3.9 – Conflict with other plugins

Which plugins? What errors? What goes wrong?
Did you update those plugins too? etc. Are they compatible with WordPress 3.8?

Just saying “it doesn’t work anymore” is not helpful at all.

Let’s start with this:

Lightbox plus plugin (https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/lightbox-plus/)

Doesn’t work = The plugin’s job is to overlay an image when its clicked as a lightbox. It works fine with adrotate 3.9 is disabled but when adrotate plugin is enabled, lightbox plus doesn’t overlay the images.

There are no errors displayed, just that the Lightbox plugin functionality stops working.

Hope this is clear?

Activating lightbox plus on my test site gives me all kinds of errors from lightbox. The media uploader breaks and every page is littered with warnings.

When I disable AdRotate the problem persists. When I disable lightbox all is well.
I think I found your problem but it’s not AdRotate ??

I disagree with you on that. I just double checked again.

1. Lightbox plus doesn’t give any error. Also its been working fine until your 3.9.3 update after which I started getting errors.

2. Using lightbox plus with adrotate doesn’t throw up any errors, its the functionality that stops working. So its most likely some ajax or similar conflict.

3. Since you conveniently wrote off the problem, I decided to use the older version of adrotate from another site of mine and strange enough Lightbox plus overlay worked like a charm.

So I am very well sure the problem is with adrotate. Given that the version previous to 3.9.3 worked fine, it must be some of the new code that you might have added.

Try enabling wp_debug and you’ll see what i meant ??
But suit yourself.

I have tried other lightbox plugins and they work fine.
AdRotate does nothing with lightbox, so a conflict on that end would be unlikely.

Btw, you mentioned using 3.9 in your first post. Did you try 3.9.3 too? A number of things didn’t quite work with clicktracking (which uses Javascript now) that have been fixed.

Perhaps that works better for you…

3.9 works without a problem, 3.9.3 is causing the issue. Maybe i’ll move back to 3.9 and disable update notifications until the issue is sorted out.

Edit, just read my first post… It should read 3.9.3 and not 3.9… Again 3.9 works fine, issues with 3.9.3

Ah, hmm.
So far I have been unable to reproduce the issue. And the plugin you mention was causing issues. Sounds a bit backwards ??

Can you check your browsers debug console to see if any JS errors pop up?

New info – Make sure your jQuery version is at least 1.7.
AdRotate uses a function that requires that version or newer.

WordPress 3.7 and newer have at least 1.10 included so there is no reason to use older versions.

Checked and updated jquery. 3.9.3 works fine now…. (Hope the next future updates won’t create more problems). Saving the older version just in case.

Thanks for your help.

Well the problem wasn’t created by AdRotate but by your theme (?) using more than 2 year old code.
jQuery 1.7 was released in 2011, jQuery 1.10.x is current. You were using 1.6.4.

Well if you really want to get into the nooks and crooks so long as to point fingers the other way….

The jquery wan’t the issue at all. I had the updated one all the time. I just re-updated the same one. The only difference was I disabled all the plugins and reactivated them which is when adrotate started working again.

I still think there’s something funny with adrotate, as with my issue the last time. Its weird that I have to deactivate/reactive the plugin in order to get it to work correctly every time there is a new update released.

And of all the plugins used, its strange that only adrotate has this issue. As I said, I am keeping the back up of the old version to fall back on in the event such issues come up again.