After updating WordPress to 4.7.2, the Visual Composer component no longer loads.
I updated all my plugins, and also downloaded and updated the new Tower theme following the instructions exactly as described here: https://codeless.co/tower/documentation/main.html#update_theme
After following the prompts on the Dashboard to update Visual Composer, I am prompted that I am not licensed for Visual Composer, and am redirected to their purchase page.
My current WPBakery Visual Composer version is 4.9.1. Neither the backend or frontend editors load.
You have to install the included plugin version. Do not try to update by yourself. This version of Visual Composer has an extended license. Meaning you can use the included version but can not update on your own.
We update all included plugins whenever a theme update is released. This means the latest Visual Composer plugin is already included in the last theme version. All you have to do is remove the current plugin by either deleting it, or renaming it’s folder in wp-content/plugins folder in your server.
Then go to wordpress dashboard and follow the onscreen instructions to install required plugins (like you did when you first installed theme and plugins).
