WP-Property & WordPress 3.6 – Broken Widgets

If you are using the WP-Property plugin, you will most likely be experiencing an unusable widget area after you update your WordPress installation to version 3.6.

Now don’t let this keep you from updating your install as I am a firm believer in keeping your WordPress core up to date. But I’m guessing that since you’re reading this you’ve already upgraded and are looking for a way to fix things.

The fix is easy pretty painless, if you don’t mind editing a little bit of code. The problem is that WordPress 3.6 uses a newer version of jQuery and in that version there is no select method for jQuery UI Tabs. ???What is that you ask??? Don’t worry, this isn’t meant to be a complete education.

First, you will need to use some sort of code or text editor and FTP to get access to the file that needs to be fixed. I’ll assume you know how to get to and open the file that we’re going to fix.

Find and open the file named wp-property-admin-widgets.js located in wp-content > plugins > wp-property > js. Once you have it opened, look for the block of code that looks like this. In my code editor it’s lines 23 through 29.

var set_group_or_ungroup = function() {
    if(jQuery( "input.wpp_toggle_attribute_grouping", e ).is(":checked")) {
      jQuery(".wpp_subtle_tabs", e ).tabs('select',1);
    } else {
      jQuery(".wpp_subtle_tabs", e ).tabs('select',0);
    }
  }

Now change ‘select’ in lines 25 and 27 to “option”, “active” and save your file. Now lines 23 through 29 should look like this:

var set_group_or_ungroup = function() {
    if(jQuery( "input.wpp_toggle_attribute_grouping", e ).is(":checked")) {
      jQuery(".wpp_subtle_tabs", e ).tabs("option", "active",1);
    } else {
      jQuery(".wpp_subtle_tabs", e ).tabs("option", "active",0);
    }
  }

If you made these changes on your local machine, upload the fixed file to your server. If you made the changes to the live version of the file, you are done and your problems should be fixed now.

Caveat, these instructions involve changing a core WP-Property file and will be overwritten when updated unless the folks over there get this fix into their code before then 🙂