Page Composer — Basic

Page Composer — Basic replaces the default editor on Posts and Pages with the Page Composer visual editor. Compose Posts and Pages from real components (Text, Image, WooCommerce blocks) and render them with the bundled PCEditor library. Features:

• Page Composer editor on Posts, Pages and the Page Templates post type.
• Composed content is stored as JSON in post meta and compiled into wp_posts.post_content as an HTML snapshot on every save — so WordPress search, feeds and other plugins see real page text while the live page always renders fresh from the JSON.
• Native revisions cover both the snapshot and the JSON (WP 6.4+ revisioned meta) — restoring a revision restores the composition.
• Page Composer → Reindex: rebuild all snapshots after component-template changes (theme overrides, markup edits) without re-saving every post.
• Rendering via the PCEditor general library, with theme-overridable templates (drop {Component}.php into your theme's pce_templates/).
• Per-component CSS (the css_props field) compiled into media queries.
• Settings (Editor / Components / Reindex tabs): enable the editor (it replaces the WordPress block editor and Site Editor on Posts and Pages), allowed roles, default Row grid, media-query sizes, and CSS output.
• Detects conflicting page builders (Elementor, WPBakery, Divi, Beaver Builder, …) and disables the editor with a notice while any is active.
• Load/Save page templates, stored as a custom post type and re-editable in the editor.
• WooCommerce components (18) via shortcodes — products, recent/featured/sale/ best-selling/top-rated, by category/attribute, single product, related, add to cart (+ URL), cart, checkout, my account, order tracking.
• WordPress-widget components (13) — Search, Categories, Recent Posts, Tag Cloud, Archives, Calendar, Menu, Meta, Pages, Recent Comments, RSS, Links, Text.
• Raw HTML and Raw JS components for embedding custom markup and scripts.
• Contact Form 7 component (own editor tab) — embed a form by its ID and optional title (offered while the Contact Form 7 plugin is active).
• Content components: Title (configurable tag + font size), Quote, Separator, CTA Button (colors as CSS variables) and Google map (Maps Embed API key in Settings → Components; keyless embed without one).
• "Page Composer — Full Width" page template (Page Attributes → Template) — the active theme's header + footer only, content full-width (classic + block themes).
• Default Row/Col grid stylesheet loaded in the active theme (disable with the pce_load_grid_styles filter, or override the --pce-grid-* custom properties).
• Configurable Row column-layout presets (Components → Row layouts) — a visual bar builder, fed to the editor as editor.hooks.filters.components.Row.layouts.
• Yoast SEO content analysis integration.
• Filters: pce_components, pce_css_field, pce_editor_enabled, pce_load_assets, pce_load_grid_styles, pce_content_meta_key, pce_pre_save_content, pce_load_content.

No account or API key is needed — activate the plugin and the editor works. WooCommerce support Page Composer ships ready-made components for WooCommerce stores: products (recent, featured, on sale, best selling, top rated), products by category or attribute, a single product, related products, add to cart (and its URL), cart, checkout, my account and order tracking. They render through WooCommerce's own shortcodes, so they appear in the editor only while WooCommerce is installed and active, and they follow your WooCommerce templates and styling. WooCommerce itself is not bundled or required — without it, Page Composer simply omits these components. Page Composer is an independent product. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by Automattic or WooCommerce. "WooCommerce" and "WordPress" are trademarks of their respective owners and are used here only to describe compatibility.

1.6.84

• New card templates for custom components: fields_chips and fields_grid show every field marked show_in_template: true on the editor card as a label + value pair — switches as localized Yes/No, colors as a swatch, selects as their option label, files as the file name, long text truncated.

1.6.83

• Components window: a long category list no longer overlaps the bar with the action buttons.
• Fixed a potential editor freeze in background tabs when a save/load request failed — request errors now log to the browser console instead of showing a blocking alert.

1.6.82

• Columns can now be reordered by dragging the new handle in a column's toolbar — the neighbouring columns slide aside to show where it will land.
• Security hardening: composition JSON is now filtered by author capability on every save, mirroring how WordPress core treats post_content. Authors without the unfiltered_html capability have field values passed through wp_kses_post() and script payloads (Raw JS) removed; authors with the capability are unaffected.

1.6.80

• First public release on WordPress.org.
• Visual component editor for Posts and Pages with saved page templates and per-component saved settings.
• WooCommerce (18), WordPress-widget (13), Contact Form 7 and content components; Yoast SEO analysis integration.
• Full Width page template, configurable Row layouts, grid stylesheet filters.
• Wysiwyg paste clean-up (data-* attributes and copy artifacts are stripped).
• Interface translated into 12 languages.