jcheramy2020
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Forum: Reviews
In reply to: [Visual Composer Website Builder] There is a lot missing and a lot of issuesI can’t really share anything because I had to reconnect all of the images before our client noticed. We are a creative firm and purchased the developer version for $300 as we thought this was going to be great. we’d really like to return this and just pay the fee for the two sites this will be used on. We did not get what we paid for and while I understand that we went beyond the two weeks to take it back, the level of issues we have had HAS cost our firm money. More than what we paid for the development version of this plug-in. Whom can I get in touch with to discuss that?
Forum: Reviews
In reply to: [Visual Composer Website Builder] There is a lot missing and a lot of issuesJust found another bug in this plugin.
All of the sudden I lost the images to my backgrounds and images in RANDOM areas. This is now costing our firm money on this site because we aren’t going to charge our client for a bad plugin.
I now have to go through the entire site and reconnect these images. They just look like broken images, and the background on some pages are gone. I really feel like Visual Composer needs to get it together and work on these issues once and for all. Making excuses doesn’t solve problems. Taking the feedback you get and working on them does.
@rohanvc Take a look at that database size. This is what I mean. Obviously we are not the only one experiencing massive databases. Please get your development team on that. We don’t plan to use Visual Composer on any website going forward until it’s fixed or maybe ever consider the hell we went through with all the bugs.
Forum: Reviews
In reply to: [Visual Composer Website Builder] There is a lot missing and a lot of issuesIn regards to the database, I would have to disagree. We had out developer look at this. The database for a 10 page website is 300MB. That is super large. All of the bloating was coming from the wp_postmeta table and was from Visual Composer. The only way we have been able to deal with this is to use a database cleaner which does slim it back down. It is your plugin. I will give you some directions to replicate what caused such massive bloating on our end.
1.) Install Visual Composer
2.) Enable all pro features
3.) Go to the Visual Composer Hub
4.) Download blocks, templates and other items.You will find that is when the database starts getting massively bloated. Even when you REMOVE the global templates from the backend, it does not help anything at all. I believe that is where the biggest issues are is when people download templates.
In a 10 page site, we found roughly 750 entries in the table with keys “vcv-globalElementsCssData” and “vcv-pageContent” which are apparently built out by VC. That part we didn’t understand is that each one contains close to 600,000 characters, which is completely huge. That ends up bogging things down quite a bit.
As we pulled things apart, we found that individual entries create a huge HTML file and stores it as a string. You could retain code in an html file and access that as a URL instead.
Again, I think there is work that needs to be done on this plugin. In regards to bloating the database, it DOES DO THAT. We’ve replicated this on several websites. Even SMALL ones that are only a few pages. The moment you start downloading things from the HUB is when that begins. The ONLY way to clean things out is to use a Database Cleaner.