Title: JavaScript Library Not Working for WP-Table Reloaded
Last modified: August 19, 2016

---

# JavaScript Library Not Working for WP-Table Reloaded

 *  Resolved [ajcke](https://wordpress.org/support/users/emerinea/)
 * (@emerinea)
 * [15 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/javascript-library-not-working/)
 * I have JavaScript libary enabled and set to DataTables for WP-Table Reloaded,
   and sorting and pagination enabled for my table.
 * This worked fine until I updated to version 3.0.1 a few months ago.
 * The table displays on the webpage as a static table. The sorting and pagination
   options have disapeared.
 * Any suggestions?

Viewing 15 replies - 1 through 15 (of 20 total)

1 [2](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/javascript-library-not-working/page/2/?output_format=md)
[→](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/javascript-library-not-working/page/2/?output_format=md)

 *  [Tobias Bäthge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tobiasbg/)
 * (@tobiasbg)
 * [15 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/javascript-library-not-working/#post-1818140)
 * Hi,
 * can you provide a link to your page with the table?
 * Have you changed your theme since you saw it working the last time?
    Have you
   installed any plugins that use JavaScript?
 * Tobias
 *  Thread Starter [ajcke](https://wordpress.org/support/users/emerinea/)
 * (@emerinea)
 * [15 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/javascript-library-not-working/#post-1818177)
 * Here’s the link: [http://hardinnorthern.org/?page_id=914](http://hardinnorthern.org/?page_id=914)
 * I have not changed my theme or messed with any of the backend of my theme since
   it last worked.
 * Below are a list of all my plugins that are active. I have other plugins installed
   that aren’t active. Could a plugin that is installed and not active cause an 
   issue? I’m pretty sure all of these were installed and active prior to wp-table
   reloaded not functioning 100%. I’m not sure which ones use JavaScript. Could 
   any of these cause issues? I’m very confident that table reloaded stopped functioning
   when I upgraded the site from the latest version of MU to 3.0.1. It could be 
   a plugin issue, but I’m not sure how to track it down.
 * BM Custom Login
    Contact Form 7 Flash Video Player NextGEN Gallery PJW Mime Config
   Podcasting Plugin by TSG Redirect Reviionary Role Scoper Role Scoping for NextGen
   Gallery SI Captcha Anti-Spam TynyMCE Advanced User Photo Wordpress.com Stats
 *  [Tobias Bäthge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tobiasbg/)
 * (@tobiasbg)
 * [15 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/javascript-library-not-working/#post-1818208)
 * Hi,
 * thanks for the link and the plugin list.
 * The plugins should all be fine, I don’t know of conflicts with them. Installed
   but deactivated plugins can not cause conflicts, as nothing from them is loaded.
 * Anyway, the problem is rather simple: The necessary JavaScript libraries are 
   not included into the page. This likely is, because your theme’s footer.php does
   not contain a call to `<?php wp_footer(); ?>`.
    It should be located right before
   the closing </body> tag there. Can you check that and insert it, if it is missing?
 * Regards,
    Tobias
 *  Thread Starter [ajcke](https://wordpress.org/support/users/emerinea/)
 * (@emerinea)
 * [15 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/javascript-library-not-working/#post-1818451)
 * You’re the man! That fixed it. I’m thinking I had to take that out at one time
   during my upgrade to WP 3.0.1 to fix another issue, but I can’t remember what
   that was.
 *  [Tobias Bäthge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tobiasbg/)
 * (@tobiasbg)
 * [15 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/javascript-library-not-working/#post-1818453)
 * Hi,
 * no problem 🙂
 * The wp_footer(); call is necessary to give plugins a chance to insert code into
   the page, so you should not remove it, but rather fix the plugin which was creating
   that other issue back then.
 * Best wishes,
    Tobias
 *  [kristarella](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kristarella/)
 * (@kristarella)
 * [15 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/javascript-library-not-working/#post-1818589)
 * Hi Tobias,
 * I’m also having a problem with the javascript libraries not being loaded on the
   page, but I definitely have wp_footer(); in the theme: I can hook into it and
   add stuff to it from my functions file.
 * I’m using Wp-Table Reloaded 1.8 and WP 3.0.4.
 * I can’t really give you a link to the site because it’s not public yet, and most
   of the content will be members only, but I hope you can point me in the direction
   of things to look at.
 * The other plugins activates are:
    AVH Extended Category widgets Cforms Event 
   Calendar / Scheduler Mingle Poll Daddy Polls Shadowbox JS Simple:Press Social
   Media Widget Tooltip Glossary Wenderhost Subpages Widget Widget Logic Wishlist
   Member WordPress.com Stats
 * But I don’t see how they would cause the javascripts not to load… only cause 
   js conflicts after they’ve loaded.
 * Hope you can help me. Thanks!
 *  [Tobias Bäthge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tobiasbg/)
 * (@tobiasbg)
 * [15 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/javascript-library-not-working/#post-1818590)
 * Hi,
 * hhhm, without the site to look at this is really hard to debug unfortunately 
   🙁
 * Please check the following: Is the plugin’s JavaScript loading call included 
   in the resulting page output (i.e. are there `<script>` tags to the DataTables
   library in the page’s HTML code)?
 * If yes, are the files all accessible from the web or do you maybe get an error
   message when manually trying to load the file in your browser?
 * Also, is jQuery loaded properly in the page’s HTML code?
 * You could also temporarily switch to the WordPress Default Theme to see if things
   work there (just to make sure that it is not a theme issue).
 * Regards,
    Tobias
 *  [kristarella](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kristarella/)
 * (@kristarella)
 * [15 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/javascript-library-not-working/#post-1818592)
 * Thanks for your prompt reply Tobias!
 * I think the problem was that jQuery and UI were being called twice on the page…
   I’m not sure if that is known to cause errors, but I stopped that from happening
   and the sorting seems to be working.
 * Thanks!
 *  [Tobias Bäthge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tobiasbg/)
 * (@tobiasbg)
 * [15 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/javascript-library-not-working/#post-1818593)
 * Hi,
 * thanks for your further investigations!
    That definitely could be the reason 
   for those issues, as I have heard about the problem of jQuery being loaded twice
   before. Basically, what happens is that the second copy removes stuff that the
   first one had created.
 * So, good to hear that this is now working!
 * Best wishes,
    Tobias
 *  [OtaQ](https://wordpress.org/support/users/otaq/)
 * (@otaq)
 * [15 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/javascript-library-not-working/#post-1818597)
 * Oh great, I got it… as you wrote:
 * The `<?php wp_footer(); ?>` should be located **right (!!!)** before the closing`
   </body>` tag there.
 * Had it in before, but not RIGHT BEFORE the `</body>`
 *  [Tobias Bäthge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tobiasbg/)
 * (@tobiasbg)
 * [15 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/javascript-library-not-working/#post-1818598)
 * Hi,
 * great that you found the problem. I guess that this solves your question in [http://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wp-table-reloaded-cant-activate-datatables](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wp-table-reloaded-cant-activate-datatables)
   as well.
 * Regards,
    Tobias
 *  [Mike_ox](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mike_ox/)
 * (@mike_ox)
 * [14 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/javascript-library-not-working/#post-1818643)
 * Hi
 * I can only get the sort function to work using the tablesorter library.
 * I really want the search and Pagination functions. I’ve changed the library to
   DataTables+TableTools and tried the defualt DataTables and selected the relevent
   option in the table editor but nothing works.
 * If I can get my table workking like the demo table on this site: [http://tobias.baethge.com/wordpress-plugins/wp-table-reloaded-english/](http://tobias.baethge.com/wordpress-plugins/wp-table-reloaded-english/)
   
   That would be awesome
 * My theme does have <?php wp_footer(); ?> in the footer right before </body>.
 * The plugins I have active are:
    Fast Secure Contact Form Contact Form to DB Extension
   HeadSpace2 W3 Total Cache WP-Table Reloaded
 * Anyone know why This isn’t working?
    Thanks Mike
 *  [Mike_ox](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mike_ox/)
 * (@mike_ox)
 * [14 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/javascript-library-not-working/#post-1818644)
 * Ah it seems it doesn’t work in firefox and that’s the problem
 *  [kristarella](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kristarella/)
 * (@kristarella)
 * [14 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/javascript-library-not-working/#post-1818645)
 * Mike — I had some troubles with the datatables javascript and W3 Total Cache 
   when javascript minification was on. I had to play around with the minification
   settings a bit, including only having the first setting checked (so not removing
   line breaks etc). And if you do have javascript minification on, you might need
   to reorder the way the files are compressed into one file so that any files that
   are dependent on other files come after the files they’re dependent on.
 * Also, if you’re using Firefox with Firebug installed, or Chrome, or Safari you
   can right click on the page and select “Inspect Element”. If there are any errors
   on the page a red number with a little cross icon will show up at the bottom 
   right of the firebug or inspection window. If you click on that number it should
   bring up a list of the errors and that may indicate whether there’s a javascript
   error affecting the page.
 *  [Tobias Bäthge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tobiasbg/)
 * (@tobiasbg)
 * [14 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/javascript-library-not-working/#post-1818646)
 * Hi,
 * kristarella, those are very good hints for Mike, thanks for posting them!
 * Mike, if you still can’t get it to work with those ideas, please post the link
   to the page with your table, so that we can take a look at it and maybe find 
   the cause for the issue.
 * Thanks,
    Tobias

Viewing 15 replies - 1 through 15 (of 20 total)

1 [2](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/javascript-library-not-working/page/2/?output_format=md)
[→](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/javascript-library-not-working/page/2/?output_format=md)

The topic ‘JavaScript Library Not Working for WP-Table Reloaded’ is closed to new
replies.

## Tags

 * [pagination](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/pagination/)
 * [sorting](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/sorting/)

 * 20 replies
 * 5 participants
 * Last reply from: [Mike_ox](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mike_ox/)
 * Last activity: [14 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/javascript-library-not-working/page/2/#post-1818651)
 * Status: resolved

## Topics

### Topics with no replies

### Non-support topics

### Resolved topics

### Unresolved topics

### All topics