Snippet: Enable WPBakery on New Posts & Pages for Administrators

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Currently, WPBakery has a limitation where users with the Administrator role cannot set the builder to load by default when creating new posts or pages. The snippet below provides a workaround by adding the necessary redirection logic. Hopefully, a future update will address this and allow administrators, like all other roles, to have WPBakery open by default when creating new posts and pages.

add_action( 'admin_init', function() {
	if ( isset( $_GET['wpb-backend-editor'] )
		|| ! isset( $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] )
		|| wp_doing_ajax()
		|| ! function_exists( 'vc_check_post_type' )
		|| ! current_user_can( 'administrator' )
	) {
		return;
	}

	global $pagenow;
	if ( 'post-new.php' !== $pagenow ) {
		return;
	}

	$post_type = isset( $_GET['post_type'] ) ? sanitize_key( $_GET['post_type'] ) : 'post';
	if ( ! vc_check_post_type( $post_type ) ) {
		return;
	}

	$request_uri = sanitize_url( wp_unslash( $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] ) );
	$url = add_query_arg( 'wpb-backend-editor', '', $request_uri );
	wp_safe_redirect( $url );
	exit;
} );
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