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Visual Composer Website Builder

Drag and drop page builder that gives the freedom to design WordPress websites, landing pages, custom themes, maintenance mode & coming soon pages.

By Visual Composer·Page Builder·Free
4.6(219 reviews)
·40K+ active installs·Updated 8 months ago
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As of April 2026, Visual Composer Website Builder is a WordPress page builder plugin with 40K+ active installations and a 4.6/5 rating from 219 reviews. It has been downloaded 3.0M+ times in total. Requires WordPress 5.5+ and PHP 7.4+. Available on WordPress.org since 2019. Download volume is stable this week. Top alternative: Elementor Website Builder – more than….

4.6/5219 reviews
40K+active installs
3.0M+total downloads
7 yearssince 2019

Overview

[New] Visual Composer – all-in-one WordPress Website Builder & Landing Page Builder

Free WordPress website builder that gives you the freedom to create websites. A page builder with advanced design features, responsive fonts, easy to use interface, and a seamless drag and drop editor powered by React.

Try new Visual Composer Website Builder.

Visual Composer is the ultimate WordPress sitebuilder designed for web creators who need more power to create professional websites efficiently.

A website builder with must-have features, elements, templates, and design options. It is compatible with other plugins, offering compatibility features as well as offering a theme builder, providing users with an all-in-one wysiwyg web builder.

You will need fewer plugins, you will save time, and…

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Ratings & Reviews

4.6219 reviews
5 ★
190
4 ★
6
3 ★
1
2 ★
3
1 ★
19

Recent Reviews

Locked in once you use it
by szmo·2 months ago

It works well, layouts are great and you can make your own elements. However once you set your site up with this you are locked in. There is not way to make your site usable without Visual Composer once you set it up because it fills your post body with shortcodes.

Visual Composer ROCKS! (even the free version :>)
by sayermcshane·3 months ago

Thanks for providing this EXCELLENT platform and proficient page builder! Please continue, as I (like many others) am looking forward to the next improvements and continued support :>)

Thanks again!

Nice one
by Alexander Gilmanov·9 months ago

I work with products of this company since very early years (2014 and before), Visual composer, in my mind, is a cool, and a very underrated builder.

Try it!

buggy, super slow and doesn’t work on many pages.
by meganetrix·1 year ago

The buggiest, slowest and most incompatible plugin I have ever used. Seems every other plugin breaks VC.

Worst composer tested
by aj2602213·2 years ago

Praised as the best composer on the market, we immediately noticed that it had major flaws. The use of our own cloud immediately revealed itself to be a major flaw because it took us up to 6 minutes to wait to be able to make a change to the text block. We installed the Virtual Composer Tester template on the site to ensure maximum compatibility but nevertheless the problems continued. Not only that, but after the last plugin update it became impossible to make any changes to the pages because trying to remove or delete a widget, even a simple text block, caused the page to crash and lose all its content. Furthermore, the cloud system slows down the loading times of the site which receives a poor score on GTMetrix. We contacted the support center but after 10 hours of waiting we received no assistance. Even though on the manufacturer’s website they say to respond to everyone within 60 minutes and we didn’t do it over the weekend but during the week. We tried uninstalling the plugin and re-installing the previous version of the plugin, the one that initially worked, but this crashed the entire site, forcing us to carry out 3 restore/backups of the site. Very bad experience. We hope for a refund but we are not sure we will be able to obtain it, given that support does not provide a specific “satisfied or refunded” item, nor does it provide a specific ticket to request a refund

Download Trends

Today: 144Yesterday: 167This week: 1KPeriod total: 202K

Compatibility

WordPress5.5+ requiredTested up to 6.8.5
PHP7.4+ required

Version Adoption

v45.15
49.4%
Other
42.9%
v45.10
7.7%

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Frequently Asked Questions

Changelog

45.15.0

Release Date – 2025-08-06

Free:

  • Fix: Vendor folder has been properly included
View full changelog on WordPress.org

Contributors

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Plugin Info
Version
45.15.0
Last Updated
Aug 6, 2025
WP Requires
5.5+
Tested Up To
6.8.5
PHP Requires
7.4+
Active Installs
40K+
Downloads
3.0M+
Added
Sep 26, 2019
Business
Free

Tags

page builderpopup buildertheme builderlanding page builderdrag and drop website builder

Developer

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Visual Composer
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