How to fix broken Visual Composer

  • WPBakery’s Visual Composer broke after a recent WP upgrade.

    We obtained it as it was bundled with the SpiceHub theme we purchased.

    After a recent upgrade, some of the functionality stopped working (the Hours table, the Icon selectors)

    I found the fix to be simple – this plug-in appears to be using an old or deprecated method for determining if the plugin is active. The file:
    wp-content/themes/spicehub/builder/params/custom_params.php

    Contained the following line of code at the top, which I modified and fixed.

    Old Code:
    if ( in_array( 'js_composer/js_composer.php', apply_filters( 'active_plugins', get_option( 'active_plugins' ) ) ) )

    New Code:
    if ( is_plugin_active( 'js_composer/js_composer.php' ) )

    You might be able to fix other plug-ins with similar code, YMMV.

    • This topic was modified 8 years, 6 months ago by Mike.
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