May 5

Basic Properties of Visual Composer in WordPress Themes

If you are a user of our service then you have probably noticed that we have a lot of premium WordPress themes. Most of templates have a pre-installed plugin set including the most popular one among our users – Visual Composer. For novices we’d like to explain all basic properties of Visual Composer for WordPress themes. Friendly interface, easily customizable WordPress themes and an infinite number of plugins make WordPress favorite content management system worldwide. WordPress simplifies the development and management of websites even for inexperienced users.

Why do you need Visual Composer plugin?

Sometimes you should want to change the design of your website to another type – the web design that you like. If you are an amateur, you will unfortunately not be able to do much even with a premium WordPress theme, because the changes require a certain degree of experience in HTML, CSS, PHP and a number of other skills depending on the character of your theme. But even if you are an experienced programmer, you still need a few hours to do the desired changes.

Fortunately, WordPress plugin called Visual Composer simplifies this task, even for novices. With this plugin for creating pages any WordPress users can change the design and create unique websites. This plugin will save time and can help them to change pages in minutes. The plugin uses such a great success that it is already contained in many WordPress themes. Visual Composer is made by the studio WP Bakery. This is a paid plugin and it is not available in the free directory of WordPress plugins. We offer you to get this plugins with reduced price along with any of 8Theme’s WordPress themes.

Basic features of Visual Composer plugin:

Creating frontend and backend pages

The main function of Visual Composer is a "drag and drop" feature to create pages that can be accessed in the standard of the page editing WordPress or straight from the "frontend".

Universal compatibility with WordPress themes

You can use it with any WordPress themes without having to change existing code.

Easily customizable layout

"Drag and drop" elements have a standard layout and theme. However, you can change them according to the color scheme of your website.

More than 40 ready-made design elements

An interface of "drag and drop" features has more than 40 ready-to-use portable items that can be used to create unique layouts for your websites in minutes.

Fully adaptive elements

Design elements and pages created with Visual Composer plugin, fully adaptable to mobile devices. Remember that not all premium themes for WordPress are adaptive to the use on mobile platforms.

Easily programmable plugin

Visual Composer can be composed of many "drag & drop" items. Thanks to easily programmed properties you can add more elements. Easy of coding in Visual Composer plugin is one of the major advantages.

Installing and configuring of Visual Composer plugin

After downloading the file, it should be renamed the visual-composer v 4.2.3.zip (at time of writing current version was 4.2.3) and only then open the file. In the archives there are three files, including a folder with documents and direct plugin file js_composer.zip, who need to download and install. After activating the plugin on the site go Settings --> Visual Composer to the page settings in which five tabs. On the tab General Settings there are given three sets of parameters:

Content Types - built-in data types when creating and editing which can be used visual designer pages Visual Composer - lists all registered data types. To select, you must tick the box and click Save Changes at the bottom of the page.

User groups access rules - specifies the availability of the visual designer pages Visual Composer for different user groups, and, if available, which "blocks" can be used user groups when creating or modifying data.
Disable responsive content elements - Selecting this option disables responsibility (pages built with Visual Composer probably will not look good on a variety of devices). This is not a good idea. If you decide to use this option, you need to know why this is necessary. Well, if that changed, do not forget to click Save Changes below.

Adaptability of Visual Composer plugin with any WordPress themes

On the tab called Design Options you can disable design elements of Visual Composer plugin by default and make your own. If there is such a desire, you can appeal to our support or WordPress forum where you can find in details the process of installations and configuration of WordPress themes. For example, using the tab Custom CSS you can enter your CSS code to any elements. Through the tab called Product License you can enter your user name and code of the API on Envato and license code plugin Visual Composer, received when you purchased and your plugin will be updated automatically. If the plug is obtained with the theme, the new version of the plugin will be available only when you update the theme.

You can also create your own shortcodes using the tab My Shortcodes. Visual Composer plugin can serve for many purposes allowing a user with minimal design skills to build a custom design for many WordPress theme from scratch. Also keep in mind that you can always order any 8Theme’s theme with pre-installed Visual Composer plugin according to your preferences in website’s design.