Conflicts with Theme

Howdy Trishahdee,

As I have no experience with that theme, I don’t have a quick fix for you, sorry.

Side note: it irks me when themes have functionality like testimonials that can be lost when you switch themes, so I’d probably use a third-party testimonial plugin – is that why you’re doing it?

Hello and thank you for the quick reply ??

The parallax theme I’m using has a “Home Page Builder” that uses drag-and-drop objects. You create “units” then order them how you want them to appear down the page. One of these units is for testimonials that I am using that one for testimonials about his teaching.

My client also has a book on Amazon that has testimonials but these are specific for his book and they need to be displayed differently then how the Home Page Builder testimonial unit does it. So I need an additional testimonial plugin.

It’s the Home Page Testimonial Unit and your plugin that is having the conflict. I think you are both using the same identifier so they are getting lumped together. Here is the html of that section of the admin menu when your plugin is deactivated:

<li class="wp-has-submenu wp-not-current-submenu menu-top menu-icon-post" id="menu-posts-testimonials">
	<a href='edit.php?post_type=testimonials' class="wp-has-submenu wp-not-current-submenu menu-top menu-icon-post" aria-haspopup="true"><div class="wp-menu-arrow"><div></div></div><div class='wp-menu-image'><br /></div><div class='wp-menu-name'>Testimonials</div></a>
	<ul class='wp-submenu wp-submenu-wrap'><li class='wp-submenu-head'>Testimonials</li><li class="wp-first-item"><a href='edit.php?post_type=testimonials' class="wp-first-item">Testimonials</a></li><li><a href='post-new.php?post_type=testimonials'>Add New</a></li></ul></li>
	<li class="wp-has-submenu wp-not-current-submenu menu-top menu-icon-post" id="menu-posts-team">
	<a href='edit.php?post_type=team' class="wp-has-submenu wp-not-current-submenu menu-top menu-icon-post" aria-haspopup="true"><div class="wp-menu-arrow"><div></div></div><div class='wp-menu-image'><br /></div><div class='wp-menu-name'>Team</div></a>
	<ul class='wp-submenu wp-submenu-wrap'><li class='wp-submenu-head'>Team</li><li class="wp-first-item"><a href='edit.php?post_type=team' class="wp-first-item">Team</a></li><li><a href='post-new.php?post_type=team'>Add New</a></li><li><a href='edit-tags.php?taxonomy=team-categories&post_type=team'>Categories</a></li></ul></li>

I’ll let the theme developer know of this issue also. It might just be a matter of someone using a unique identifier.

Update. I spoke with the author of the theme. Here is the reply:

Sorry, but we can’t change our theme code to make it compatible, it’s to complicated. You should edit plugin code to fix this issue. Not sure if it helps, but you can try to change it’s ID to something unique for example “testimonials-ivycat”.