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What ships today for WPBakery

Everything below is read from this repo at build time: tool registrations come from the MCP server adapter files; changelog entries are filtered from the same source the /releases timeline uses.

Last 5 releases mentioning WPBakery

• 7.4.0 Jun 12, 2026
  • Visual Composer moved from read to write. Respira now writes in VC's canonical storage format, so the editor loads the page and the front end renders. Labeled with its caveats (VC recompiles on the next editor save)
• 7.0.47 May 21, 2026
  • WPBakery / Bricks / Breakdance extractors are queued for the next ship. Today the dispatcher returns $post->post_content for those builders, which is at worst the same false negative the audit reported before this fix —
• 7.0.40 May 20, 2026
  • Bricks, Beaver, Divi (4 + 5), Elementor (3 + 4), WPBakery, Flatsome behavior unchanged: existing elements have settings → wrap target stays settings.
• 7.0.38 May 20, 2026
  • Bug #8 — find_element surfaces matches[] + count on multi-match. Pre-fix the API returned a single element and a 200 status even when a page contained 3+ elements satisfying the same identifier (e.g. two vc_btn of the sa
  • Bug #9 — security validator allows first-party builder shortcodes + names offending pattern. Pre-fix [vc_gmaps link="#E-8_JTNDaWZyYW1lJTIw..."] was getting rejected because the URL-encoded value decodes to <iframe> and t
  • Bug #11 — vc_message label resolver drops the color attr. Pre-fix derive_wpbakery_label() had 'vc_message' => array( 'message_box_color', 'el_id' ) in its catalog. message_box_color returns the style ("warning" / "info"
• 7.0.35 May 18, 2026
  • Respira_Builder_WPBakery::parse_shortcode_attrs preserves "0" attribute values. Pre-v7.0.35 the three regex-capture branches (double-quoted, single-quoted, unquoted) were guarded by ! empty( $match[N] ). empty("0") retur
  • Verified end-to-end on cekt.ro itself via SSH'd WP-CLI: duplicate of 119462 + remove_element on the marquee row returns ok from the writer and the resulting URL returns HTTP 200 with 206 KB body and the row 3 vc_row shor

View all 13 releases that touched WPBakery →

Tools

WPBakery uses the universal toolset

WPBakery edits run through Respira's universal tools: respira_find_element, respira_update_element, respira_update_page (for full-page replacement only), respira_get_snapshot, and respira_create_page_duplicate. See the complete tool catalog.

Example prompts

Three prompts you can paste right now

Each one assumes Respira is connected to your WordPress site through the MCP server below. Copy a prompt, paste into your MCP client, run.

On every page in the "/services/" path, find the first vc_btn shortcode in the page and update its title to "Book a call". Duplicate each page first, then show me a diff.

List every distinct vc_* shortcode used across the site and how many times each appears. Output as a markdown table sorted by frequency.

Find every vc_row that contains no vc_column children. List them by page so I can decide whether to delete.

Setup

Connect Respira's MCP server

Drop this into your MCP client config (Claude Desktop, Cursor, Codex, Windsurf — any MCP-compatible client). Generate an API key from your Respira dashboard first.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "respira-wordpress": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "@respira/wordpress-mcp-server"],
      "env": {
        "WORDPRESS_URL": "https://yoursite.com",
        "WORDPRESS_API_KEY": "respira_your_api_key_here"
      }
    }
  }
}

WPBakery shortcode round-tripping has known edge cases on deeply nested vc_row + third-party shortcodes. Always duplicate a page before the first AI edit on a critical template.