Visual Composer has been around for quite some time, but you might have noticed that you do not see the new name around anymore. So what happened to the Visual Composer Page Builder?
There have been some significant changes lately that have left many of our users quite confused – and rightfully so.
You might have noticed two new names; WC Bakery and Visual Composer Website Builder.
But where did the Visual Composer Page Builder go?
The truth is it didn’t go anywhere. It simply went and got a new name.
However, before we start explaining how the VC Page Builder got a new name all of the sudden, we want to apologize to everyone who ended up confused about Visual Composer.
We are sorry we didn’t explain earlier what was happening behind these confusing changes.
Hopefully, this detailed post will clear some light on the situation.
Visual Composer Page Builder was the name you saw bundled with all of the popular WP themes. That being said, it made no sense for us to change its name. But the truth is that we didn’t have a choice.
The video below explains the whole story behind the name change:
If you don’t feel like watching the video, we’ll briefly explain what happened right here:
Back when Visual Composer Page Builder was still called this way, we started developing a new product – Visual Composer Website Builder.
For the record, this new product was never meant to be an upgrade or a premium version of the VC Page Builder. It was designed from the get-go to be an entirely new tool with lots of new features and options.
We decided to create the VC Website Builder so users can build an entire website from scratch quickly and easily. However, with all the features we had in mind for this new product, we knew that we needed to adjust the development financing.
Our first product, Visual Composer Page Builder, was always an Envato-exclusive product with a lifetime license. Our new product, however, needed a yearly license model in order to support the high development costs. And that meant we had to sell it outside this marketplace.
And that’s where all our problems started.
You see, while planning the entire process, we overlooked one crucial detail. According to our contract with the marketplace, we were not allowed to sell another product under the name of Visual Composer outside their platform.
That meant we only had 2 options: We could either change the name of our first product that we were selling on this platform, or we could adjust the new product to fit a lifetime license.
It was not an easy decision to make because both options had a big downside.
However, after careful consideration, we decided not to compromise the features and quality of our new product.
And that is how Visual Composer Page Builder got a new name: WP Bakery.
Unfortunately, we were so busy with all these unplanned changes that we missed another crucial thing.
Instead of explaining to everyone what was happening, we focused on developing our new product, Visual Composer Website Builder, without notifying our users and long-term partners about the changes we’d made.
We never explained properly that WC Bakery was, in fact, the Visual Composer Page Builder under a new name.
So, naturally, people had a hard time figuring out which was our old products and which was our new one. Some thought WP Bakery was a new plugin, while others thought our new product, Visual Composer Website Builder, was a rebranding of the Page Builder.
So we want to take the time now to explain what each of these two products does and the difference between the two.
Here are our answers to your most common questions:
Like explained previously, WC Bakery is just the new name of an old product – Visual Composer Page Builder. All of the features you know and love remained the same.
Visual Composer Website Builder is our new product for website building with drag-and-drop features. It is effortless and it comes in both free and premium versions.
With VC Website Builder, you get hundreds of ready-to-use content elements that will help you build the website you have always imagined. You can see all the changes instantly thanks to the drag-and-drop features.
Page editing can be done in the tree view or frontend editor. On top of that, you can choose from a number of WP templates and themes – including your existing theme. You can acquire useful add-ons from third-party developers or download them directly from the dedicated cloud-based Hub.
One of the best features of the premium version is the header, footer, and sidebar editor which makes the entire process a lot faster and easier.
No, as explained previously, they are two entirely different products.
VC Page Builder is now named WP Bakery. It is used for content editing, while our new product – VC Website Builder – can be used to build an entire website.
There are many differences between the two products. Apart from serving different purposes, Visual Composer Website Builder was built from scratch with React.js and it does not use any WordPress shortcodes. WP Bakery, on the other hand, is shortcode-based.
Visual Composer Website Builder was built to best meet the needs of your users, and we used their feedback in developing this tool.
The lack of shortcodes also means two things:
There’s a full list of difference between the two products that you can check right here.
Absolutely! WC Bakery is still very important to us and the fact that we have developed a new product does not mean we have given up on the old one.
We are working equally hard on improving both of them and providing the best user experience possible.
Thank you for reading our brief explanation and apology. If you have any additional questions, feel free to leave a comment and we will get back to you with a detailed answer as soon as possible.
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With a host of marketing channels available today, it’s easy for your website to take a backseat to all the trending platforms like Facebook marketing and paid stories. But your website is still where the conversions that matter happen, which means you need to pay close attention to the strategies you implement on it.
Here are the best ways to go about improving your site’s conversion rates in 2019.
Voice search continues to gain popularity and acceptance, with research firms predicting that by 2020 up to 50% of all searches will be conducted via voice. This means that brands need to optimize for voice search if they wish to stay ahead of the game.
As pointed out by Search Engine Journal, the first organic search result on Google’s SERP (search engine results page) gets up to 35% of clicks. When it comes to voice search it’s even more crucial to rank at the top, as only the top three results are shown on mobile, and just one for smart speakers.
The key to voice engine optimization (VEO) is to optimize content, location and page/product/brand information. Voice search is quickly penetrating across industries, particularly for those looking for answers and information on-the-go.
Here are some of the things you should do for VEO:
Email marketing remains to be a powerful tool for customer acquisition – 40 times more effective than Facebook or Twitter. Additionally, marketing emails are six times more likely to earn a click-through than tweets. This means that if you aren’t focusing on optimizing your email marketing, you’re wasting a golden opportunity.
Personalized content has been all the rage for the past couple of years, but email personalization begins with the sender. Check out the image below. Names, even if you don’t know them, catch your attention better than “Grammarly Insights” or “Blogging Wizard.” It’s also easier to tune out promotional emails.
Once you get a sender name and subject line good enough for your email to be opened, you need to make sure that there’s value in the body. Understanding your segmented list allows you to provide content and a CTA that would resonate with the receiver.
There’s layers to this strategy. One is you need to identify which platforms your audiences are in. Then, you need to understand the strengths of each network and the type of content that works best in each platform. For example, on Facebook, images get 53% more likes than average posts. The same applies in LinkedIn where posts with images get 98% more comments.
Once you establish a brand messaging, tailor it to the different platforms you’re utilizing to make sure they perform at optimal level.
You can include the more comprehensive product specs. You can even display the most honest, useful user reviews. But unless they can see how your product actually works, your chances of converting remains mediocre at best.
Product videos provide them an up close look at what you’re selling without them actually using it. To see if it’s worth the investment, test it by producing video for your top performing products. When you see an uptick in sales, move on to the next tier of products.
As customers’ trust for brands continue to decline, and conversely trust their peers more and more, social proof and user-generated content (UGC) become an increasingly powerful conversion tool.
Here are some of the ways you can encourage fans to help you out:
You can even offer incentives like a 10% discount on their next purchase if they leave a review.
Gamification used to be a popular persuasion tactic (think being the mayor of a location in Foursquare, or getting badges in Waze) but has since waned in mass appeal. But, the reason why you should still implement some of its aspects is to tap on people’s need to be rewarded.
Instead of offering badges that are meaningless, cook up rewards that provide actual value. A simple yet effective example of this is Dropbox. They’ve come up with a list of CTAs that, in exchange for, they’ll reward you with additional storage space. This is simple, yet genius, as they’re not only offering a valuable reward, the reward is what their actual product.
AI is the shiny new toy everyone’s looking to get a piece of. But the reality is, not everyone has the resources, or even the need to justify the infrastructure investment. What’s feasible for every business, though, is to invest in its people.
This popular joke concisely explains the concept:
CFO to CEO: “What happens if we invest in developing our people and they leave us?“
CEO: “What happens if we don’t, and they stay?“
To optimize every aspect of your operations, you need to invest in human intelligence – developing them to a level where it is both easy to trust their decisions, and allow free reign to experiment with ideas.
To optimize your website for conversion, you need to understand two main things:
The first part is simple enough, just go to Exit Pages in Google Analytics and request for a report.
Getting insights to the next one is where exit intent polls come in. This basically means that when visitors are about to leave the page, a poll is shown asking them why, for example, they are abandoning a cart. Does shipping take too long? Would they prefer same day fulfillment?
This will allow you to get a clearer picture of why visitors are leaving, and what you can do to improve the user experience on your site. You can find a complete guide on how to set up exit intent polls here.
While it seems outdated in the face of all other marketing channels, SMS remains an effective tool because they go straight to where people spend their time the most – their phones. Additionally, SMS is set up that even when you don’t tap it, you’re able to see the message. This leads to over 90% of all text messages being read within five minutes.
Another benefit of utilizing SMS marketing is that not a lot of brands are using it. This means that while people have been accustomed to ignoring promotional emails, people still read their texts. So if you find yourself with the resources (meaning enough mobile numbers), SMS marketing is a solid avenue you should tap.
Conversion may not always equate to sales and revenue, but it is almost always tied up with the bottom line. Analyze which of the points above are applicable to your business and see your conversion rates rise.
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407 Proxy Authentication Required is an error a HTTP proxy returns if
it requires authentication. It’s really similar to 401 Unauthorized.
HTTP/1.1 407 Proxy Authentication Required
Proxy-Authenticate: Basic; realm="Secured area"
As you can see above, the response looks pretty similar to 401 and can use
the same authentication schemes.
This is an example of a client authenticating with a proxy:
GET / HTTP/1.1
Proxy-Authorization: Basic d2VsbCBkb25lOllvdSBmb3VuZCB0aGUgc2Vjb25kIGVhc3RlciBlZ2cK
If a clients connects to a server that requires authentication via a proxy that also requires authentication, both headers might appear in a request:
GET / HTTP/1.1
Proxy-Authorization: Basic ZWFzdGVyIGVnZzpudW1iZXIgdGhyZWUK
Authorization: Bearer c2VuZCBtZSBhIHR3ZWV0IG9yIHNvbWV0aGluZwo
HTTP proxies used to be more common. They can act like local caches or provide an additional layer of security in a corporate environment. These days they are less common for those purposes. Caching is not as needed, and the security layer is more often implemented with a VPN. Most HTTP proxies these days are reverse proxies, which is mostly transparent for HTTP clients.
Basic and Digest authentication for proxies is widely supported by browsers and other HTTP clients.
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