WPBakery Page Builder – Shortcodes Are Wrapped in Paragraph Tags

Overview of the Issue

When using WPBakery Page Builder (version 8.7) with WPML and translating content using the Classic Translation Editor (CTE), you might notice that shortcodes from the WPBakery backend editor are incorrectly wrapped in <p> tags. This might break the expected structure and display of the shortcodes on the translated page.

Workaround

This issue is fixed in WPBakery 8.7.1. Updating solves it on your site, so you only need this workaround if you can’t update yet.

To avoid this issue, you can:

Use the WPBakery Frontend Editor to build your pages instead of the backend editor.
Or, translate your pages using the Advanced Translation Editor (ATE) instead of the Classic Translation Editor.

WPBakery’s development team is aware of the issue and is working on a fix.

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