you tons of time working on our site content. You’ll be able to take full control of your WordPress site, and build any layout you can imagine – no programming knowledge required! Not only that, but with our frontend and backend editor you can now choose whether you want to work on backend or move your page building process to frontend and instantly see any changes you make.
Have you ever noticed how much time you waste fighting with [shortcodes]? No more trial and error with “shortcodes magic” – the Visual Composer plugin will take care of that for you.
This is the first WordPress page builder plugin that gives you full control over responsiveness. It has never been easier to control how your site – or individual parts of it – behave on different devices. Set your desired size of columns and offsets, and even hide specific blocks of elements, depending on the device. Check how your content looks on mobile or desktop with just one click – with our frontend and backend editor, this takes no time at all. So you don’t have to own a bunch of expensive devices to start designing sites that are perfectly responsive and optimized for them!
Add columns and rows, and choose from 40+ predefined elements (divided into logic groups) with a single click, using handy and intuitive UI. Then simply drag elements around to re-arrange them. Don’t have time for block re-arrange? Use one of our 40+ predefined layout templates, created by web design professionals, and build complete sections in seconds. Page building for WordPress has never been simpler! You can also use your creativity and skills to extend Visual Composer with your own unique elements, using our developer API.
Visual Composer is the #1 Best Selling drag and drop frontend and backend page builder plugin, already powering 500k+ websites. Join now, and create beautiful WordPress websites in no time at all, with minimum effort, and – of course – no coding and [shortcodes].
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. |
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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. |
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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). |
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Template System
Copy or re-use existing pages, and save templates for later. Build posts using 40+ professional, pre-defined layouts from the WPBakery team. | |
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. |
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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! |
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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. |
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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. |
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Multi-language Support
Visual Composer is compatible with qTranslate, mqTranslate and 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! |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. | | |
40+ Built In Content Blocks
| Text Block | | Row | | Separator | | Text Separator |
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| Message Box | | Facebook Like | | Google+ | | Pinterest |
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| Tweetmeme | | FAQ | | Single Image | | Image Gallery |
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| Tabs | | Tour Section | | Accordion | | Icon Element |
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| Posts Slider | | Widgetised Sidebar | | Button | | Call to Action |
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| Video Player | | Google Maps | | Raw JS | | Raw HTML |
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| Flickr Widget | | Progress Bar | | Pie Chart | | Empty Space |
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| Custom Heading | | Post Grid | | Post Masonry Grid | | Media Grid |
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| 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!
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! 
Real examples of websites powered by Visual Composer
Visual Composer is already powering 500k+ 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
6.11.2015 - ver 4.8.1
- Added: Support for Advanced TinyMCE
- Improved: Envato API changed to new version 2.0
- Improved: ABSPATH check added to all php files
- Improved: Filter in getParamTabsList method of the TTA added
- Fixed: Post grid loads in http when using https
- Fixed: Responsiveness in full height row
- Fixed: Responsive Column Behavior
- Fixed: Numbers of line chart displayed properly
- Fixed: Text display on grid buttons
- Fixed: Error 404 on vc-general on WP multi site install !!!!!
- Fixed: wp multisite hardcoded 'js_composer/js_composer.php', so impossible to use other plugin name
- Fixed: Backend display proper column width
- Fixed: Column offset resets after update
- Fixed: Full image is broken on Firefox
- Fixed: Error for non-logged in users
- Fixed: Image Carousel display correctly
- Fixed: Text element with animation is properly displayed in TTA
- Fixed: Grid Element display price prefix $ per WooCommerce Settings
22.10.2015 - ver 4.8
- New: Advanced Role manager for Visual Composer. Now you can fine tune access to Visual Composer functionality based on user roles
- New: New interface with template preview option in Default Templates and My Templates sections
- New: No need for license activation on localhost
- New: "vc_register_settings_preset" action is added. Theme authors can add elements presets through the inner API
- New: New design styles for Separator element
- New: Option to add icon to Separator element
- Improved: Single image element markup revises and improved
- Improved: UX improvements for "Save template" under the Templates section
- Improved: Load more button in grid now use latest VC button version
- Improved: Lighter and cleaner welcome screen on empty page
- Fixed: Protocol is replaced with // in css import (google fonts)
- Fixed: Loading of Google subsets
- Fixed: Display of icons for nested shortcodes
- Fixed: Post grid display if loaded from Templatera element
- Fixed: Fast switching between tabs
- Fixed: Autocomplete of categories (woocommerce)
- Fixed: Separator text moves to the next line when no space available
2.10.2015 - ver 4.7.4
- Fixed: Bug in grid builder presets
- Added extra ajax check
29.09.2015 - ver 4.7.3
- Re: Backwards compatibility for images with custom link
- Added border for single image with external source
- Width of vc icon in "Add element" window fixed
- Presets saving mechanism optimized
22.09.2015 - ver 4.7.2
- "Undefined index" notice in tabs, tour, accordion removed (for cases when vc_remove_param() was called)
- Bottom border in image gallery fixed
- <br /> now works in mobile view tabs
- Backwards compatibility for images with custom link
- Minor css improvements and fixes
16.09.2015 - ver 4.7.1.1
- Fixed: CSS conflict with Ninja Forms
15.09.2015 - ver 4.7.1
- Improved: Dependency are now called whe preset is selected for element
- Improved: Old Tabs, Accordions and Tours removed from default templates
- Fixed: Direct link to tabs (tour or accordion)
- Fixed: Raw HTML (Cannot read property 'trim' of undefined)
- Fixed: Nested elements saving in template
- Fixed: Remove params function call and Notice: Undefined variable
- Fixed: Html tags entered in text block now are decoded and not converted to actual tags
- Fixed: LESS regeneration after plugin version increment
28.08.2015 - ver 4.7
- Compatibility with WP 4.3
- New: Element Preset mechanism added (Save, Set as Default)
- New: More predefined layouts added
- New: Param Window and other window update
- New: Param Window is resizable
- New: Pageable Content Element based on Tabs added
- New: Single Image Zoom option added to On Click Action
- Improved: Pie Chart element has new Visual Composer colors
- Improved: Separator width values added
- Improved: Custom Heading has H1 tag as an option
- Improved: Single Image and Image Gallery Source for External Image Added
- Improved: Single Image element uses caption from Media Library or input (for External Images)
- Improved: Single Image and Image gallery has same options under On Click Action
- Improved: Design Options added to all elements
- Improved: Border radius added to Design Options
- Improved: Progress Bar uses param group for values
- Fixed: Limit for acceptance of ACF field in Grid removed
- Delay of CSS animations reduced
- Minor bugfixes and improvements
23.07.2015 - ver 4.6.2
- Custom CSS class added for Tour, Tabs, Accordions
- Syntax in js file changed for better minifying support
- ACF limit in grid removed
- Single image target initialization in edit screen fixed
11.07.2015 - ver 4.6.1
- Fixed: Cannot redeclare hex2rgb()
- Icons per page set to 200 in message box element
- Changed syntax in js_composer_front.js - now W3 Total Cache should not have problems with minifying
- Compatibility with PHP 5.2.4 added
- Fixed: Woo Rating count in grid
- Fixed: Post image element in grid
- Fixed: Pinterest button height
02.07.2015 - ver 4.6
- New: Full screen row height
- New: Chart elements (Pie, Doughnut, Line, Bar)
- New: YouTube background for row
- New: Tabs element
- New: Tour element
- New: Accordion element
- New: Image overlay filters - enhance your images with awesome color overlays
- Improved: New cleaner shortcodes (default values are not stored in the [shortcode])
- Improved: UI for param group
- Improved: Alt tags for images
- Improved: Responsive options added to inner columns
- Improved: Custom heading element. Cleaner markup, option to choose font from theme
- Improved: Icon element now accepts custom color
- Improved: Outline button now accepts custom color for border
- Improved: Shortcode mapping process speed improvements
- Fixed: Removed taxonomy db call from map.php (speed improvements)
- Fixed: WP SEO + VC "Page slug changes if a shortcode with custom WP_Query used"
- Fixed: Loading js files in vc-gallery.php
- Fixed: Design options work when loaded from Templatera
16.06.2015 - ver 4.5.3
- prettyPhoto updated to 3.1.6 - latest stable and secure version
18.05.2015 - ver 4.5.2
- Performance: Removed call to get taxonomies from vc_map and now it is called via ajax only when it is needed
- Fixed: slug changing when Yoast SEO plugin activated
- Fixed: Unwanted gap in Grid when full width row is used
- Fixed: Design Options now are loaded from templates too
- Fixed: Custom inline styles from WYSIWYG editor now can be saved in templates
- Fixed: All product categories now are accessible in VC
- Fixed: Path for loading "imagesloaded.pkgd.min.js"
- Resolved: Conflict with Owl Carousel
30.04.2015 - ver 4.5.1
- Improvements with stretch row logic
- Grid pagination isn't hiding "add to column" control in Fronend editor
- Grid filter logic improved
- JS script logic for templates improved
- Bug with wpLink fixed
- Visual Composer settings link in multisite fixed
27.04.2015 - ver 4.5
- New: Parallax option for row added
- New: IDs for rows
- New: Param type "Hidden" available in shortcode mapper. Now you can preset shortcodes value and it will be not editable in VC interface (hardcoded)
- New: Button element rebuilt from scratch. Extremely flexible with many options (Old buttons are still available but you will see deprecated message)
- New: Call to action element rebuilt from scratch
- New: Design Options section is powered by LESS technology (it actually compile less on save). This gives us proper tools to take Design options to the next level in the next updates
- New: Guide tour for user who start using VC for the first time
- New: VC Welcome page which is shown on plugin activation/update
- Link attribute works with WP 4.2
- Yoast compatibility improvements
- Shortcode mapper user experience and ux improvements
- VC Settings moved to the top level in WP Dashboard
- License activation improvements now you can activate VC on the same domain (same url) again
- Add to cart option is added to the VC Grid Builder
- Traditional Chinese translation added. Thanks to Oberon Lai
- Various bug fixes and small improvements
- All javascript and php files now share same coding standards (formatting)
21.04.2015 - ver 4.4.4
- Compatibility with WordPress 4.2 added
12.03.2015 - ver 4.4.3
- Color picker z-index increased
- Proper image gallery re-initialization after dragging
- Negative values can be saved in Design options now
- Single image now has circle and round styles
- "Author" role is added in the user group settings
- "$" sign can be used in title in masonry grid
- Shortcode mapper parsing shortcodes correctly now
- Quotes (") can be used in the Custom heading element
- Row stretching works as expected now
- Japanese translation added. Thanks to evange
- Position after cloning element is correct now
- Auto rotate tabs works now
- "h3 element converted to p tag if template is saved in frontend editor" fixed
- "1/3 + 2/3" layout is added in grid builder
- 3D shadow look improved for single image element
- Yoast now is parsing content of VC
- vc_load_default_templates_action returned
- Custom query works properly in grid builder now
28.01.2015 - ver 4.4.2
- Extra CSS class can be used in grid elements now
- Single image styles fixed
- added action "vc_load_default_templates_action"
- vc_add_default_templates() fixed
- Added compatibility for older Layer slider
- Background disappearing in row on child element deleting fixed
- Message box backwards compatibility added
- Grid builder ajax stability improved
- Css tpl for Design options regenerated
- Custom query in Grid builder handles correctly ampersand and quote marks
- Compatibility with jwplayer improved
- Compatibility with ACF improved
19.01.2015 - ver 4.4.1
- Posts Grid (and other grids) are working on homepage
- NextGen gallery working
- Shareaholic plugin working
- Related posts plugin working
- Revolution slider working
- Removed br tags that were inserted inside the div tag by third party filter
- vc_is_inline() working as expexted again
16.01.2015 - ver 4.4
- Bulgarian translation added. Thanks to: Valentin Val
- New elements added: Grid, Masonry Grid, Media Grid, Media Masonry Grid
- Grid Element builder added
- Element replaced: Toggle element replaced with new version
- Element replaced: Message box replaced with new version
- Tab (groups) are fixed in content element edit
- New filter added: vc_wpb_getimagesize
- Improvements for German translation - .mo, .po files updated
- Separator thickness option and alignment added
- Predefault template list updated
- Blank page layout updated
- Button 2.0 has alignment option "centre"
- Compatibility and automapping with Ninja Forms introduced
- Icon Element: Icon Element
- Woo Commerce shortcodes are automapped
- Autocomplete param added
- custom_markup param added
- Filter available: vc_custom_markup_render_filter
- Drag icon for column added
- Accordion title replacement bug fixed
- Row can be stretched: full width, full width with content, full width with content (no paddings) Note: This won't work with overflow: hidden
- EasyTables is fully compatible with Visual Composer Frontend
- Compatibility with Yoast SEO
- Multiple fields param group added
- Undefined offset warning removed if single image with incorrect id
- Shortcode automapper regexp improved for better handling shortcodes without params
- Welcome screen typography following Visual Comopser design
- Saving post with custom Query overriding title and slug bug fixed
- Tour element autorotate option fixed
- Mixed content errors in https mode removed
- custom.css file will be loaded only if it has content
- Nested Shortcode "as_child" parameter when set to "except" fixed
- ... and more
19.12.2014 - ver 4.3.5
- Compatibility with WP 4.1
10.09.2014 - ver 4.3.4
- WP 4.0 improvements
- Cloning row with tabs fixed
- Cloning single tab in frontend editor fixed
- Untranslated strings found and now outputed with __() and _e()
- Custom CSS in Settings page converted > to special char fixed
- IE8 compatibility improved. vc-ie8.css added. Thanks to AJ Clarke
- Using front-end editor turns off the comments fixed
- Persian translation added. Thanks to: Ali Mohammadi | www.bestit.co
19.08.2014 - ver 4.3.3
- Edit elements in Accordion fixed
- Design Options: border params are not saved if you don't enter all 4 border widths
- Inner row margins updated for better UI
- Fixed layout highlighting setting with the same mask (case 1/3 + 2/3 and 2/3 + 1/3)
- Advanced Custom Fields + VC now can work together (without js error)
- ACE Editor and Option tree now work together (without js error)
- pt_BR locale updated
- de_DE locale file updated
04.08.2014 - ver 4.3.2
- Force custom css regeneration upon plugin update. This will fix problem for users who used custom Design options and experienced "broken layout"
31.07.2014 - ver 4.3.1
- Obsolete vc_spanX classes removed (caused problems for some users)
- Fixed: "llegal offset type in ... shortcodes.php"
29.07.2014 - ver 4.3
- UX improvements in Backend editor
- New: Offset option is added for columns
- New: Now you can add any number of columns inside row (it will be placed to the next line if there is not enough of space)
- New: Clone for columns
- New: Control your layout accross multiple devices. Now you can set different column width for mobile and desktop layouts
- New: Hide Columns on particular device
- New: Added support for mqTranslate (qTranslate fork which works with WP 3.9+)
- New: Row can be minimized in backend (to save space)
- New: Empty space content element
- New: Custom Heading content element
- New: Predefined layouts
- New: CSS syntax highlight added for Custom CSS option
- Fully reworked css for frontend and backend editor. Modular and divided across multiple less files
- CSS loading is moved to the wp_head();
- Other small fixes and improvements
12.06.2014 - ver 4.2.3
- Isotope library updated
- Flexslider next/prev arrows fixed (font added)
- Single image now can accept relative urls
- Improvents with third party plugins
03.06.2014 - ver 4.2.2
- Tabs: Auto generated IDs are back
- Localizations are loaded correctly now
- Pie chart element js error fixed
- Notifier about unsaved changes added to the Custom CSS box
- Custom CSS in Settings->Visual Composer->Custom CSS fixed
- CSS editor accept css3 units
- Removed "Activation notice" if vc_set_as_theme() called
- front_enqueue_css and front_enqueue_js added in vc_map() http://kb.wpbakery.com/index.php?title=Vc_map
- edit_post_link() caused problems in some themes - fixed
- Template has the html tags for rich text formatting double encoded fixed
- std param in maps improved logic
- Single image: reveal target if link is set
27.05.2014 - ver 4.2.1
- vc_map() preloader fix. Thanks to Chris R for help in debugging
21.05.2014 - ver 4.2
- Performance improvements
- Code structure changed, now everything is organized in folders
- Code revised and phpdoc comments added (soon generated documentation will be available)
- CSS icon will be shown at the "Gear" icon if there's custom css code
- WP autoupdater now works in WP Dashboard->Updates section too
- Default image changed for single image and image galleries
- New Tour slide now title changed from "Tab" to "Slide"
- Small fixes and improvements
12.05.2014 - ver 4.1.3.1
- Typo in js code fixed, which prevented rows from cloning in backend editor
09.05.2014 - ver 4.1.3
- Checkbox dependencies works now
- Dependencies logic is executed upon edit screen opening
- Textarea HTML is added in th shortcode mapper for use with content attribute
- z-index for modals is lowered
- Post grid: link to post works by default
- Auto suggestion in query builder now gives hint after 2 chars
- Message box and Warning box correctly displayed in the backend editor
- vc_add_param()/vc_remove_element() works again
22.04.2014 - ver 4.1.2
WP 3.9 compatibilty update
- php warning/notices in mapper.php
- Read more text in post grid is now translable
- Autocomplete z-index in loop param increased
- Tiny MCE get active editor logic improved
- vc_add_param() and other helpers api functions are back to normal
- WP 3.9 select link in WYSIWYG editor works now
- When default text is removed from wysiwyg editor it will not be back on next edit
17.04.2014 - ver 4.1.1
- z-index value for add element modal box increased
- Improved element stacking on mopbile devices
- Links now work in WP Text element
- WP Menus element is populated on init event now
- Removed console.log in js file
- IE10 fix for TinyMCE
16.04.2014 - ver 4.1
- New: Shortcode Mapper, map any third party shortcode to Visual Composer with an easy to use interface
- New: Design options for Row, Columns, Text block, Single image and Video block elements. Add baackground color/image, paddings, border and margins. Tons of variations. You are a designer now!
- New: Now you can group your params in tabs
- White color for button added
- Colors are now visible as actual colors in the dropdowns instead of "plain names"
- Color picker have alpha chanel now
- .po/.mo files updated
09.04.2014 - ver 4.0.5
- Compatibility with new TinyMCE version in WordPress 3.9 added
- Logic behind license activation button changed. Clicking activate button will save all fields
- Image carousel popup next/prev links show correct images
- Mobile screen width setting in design options updated to new less/css
- "Show only Visual Composer" in "User groups access rules" fixed
- Extra CSS class appended to the separator element
27.03.2014 - ver 4.0.4
Bug fix round
- Post grid categories: z-index fixed so autosuggestions now visible
- Custom row layout input field in frontend mode works now
20.03.2014 - ver 4.0.3
Bug fix round
- Cloning elements in frontend is handled better
- Enable/Disable Responsiveness in the backend from settings page
- "Edit with Visual Composer" button in the admin bar now shows for correct user roles (who have access rights)
- vc_disable_frontend() function enhanced
- "TypeError: $(...).wpColorPicker" error illuminated
- VC button in the backend received a facelift
- Visual Composer support for child themes improved
- Element dependencies tweaked to work with multiple values
11.03.2014 - ver 4.0.2
- Google maps element updated to support new google maps version
- Child theme support added
- Disable responsivness is back
- h1 css rules, normalize.css and print.css removed fron final js_composer_front.css removed
- Workaround for inline scripts added (for devs who output js code inline)
- Revolution slider support added
- Nested shortcodes: except param can accept comma separated values now
- CSS code added in front end is mirrored in backend interface
- Sprite for predefined row laoyouts added
- "Close" modal button in backend position tweak added
- Updated .po/.mo files
03.03.2014 - ver 4.0.1
- Optimizations for WPEngine
- Plugin search is back
- User access rules logic improved (for publish/save posts in inline mode)
- Nested shortcodes can now accept except param
02.03.2014 - ver 4.0
- Major update. All new inline (front end) editing mode. Now you can see what you are doing, no more trials and errors
- Based on Bootstrap 3
- New content elements (even more to come...)
- New styles for Separators, Single images
- And much-much more! 3 months of hard development invested in this update
08.01.2014 - ver. 3.7.4
- NL locale added
- Custom layout fixed (all fractional sizes work now on front end)
- 100 sliders limit value for Revolutions sliders increased
- Color picker css improved for Win users
13.12.2013 - ver. 3.7.3
- TinyMCE "Text" mode buttons size fixed
- Small WordPress 3.8 adjustments
08.12.2013 - ver 3.7.2
- "Add Element" window received a "facelift"
- Alignment for Single Image fixed
- Custom CSS: now is outputted only in single page view
- Scroll problem in edit element view in Chrome fixed
- .po/.mo files updated
- Raw js block: removed bottom margin
- Posts grid column count fixed
27.11.2013 - ver 3.7.1
- vc_remove_element() is back
26.11.2013 - ver 3.7
- New: Posts Grid element with much more control and visual query builder
- New: Custom teaser, control what content should be used in Posts grid and Carousel
- New: Image carousel
- New: Now you can set color for row background
- New: Now you can set text color for row
- New: Fine tune margins and paddings within a row
- New: Single image alignment added
- New: Custom CSS for singular pages. Add Custom CSS code to particular pages only
- New: Now third party developers can easily create nested shortcodes Eg: [items][single_item][single_item][/items] More: http://kb.wpbakery.com/index.php?title=Nested_Shortcodes_%28container%29
- New: Weight attribute for content elements added
- Conflict with Gantry framework fixed
- Conflict with QuForm plugin fixed
- Single image url fixed
- Third party shortcodes wraps in the text block when switching to Visual Composer mode
- .po/.mo files updated
07.10.2013 - ver 3.6.14.1
- Re: URL for single image improved
- Dependency improvements
07.10.2013 - ver 3.6.14
- IT locale added
- Empty text block works correct now
- Isotope css added for print page version
- URL for single image improved
- Site admins in Multisite have access to VC Settings now
09.09.2013 - ver 3.6.13
- 7/12 + 5/12 layout now works on the front end
- FR locale updated
- Dependency setting now works for single image element
23.08.2013 - ver 3.6.12
- fix for disappearing paragraph and br tags
15.08.2013 - ver 3.6.11
- Carousel is back
- "isHidden" javascript error which was affecting some users fixed
- WP Custom Menu logic improved
09.08.2013 - ver 3.6.10
- New: Pie chart content element
- Updated code to support new jQuery UI version (Accordion spacing, Tour next/prev links working again, Image grid in 2nd+ tab working again, Tour sorting/cloning fixed)
- pt_BR locale updated
05.08.2013 - ver 3.6.9
- New: Auto updater. Enter your API key/Purchase code/Envato username and plugin will be updated automaticaly
- New: Add multiple categories to your content elements (when register new element with vc_map())
- New: "If you close this window all shortcode settings will be lost. Close this window?" message now is showed only when there are unsaved changes
- Javascript code tested with JShint
- Better "bullet proof" logic for custom size images
15.07.2013 - ver 3.6.8
- More row layouts added
- Custom row layout option added, now you can enter exact size you want/need
- Row layout switcher changed
- Title removed for Text block in edit screen (for space savings)
- vc_remove_element() typo fixed
- Quotes properly escaped now in Template names
- Isotope library updated
- Images from same galleries can be cycled in prettyPhoto lightbox
- Colorpicker attribute now works for all user roles
03.07.2013 - ver 3.6.7
- Navigation for Accordion added, now you can link to specific section directly
- Inner API extended. More details http://kb.wpbakery.com/index.php?title=Inner_API
- PHP code formatted for PHP Strict standards
- default.po and .mo files updated
25.06.2013 - ver 3.6.6
- New: Accordion now can be collapsed by default
- Quotes in Accordion/Tour/Tabs now works
- Category filter works now after wpb_remove() function call
- Some users had "unexpected T_VAR in loop templates.html" error - fixed
- "Show only Visual Composer" permission fixed
17.06.2013 - ver 3.6.5
- New: Shortcode Template logic. More here: http://kb.wpbakery.com/index.php?title=Shortcode_Templates_(markup)
- New: Link param type
- New: Updates notifier now "hooks" into the WP Updates system
- New helper function added for easier param adding to existing content elements wpb_add_param($shortcode, $param)
- Colorpicker param type now is using WordPress default color picker
- Modal window fix for Avada theme
- Google maps: New setting to hide info balloon
- TinyMCE editor works correct now, for users with non US locale
- Tab duplicating fixed
- FR locale updated
- Textdomains added in few strings. .po and .mo files updated
- Accordion "Add new accordion section" text changed
- Plugin activation improved
- Text typos in Google maps and Progress bar fixed
- Twitter widget removed. Due to the api change tweets can't be loaded "the old" way anymore. As workaround, login to your twitter account and create new widget (https://twitter.com/settings/widgets) then use raw HTML block to place generated code to your page
07.06.2013 - ver 3.6.4.1
- update for the those who have javascript error "jQuery(...).waypoint is not a function"
05.06.2013 - ver 3.6.4
- New feature: Added CSS animations for Single image, Message box, Text Block & Toggle. Which runs when element enters browsers viewport.
- Progress bar animation now starts when it enters into the viewport. Added filter for class names.
27.05.2013 - ver 3.6.3
- tinyMCE initialization improved
- #tb_window z-index increased
24.05.2013 - ver 3.6.2
- Safe switching added. If you had content before switching to Visual Composer mode, it will be wrapped in Text Block now
- CSS conflict resulting in cutting "Add element" and element edit pages fixed
- Some localization strings fixed
21.05.2013 - ver 3.6.1
- custom.css and js_composer_front_custom.css storing location changed from plugin's folder to wp-content/uploads/js_composer/*
- German translation updated. Thanks to Toni (kratos85)
- French translation added. Thanks to sailor1978.
- Spanish translation updated. Thanks to elpuntografico
13.05.2013 - ver 3.6
- Fully rewritten backend. Now powered by backbone.js library - enourmous speed improvements
- Elements drag and drop logic improved
- New settings page. Now you can change default colors, CSS grid settings, Content elements bottom spacing. You should see it!
- New search filter in "Add element" window. Content elements are filtered while you type
- New content elements: Progress bar (animated), Gravity Form
- Default WP widgets now can be inserted directly to your page
- Single image block improved (added option for auto linking to the 'large' image)
- Accordion block improved (added "collapsible" option)
- Posts Slider block improved (added option to add titles)
- Button block improved (add prettyphoto extra class and link will open in lightbox)
- Custom CSS section added into the settings page. Now pasting your own css code is a lot easier
- New param type for developers (checkbox)
- prettyPhoto updated (3.1.5)
- .po & .mo files updated
- Overal files cleanup (plugin file size reduced)
- And a lot more small thigs that will make your experience with Visual Composer better
27.03.2013 - ver 3.5.5
- New content elements: Revolution slider, Layer Slider, Contact Form 7
- Extra CSS now added correctly with "Message box" element
04.03.2013 - ver 3.5.4
- <br /> now isn't converted to <p>
- active tab highlighted now better
- image resizing WP_ERROR check added
- custom row/columns classes fix added (in some variations edit icons were hidden)
- now column extra class name stays when switching row layout
- css conflict with responsive videos and 3rd party plugins fixed
15.02.2013 - ver 3.5.3
- Image selection i18nLocale fixed
- .po and .mo files updated
07.02.2013 - ver 3.5.2
- Activation error fixed (cases when Contact form7 was installed)
- User rights updated (Row in Row now works)
25.01.2013 - ver 3.5.1
- WP native image selector added (for single image and galleries)
- delete icon in tabs
- add section for accordion fixed
- row extra class output on front end fixed
- IE images stretching removed
- "convert to new version" added support for 3rd party shortcodes
22.01.2013 - Major update - ver 3.5
- Major update, read more about update: http://bit.ly/vc_34_to_35
- Fully rewriten backend UI, with better row->column logic
- Overall speed improvements
- Highly customizable for third party developers
- Due to large amount of css conflicts, original bootstrap was removed and forked "prefixed" one is used now
- Improved element's responsiveness
- .po & .mo files updated
- And many, many more...
22.01.2013 - ver 3.4.13
- eval() removed $$ used instead
- media tab method('destroy') error fixed
- single image heading added
- 1/6 + 5/6 containers saving fixed
18.12.2012 - ver 3.4.12
- Edit tab titles fixed
13.12.2012 - ver 3.4.11
- var_dump() removed from shortcodes.php file
- pressing cancel button works correctly now
- deprecated function image_resize replaced with wp_get_image_editor()
- .po and .mo files updated
12.12.2012 - ver 3.4.10
- Accordion "freezing" fixed
- WP 3.5 compatibility fixes added
29.11.2012 - ver 3.4.9
- Introduced developers methods more info http://kb.wpbakery.com/index.php?title=Category:Visual_Composer
- Exceprts now are working for posts/pages created with Visual Composer
- Nivo slider updated (ver. 3.1)
- Responsive css can be turned off from Visual Composer settings page
15.11.2012 - ver 3.4.8
- fix for qTranslate (after recent update qTranslate was hiding Visual Composer button)
- new colorpicker param type added
- Template system updated
09.11.2012 - ver 3.4.7
- Updates notifier added
- Toggling between Visual Composer/Classic view now works as it should be (content is updating correctly)
05.11.2012 - ver 3.4.6
- Raw HTML and Raw js content blocks updated
31.10.2012 - ver 3.4.5
- Fixed shortcodes initialization ([vc_column_text width="1/1" el_position="first last"] ...)
23.10.2012 - ver 3.4.4
- wamp environment fix
16.10.2012 - ver 3.4.3
- fixed "Empty visual editor"
12.10.2012 - ver 3.4.2
- mapper.php bug fixed
- fixed "Call to undefined function get_currentuserinfo()"
10.10.2012 - ver 3.4.1
- Activation bug fix
- additional small improvements
05.10.2012 - ver 3.4
- New facelifted backend interface
- New content block selection menu
- Call to action block in IE fixed
- Single image block: now image can be removed after upload
- VC initializing fixed (for users who changed default wp-content/plugins/ path)
- Raq html/Raw js content blocks non latin characters fixed
- New method for developers. Now you can completely override outputted html on frontend
- Google maps positioning in 2nd, 3rd, ..., tab fixed
- .po & .mo files updated
21.09.2012 - ver 3.3.3
- image max-width set to 100%;
- Fixed image uploading layout (now it uses full width)
- locale string added in few __() and _e() functions
- .wpb_flickr_widget & .wpb_twitter_widget bottom margin added in LESS
- css background, changed to background-color where possible
27.08.2012 - ver 3.3.2
- Second attempt with "Featured image" fix
21.08.2012 - ver 3.3.1
- add_them_support('post-thumbnails'); extends post thumbnails defined by theme
16.08.2012 - ver 3.3
- This version main focus is on CSS files, they are improved. Content elements now share similar "default grey" style across all elements
- Bootstrap now comes with LESS files
- Bootstrap css rules stripped to prevent css conflicts with 3rd party themes/plugins
- js_composer_front.css: re-done. Now compiles from LESS files.
09.08.2012 - ver 3.2.3
- Settings page enhancments
27.07.20012 - ver 3.2.2
- jQuery UI CSS face-lifted, now should look great in every design.
- LESS files for jQuery UI now available in assets/ui-custom-theme/less
25.07.2012 - ver 3.2.1
- Switching between tabs fixed
23.07.2012 - ver 3.2.0
- Teaser grid: link target added
- Image grid placed in tabs bug fixed
- FlexSlider updated
- Masonry Layout for Teaser grid added
- Sorting in Teaser grid added
- Extra class name for containers added
- .js files outputs in footer
- If user switch Visual Composer mode when there's text already, then this text is wrapped in text block.
- Administrator now can set user roles related settings in Visual Compsoer->Settings
- Administrator now can set Visual Composer as default editor (per user role)
- Image gallery: link target added
- Single image element: link option added
- Posts slider: removed string "No featured image set" if no image is set
- Fixed problem with advanced custom fields
- .po file updated
04.06.2012 - ver 3.1.0
- Major release
- Rewritten core. Now OOP driven
- Updated documentation and Advanced documentation
- Updated locale files
- 1/6 and 5/6 columns sizes added
- UI enhanced
- Single image element added
- Raw HTML element added
- Raw JS element added
- Drag & Drop works better now
- Adding images in galleries is easier now (WP native way)
- Bootstrap updated to 2.0.4
10.05.2012 - ver 3.0.4
- HTML Comments removed from generated html code. Some themes wrapped them in </p><p></p> tag 
27.04.2012 - ver 3.0.3
- Alert box icons on front end added
- Image gallery. Now images can be shuffled/randomized
- Tested with Advanced TinyMCE plugin. Works OK
- Bootstrap updated to 2.0.3
15.04.2012 - ver 3.0.2
- bootstrap.css cleaned, unused classes removed.
14.04.2012 - ver 3.0.1
- Attached images field, now checks for deleted images and if ID doesn't exist - ID is removed.
- Cloning tabs, accordion and tour fixed.
- google+ added
- pinterest added
- German translation added. Contributed by aleccs
- Polish translation added. Contributed by Bartosz Arendt, Digital Factory
- apostrophe \' fixed
- Accordion droppable fixed, now it doesn't accept tabs, tour and accordion in it.
- .po file updated
- .container class name comment out from bootstrap.css file. Because it isn't used withing the plugin, but conflicts with 3rd part themes
11.04.2012 - ver 3.0 - *Major release* - Fully rewritten
- New content blocks added (Accordion, Posts slider, Google maps, Video widget);
- Old content blocks extended (FAQ Toggle: default state option added, Image gallery: ability to link each slide individually added, new layout (simple grid) added, now you can enter size for your image WP native way. thumbnail, media, large;
- Tabs, Tours and Accordion content block are fully revamped: now they can accept other content elements inside them, as a result you can columns or image gallery right in tabs;
- Teaser (posts) grid: new filtering and sorting options added;
09.02.2012 - ver 2.3.3 - prettyPhoto updated and few js improvements.
07.02.2012 - ver 2.3.2 - js and css files now included with version number.
27.01.2012 - ver 2.3.1 - Added additional "if" check to prevent error message when image can't be found or resized
20.12.2011 - "no link" in VC teaser grid - "Read more" button removed & image wrapped in span; Visual composer now switching default WP content area to Visual mode automatically
12.12.2011
- WP 3.3 compatibility;
- .clear class renamed to .vc_clear;
- Now tabs and tour slides have classname, as a result they can be targeted with css;
- If Visual Composer settings are empty, then columns are percent based.
22.09.2011
- New content block added - "Text separator".
15.09.2011
- .wrapper class renamed to .wpb_wrapper;
- CSS file cleaned and tweaked;
- Posts grid -> Categories (narrowing by custom taxonomies) now works with custom post types and regular posts;
- New content element added - "Tour section";
- Fixed bug with image inserting into tabs;
- Checked that js_composer works great with YOAST SEO, some user reported that they don't work together.
01.08.2011 - CSS improvements.
21.06.2011 - Nested tabs bug fixed. Thanks to Justin.
15.06.2011 - Scheduled update. Overall improvements.
13.06.2011 - Now you can generate grid for multiple templates. Eg: For full width page, page with sidebar and so on.
08.06.2011 - New content block *"Call to action box"*
07.06.2011 - Few tweaks to the backend design, posts grid now can show posts in *Carousel*
04.06.2011 - Redesigned backend, new content module *"Button"*
31.05.2011 - Fully rewritten engine, as a result you can add your own shortcodes. Note: ver 2.0 isn't compatible with 1.2 plugin version, please delete old plugin first.
24.05.2011 - New content block *"Widgetised Sidebar"*, few bugfixes.
If one wants to take it… Molon Labe. 
