Tooltips Not Working – jQuery Conflict or jQuery Outdated

[Lisseth Rosales-West]

I’ve installed the latest free and pro versions of the events calendar on a dev site and all is working great except the tooltips on both the grid view and mini calendar widget. WordPress is up-to-date and I’ve tried disabling the theme’s stylesheet and all other plugins and there’s no change.

In all my research and testing it looks like a jquery conflict or possibly the theme’s version of jquery is too outdated. When I switch back to twenty-eleven theme (loads the included jquery 1.7.2) all is good. Switching back to the theme’s jquery v1.3.2 and there’s no tooltips.

Is there a minimum jquery version?

Here’s the link to the dev site:
http://westdesignhosting.com/westdev/BHDEV/events/

In firefox if the cursor is left over a tooltip link and using command-R to reload the page the tooltip does show but does not hide properly. I’m hopeful it’s a conflict with one of the other jquery scripts rather than the version.

[Lisseth Rosales-West]

Also:
Maybe it’s just an issue with the show/hide events as the events.js script is properly adding the “right” class for the tooltips on the last two days of the week…

[Barry]

That’s interesting. One thing you could try is swapping out the version of jQuery shipped with the theme for the latest and greatest version.

How you do this will depend on whether or not the theme has hard-coded in their version of jQuery – assuming for the moment that they haven’t hard-coded anything though you could possibly use the same approach as documented in the WordPress codex for switching to a CDN served version of jQuery:

http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_enqueue_script

The flip-side of this method is that it may break any theme related behaviours that depend on the old version of jQuery.

Is there a minimum jquery version?

The Events Calendar does expect the current version of jQuery shipped with WordPress – since the current version expects WP 3.3 I’d guess jQuery 1.3 could fairly be described as out of date at this point.

Hope that helps, but please don’t hesitate to get back to me if you have further questions.

[Lisseth Rosales-West]

Hi Barry
Yes I swapped out the theme’s 1.3.2 with 1.7.2 hoping for a quick fix and it broke all the theme’s features. ha! I contacted the theme developer and haven’t heard back about details on steps to take in upgrading the core jquery.

I’m still hopeful there’s a work-around for making the tooltips work with 1.3.2 as I’m expecting updating the core is going to be a load of work.

[Lisseth Rosales-West]

Barry I tried the next version up rather than the latest version of jquery. v1.4 fixes the issue of the tooltips and keeps the theme’s features functioning. Thanks for the help!

[Barry]

Awesome, I didn’t even think of that. Glad you’ve got it sorted!

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