WordPress "REST API" - Render VisualComposer Content

Question

I'm requesting Content from WordPress by the "REST API V2" Plugin. This works great. There is just one problem left: Contents created by "VisualComposer" Plugin are not rendered in de REST Response.

Response is:

[vc_row]Hello World . . .[/vc_row]

Response should be:

<div class="row">Hello World . . .</div>

How can this be achieved?? Thank you?

Answer 1

I think you can find your answer here with WP REST API v2: https://github.com/WP-API/WP-API/issues/2578

The example below was taken from the link above (thank you, bradmsmith!)

Here is an example how to render the VC shortcodes on the content of a post:

add_action( 'rest_api_init', function ()
{
   register_rest_field(
          // if you need it to work with other (even custom post) types,
          // then you have to use an array:
          // array( 'page', 'post', 'custom_post_type', 'etc' )
          // this example only does the trick for 'page'
          // look at the link in the first EDIT section of this answer
          'page',
          'content',
          array(
                 'get_callback'    => 'compasshb_do_shortcodes',
                 'update_callback' => null,
                 'schema'          => null,
          )
       );
});

function compasshb_do_shortcodes( $object, $field_name, $request )
{
   WPBMap::addAllMappedShortcodes(); // This does all the work

   global $post;
   $post = get_post ($object['id']);
   $output['rendered'] = apply_filters( 'the_content', $post->post_content );

   return $output;
}

EDIT

Here is the link for the register_rest_field() function: register_rest_field()

Answer 2

I have solved it by using another REST Plugin for WordPress (JSON API). This plugin renders the response as expected. The VisualComposer shortcodes are now in HTML.