Plugin throwing TypeError after WordPress 4.5 update

Question

I\'m debugging a visual composer plugin that broke after I updated WordPress to 4.5 and I can\'t figure out why it is throwing a TypeError.

The error message in the

Answer 1

I made this modification that works on my WP 4.8.1 (PHP7)

in the file wp-content/plugins/js_composer/assets/js/backend/composer-view.js

you must modify the render method :

replace this line

this.html2element(_.template($shortcode_template_el.html(), this.model.toJSON())); 

by this line

this.html2element( $shortcode_template_el.html() );

It seems the _.template() function that doesn't work perfectly and doesn't return the good object, so better give the html code instead.