http://weblogtoolscollection.com/news/ Weblogtoolscollection News Topic: wp_head, wp_footer & plugins that suddenly don't work en Sat, 18 May 2013 19:02:47 +0000 http://weblogtoolscollection.com/news/topic/wp_head-wp_footer-038-plugins-that-suddenly-dont-work#post-3729 Fri, 26 Dec 2008 10:27:44 +0000 gestroud 3729@http://weblogtoolscollection.com/news/ <p>With the rush of fantastic-looking new WordPress themes available, I've been spending some time changing the themes on some of my sites.</p> <p>After spending time getting things to look just right, I notice that when I use some themes, certain plugins no longer function.</p> <p>Since I'm an early adapter/adopter of the latests versions of WP, I thought that might have something to do with it. Then I began to notice that some people using the same version of WP, and the same plugins didn't have any problems. </p> <p>I also noticed that they hadn't changed their themes. </p> <p>After spending some time going through the various bits of codes, I found two missing bits of code in many new themes: the call for<br /> wp_head(); before the closing head tag in header.php, and a call for wp_footer(); before the closing body tag in footer.php.</p> <p>Once I added the codes to the respective files, most of the "non-functioning" plugins functioned again.</p> <p>So, before you head over to a plugin developer's site to find out why his/her plugin suddenly stopped working after you changed your site's theme, you'll probably want to make sure that the theme designer added the necessary code to header.php and footer.php. </p>