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Gabriel Rosario
Gabriel Rosario
23,602 Points
Posted by Gabriel Rosario
Gabriel Rosario
23,602 Points

Need help on wordpress project!!! Like REAL help!!!

I'm working on a project that my boss give me and don't understand almost anything. The code on wordpress isn't html, they are short codes like the follow:

[vc_row type="full_width_background" parallax_speed="1" css=".vc_custom_1424378578432{background-position: 0 0 !important;background-repeat: repeat !important;}"][vc_column width="1/1"][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width="1/2"][thb_gap height="5"][thb_banner type="effect-ruby" banner_bg="7824" title="Solicita" subtitle="Completa la solicitud en línea para que podamos aprender más acerca de tu negocio."][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width="1/2"][thb_gap height="5"][thb_banner type="effect-ruby" title="Prestar fondos" subtitle="Tu negocio será publicado en Kiva, donde tu préstamo será accesible al millón de prestamistas que están en la plataforma. " banner_bg="7815"][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width="1/2"][thb_gap height="30"][thb_banner type="effect-ruby" title="Invita" subtitle="Invita a tus familiares y amistades a que aporten dinero a tu préstamo para formar su red de confianza y probar su credibilidad y solvencia." banner_bg="7817"][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width="1/2"][thb_gap height="30"][thb_banner type="effect-ruby" title="Repaga" subtitle="Utiliza tu préstamo para el crecimiento de tu negocio y repaga el préstamo a los individuos que lo apoyaron y confiaron en usted." banner_bg="7813"][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width="1/1"][thb_gap height="35"][thb_header style="style1" color="dark" title="0% de Interés y sin tarifas" icon="icon-budicon-63"][vc_column_text]

I don't understand anything and I have to change some images but there are not in html so dont have any idea of how to work with this. Any help please please!!!

4 Answers

Darryl Holtby
Darryl Holtby
16,172 Points
Darryl Holtby
Darryl Holtby
16,172 Points

You're wordpress theme is using a plugin call Visual Composer (https://codecanyon.net/item/visual-composer-page-builder-for-wordpress/242431) and you are seeing all of the shortcodes it creates for the page layouts. Either the plugin has been disabled and needs to be activated, or it needs to be installed again. There is also a button above the page editor box that lets you switch between "Visual" and "Classic" mode, it may just be showing "Classic" mode.

Gabriel Rosario
Gabriel Rosario
23,602 Points
Gabriel Rosario
Gabriel Rosario
23,602 Points

The visual mode its seems to be very similar, almost identical. It's doesn't help at all. :/

Darryl Holtby
Darryl Holtby
16,172 Points
Darryl Holtby
Darryl Holtby
16,172 Points

Sorry Gabriel, this is what you're experiencing. You could try reaching out to WP Bakery on what may be happening with their plugin, there could be a bug or the latest version of WordPress may not be compatible with the version of Visual Composer your site has installed. http://wpbakery.com/

Kevin Korte
Kevin Korte
28,149 Points
Kevin Korte
Kevin Korte
28,149 Points

Darrly is right, and while I'm familiar with wp, I'm not familiar with visual composer, and I'm not going to buy it try it out. You're going to have to dig through documentation to learn what each shortcode is doing. They also have a support ticket system that might be able to point you in the right direction: https://vc.wpbakery.com/features/support/

Gabriel Rosario
Gabriel Rosario
23,602 Points
Gabriel Rosario
Gabriel Rosario
23,602 Points

Thanks a lot everyone!!! At least I'm on the right track. Thanks.

Doru Marginean
Doru Marginean
2,290 Points
Doru Marginean
Doru Marginean
2,290 Points

@Kevin Korte If you are interested in a demo of Visual Composer you can signup for a free test drive https://vc.wpbakery.com/try/

@Gabriel Rosario I agree with all the answers above and strongly advise you to fix the issue but as a quick test you could try to upload the images you need and swap the ids with the newly uploaded ones. eg. banner_bg="7824" becomes banner_bg="NEW_ID"