Akeeba Backup for WordPress

Wednesday, 30 July 2014 05:11 CDT

OpenGlobal

I'm getting a jquery error when trying to do anything:

ReferenceError: akeeba is not defined
akeeba.jQuery('.hasTooltip').tooltip();

Looking at the page source, the akeeba jquery library is never loaded. It's an old version of WordPress (3.4.1) so maybe it's normally loaded by a process that didn't exist in this old version.

Is there something I should do? What's the best way to manually add the akeeba jquery library to the page?

Wednesday, 30 July 2014 07:21 CDT

nicholas

Yes, the problem is the WordPress version. Nothing earlier than 3.8.1 is supported. Your version of WordPress doesn't load jQuery automatically. However, we are not allowed to load it ourselves as this practice is incompatible with WordPress 3.5 (or 3.6, I am not perfectly sure) and later. That's what we were told when submitting our plugin to WordPress.org's plugins directory.

However, there is a trick to force-load jQuery on these old WP releases. Edit the file wp-content/plugins/akeebabackupwp/helpers/defines.php and append the following line:

define('AKEEBA_OVERRIDE_JQUERY', 1);

Make sure that the files jquery.min.js and jquery.migrate.min.js are present in the directory wp-content/plugins/akeebabackupwp/app/media/js. If they are not present you can download them from jquery.com or just tell me and I'll send them to you.

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

🇬🇷Greek: native 🇬🇧English: excellent 🇫🇷French: basic • 🕐 My time zone is Europe / Athens
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Monday, 04 August 2014 05:37 CDT

OpenGlobal

One other change is needed, then it works perfectly.

In function enqueueScript() in .....plugins/akeebabackupcore/helpers/AkeebaBackupWP.php, you need to change the line:

wp_enqueue_script($handle, $url, array('jquery', 'jquery-migrate'), AKEEBA_VERSION, false);

to

wp_enqueue_script($handle, $url, array(/*'jquery', 'jquery-migrate'*/), AKEEBA_VERSION, false);

Monday, 04 August 2014 07:35 CDT

nicholas

Thanks! I changed this line to

		// When we override the loading of jQuery do not depend on WP's jQuery being loaded
		if (defined('AKEEBA_OVERRIDE_JQUERY') && AKEEBA_OVERRIDE_JQUERY)
		{
			$dependencies = array();
		}

		wp_enqueue_script($handle, $url, $dependencies, AKEEBA_VERSION, false);

for the same result, but more elegantly coded. Thank you very much for confirming this workaround. I wrote it blindly, without being able to reproduce the problem, simply assuming this problem would occur based on my experience. Now that this is a confirmed fix I will document it :)

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

🇬🇷Greek: native 🇬🇧English: excellent 🇫🇷French: basic • 🕐 My time zone is Europe / Athens
Please keep in mind my timezone and cultural differences when reading my replies. Thank you!

Monday, 11 August 2014 04:46 CDT

OpenGlobal

Edited by OpenGlobal on 2014-08-11 04:46 CDT

Thursday, 11 September 2014 01:20 CDT

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Edited by on 2014-09-11 01:20 CDT

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