Detect Visual Composer

Question

Is there a way to detect if a WordPress page is using Visual Composer?

I have 2 different page templates:

1. Default template for regular pages.
2. Temp

Answer 1

Yes, you can detect if visual composer is enabled for a post. It's stored in the _wpb_vc_js_status post meta attribute.

$vc_enabled = get_post_meta($post_id, '_wpb_vc_js_status', true);

Note that a post can still contain the visual composer shortcodes, even when visual composer editing is not currently enabled. For example, if I setup a page with visual composer and then revert back to the normal editor, _wpb_vc_js_status will be false.