Theme Disruption

[Steve]

I activated the events calendar and for some reason it is preventing the slider on the home page from functioning. I know that you have no control of themes, but thought you might have some insight as to possibly being able to remedie the problem. I also purchased the pro version as well for this site. The Theme name is Ecclesia purchased from themeforest.

[Jonah]

Hi Steve,

Often times this is caused by the theme loading in an older or newer version of jQuery than what WordPress would load. I would take a look at that and see if you can prevent it from loading this alternate version. The version it should load is 1.8.3

– Jonah

[Steve]

Jonah,
There is a JS folder. All that is in there is jquery.plugins.js and slides.min.jquery.js.

BTW – The Events Calendar overwrote the events page that came with the theme and now I cannot access the page.

[Jonah]

Hi Steve,

Usually jQuery is not included in a folder in the theme, it is loaded dynamically in one of the theme files. Viewing the source of your website, I can see that jQuery 1.5.1 is being loaded so this is definitely out of date and should be updated. I suggest contacting the theme author to get help with this if you cannot figure it out. I’m actually noticing the slider on the home page works for me just fine though.

If your theme uses an “Events” page you should either delete this or change your “Events URL slug” to something different than the slug of your themes page in Events > Settings > General.

I hope that helps but let me know if you have any questions.

– Jonah

[Steve]

The slider is working because I deactivated your plugins. It looks like the owner of the theme is MIA. He hassn’t been responding to his client base for several months. I sent him a PM, but he hasn’t responded. So it looks like I will have to go this alone. I gather that I need to active you plug-in in order to change the slug. This theme however already has a section in the dashboard called Events. Any ideas?

[Jonah]

Hi Steve,

Yes, you need to activate the plugin to change the slug. If you want to provide me FTP and wp-admin access to your site I’ll see what I can do about removing the older version of jQuery, but no guarantees it won’t break other things. Unfortunately sometimes theme integration is more involved and requires ongoing maintenance. You can post those access details privately here. I can also take a look at removing the other Events.

Thanks,
Jonah

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