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Reputation: 6622

Why is jQuery not working in this wordpress plugin?

I am pretty new to Wordpress. I have a plugin that I created and is working fine, except that when I try to do a simple jQuery ready function inside an included javascript file it is not seeing jQuery and I am getting an undefined error. I am doing this before I include the HTML file content.

Here is the code I am using to load the script (which is loading the js file just fine)

add_action('admin_init', 'admin_references_scripts');
function admin_references_scripts() {
    //Add CSS Files
    wp_enqueue_style('admin-references-style', plugins_url('/css/admin-references.css', __FILE__ ));
    wp_enqueue_style('admin-references-craftmap', get_stylesheet_directory_uri().'/css/craftmap.css');

    //Add JS files
    wp_register_script('admin-references-js', plugins_url('/js/admin-references.js', __FILE__ ), array('jquery', 'jquery-ui-core', 'jquery-ui-draggable'));
    wp_enqueue_script('admin-references-js');

    //Add the panel to the post type
    add_meta_box('admin-references-control', 'Admin References', 'admin_references_meta', 'admin_references', 'advanced', 'high');
}

And the admin-references.js file looks simply like this

$(function() {
    alert('here');
});

Here are my questions/problems

  1. The wp_register_script call above should automatically make sure jquery is in there right?
  2. Is there somewhere else in my plugin I should load jQuery?
  3. Is it possible some other plugin is killing jquery?
  4. I need the draggable jQuery UI functionality. Can I get this with what I am doing?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 284

Answers (1)

Ben May
Ben May

Reputation: 166

/wp-admin/load-scripts.php is a wp-admin call, not a front-end one.

Are you trying to do your jQuery in wp-admin or in the front (theme) ?

Have you checked you're running jQuery in no conflict mode..

aka, it should be:

jQuery(function() { alert('here'); });

Upvotes: 1

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