WPBakery Visual Composer Issue (Server Resources)

Hi Guys,

The website was offline several times a day and my Hosting company just sent me this msg: “All the issues on your website are because of the plugin WPBakery Visual Composer which is consuming a lot of CPU in the background regardless of that all the content in most of the time is served from the cache.
I know that this is one of you main plugins and without it your website will not function properly but this plugin is very bad coded and if it can it will consume all the CPU server resources.”

The reason I write is because they actually don’t want to provide me with the hosting if I do not resolve this.

Please advise.

You can try limiting the number of queries per page, or get a better hosting provider?

Sadly, Visual Composer *does* use a lot of system resources as it’s a GUI to enable custom site layouts — so it’s like another application running on TOP of WordPress, which runs on top of php, which runs on the server.

You can also disable the visual composer CSS from loading on post pages where it’s not normally used (see my optimization sticky for the code to add to your functions.php file).

You can also simplify the category/archive pages to not use fancy Visual Composer blocks by default and simply show list of stories, etc.

Sadly this is an ongoing issue with Visual Composer, and not directly theme related.

Ideally one should be able to customize site then turn OFF Visual Composer, but keep the CSS in place to render the layouts.

Hey,

Older version of Visual Composer should fix this?

I’m using version 4.1.2.

Thanks