Problem with Dante JQuery-UI implementation?

[rlshaw]

We use the MP3-jPlayer plugin player with Dante and have some problems with the player which have surfaced.

Here’s the problem description

https://wordpress.org/support/topic/position-seek-working-only-on-1-of-our-sites/

The developer said that the problem is likely to be coming from this:

http://vanessashaw.com/wp-content/themes/dante/js/combine/jquery-ui-1.10.2.custom.min.js

He said “this is the wrong way to implement jQuery-UI within wordpress, and it’s likely breaking things.”

In particular, he notes:

“it is the most common bad practice I see in themes, an unbelievable amount do this kind of ramming of script libraries into the page with no regard for the environment they’re functioning in.

It’s very simple to do things properly:

wp_enqueue_script()

Can you take a look at this?

cheers,

Robert

[David Martin – Support]

Hi,

We do correctly register and enqueue the script, this can be seen in the functions.php file. Look for: wp_enqueue_script('jquery-ui');

Knowing this, you can simply use a child theme to dequeue this.

Please install and activate the supplied child theme, inside the child theme functions.php file paste this code below to dequeue this script file. I’d really not recommend this for that plugin though, the theme does require that JS file.

		    function sf_child_remove_scripts() {
    			wp_dequeue_script('jquery-ui');
			}
			add_action( 'wp_enqueue_scripts', 'sf_child_remove_scripts' );

WordPress will automatically play your MP3 file links if you paste them into your post/page content – is there a real need for the plugin?