Missing Dependencies

Hi there, thanks so much for using our plugin and for reaching out to us, we hope the plugin is providing value for you!

Thanks also for the screenshot and information, we have investigated and this is a warning being shown by the Query Monitor plugin with regard to our plugin JavaScript not loading because of a missing dependency. This is by design in that we perform this dependency check to ensure that we only load the plugin JavaScript on the order edit page and not every admin page to avoid conflicts and performance degradation by loading an extra script on your site where it is not needed. Query Monitor is alerting you to this, but on the Edit Order page, the error will not show as the dependency is loaded on this page and therefore our script will only load there as well as per this screenshot: https://ibb.co/JcQW50Y

I trust the above answers your query, but if you need any more information or pick up any other issues, please let us know!

Thank you for your reply.

I’m not sure I understand your answer and the logic behind the practice.
You’re saying that you are checking if these scripts that should only be loaded on the edit order interface are loaded, in order to insure they are not loaded, did I get understand that correctly?

• If you won’t load the scripts they won’t load, there is no need to check as this is under your control. if you do not wish to load your scripts you can not load them. What is the check for?
• Why is your plugin working or is loaded anywhere that is not the order edit interface? why not disable it completely and not just the JS?
• No other plugin uses this kind of practice, of calling scripts that shouldn’t be loaded to see that they are not loaded, and generate an error along the way.
  Why use such a practice?
  If every plugin would work in that fashion we would see dozens of errors all the times everywhere.
• Even if your check does result in the scripts being already loaded, what would you do? it has already happened, you cannot unload them then.
  What does the check serve?

How can this practice be amended, so that using your plugin does not require these errors anywhere that in not the only place where your plugin should be loaded?

Now everywhere on the back-end we are getting this red alert: https://ibb.co/ngpx0wF
Now we have to check what that is each time just to to find out it was your plugin again. We do not want this alert appearing everywhere now, and it shouldn’t be normalized.

Thank you

• This reply was modified 12 months ago by balvan64.
• This reply was modified 12 months ago by balvan64.
• This reply was modified 12 months ago by balvan64.

Hi there, thank you for your feedback and additional queries and information. We realise what was not clear in our previous answer is that the dependency in question (wc-admin-order-meta-boxes) is a WooCommerce script and not a dependency of our own. We have this dependency check in place as we use functionality from this script in our own script and it also serves as a method to check for the when we should load our script.

While I cannot speak for other plugin implementations, there are some functions within plugins that need to run at different stages of the WordPress loading process, however we completely agree that where possible, functionality should be restricted to where the functionality is required, which is why these checks are in place.

That being said, we also completely agree that no one wants to see an error message anywhere and particularly in this case where it is causing an alert in Query Monitor on every admin page!

With this additional information, we find your concern completely valid as we now see how this is causing disruption for you (and possibly other users as well), we are prioritising a fix for this, so please look out for an update very shortly!

Thank you again for raising this issue with us and for the additional information, we want this plugin to add value and not distract in any way from its intended purpose. We are keeping this thread open for now while we work on the fix and will let you know as soon as the update is released with this fix in place. Please let us know if you have any queries or pick up any other problems as well!

Thank you so much, you’ve earned best support award for 2023 from me. I’ll look forward to the new update.

Hi thanks so much for your kind words, I wanted to let you know that we have released version 1.0.13 of our plugin which fixes this missing dependency issue and ensures the script only loads where it needs to. You can update the plugin from your Admin dashboard. Thank you again for letting us know about this issue and please let us know if you find any other issues or have any queries!

Wonderful, thank you!