Plugin Conflicts

[donorkoskey]

It seems that nearly every plugin I install on my client’s site causes cornerstone to hangup and not allow you to edit a page. This is annoying but not that critical now as I can just disable the plugin, make edits, and enable the plugin again but I’m going to hand off my site to my client who will want to make changes and has learned how to use Cornerstone to edit their content. So I can’t do that and I’m unwilling to bill them for hours and hours spent searching for plugin after plugin that doesn’t conflict with Cornerstone. I’m far more likely to stop using X-theme and take a financial hit when I’ve got to train them on a less buggy system.

I’ve searched the forums for a list of plugins that are known to cause conflicts and though there isn’t a list the number of conflicts that others have had is staggering. Why is it that the simplest javascript based plugin causes Cornerstone to shut down? And if that’s going to happen then when are you going to increase the number of in-house or partner plugins that Cornerstone will work with?

Here is a partial list of plugins that Cornerstone has failed to load when they’re activated:

Jetpack
Hustle
Page Scroll to ID
Responsive Lightbox
Widgets on Page
Opening Hours

There are more than a dozen other plugins that I’ve deleted after testing mostly to do with galleries (lightbox plugins), security for login and contact forms, displaying business hours and if the shop is open currently, mailing list sign ups, and showing a corner slid-in.

If all of these plugins cause errors (and yes I’ve debugged and yes I’ve increased memory and everything else I can do) then I’d really love to know when there will be partner or in-house made plugins that will work with Cornerstone.

Thank you.

[rubin]

Hey There,

Any plugin that follows the official WordPress coding standards will be compatible with Cornerstone so the majority of plugins are compatible. Your problem seems to be very specific and might be caused by one plugin that might not follow those guidelines. The best way to troubleshoot this is to deactivate all plugins and then see if everything works fine (cornerstone). Once that’s done you can slowly enable one plugin after the other so you find out which one is breaking Cornerstone.

If you need help on the way or want us to take a look feel free to provide us with login credentials.

[donorkoskey]

I know how to figure out what plugin is causing the issue. The problem is that ALL of these and more cause Cornerstone to shit the bed and refuse to work. Responsive Lightbox (one that you recommend using) included. I’m also clearly not the only one having issues as the support forum is littered with posts that are about plugins causing Cornerstone to stop working.

[ruenel]

Hey There,

When one or more plugins is active and Cornerstone began to hang up, you might be experiencing a PHP memory limit exhaustion. By default, WordPress will attempt to increase memory allocated to PHP to 40MB (code is at the beginning of /wp-includes/default-constants.php) for single site and 64MB for multisite, so the setting in wp-config.php should reflect something higher than 40MB or 64MB depending on your setup.

​We recommend that you increase your memory allocated to PHP. To increase it, please edit your wp-config.php file and insert these lines:

define( 'WP_MEMORY_LIMIT', '256M' );
define( 'WP_MAX_MEMORY_LIMIT', '512M' );

You can add it before the line
/*That's all, stop editing! Happy Blogging. */

And if it does not work our, kindly provide us the url of your site with login credentials so we can take a closer look and fix the issue? This is to ensure that we can provide you with a tailored answer to your situation. Once you have provided us with your URL, we will be happy to assist you with everything.

To do this, you can make a post with the following info:
– Link to your site
– WordPress Admin username / password

• FTP Hostname
• FTP Username
• FTP Password

Thank you.