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New WP theme > Pop-ups stopped working

TH Thorsten
Thorsten
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Member since Apr 2012
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Mar 31, 2015 · 6:59 am · Edited

I know this is an issue that pops up (yah) frequently in conjunction with other plugins and themes. I’ve searched the forums but couldn’t find a solution for my particular case.

I’ve recently installed a new theme. It’s highly configurable and I’ve already invested lots of hours into setting it up the way I need it hence simply finding a new theme is rather out of the question. However, all forum pop-ups ceased working. I know this must be a JS conflict. I checked the code and the theme does not appear to load any external jquery, all links are internal. Firebug shows no errors when I click on on a forum tool, so have no debug info to post. The forum itself is members only thus I would need to provide credentials to have someone take a look, which I am happy to do. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.

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YS Yellow Swordfish
Yellow Swordfish
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Mar 31, 2015 · 8:08 am

We would indeed need to see it…
Please PM credentials to both myself, to ‘Mr Papa’ and to ‘Ike’. Please include in the PM a link to your site, a link to this thread and brief reminder of the problem. And one of us will take a look for you.

IK Ike
Ike
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Mar 31, 2015 · 10:00 am

Hey Thorsten B,

It looks like some elements of your WP theme have some pretty aggressive z-indexes!

First of all, if you haven’t already you will want to make a child theme, if for nothing else just to preserve the new z-index value you’ll need to add.

So, you only need to edit the main stylesheet in your child theme (defualt-child.css) and you will want to add the rule:

.ui-dialog {
    z-index: 99999;
}

Normally you wouldn’t need this high a value, but 9999 still left your admin toolbar above the popup – so may as well put the max on.

Hope that helps!

TH Thorsten
Thorsten
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Mar 31, 2015 · 12:11 pm

Hey Ike,

Thank you so much! All is well again. Really appreciate the help.

Thorsten