Visual Composer not working since WP 5.0.1

  • Resolved skoelman

    (@skoelman)


    5 years, 11 months ago

    Hi,

    I just updatet WP to v5.0.1. I am currently building a website, using the SweetCake theme from Themeforest. To edit pages, this theme uses Visual Website composer, for backend as well as frontend editing.

    Since I updatet to 5.0.1, Visual Composer is nog working in the backend editor anymore. I can only use the new, fancy block editor from WordPress.

    I already searched in several settings but couldn’t find a solution yet.

    Anyone experienced the same problems and/or has a solution?

    Thanks in advance!

    • This topic was modified 5 years, 11 months ago by skoelman.
Viewing 31 replies (of 31 total)

  • I found this thread in 2019 and while it didn’t help me directly it did point me in the right direction so I decided to share what I learned to help someone else out.

    My problem ended up being a plugin conflict. Ironically the plugin is supposed to augment WPBakery and was made by my theme developer (Goza Theme) and it caused the WPBakery editor to not show up at all. This has happened to me before but since the conflict was a theme plugin this was the last solution I tried because I assumed that SURELY no theme developer would make such a big mistake. Also the theme was updated a few months ago so it’s not like it’s some archaic theme that doesn’t get updates.

    OK so here’s your solution in step by step format:

    1. Turn off every plugin that you do not currently use on your site. This may be extremely difficult for those of you that have a very complex site so you can instead just go one by one disabling plugins to find which one is the problem. Because I just installed a brand new site on a test server I can do whatever I want so I just disabled everything and that fixed it. Then I enabled them one by one until I figured out which one broke it finally. Again if your site is not brand new and you have a lot of plugins doing this may completely break your site and cost you a lot of money hiring someone like me to fix it so you need to start with the newest plugins you installed (most likely to have caused conflict) and also try the most non-essential plugins you have installed. This step is really important and that’s why this paragraph is so long. Don’t ruin your site by taking steps you don’t understand.

    2. Once you determine which plugin is the problem you need to figure out how to live without that plugin and if you can’t live without it you need to contact the plugin developer to resolve it the conflict. My plugin was an events manager of some sort and I don’t need it for my site build so I just disabled it and got started building.

    I really hope this helps some people. If you really can’t get the editor to show up try using Firefox or Google Chrome (whichever one you use, try the other one. I use chrome and sometimes using firefox resolves issues for me)

Viewing 31 replies (of 31 total)
  • The topic ‘Visual Composer not working since WP 5.0.1’ is closed to new replies.