feed only showed when refreshing page

Hey Anna,

The issue is that as your theme uses Ajax to dynamically load in the page content when navigating through the site rather than refreshing the browser to a new page, which means that it isn’t running the plugin’s JavaScript on each page load. This could also cause problems with other plugins you use in the future. Are you able to try pinging the author of the theme to see whether there’s a way that you can either turn off the Ajax loading for a specific page or whether there’s a way to reload JavaScript files every time you navigate to a new page?

John

I have the same problem with an ajax-driven site. I found a solution here on stackoverflow, that looks like it could be the answer, but I’m a little perplexed as to what to do with it exactly. Could I put a JS snippet in a custom page template to force it to execute?

Hey Kristina,

I don’t think that would work. I’m going to have to dig into this and see whether I can add a setting into the plugin which you can enable when using an Ajax theme to trigger a workaround for this. Is it possible for now just to disable Ajax loading on the specific page that you’re displaying the feed on?

John

unfortunately no. i’ve asked already for another page (splash homepage) and we had to find a CSS solution to get rid of the nav bars for that page rather than not ajaxifiying it at all.

there has to be a way to manually force a script to execute… with more and more sites going ajax this is bound to be a thing.

Hey Kristina,

It’s kind of a tricky one for plugin developers because every theme is different and so it’s virtually impossible to hook into the Ajax callback function for each theme, and so the JavaScript files aren’t rerun when a new page is loaded via Ajax. In my opinion it should be on the theme authors to reload the JavaScript files into the page when a new page is navigated to, however most don’t do this and just simply change the content in the content area.

The way I got around this with our other plugin is to add a setting which you can check if using an Ajax powered theme which adds the JavaScript files into the shortcode which is in the page content itself, and so the files are rerun when the page content is loaded in. It’s a little bit trickier to do this with our Instagram plugin as it’s more heavily dependent on JavaScript and so there’s more complexity but I’ve made a note to work out a way to add this into the next update for you.

John

makes sense. thanks for being so quick with support! you guys are so helpful i might go pro ??

when do you think the new version will be released? weeks? months?

Hey Kristina,

No problem, happy to help! We have a few other updates planned for the next few weeks and with the holidays coming up it probably wouldn’t be until early Jan.

John

okeedokee, thanks for letting me know.

i went ahead and launched the site without it in the main menu, but you can still get there through the photos page (just put a little note there… hopefully people read it.)

i think i’ll do fine for the time being.

https://www.kristinachilds.com

Hey Kristina,

Looks great. I’ll do my best to get the update out ASAP so that you can remove that little note that’s on there. Just a note, it might be worth pinging the theme author to see whether they have any workarounds for this issue as well.

Hope you have a great weekend!

John

you rock. [hearts, kisses, balloons and all that nonsense]

Hey Kristina,

I’m hoping to release an update early next week with the Ajax-theme workaround included. So that I can test that it’s working as it should is it possible to either email me the zip file of the theme you’re using or grant me access to log into your site so that I can install the update and make sure it works? My email address is hey at smash balloon dot com.

Many thanks!

John