Hi @markuswollny
If the CSS isn’t loading you will see an error in the console. Can you clear the browser cache or try in an incognito window?
I tried with both cache cleared and in incognito mode. When I glance over other parts of the backend, MetaSlider is not the only one that seems off – so I guess that there’s something fundamentally wrong with WordPress 5.3 and this is not limited to MetaSlider at all. I tried reinstalling WordPress 5.3. There are unfortunately no error messages in the console whatsoever, and CSS is obviously loading to some extent, but some things seem to be missing.
Hi @markuswollny,
If you downgrade to WP 5.2.X does it work again?
You don’t get a 404 on the CSS file in the dev tools?
Yes, after downgrading everything is back to looking shipshape. And no, I didn’t get any 404s in the console. But I believe that there’s something seriously wrong with WordPress 5.3 and MetaSlider is by no means the cause of it, nor is MetaSlider the only Plugin that is affected. Wordfence was looking mighty unstylish, too.
So I guess that this issue can be closed here, I’ll try and dig deeper into WordPress 5.3 in a dev install once I can find the time and avoid the upgrade as long as possible.
There’s just to much sh*t going in with this Gutenberg mess no one ever has asked WordPress Core to build in the first place and it seems like it’s getting worse.
Hi @markuswollny
It might be another plugin breaking something with WP5.3. I’ve tested MetaSlider on 5.3 and it works fine. I would disable everything then one by one add stuff back. It could be one plugin that is running code on every page, breaking everything.
Hi,
Thank you for your feedback, but as I said, this issue is not with MetaSlider at all, as I know now. I actually disabled off all of the plugins, then enabled MetaSlider and nothing but MetaSlider and got the same result. And as I said, the Wordfence backend looks broken too – in this test, I disabled everything but Wordfence. I guess that I’m looking at a redesign here, as with everything else ruled out, only the theme I use remains as the obvious culprit. When I first set up the site for my church some six years ago, I chose a free theme and this hasn’t seen any update activity since, so it’s probably overdue to look for a suitable alternative.
I have downgraded WordPress to the latest 5.2 along with the previous version of Tablepress (the latest version requires 5.3, so this had to be downgraded, too), and I think I need to take some time in the upcoming holidays to prepare switching to a new theme.
Sorry to have bothered you with this thread, I really like MetaSlider and your response times here in this forum are awesome, thank you!
Kind regards
Markus
Hi @markuswollny
You can probably figure out if it’s the theme but temporarily activating another one. If it’s still broken you could check if you have any mu-plugins also. Finally, if still nothing, it could be a configuration on the server, or the need to update the php version (then again if reverting to WP5.2 works this probably isn’t the case).
Anyway, I’ll mark this as resolved but if you have any more follow up feel free to reply.
By the way, if you’re enjoying MetaSlider please leave us a 5-star review. They really help us out and let others find our plugin more easily. If you don’t think we deserve the 5 stars please let us know how we can improve, too. Thanks!
https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/ml-slider/reviews/?rate=5#new-post
I arrive here googling the same problem. Nothing to do with MetaSlider. My problem, as kbatdorf says, was my old THEME. Hope it helps more people like me.
I can confirm now – after switching from my old theme to something more recent, the problem disappeared.
