Cycle plugin conflict if already using jquery cycle

Hi Dan,

The easiest answer is probably to tell RT to use your slideshow’s installation of Cycle 2.

Is it a particular plug-in or template that is putting it there?

Martin

Hi Martin

Thanks so much for getting back to me.

It’s not a plugin – it’s a custom theme of my own, where I’m calling the jquery.cycle plugin from the footer.

How do I get RT to use my original instance of the cycle code?

Cheers

Dan

How are you adding the jquery.cycle2 plug-in?

Are you using wp_enqueue_script()?

Do you have any extra transitions added in on top?

And do you have your own script loading at some point?

Martin

Hey Martin

Thanks agin for looking into this.

I’m simply adding the cycle2 plugin script in the footer

<script src="<?php bloginfo('template_url'); ?>/scripts/jquery.cycle2.min.js"></script>

So, I’m not using wp_enqueue_script()?

There are no extra transitions on top

Regards

Dan

That’s generally not the best way to do it – precisely because it causes clashes with other files.

I’d suggest putting something like:

function yourthemeslug_enqueue_script() {
	wp_enqueue_script('jquery-cycle2',bloginfo('template_url').'/scripts/jquery.cycle2.min.js',array('jquery'));
}
add_action( 'wp_enqueue_scripts', 'yourthemeslug_enqueue_script' );

in your functions.php file instead.

This will give Rotating Tweets (and other plug-ins) the chance to deal with it!

What’s your theme name?

Hi Martin,

Thanks for the tip! I’m now calling jqyery cycle from my functions.php as you suggested

function digitalcatapult_enqueue_script() {
  	 wp_enqueue_script('jquery-cycle2',get_template_directory_uri().'/scripts/jquery.cycle2.min.js',array('jquery'));
}
add_action( 'wp_enqueue_scripts', 'digitalcatapult_enqueue_script' );

However the script still seems to be loading twice on the page – and my slideshow pager is showing twice the number of slides.

If I rename the cycle scripts in your plugin folder then my slideshow works fine, but the tweets driven by your plugin stop scrolling/repeating.

Many thanks

Dan

Is your template called ‘digital catapult’ – or ‘digitalcatapult’?

If so, I’ve uploaded a development version of Rotating Tweets that may fix your problem!

Hi Dan,

Did it work?

Martin

Hi Dan,

The main version of the plug-in should now address this.

Is it working for you?

Best wishes,

Martin

Hi Martin,

REALLY sorry for not answering sooner.

It’s all working perfectly now.

BTW this is a superb plugin, and saves WP developers from a world off pain setting up the OAuth gubbins for each client.

Thanks again!

Dan

Oops spoke too soon.

For some reason the latest version of your plugin causes the other instance of the Jquery cycle to double to number of links it creates for the cycle pager.

https://www.digitalcatapultcentre.org.uk/

See the 3 blank “pager” links one the main banner feature – what’s bizarre is that it doesn’t actually create any extra slides in the cycle – just extra blank cycle pager links.

I’ve tried changing the class on my pager so it’s not using the default class=”cycle-pager”, but that hasn’t made any difference.

Sorry to keep bringing you aggro!

Dan

From what I can find out this can happen if the Jquery Cycle script gets fired twice.