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Need some advice please on resolving an issue that cropped up yesterday with my site. I use the Elegant Themes Magnificent theme, which has what ET calls an optional "featured slider" at the top-center of the homepage. Yesterday I updated my Shareaholic plug-in to 6.0.0.1 (and did a lot of other updates, including Wordpress 3.4). After I was done updating, I saw the featured slider doesn't work anymore. After playing around with turning off plug-ins one at a time, I learned that the slider works if I deactivate Shareaholic. So I'm assuming it's the culprit.

I've posted on the Elegant Themes/Magnificent support forum–no response. I've posted on the WP.org Shareaholic support forum–no response. I've sent a bug report to Shareaholic–no response.

I guess I'm going to have to disable the featured slider, as it looks a bit silly just spinning there. I sure don't want to abandon Shareaholic (especially since the udpate included some new features I like and am already using). But on the other hand, I like the slider, and is the issue between Magnificent and Shareaholic ever likely to be resolved? And who's responsibility–theoretically–is it to resolve this problem, the theme-maker or the plug-in maker?

Any words of wisdom appreciated.

Thanks!

That's a good thought Andrea; I did have one homepage box checked that I shouldn't have, but changing it didn't fix the slider.

But you inspired me to further playing around. I tested the slider with each of Shareaholic's five components disabled, one at a time, and learned that it's the new Recommendations feature that's causing the problem. The slider works fine with the other four components enabled and Recommendations disabled; turn on Recommendations, and zap!

Shareaholic's Recommendations I think does basically what LinkWithin does (which I was using before I got excited about Recommendations), so I guess I'll leave Recommendations disabled and go back to compatible LinkWithin!

Thanks for taking the time to post on this.

Have you considered replacing sharaholic with another plugin that offers the same functionality? Jetpack has a sharing feature now.