Many premium themes on Themeforest add drag and drop page building by including WPBakery’s Page Builder as part of a plugin bundle. WPBakery has created a version control nightmare Even with this handy feature, you’ll need a theme that includes a template with no sidebars to get the most out of WPBakery Page Builder. That is a feature entirely missing from almost every other WordPress page builder. WPBakery Page Builder uses some JavaScript magic to allow you to create a full width layout using any theme. ![]() The developers position is that Page Builder should work with any “properly coded” theme. Taken all together, these drawbacks make using WPBakery Page Builder a frustrating experience. On the more critical side of my review is the glitchy behavior of the UI, slow page saving, inconsistent settings options between elements, and a large number of usability oversights and outright failures. WP Bakery Page Builder (Formerly Visual Composer) – Back end editor My mild gripes and acknowledging some slight usability improvements are the good parts about using WPBakery Page Builder Both editors have a very dated look but still well designed interface and use colorful icons to make modules stand out. They have a back end editor which can be found on the WordPress page or post editing screen and a front end editor that allows for live editing. WPBakery offers two views for their page builder. See the strange white space at the top? I couldn’t get rid of it while editing. WP Bakery Page Builder (Formerly Visual Composer)’s Front end Editor. After a couple of attempts, I had to resort to the back end editor to move the element. For example, dragging an element from one row to another can be a frustrating experience. ![]() ![]() However, even with the performance improvements, there are some aspects of the live editing view that are difficult to manage. WPBakery Page Builder has long offered a live editing view but until recently the interface was slow to the point that it was virtually unusable. Since the last time I looked at WPBakery Page builder, it looks like the developers have made some dramatic performance improvements to the live editing screen.
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