WordPress plugins and themes incompatible with CiviCRM

Because of the huge number and ever-changing nature of community contributed WordPress plugins, CiviCRM cannot guarantee compatibility with contributed plugins. The following information may be of use in trying to identify conflicts, Please add to/edit this information as applicable.

Super Cache

• Version: 1.4
• Information last updated on: 2016-02-25
• Reporter: aglozier/krypto

• Problem:

  Cached contribution pages don't work - presumably related to sessions / keys in Civi. (A previous issue, now fixed: page won't cache if they have anything in $_GET. Civi adds a parameter to this, so no page is ever cached)

• Workaround:

  Add the CiviCRM querystring to the excluded pages in Super Cache's settings. This won't work if you use the shortcode embed method, though - you'll need to exclude each individual page (or shove the whole lot into an /civi/ basepage or something, and exclude that).

  (For the never-caching-anything problem, edit wp-cache-phase2.php to change two if statements - see details below.) 

• Other comments:

  It seems like it'd be fairly quick to write a plugin for Super Cache that turns off the cache if it detects the shortcode: http://ocaoimh.ie/wp-super-cache-developers/.

Ultimate TinyMCE

• Version: ?
• Information last updated on: 2014-03-31
• Reporter: aglozier
• Problem: Civi works but the editor didn't - you can't edit posts or pages
• Workaround:  
• Other comments:  

No Category Parents

• Version: ?
• Information last updated on: 2014-03-31
• Reporter: jcmorrow
• Problem: Breaks front-end pages
• Workaround:  
• Other comments:  

Yoast SEO

• Version: < 1.5.2.5
• Information last updated on: 2014-03-31
• Reporter: krypto/aglozier

• Problem:

  (Reported fixed in latest version 1.5.2.5) Breaks front-end pages when Open Graph meta data added to pages.

• Workaround:

  Disable "Add Open Graph meta data" under the Social Media Facebook tab.

• Other comments: This appears to be fixed in 1.5.2.7

UberMenu Sticky

• Version:  
• Information last updated on: 2014-03-31
• Reporter: divemasterza
• Problem: Breaks all front-end forms.
• Workaround:  
• Other comments:  

Facebook Like Thumbnail

• Version:  
• Information last updated on: ?
• Reporter:  
• Problem:  
• Workaround:  
• Other comments:  

JetPack

• Version: all
• Information last updated on:  
• Reporter: Workaround - themak
• Problem: Causes conflict with Backbone JQuery calls

• Workaround:

  Instead of deactivating Jetpack every time you need to access a profile for a contribution page or edit a date, simply disable the Notifications Module at http://example.org/wp-admin/admin.php?page=jetpack_modules

• Other comments:  

"google doc embed plugin"

• Version:  
• Information last updated on:  
• Reporter:  
• Problem: http://forum.civicrm.org/index.php/topic,36213.msg154020.html#msg154020
• Workaround:  
• Other comments:  

Calls to Action

• Version: 2.3.x cv: 4.5 
• Information last updated on: 2015-06-01
• Reporter: ginkgomzd

• Problem:

  http://civicrm.stackexchange.com/questions/2920/wp-call-to-action-plugin-causes-js-errors

  Causes conflict with select2 lib

• Workaround:

  replace with patched select2 lib from 4.6 branch https://raw.githubusercontent.com/colemanw/select2/09a6e7bb1f435c94869ad9e008c70f37fe60297d/select2.min.js 

• Other comments: fixed in CiviCRM 4.6

Salient Theme

• Version: 7.0.5; cv:4.6, 4.7
• Information last updated on: 2016-02-01
• Reporter: gah242s

• Problem:

  Causes conflict with Backbone JQuery calls, mainly noticed in Events -> Manage -> Online Registration

• Workaround:  

• Other comments:  Fixed somewhere around 4.7.29.

LDD Directory  Lite

• Version: 0.8.53
• Information last updated on: 2016-02-15
• Reporter: agileware

• Problem:

  Causes conflict with Backbone JQuery calls, mainly noticed in Events -> Manage -> Online Registration

• Workaround:  

• Other comments:  

Font Emoticons

• Version: 1.4.1
• Information last updated on: 2016-02-25
• Reporter: haystack

• Problem:

  Makes text replacements in inline Javascript, e.g. with no spaces "( i )" becomes causing errors in Civi's javascript.

• Workaround:

  You can conditionally use remove_filter() to stop the plugin from parsing 'the_content' when Civi content is present. Or disable the plugin.

• Other comments:  

Karma theme

• Version: 4.8.3 (and earlier)
• Information last updated on: 2016-1-14
• Reporter: Graham

• Problem:

  Causes conflict with Backbone JQuery calls, mainly noticed in Events -> Manage -> Online Registration

• Workaround:

  Currently using Theme Test Drive plugin - https://wordpress.org/plugins/theme-test-drive/ - as a way of enabling admin users to run a different theme when they are logged in, and so workaround the issue. Perhaps a useful thread - http://civicrm.stackexchange.com/questions/11946/dequeue-backbone-from-theme-load-and-load-civicrm-backbone

• Other comments:  

Slider Revolution

• Information last updated on: 2018-05-17
• Reporter: samuelsov

• Problem:

  CSS z-index problem - see also https://civicrm.stackexchange.com/questions/16560/civicrm-select-box-items-cant-be-selected-in-wordpress-page-create/18673?utm_medium=organic&utm_source=google_rich_qa&utm_campaign=google_rich_qa

• Workaround:

  See https://civicrm.stackexchange.com/a/24991/72

Elementor

• Information last updated on: 2018-12-05
• Reporter: samuelsov

• Problem:

  Some smarty variable don't get replaced. For example, on a contribution page, the profile list are all shown as <%= title =%>

Qode Interactive themes/Bridge theme

• Version: 16.6
• Information last updated on: 2019-03-11
• Reporter: Noah Miller/Lemniscus

• Problem:

  Among other problems, the theme's CSS and Javascript heavily target the .content class, which CiviCRM uses extensively but in different places, resulting in public-facing CiviCRM forms where elements are displaced or hidden.