Hey kvr,

I know you are saying that you can’t see a conflict, but the only time I’ve seen this is when there has been, and I’ll add – although you might already be aware being a regular user here, and pretty knowledgable – I think the most common conflict in this case is the bootstrap library.

Of course, you know your way around and are also working with a developer, and WP themes are not my strong point, but unless somebody has a better suggestion it might just be worth checking that if the bootstrap library is being used, it has to be loaded before the jquery-ui library.

Also – And again this is just an educated guess – but it might not show up as a conflict. Searching previous posts it’s been suggested to search for bootstrap in the source code which would suggest to me that it might not be showing in the console.

Once again, I could be wrong, but if it’s something to go on then it’s definitely worth a check!

Ike has hit the nail on the head. in fact Ui would almost be willing to take bets on Bootstrap being the issue.

The reason it doesn’t actually cause a conflict is because it replaces what the jQuery Ui components do – basically it is changing the submit button but the submit button code is expecting a jQuery response.

Ike is also right in that the way to get around this is for it to be loaded BEFORE the jQuery UI core component.

I would add that the jQuery scripts and the jQuery UI scripts are 100% supported by WordPress as the de facto JavaScript UI libraries. Bootstrap is not supported. While I realise theme developers are attracted to it it can have unwanted and negative effects on any plugins and code written for the supported libraries.

thank-you gents, is this something I can do myself? or should I forward it on to the theme developer?

I suppose it depends really, it might be easier to get the developer to make the change, or at least advise, as it is different for all themes.

If you wanted to do it yourself, although I could probably figure it out given a theme which has the problem to begin with – and a bit of time, we would probably need some advice from Steve or Andy!

Well if it is all done properly then the scripts will be loaded with the wp_enqueue() function. So really they need to be found in the theme code base and then the bootstrap script needs to be done real nice and early so that when the forum page is run it loads first when you look at the generated html source.

By the way – do you have the SP scripts set to load in the footer? If not it might be worth a try as that has solved it for a couple of users…

I do, I made a support ticket on the themes site and this was his response

there’s a conflict between jQueryUI and Twitter Bootstrap buttons because they both define $.fn.button(). Try adding this code to “Theme Options > Advanced Settings > Custom JS”:

(function($) {
    var btn = $.fn.button.noConflict() // reverts $.fn.button to jqueryui btn
    $.fn.btn = btn // assigns bootstrap button functionality to $.fn.btn
})(jQuery);

and it fixed the problem, thank-you guys for your help

Excellent, glad you got it resolved and quick turn around too.