I'm debugging a visual composer plugin that broke after I updated WordPress to 4.5 and I can't figure out why it is throwing a TypeError.
The error message in the console:
JQMIGRATE: Migrate is installed, version 1.4.0 load-scripts.php?....
Uncaught TypeError: $template.get is not a function composer-view.js?ver=4.1.1.1:73
The only occurrences of $template
are found in the code below. I understand that this isn't very much context to go off of but, how can I resolve this error?
/**
* Convert html into correct element
* @param html
*/
html2element: function(html) {
var attributes = {},
$template;
if (_.isString(html)) {
this.template = _.template(html);
$template = $(this.template(this.model.toJSON()).trim());
} else {
this.template = html;
$template = html;
}
_.each($template.get(0).attributes, function(attr) { // **errors on this line**
attributes[attr.name] = attr.value;
});
this.$el.attr(attributes).html($template.html());
this.setContent();
this.renderContent();
},
Update:
It looks like this might be a problem with jQuery. WordPress 4.5 includes jQuery 1.12 which fixed a bug that allowed certain code to be run with incorrect syntax. I assume that the plugin code must have had incorrect syntax but ran nonetheless until now.
https://wordpress.org/support/topic/read-this-first-wordpress-45-master-list#post-8271654
I was able to resolve the issue. Turns out I was using an older version of JS composer. Updating to the newest version broke my site so I tracked down the error and updated the html2element
function to
html2element: function(html) {
var $template, attributes = {},
template = html;
$template = $(template(this.model.toJSON()).trim()), _.each($template.get(0).attributes, function(attr) {
attributes[attr.name] = attr.value
}), this.$el.attr(attributes).html($template.html()), this.setContent(), this.renderContent()
},
All is working well for me again! Hope this helps others.