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With over one million users worldwide, the ever popular drag
and drop page builder, Visual Composer, has inspired a legion of developers to
create loads of cool and useful addons and extensions that extend its functions
and provide virtually unlimited possibilities when it comes to creating the
WordPress site of your dreams. We’ve compiled a list of the 20 best of these
addons and extensions to be found at Code
Canyon.

Some offer a huge range of features within one powerful
extension while others provide just one specialised and targeted function. Some
have been on the market for a while and have earned a reputation as the go-to
plugin for users of Visual Composer while others are new to the market but have
the potential to carve out their own unique following. Either way, you’re bound
to find a plugin here that will answer your prayers… some of them, anyway.

1. Massive Addons for Visual Composer

Massive Addons for Visual Composer arrived on the scene
early last year and has been gaining quite a following. This all-in-one
extension is packed with features that will make even the most demanding web
designer happy. In addition, it’s
compatible with most WordPress themes that support Visual Composer 4.7+.

Notable features:

• over 70 customisable shortcodes and addons
• 31 page templates
• supports WooCommerce
• over 15 training videos
• and more

Massive Addons for Visual Composer is exactly
what you need if you’re looking for a Visual Composer extension that covers a huge range
of functionality.

2. Visual
Composer Extensions Addon

One of the top sellers at Code Canyon, Visual Composer
Extensions Addon is packed with a dizzying amount of features including a Google
Font Manager with more than 810 fonts, over 70 CSS3 animations, and the
option to use any Visual Composer element in a sidebar. In addition, when you
download this addon, you also get a built-in downtime/maintenance
manager for your site which allows you to create a custom downtime page.

Notable features:

• over 150 different elements
• Icon and Google Font Managers
• custom premium Lightbox
• template and widget builder
• and more

With its record of consistent updates and addition of new
features to an already great product, Visual
Composer Extensions Addon is bound to remain a crowd favourite for years to come.

3. Kaswara – Modern Visual Composer Addons

Kaswara – Modern Visual Composer Addons, just entered the
market this January and though it doesn’t have as many elements as other addons
and extensions that have been on the market longer, it certainly has been gaining
lots of attention with its sleek and beautiful designs.

Notable features:

• contact form designer
• shortcode manager
• replica section
• Icon and Google font managers
• and more

Already gaining a following of faithfully with its well-executed
features Kaswara – Modern Visual Composer Addons is the
newcomer to watch in the Visual Composer addon market.

4. Ultimate
Addons for Visual Composer

The Ultimate Addons is one of the highest rated and best
selling addons for Visual Composer and no wonder. With 20 updates since its
inception, this is an addon that works consistently to stay ahead of the
competition and deliver a product that meets the needs of a wide range of
designers.

Notable features:

• parallax and video backgrounds
• video tutorials
• over 40 unique elements
• 15 demo pages for inspiration
• and more

A perennial favourite, Ultimate
Addons for Visual Composer ticks a
lot of boxes as a reliable Visual Composer addon.

5. Visual
Composer KIT (VCKit) Addon  

Visual Composer KIT is
one of the latest Visual Composer addons at CodeCanyon, having hit the market
in early April. With over 40 beautifully designed elements and highly customized
features, this all-in-one addon will most certainly be a major player at CodeCanyon in the coming months and years.

Notable features:

• five pre-designed demo homepage templates
• over 45 animation effects
• one-click installation
• and more

Another great new all-in-one addon, Visual
Composer KIT (VCKit) Addon is a great feature-rich choice for Visual
Composer users.

6. Visual Composer Extensions Addon All in One

Visual Composer Extensions Addon All in One combines 64
different functions that extend Visual Composer functionality in one powerful
addon.

Notable features:

• carousel and gallery
• to-do list and price
  table
• draggable timeline
• iHover with 35
  transitions
• and more

Visual
Composer Extensions Addon All in One is another oldie but goodie holding
its own in the Visual Composer market.

7. Video
& Parallax Backgrounds For Visual Composer

Video & Parallax Backgrounds For Visual Composer is a
specialised addon that allows
you to easily add video backgrounds as well as image parallax scrolling effects
to your WordPress site. It also provides Row Adjuster Elements, allowing you to widen your rows into
full-width, full-height or full-screen.

Notable features:

• HD video backgrounds
• parallax in four
  directions and fixed
• hover backgrounds
• mix and match,
  single or multiple parallaxes, videos and hover backgrounds
• and more

The Video
& Parallax Backgrounds For Visual Composer provides an exciting and
easy way to liven up your website by adding video and parallax features to your background.

8. Team
Showcase for Visual Composer WordPress Plugin

Team Showcase for
Visual Composer is another specialised plugin for Visual Composer that enables
you to add a team or staff member section anywhere on your website in different
layouts.

Notable features:

• ten predefined responsive themes
• four different display options
• ability to create custom
  links for each team member
• animated in and out slider
• and more

Though designed
specifically for showcasing team members, Team
Showcase for Visual Composer WordPress Plugin can also be repurposed to display testimonials or other image and text
content.

9. Visual
Composer – Sortable Grid & Taxonomy Filter

If you’re looking for an interesting way to display your
posts or products, then the Sortable
Grid and Taxonomy Filter may be the
answer for you. This addon is packed with features that allow you to display your
products, posts or other types of content in a selection of grid layouts.

Notable features:

• fully customizable
• five different grid layouts
• CSS3 animations to animate your grid items
• custom taxonomy filter—you can enable filter posts from a
  determined category
• and more

Visual
Composer – Sortable Grid & Taxonomy Filter is
a great addon to bring some variety to the way you sort and display content
like posts, products, and more.

10. Visual
Composer Add-on Image Hotspot with Tooltip

The Visual Composer Add-on Image Hotspot with Tooltip comes
bundled with another bestselling CodeCanyon addon, the Visual
Composer Extensions All In One. But for those who don’t own that plugin,
this standalone enables you to add a hotspot icon with a popup tooltip to any
image on your site.

Notable features:

• the tooltip feature supports text, images, video, and other
  kinds of content
• hotspot icon’s position easily customisable
• hotspot icons come in a variety of colours
• and more

Visual
Composer Add-on Image Hotspot with Tooltip may
not be for everyone but will be of great
value to photographers and e-commerce or educational sites.

11. Testimonials
Showcase for Visual Composer Plugin

Testimonials
Showcase is designed specifically to help you display and manage your testimonials.
It comes with several themes, colour schemes, and customisable options that will
allow you to integrate the addon into your site seamlessly.

Notable features:

• ten responsive themes
• grid or slider display
• submission form that allows customers to write and submit
  their testimonials
• ability to filter testimonials
• and more

Testimonials
Showcase for Visual Composer Plugin will
have a broad appeal to businesses that need an elegant and easy solution to
collecting and displaying customer feedback.

12. Unique
Hover Effects – VC Addon

Unique Hover Effects is a simple but wonderful Visual
Composer addon that allows you to animate your images and create various hover effects
including captions.

Notable features:

• over eight choices of image animations
• ability to customise settings for every image
• external linking
• over six caption animations
• and more

Image-rich websites will find the Unique
Hover Effects – VC Addon a great resource for creating captions with a bit
of pizazz.

13. Modal
Popup Box For Visual Composer

Modal Popup Box comes bundled with Code Canyon’s top-selling Ultimate
Addons for Visual Composer but can also be bought as a standalone for those
who’re just looking for a popup feature. The addon allows you to add popups for
a wide variety of purposes: opt-ins for email subscription, shortcodes, images,
videos, contact forms, or social media widgets.

Notable features:

• ability to create popups of various content, including images and video
• MailChimp supported
• shortcode support
• and more

Modal Popup Box For Visual Composer is the easy solution for adding
various types of popups and opt-ins to your website.

14. Smart
One Page Navigation – Addon For Visual Composer

Smart One Page Navigation is a great plugin for users
looking for a quick, easy, no-hassle way to create a landing page or a single-page website.

Notable features:

• supports Google Fonts and Font Awesome Icons and Image Icons
• smart sticky navigation
• supports fullscreen scrolling 
• unlimited colour selection
• and more

A five star rated addon, Smart
One Page Navigation is the only Visual Composer addon  you need to create a beautiful single-page
websites or landing page.

15. Ultimate
MailChimp Form Builder for Visual Composer

This plugin is designed specifically to help users of
MailChimp’s email subscription service create subscription forms quickly and
easily with Visual Composer.

Notable features:

• unlimited MailChimp accounts in one site
• supports custom fields
• easy custom layout via Visual Composer
• and more

MailChimp users will be excited to check out Ultimate
MailChimp Form Builder.

16. Fast
Gallery for Visual Composer WordPress Plugin

Fast Gallery allows
you to build a variety of photo galleries and insert them into your WordPress
site.

Notable features:

• eight types of galleries
• nine different
  layouts
• animations with over
  200 effects
• video tutorial
  available
• and more

With its large selection of gallery types, layouts and
animation effects, Fast
Gallery for Visual Composer WordPress Plugin will be an indispensable tool
for image-rich sites.

17. Food
Menus Addons for Visual Composer WordPress Plugin

Food Menus Add-ons offers a great selection of different
customizable food menu layouts and a plethora of customizable features to suit
a wide range of tastes and styles.

Notable features:

• 24 food menus to choose from 
• multiple food menus in one page
• over 1,000 icons
• custom hover effects
• and more

Food Menus
Add-ons is the perfect Visual Composer addon for websites dedicated
to restaurants, cafes, caterers and chefs, as well as all those foodie bloggers
out there.

18. Visual
Composer | Pricing Tables By NBGoyani

Pricing Tables is another single function Visual Composer
addon that is ideal for those who need to create pricing tables for their
online business. It comes with several beautifully designed tables in a wide
selection of colours and animations.

Notable features:

• over 18 unique styles
• ability to change colours to match your website
• over 60 load animations effects
• Font Awesome included
• and more

Visual
Composer | Pricing Tables By NBGoyani offers a simple, intuitive way to create beautiful pricing tables for your website.

19. Visual
Composer Add-on Bookshelf

Bookshelf is exactly what the name suggests, a visual
composer addon that allows you to install virtual bookshelves on your WordPress
site. You can upload images of books or magazines from your computer and link
out to their authors, or you can use it with the Flipbook WordPress Plugin, which you’d need to buy separately.

Notable features:

• easily customize default width
• easily adjust the colours
• category name for books
• outlinking
• and more

Visual
Composer Add-on Bookshelf is ideal for showing off 2D items, magazine
layouts you’ve created or books you want to highlight.

20. Vera – Essential Multimedia Addons for Visual Composer

Vera is a multimedia addon for Visual Composer that enables
you to add video, audio and radio players, multimedia carousels, countdown
timers and more to your WordPress site.

Notable features:

• video, audio and radio players
• logos showcase pro
• multimedia carousel
• multimedia playlist slider
• and more

One of the great things about purchasing Vera –
Essential Multimedia Add-ons for Visual Composer is that once
purchased, users continually receive bonuses that extend the functionality of
the plugin.

Conclusion

These 20
plugins just scratch the surface of products available at Envato
Market. So if none of them catch your fancy, there are plenty of other
great options there to hold your interest.

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