Events Calendar Pro conflicting with Owl Carousel on Widgets Admin page

[Scott Morey]

Greetings. I’m developing a website using wordpress and initially set it up using the non-pro version of your plugin (which is great!) and now I’ve upgraded to the Pro version (because we want to be able to do recurring events and such, once we’re actually done with development) and when I enabled it, I lost the ability to drag and drop widgets around on the ‘Appearance/Widgets’ page. In my javascript console, I see this:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/xxi66xcm2986cfx/tec-widgets-error.png

After experimenting thoroughly with different plugin sets, I have determined that the Events Calendar Pro plugin is conflicting with the Owl Carousel plugin (which isn’t yours, so I understand if you do not wish to assist with this).

I guess I am just wondering if anyone else has run into this issue or if you can think of anything quick and easy I can try so I can have both enabled while managing widgets. I mean now that I know what the issue is, I can disable the Owl Carousel plugin (I use shortcodes for carousels rather than widgets) manage/configure widgets, then re-enable the carousel plugin, but boy that’s a tad inconvenient.)

Either way, I really dig The Events Calendar Pro. If I have to, I’ll rewrite the Owl Carousel plugin (I’m fairly comfortable with php) but with these symptoms, I think I can get by without fixing it (and using the workaround outlined above).

Thanks!

[Casey D]

Hello tadltech,

Thanks for contacting us, great write up.

I wish I could help you more but I this is beyond the scope of the forums. We do our best to interoperate and commit to best practices, but it can be difficult with so many plugins out there!

I tried to unregister the ‘owl_Widget’ and it is still causing issues

add_action( ‘widgets_init’, function(){ unregister_widget( ‘owl_Widget’ ); });

I believe it is improperly enqueueing js when they are not needed.

Line 128 is the problem, that js is the conflict and isn’t used. In fact it looks like they are using wp_print_scripts instead of an admin queue. You may also want to check to see if on widget admin page, if that doesn’t fix it. If you contact them with this info I think they will be happy to fix it.

Does this make sense? Let me know if this doesn’t work for you.

Cheers!

– Casey Driscoll

I changed the title so that others may quickly find this

[Scott Morey]

Thanks, Casey! I have posted about the issue on the wp.org support forum for Owl Carousel and have commented out the problematic line and it appears to be working just fine now. I really appreciate the assistance!

Thanks again!

[Casey D]

Hello tadltech,

Happy it worked out!

We’d love it if you would leave us a review and let people know how much you like the plugin! http://m.tri.be/jt

I’ll go ahead and close this thread. Let us know if we can help with anything else.

– Casey Driscoll

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