Support for Video & Parallax Backgrounds For Visual Composer

The Design Options tab is an basic feature of Visual Composer and not from any of our plugins.

If it’s missing, it is most likely because you are using a modified version of Visual Composer that comes from your theme, or your theme is overwriting some of the behavior of Visual Composer.

In some cases, your theme probably relocated the default Design Options settings elsewhere (e.g. in the General tab). If that’s the case you can use those options to add a background image and our plugin should still be able to apply parallax effects to it. If the background image isn’t parallaxing, then please try the method below.

In other cases, background settings may have been removed completely. For those scenarios, we have included our own background image upload setting in our own parallax tab.

Visual Composer recommends that themes do not forcibly embed the Visual Composer, but instead include it as a plugin (it’s safer that way and less prone to bugs and compatibility issues).

Our plugin tries to support embedded copies of Visual Composer, and it works great in most themes that have this. However in some scenarios, the plugin fails to “plug in” to the proper Visual Composer areas where it needs to in order to work correctly.

We have added a Compatibility Mode to our plugin to make it work with these types of themes. To turn on compatibility mode, head over to your Plugins list page (this is where you activate & deactivate plugins) and find our plugin from the list. On our plugin’s description, there should be a link on the far right to activate compatibility mode.

Turning that on may fix the problem and the Parallax tab should appear in your row settings.

If it still doesn’t work, then don’t worry, contact us through our support forum! Include your WordPress admin login details as well as your FTP credentials and we will make our plugin work for you.

We want to make our plugins as compatible to as much themes as possible!

Our plugin uses Javascript to perform background adjustments and parallaxing. When you get a white background, then there’s a high chance that your page encountered a Javascript error (probably from another script running in your site).

When there’s a Javascript error, usually what happens is that future Javascript processes that run stop working.. this includes our parallax script, since we are always performing parallax calculations.

You can view Javascript errors in your browser. The WordPress Codex has a good tutorial on checking those.

After you fix your errors, then parallax should work fine.