Hi @missyklotz, this simply wouldn’t be possible. So many plugins in the WordPress repository are badly coded, failing to follow best practices with basic tasks such as loading jQuery.
Infact, loading jQuery is the biggest support issue all jQuery-based WordPress plugin encounter. It is a mine-field and highly criticised amongst the community. Yearly, it costs developers thousands.
This is because plugins that don’t load it correctly cause errors, or even cause it to load it multiple times, which consequently breaks all of the plugins that are doing the job correctly.
With over 40 plugins installed, I can imagine some of them are causing issues such as this. Unfortunately there is nothing Easing Slider can do to avoid it being destroyed by other badly coded plugins. This is just a common flaw to the WordPress “way”. Again, to list them would be impossible.
Personally, my advise would be to keep plugins to a minimum. Only activate what you need. 40 plugins really is a lot, many of those loading scripts and styles that increase page loading times and server load. If every plugin loaded a single .js and .css file, that would be over 80 network requests before you even start accounting for images. Users with slow connections are going to suffer. Errors on-top of this are going to increase these loading times (which are occurring if Easing Slider isn’t working).
I can imagine you’re going to have similar issues with other plugins. Nearly all slideshow plugins rely on jQuery, and if it isn’t working then they won’t work either. It might be worth investing the time into troubleshooting the current situation before trying to hack a plugin to work, thus prolonging any issues and errors.
Sorry to be the bearer of bad news. Have a look around the web for best practices in using plugins with WordPress, some of them contain great advise on avoiding the bad stuff and troubleshooting problems.
