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Follow up. I have another plugin called Justified Image Grid which is no longer working at all. This one is important to me. I can’t live without it. So I have no choice but to delete Easy Modal. I’ve done that but my JIG is still not working so I’ll have to reinstall it. It’s a manual install which I haven’t done very often so I’ll have to find my original notes.

Sorry Daniel. Chalk it up to experience about how you can really screw up your web site when trying to overcome a plugin incompatibility.

Yep. The problem was that bug in qTranslate. Here’s what I’ve done:

1- Backup (using BackWPup plugin)
2= Deactivated qTranslate
3- Deleted and re-installed and re-activated Easy Modal

Easy Modal dashboard functions are now working! But I have quite a mess on my hands. When I deactivated qTranslate, all of the language versions of every page were “combined” into a single page. So now the English HTML comes first then, at the end of that, the French HTML is appended. My menu is the same (both labels appear).

It’s also impacted my functions.php in my child theme where I had put some conditional coding based on the language chosen.

Ignoring all this, I pressed on and created my first modal and put a Contact 7 Form shortcode and created a test page and tried it out. No go. So I removed the shortcode and just put a bit of text. No go. The modal appears on the page (as a link and button) but doesn’t pop up or do anything when I click on it. I’ve tried the link and the button. Neither works.

I’m supposed to have a meeting with my client in 2 hours so I’ve got to get cracking to fix up this mess. I’ll revert it all to English only for now so I have something to show at my meeting.

I’ll contemplate where I’m going after I do that. I’m happy to hear what you think I should do next.

Thanks for the quick response.

I tried deactivating any plugin that might affect the WP dashboard (except one – see below) but this had no effect.

As for opening my browsers console in “developers” tools, I wasn’t sure what you meant. So I tried a few things:

Firefox:

I checked in Firebug console for errors. There was one that came up on the Modals page.

TypeError: td is null
td.parentNode.insertBefore(qtd,td);

and on the right it said admin...._id=new (line 580)
I found it interesting that every few seconds, on the Firebug console, further notifications are coming that relate to loading ajax-admin.php but this is not an error just informational message with a label of POST.

In Chrome:

I turned on the Developers Tools and refreshed the Modals page. A warning (triangle with exclamation mark). When I clicked on it, it pointed me to:

event.returnValue is deprecated. Please use the standard event.preventDefault()instead.

that seemed to be pointing to something called “load-scripts.php” followed by lots of ? parameters (it won’t let me copy and paste them). I assume that this is a core WP script.

I’d be happy to create screenshots and source code files for you if that could help you to pinpoint the cause. I can’t open up admin to you even temporarily – sorry.

There is one plugin I haven’t turned off yet which might have some bearing. It is qtranslate. I’ve got English and French versions of the pages. This is a pretty popular plugin for anyone wanting multi-lingual web sites. It is very closely linked to the WP core files. I’m kind of scared of deactivating it and losing all the work I’ve done to translate the site to French. Let me know if you think this might be the cause.

BTW I’ve deleted and reloaded your plugin and that had no effect.

I must confess there is no other WP plugin I can see that has the same functionality as yours. I know someone else who is using it (Pro version) and I’ve got content access to that web site and I can see how the tools are suppose to work when it is working correctly. So I’m rather keen to resolve this problem if I can.

Thanks Daniel.

I have used it 20 times on the same page. No problem.

Hi Robert

Thank you for explaining that the upgrade only impacts the MapsMarker API and not the Google APi. I’ve upgraded to 3.8.6 now and everything is still working.

Denis

I have the same problem. I just had a burst of 404’s in the past 24 hours and wanted to see more details about where they were coming from but clicking on “Referers” or “User Agents” produces nothing.

Firstly, have you updated you database? To do that use
Tools => GEO IP Detect
and click on “Update now” button.

Once done, test it out by clicking on the “Lookup” button. This shows you a complete dump of the data available.

As for your “WP Footer”, I assume you mean that you are updating your WP Footer using
Appearance => Widget
and selecting to update one of your footer widgets. If so, try adding a Text widget. In the widget, add
[geoip_detect property="country_code"]
Then save your widget and display a page/post on your web site. You should see a country code. Worked for me.

@electricfeet Your suggested CSS code works perfectly. Many thanks.

In this case (Shortcodes Ultimate) I would recommend that you don’t upgrade. If the version you have now works for you, keep using it. If you upgrade, you won’t “lose” your shortcodes but you may have a lot of fiddly work to do to fix your web site. That process may well require you to know some “code” to fix these things.

Make a backup of your site before you upgrade a plugin (there are plugins to help you – here’s some help https://codex.www.ads-software.com/WordPress_Backups) Don’t rush to upgrade a plugin every time a new one comes out. Read about the nature of the upgrade first and decide if you really need it first. If the upgrade version contains the word “beta”, be careful.

Most plugins are free. Some work well, some not so well. There’s no guarantee. Caveat emptor. Some authors are sensitive to backward compatibility. Some are not.

Shortcodes Ultimate covers a lot of territory but it’s not the only plugin. There are lots of really good plugins that do everything SU offers. Some do it much better. Check them out.

A “class” is part of CSS (cascading style sheets). Almost all plugins have their own set of classes which you get when you download the plugin. But you can create your own if you want to do fancy stuff. I’d recommend https://www.w3schools.com/ as a great place to start your learning process. You never stop learning.

Hope this helps.

Just noticed that this problem exists on the home page as well.

On Chrome, the Featured pages are shown in 940px wide box and any text I put below them is also shown in 940px.

In Firefox, the Featured pages and text are shown in 1170px wide box.

I tried it on IE10 where I don’t have tools to check the CSS but on visual inspection of where the text is folding, the box size it is using is even bigger than 1170px.

This arises on the same physical screen (set to 1280 x 1024) with all of my CSS tweaks removed. I even tried disactivating most of my plugins to see if that would help but no luck.

I can see that this is not a trivial matter to fix so I will try to work around it for now.

Many thanks. I’ve uploaded two screenshots to the site and tested that you can view them without being logged in. One is the view from Chrome, one is from Firefox. Both screenshots have a trace on. BTW I uploaded your latest version 3.0.14 but the problem remains.

Here are the screenshots:

Chrome: https://haitidebeachresort.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Non-home-page-view-from-Chrome-on-1280-x-1024-screen.jpg

Firefox: https://haitidebeachresort.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Non-home-page-view-from-Firefox-on-1280-x-1024-screen.jpg

Thanks again for looking into this for me.

Happy you were able to fix your problem.

I’m using an older version of the plugin (by choice) and don’t experience the problem you have when just using [su_tabs] without any “active” parameter. Perhaps this is a new problem with 4.4.4?

For those who have updated to 4.4.4 it is good to know that adding active=”1″ to [su_tabs] is a workaround.

Put you page or post in “Text” view to reveal the html code. You should see something like:

[su_tabs active=”3″]
[su_tab title=”Title 1″]Content 1[/su_tab]
[su_tab title=”Title 2″]Content 2[/su_tab]
[su_tab title=”Title 3″]Content 3[/su_tab]
[/su_tabs]

Tabs (with an “s”) is like a container for the all the tabs you want. Tab (without an “s”) goes between [su_tabs] and [/su_tabs]. I’ve displayed an example above. (Note this is with Settings => Compatibility Mode box checked which turns on the “su_” prefix).

In the [su_tabs] shortcode there is a parameter that says ‘active=”3″‘. This controls which tab is presented when first opening the page. If you don’t put any parameter, it should default to the first tab. In the example I’ve shown, it should open in tab 3.

For those (like me) who have never tried installing an older version of a plugin before, follow this link:

https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/shortcodes-ultimate/download/

On this page, scroll down and pick an older version. Click on its number and that downloads the zip file to your PC. Then follow these installation instructions:

Unzip plugin files and upload them under your ‘/wp-content/plugins/’ directory.

Resulted names will be: ‘./wp-content/plugins/shortcodes-ultimate/*’

Activate plugin at “Plugins” administration page.

Remember that older versions can suffer from compatibility issues with core WP updates. So this is a stopgap measure to overcome serious problems you encounter with a new version.

Weird stuff. I manage two sites with the SU plugin. On one site everything is ok. On the other site with the same version of SU, the Galleries and Cheatsheet tab have disappeared. So I deactivated and deleted SU in order to re-install it. But when I search for the plugin, it seems to have disappeared. I could only find a Czech plugin which looks very similar. When I translated the description it said that only a Czech and Slovak version were available. So I’m looking for alternatives.