Update for jquery 3?

I was surprised that Basel is still using default WP jquery v 1.x which is discontinuied and obsolete for few years now and because of that some very old versions of 3rd party plugins.

I tried to update to 3.2.1, so far everything is working fine, just needed to update jquery-pjax and waypoints.

I’ll keep you posted 🙂

Hello,

Our theme is compatible with a stable version of the jQuery library that comes with the WordPress core. We are not able to update it since it doesn’t depend on the theme.

Kind Regards

You don’t need to use default WP jquery. Just deregister and register script with own library again.

wp_deregister_script('jquery');
wp_register_script('jquery', BASEL_SCRIPTS . '/jquery.js', [], null, true);
wp_enqueue_script( 'jquery' );

I’m doing it in my custom themes for years and since most plugins are using newer jquery standards anyway, no compatibility issues so far.

It will cause some incompatibility issues with other plugins. Themes shouldn’t disable core WordPress libraries at all.

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