WP 4.5 and Brad page builder "Loading, please wait…"

Since the WP 4.5 update, I am having a similar problem. Perhaps I can elaborate. I am using a WordPress theme called “Pangaea” which uses something called “Brad Page Builder” as simplified way to design the pages. It’s the proprietary page “builder” from the guy (Brad) who created the theme (however is no longer actively supporting it).

Here is where there is info on the HTML version, however I am using the WordPress version, which is no longer available for purchase, but this should give you an idea.

With the update of WP4.5, the Brad Page Builder interface never loads, but only shows a spinning circle that says, “Loading… please wait…” and it does so for literally, an hour, and never loads. Now I cannot edit any of my pages! I need the Brad Page Builder to load in order to edit the website.

Any insight would be GREATLY appreciated!

Keith – Thank you for the suggestion! The siteorigin plugin looks like it might be a great solution. I’ll give it a try…

To fix Brad Page Builder on my instance I had to do the following, it’s hacking the core so not favourable.

Step 1 – Replace jQuery.
– Download a copy of jQuery 1.11.3
https://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.11.3.js
– Replace existing jQuery (Backup existing) found in
/wp-includes/js/jquery

Step 2 – Update Brad Page Builder html2element function in composer-view.js
– Open composer-view.js found in
/wp-content/themes/Durus/framework/page-builder/js_composer/assets/js/backend
– Find and replace the html2element function (comment out original) with

html2element: function(html) {
    var $template, attributes = {},
        template = html;
    $template = $(template(this.model.toJSON()).trim()), _.each($template.get(0).attributes, function(attr) {
        attributes[attr.name] = attr.value
    }), this.$el.attr(attributes).html($template.html()), this.setContent(), this.renderContent()
},

This should get it workable for now at least until you convince your client for a rebuild.

References;
http://applelives.com/fix-theme-parallax-carousel-image-animations-upgrading-wordpress-4-5.html
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/36605420/plugin-throwing-typeerror-after-wordpress-4-5-update?lq=1

Thanks @alexgso,

That’s a much needed warning/disclaimer, in a normal circumstance I’m fully against core modification. More just a temporary bandaid until the client can be moved to a new theme or custom one. I definitely don’t suggest as a long term solution.

Cheers

Thanks Keith,

I had alot of trouble with that approach as I was attempting to replace the jQuery utilized in the WP Backend. All those tutorials show how to do it for the front end using !is_admin(). Removing this and getting jquery re-enqueued on the back end had it load after the load-scripts.php loader which handles all the jquery dependant scripts like migrate and ui, etc. I didn’t look into it much further on this case, but if someone has a working snippet for handling jquery replacement in the backend that’d be great. May have just needed to use a really high priority on the admin_enqueue_scripts, but not sure.

Cheers

No worries @dreamsnfx, glad it’s working for you.