jsupernova1

Update to the latest version(?) Well, if that’s version 3.7.3 then NO; I already tried that and was unable to use the plugin at all until I rolled back to the previous version.

I was going to give this plug-in another shot after their next update in response to complaints. After reading some of the other responses; not no mores! I never had any serious issue with them until this total showstopper. I’m now running on the version prior to 3.7.3 which will give me the time to transition to a different plugin. Prior to them, I used Tabby Responsive Tabs, then experienced issues with that which lead me to switch to this now horror show. I might go with another suggestion I read here: Tabs by WP Shopmart. Tabby Responsive Tabs had an in-line design (one short code per tab instead of per page with content right on the page) which had the advantage of allowing links directly to any tab dynamically from a different page or browser though it was not as aesthetically pleasing as this plugin.

cubecolour (@numeeja)

I tried activating one of the default themes that we do not use and the tabs then worked correctly. If the latest version of the theme that we have implemented is the culprit, and not a plugin, that is not something that I can address practically speaking to fix this issue. Should I still check the other plugins anyway? I’m thinking that still might possibly be a cause.

jsupernova1

What was the culprit? I’m having possibly the same or similar issue – with WP 5.5.3 suddenly both the horizontal tabs and accordion are displayed on the same web page – should be horizontal tabs only. The mobile theme view, however is still correct; accordion only. I saw some documentation online that suggested this plugin is using now obsolete jQuery even though this plugin says it is WP compatible up to 5.5.3 – and shows the last time it was updated was in 2017 (way before 5.5.3 which doesn’t necessarily mean it no longer works correctly but its very suspect). The plugin documentation also says that the accordion view comes from jQuery.

I found two workarounds – maybe three (in order of preference):

1) Deactivate Classic Editor Plugin to enable the block editor. Then select elipsis button top left and “Edit as html” from the drop down. This is not the editor I am used to but it seems to work.

2) Go edit your user profile and check the box “Disable the visual editor when writing”. But this is a horrible option in my opinion because you have to update your user profile each time you want to switch between visual and text in the editor.

3) If there is a way to regress (downgrade) to whatever WordPress version where this was still working. I’m not sure which version that was except that I recently upgraded to 5.5.3.

It seems I finally found the solution. Making all of the posts to display “sticky” apparently fixed this. If that was the setting before, then somehow it got changed.

Silly for sure! I can’t conceive of any sensible reason to back pedal like this.