Conflict With Thirsty Affiliate Plugin

I have resolved an issue others might have with some of your themes and I thought perhaps, others that have the same problem might would find the solution useful.

ISSUE
The theme seems to have some conflicts with the thirsty affiliate plugin. When creating an affiliate link, the theme will not allow a no follow tag or a Google tracking tag to be added automatically by the plugin.
In addition, the icons for thirsty affiliates in the visual editor appear behind the editing pages when clicked, so it’s impossible to use them without closing down the page editor.

Any ideas?

Thanks
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KRIESI RESPONSE
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Hi,

Have you tried contacting the plugin author? we’re not familiar with that plugin and is out of our scope to support third-party plugins not included in the theme package.

Regards,
Josue
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RESPONSE FROM PLUGIN DEVELOPER
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I’ve replicated the issue, it appears that the theme, even though in their CSS they have a section for “backwards compatibility”, there is a bug with their z-indexing of the popup editor.

Basically here is the culprit:

http://YOURDOMAIN.COM/wp-content/themes/enfold/config-templatebuilder/avia-template-builder/assets/css/avia-modal.css?ver=3.9.1

You’re looking for line 422 where it starts /*BACKWARDS COMPAT*/

These z-index values are overriding WP core CSS for Thickboxes in an attempt to make them compatible with the popup editors in Avia page builder. Unfortunately, the editor modal that pops up in the page builder has it’s z-index set to 15001. So these two z-index values should be set higher than that, perhaps at 16000 and 16001 respectively.

If you change those values our popup appears over the top with no problems (this should also fix other plugins that use the same thickbox approach we do). I also tested inserting a link and it inserted with the GA tracking and nofollow tags, maybe you can re-test this after you make the change?

While I try my best to solve these kinds of issues I don’t think I will be able to put in a workaround for it unfortunately as it’s not the place of my plugin to control this. The theme is overriding WordPress core CSS so it’s part of the theme and I suggest getting in touch with them about it.

• This reply was modified 10 years, 4 months ago by olafshiel.