Got it figured out. The theme is missing a function in footer.php
. Many plugins require wp_footer()
to be included in footer.php
. My plugin is one of them. You can read about the function in the WordPress Codex. My plugin enqueues its script inthe footer via wp_footer()
, so if that is gone from the theme then the jQuery will not be loaded. I very rarely see a theme without this, so this theme is definitely outdated. It was released over 6 years ago and probably hasn’t been updated.
You can open your footer.php
file and place this: <?php wp_footer(); ?>
right before the closing </body>
. This should fix the issue for you.
This will not fix the random <code>
tag that you see, as I have no idea where that is coming from, but can assure you its not from the Simple Sorter plugin. Let me know if you have any other issues with it.