Recently, I’ve been investigating a strange effect with Sliding Notes: On one site, the notes just did not open when clicked.
A view at the HTML of the aforementioned site revealed that the whole plugin-generated footer section – that is, the JavaScript supplied by the plugin – wasn’t there! Whew! How’s that?
I digged a bit and tracked the cause of the trouble down to a misbehavior in the “PassionDuo” theme, a theme by DailyBlogTips. (Actually it is three themes, with only graphical differences.)
The Problem
Obviously, the PassionDuo theme fails to trigger wp_footer actions, effectively sabotaging any plug-in that depends on it.
For plug-ins, the wp_footer action is the place to add footer code to the page – often JavaScript code. It’s part of the WordPress’ protocol for themes that they invoke the wp_footer() WordPress function in the footer.php file. Needless to say, PassionDuo does not invoke it.
For users of PassionDuo to use Sliding Notes (or any other plug-in that depends on footer actions), here are the instructions to fix the theme:
The Fix
Open the file footer.php in any text editor. At the end of the file there are the closing tags
</div> </body> </html>
Right vefore the </div> tag, insert the code
<?php wp_footer() ?>
That’s it.1
Other Troublemakers
I was curous if PassionDuo was the only DailyBlogTips’ theme with this defect, so I checked their other themes. The following themes are equally erroneous:
- Blue Sensation
- Daily32
- Decker
Practically the same fix applies to all of them.
More themes are reported in the comments – check them out. And thanks to everybody for contributing.
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February 2nd, 2009 at 4:23 am
Thanks so much! This was exactly the issue and slider notes works perfectly!
February 20th, 2009 at 5:30 am
Thanks for the info. Although I fixed this issue before reading the fix here but my original theme that I modified has a similar problem so you can include this theme in the list of problematic themes.
Vroom! by Rajaie AlKorani
March 1st, 2009 at 9:21 pm
The “Statement” template from BlogOhBlog has the same problem that can be resolved as described above.
March 13th, 2009 at 12:55 am
You can also add Kind-of-Business theme as well. Problem fixed now, thanks for a great plugin!
April 19th, 2009 at 1:49 am
Thanks a lot…
This issue was a headache for me until I landed on this page. The theme “SoulVision” should be added to the list. It is now working as is supposed. Many thanks.
May 17th, 2009 at 3:35 pm
Please take the o2 theme from eches to this list!.
June 3rd, 2009 at 11:35 pm
It woks for me.
You can put SoulVision 1.0 in the troublemakers list.
Thanks a lot.
June 4th, 2009 at 2:14 am
Thanks for the quick response.
I use Arras’theme and the “wp_footer” is commented (“//”), so I just need to uncomment it.
August 26th, 2009 at 3:44 am
The sliders work fine on this page, however the javascript for the mailto’s show the names in the page footer. i am not sure if it the script is the error or if it’s something with the sliding notes. thanks in advanced for the help.
August 26th, 2009 at 9:18 am
Founty, please describe your issue in more detail.
August 26th, 2009 at 5:12 pm
This page uses sliders. I have javascript within each slider to hide email addresses from bots. In Safari and Chrome, the hyperlinks for the emails show up in the footer as well as their right place in the slider. again, i’m not sure if it’s a script error or the way scripts are closed in the theme. I really like your work in the slider, thank you for your work.
August 26th, 2009 at 6:20 pm
Founty, the link you gave me seems to be broken.
Am I getting it right, you have javascript inside the slider? You mean something like
[slider title="Click me"]<script>
some.code.here();
</script>
[/slider]
Anyway, initially the Sliding Note contents are stored at the end of a post (that is, pretty close to the footer in most cases), so your email cloaking script may well be conflicting with that.
November 19th, 2009 at 12:32 am
Can’t wait to get this awesome plugin working!
Seem to have a ‘no show’ issue with WP 2.85 and the Cutline theme. See the ‘Slider Note Test’ here: http://spart7.info/techblog/?page_id=596
The footer.php seems ok, and I have disabled the footnotes plugin, but still get no text.
Used my.css to add the code (thanks for that great tip!)
Any help would be much appreciated.
Cheers,
November 19th, 2009 at 1:46 am
TonyT, it’s not the Cutline theme (I know Sliding Notes is being successfully used on top of Cutline). It must be another plugin. A systematic investigation is likely to provide an answer. (I’d suggest deactivating all plugins except Sliding Notes, and it it works, activating one by one until it stops working. The last activated plugin is the trouble maker.)
November 19th, 2009 at 4:22 am
Yup, I installed on another blog with a slightly different Cutline theme and it works nicely… Am doing the process or elimination on the plugins now and will report back here the culprit…
Great plugin – thanks.
November 19th, 2009 at 5:15 am
cforms v8.x
upgrading to 11.1 fixed the issue….
cheers
December 21st, 2009 at 4:30 am
Awesome plugin that I’ve used on other sites, but for some reason IE7 won’t open the slider and the footer’s gone. I’ve checked footer.php to make sure everything was in order. Didn’t matter if I placed the call before or after , same result. Any help would be much appreciated.
Thanks.
December 21st, 2009 at 9:07 pm
Vince, I can’t tell what the problem is from the description you provided. But as you said, you’ve used it on other sites with no problems. So it must be something on your new site that conflicts with it – either your theme or another plugin. Contact me if you need help debugging your site.