Top dropdown sub-menus do not show

I’m sorry but as you are using a commercial theme, you need to seek support from the theme’s vendors.

And they sent me here to the WP forum. Ah well…

Thank you.

Esmi: Photocrati just this minute posted this important information (with a temporary workaround) on their website regarding the problem. I suspect it’s pretty widespread amongst Photocrati users:

https://members.photocrati.com/jquery-issue-with-drop-menus-and-galleries-january-16th/

Again, many thanks.
Pierre

I’m not using a Photocrati theme and had the same problem. I had to force version 1.8.x of jQuery to fix. I’m using the Superfish Menus plugin. Something changed in jQuery 1.9 to cause the issue, I guess?

wp_deregister_script('jquery'); // deregister packaged jquery
wp_enqueue_script('jquery', 'https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.8/jquery.min.js');

Chris you are right, here is the post on jQuery explaining this:
https://blog.jquery.com/2012/06/28/jquery-core-version-1-9-and-beyond/

Gentlemen. Thanks for your replies. I was going absolutely nuts working into the early hours of the morning trying to solve this issue.

Remember this: Java had to issue an emergency fix for jv due to the well know security breaches in the SW. In my case, Photocrati (as with most other folks) was behind the curve and are working diligently to create a patch fix for their community of users.
However, in my situation a simple addition of two ‘comment out’ characters fixed my dropdown problem.
Here is Photocrati’s post concerning the issue:
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We are aware of a sudden loss of functionality with drop down menus and gallery sections in some theme versions as a result of a global update to JQuery 1.9 which occurred late in the day on January 15th, and are taking steps to correct it as we speak. As soon as we have a solution we will be emailing all users, as well as posting to social media and on our blogs. We do apologize for any inconvenience, and are working to correct this issue as swiftly as possible.
As a temporary solution, you can go to your WordPress files via FTP or through your web hosts admin area / CPanel, and make your way to:
wp-content > themes > photocrati-theme > header.php
(**theme names may vary slightly – be sure to work within your active Photocrati theme if you have multiple instances**)
open the header.php file, and comment out lines 169 and 170 by adding // to the front.
change this…
wp_deregister_script(‘jquery’);
wp_register_script(‘jquery’, (“https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1/jquery.min.js”), false, ”);
to this…
//wp_deregister_script(‘jquery’);
//wp_register_script(‘jquery’, (“https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1/jquery.min.js”), false, ”);
This should resolve the issue, and we will have a more permanent solution as quickly as possible.
Thank you.
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Cheers and thanks again!!!
Pierre

This fixed my theme too. I hadn’t noticed that the menu wasn’t working properly until recently. I commented out this script

<script type="text/javascript" src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1/jquery.min.js"></script>

and it’s back to normal again.

Thanks a million!
Bob

Just an addendum to this issue:

Photocrati relased version 4.5.1 which includes a fix for the Jquery/dropdown submenu problem (among others). I’m sure there will be a host of plugin authors who will be updating their products as a result of the Javascript issue as well.

Cheers.
Pierre

legend! i was cracking up trying to sort this one!!

in my case is searched for: wp_deregister_script(‘jquery’);

and it was located in Theme.php in my theme folder:

Replace:

wp_deregister_script( ‘jquery’ );
wp_register_script(‘jquery’, (“https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1/jquery.min.js”), false, ”);

with:

//wp_deregister_script(‘jquery’);
//wp_register_script(‘jquery’, (“https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1/jquery.min.js”), false, ”);

worked like a charm, thanks lads! ??