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IOS Ventura Safari 16.3 position fixed elements goes above scroll bar

IOS Ventura Safari 16.3 whenever I create a position fixed element with 100% width, It goes above or bellow the scroll bar as well. this is easy to recreate. .anyelement { position: fixed; height:...
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Show theme images based on the visitor's browser

I'm trying to get my WordPress site to display theme images in the appropriate format based on the visitor's browser and its supported image types, such as WebP, GIF, JPEG, etc. So far, I've tried ...
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Multiple issues with Ajax login function due to browsers and cookies

Using basic usage of ajax login wordpress, no cookie wordpress_logged_in_ are created on safari and Chrome and firefox doesn't read user when cookie "wordpress_logged_in". I have several ...
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WebP issue on new 5.8 version

the new WordPress 5.8 version includes WebP Image support which is great. But some browsers (safari older than version 14) do not support them. How can it be done that in this case it will fall back ...
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Why is my page displaying small A+Japanese character icons?

I have a Wordpress page that, upon load, displays a couple small icons in the left margin. When I left-click on them, they disappear. When I right-click, they appear to be a local Mozilla image under ...
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Internet explorer not finding right content from multisite

Okay, so this is at weird one. I only encounter this issue in IE and no other browser. I have a wordpress multisite installation where I have content on: example.com and example.com/sub-installation ...
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Jquery not working on mobile browser

I have a following jquery code that runs fine on desktop but doesn't run on mobile browser on my wordpress website. It attaches a parameter on ajax based search box but not doing on mobile browsers. ...
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admin-ajax return error 400 for Chrome/Edge but not Firefox

I have a bug with an Ajax request but it works on Firefox. You can test it clicking here For Edge/Chrome I got a 400 error. In Edge I got this error : HTTP400: INCORRECT REQUEST - the request ...
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How to fix samesite attribute in wordpress for chrome errors?

I have several wordpress sites that run on a rhel7 box that I admin. All of the sites use a custom SSO plugin that I wrote. Today I was told that other sites were having issues accessing one of ...
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Browser back button does not work on firefox and safari [closed]

I created an online shop using WordPress, Woocommerce and one of the mikado themes. The problem is that when I go to a subpage and click the back button in my browser the url changes to the previous ...
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WordPress Website Browser Compatibility issue with IE [closed]

I noticed our website is not rendering correctly in old IE 10 and under. After looking into the console there seems to be some DOM conflicts. Is there something I need to update in my CSS to render ...
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How to save history in the client's browser without login? [closed]

I know that we can use some snippets or plugins to save the client history but this work for the login clients as I know. My question is how to do the same thing but for unlogin users. Let's say I am ...
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using wordpress without javascript

is it possible to develop a wordpress theme with 0% javascript code if you are wondering why, I need to make a blog on TOR network and as you may know TOR browser doesn't support javascript is that ...
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External content won't load in iframe in Safari

I'm trying to load external content into an iframe, & it is working in Chrome & Firefox, but it won't load in Safari. In Safari I get the error message: Refused to display 'my_content' in a ...
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Hamburger Menu not working on reduced browser size

I'm currently working on my site but having a small issue with the hamburger menu. It works fine on an actual mobile device, but when I reduce the browser size so that the hamburger appears, nothing ...
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Edge browser sets zoom level on website, when first visiting the site

We've just launched a website based on the Total Theme: https://themeforest.net/item/total-responsive-multipurpose-wordpress-theme/6339019 The site is one among many websites we've build using this ...
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Browser extension to allow users to submit posts front end

Can anyone think of a good starting point of how I could create a simple browser extension to allow submitting of posts to my wordpress website. At the moment, the user can login and via the front ...
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What are WordPress admin supported browsers?

I am developing a plugin which exposes custom client components, html/css in the admin area. I want to test the cross-browsing compatibility of these components sticking to the actual browsers ...
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Fixing Access-Control-Allow-Origin (CORS origin) for multiple subdomains

Following from my previous question Is it safe to fix Access-Control-Allow-Origin (CORS origin) errors with a php header directive? The only solution that worked for me was: header("Access-Control-...
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WP user agent returns random variables

I am using a PHP function in order to return the user browser, using the WP global variables. It used to work perfectly, but recently it started doing random things on Safari. I use chrome and ...
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What is The Best Way to Make Parallax header effect for wordpress theme ?? pure CSS or using JavaScript? [closed]

I'm new in wordpress theme development, I want ask some question here, I want to make a parallax effect for my theme header like this: TestParallax.com this is made by using some JS code, I want to ...
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wp_headers vs send_headers. When to use each?

I've seen wp_headers and send_headers both used before for the same thing and I'm wondering how you're suppose to know which one to use and when... On the send_headers codex page there's an example ...
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Missing text in IE11

This may not be specific to WordPress, but I'm developing a WP site and have come across a puzzling problem. My client has some computers at the office running IE11 and he's noticing missing bits of ...
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Drag and Drop Media Not Working in Windows 10 Edge Browser

Since the release of Windows 10 and its new browser called Edge, I am now unable to drag and drop media to upload it on my WordPress website. Dragging and dropping media works fine on any other ...
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JQuery UI plugin not working in IE7?

I want to use the dialog box from this plugin, but it isn't compatible for IE7. When I run it in Internet Explorer's IE7 emulator, the dialog box renders weirdly. It's partly transparent, draggable/...
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Where is the best place to catch useragent?

I want to add this code: if(preg_match('/(?i)msie [1-8]/',$_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'])) { // if IE<=8 include ( TEMPLATEPATH . '/noie.php' ); exit; } else { // if IE>8 } from ...
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Wordpress ajax works on FF but not on IE & chrome

I have the following code <a href="#" class="loadmore centered" page-data="1">Show More</a><script type="text/javascript"> jQuery(document).ready(function($) { ...
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Conditional Redirect

I'm looking to do a redirect based on browser, but only for a specific page (or 2). I'd like to send the user to an alternative page if the browser is IE7 or less. The alt page will have completely ...
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Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage

My WP site http://kyl.fi has stopped displaying anything else than Front Page when browsing the site with IE. The problem has been confirmed by several users with several versions of IE from 9-11. ...
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404 or ugly page on IE, but Firefox, Chrome looks perfect

I have a variation of this issue. Was happening before and after new theme. I was getting 404 in IE, now sometimes get partial page that looks horrible. Contents can vary when I refresh. I have no ...
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Cannot apply custom css to IE in the theme

For the twentythirteen, twentyfourteen or any theme made by Wordpress, editing ie.css which is in themefolder\css\ie.css doesn't result in any changes in Internet Explorer. I'm actually using IE11, ...
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Elements floating on top of each other when Resizing or checking site on mobile. Twenty Twelve

I'm using WP Twenty Twelve theme for my blog: Glory and Honor and have followed the Replace #site-title with resizable image in Twenty Twelve Post to fix my logo not displaying when visiting via my ...
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Internet Explorer ignore my css

I am creating my personal blog, but Internet explorer are ** me. About 5 hours I am trying to figure out what I am doing wrong, well what is my problem ? Well, I created breadcrumb for my website, ...
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Why do previews work in one browser, but not another?

I keep having an intermittent issue where the admin bar disappears from a wordpress site I often use, when using my main browser (Google Chrome). I can access /wp-admin/ no problem, and another ...
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Internet Explorer seperating lists differently in Twitter Widget Pro than all other browsers [closed]

I am having some trouble with the Twitter Widget Pro Plugin - for some reason in internet explorer if the first tweet has a link, it will make the link its own list item and add a bunch of extra ...
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IE 6~8 ignoring font, background, and margins on sidebar [closed]

I am using the default Twenty Twelve Wordpress theme with my site, and I am trying to customize the sidebar. The CSS I am using is: .widget-area, #secondary{ float: right; width: 210px; font-family: ...
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WordPress Iframe IE8 Javascript problem [closed]

In a very edge case scenario, I have a site that has an interactive form that uses javascript in an iframe. It works fine except on a WordPress site using Internet Explorer 8 or less, in which case ...
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Theme using masonry layout script rendering overlaped images in Google Chrome [closed]

I have a WordPress theme built with Masonry script , I added a new template file for list gallery, is working ok in FF and IE but in Google Chrome gallery images (inside containers) are overlapped. ...
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What is the best way to detect IE browsers 8 and below?

I'm using some HTML5 functionality that only works on IE9 and I need to detect whether visitors are running on IE8 or below (mainly just IE8 or 7 of course). I've tried some plugins but the one that ...
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How to detect and display a page only for IE?

I have a theme that does not work in IE so I would like to be able to detect the browser and redirect to a "sorry this doesn't work for your browser" type or what ever solution you guys can suggest ...
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My new WordPress blog keeps refreshing in Chrome browser

My new WordPress [blog]: http://wuyajun.info/ keeps refreshing in Chrome browser, gets loading error in Firefox, but works normal in IE. Plugins installed that may cause the problem: Facebook AWD All ...
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IE7 compatible twentyeleven

I installed a site with the stock twentyeleven theme but it looks terrible in IE6 and has many small problems in IE7. I am ready to give up on IE6 but not on IE7 yet but wouldn't like to rewrite a ...
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Weird google bot crawl problem

I have moved my website to a VPS server. It is a Wordpress + Buddypress installation, latest versions. I don't understand why I can't see anything when I visit my site with Lynx - a text browser. I ...
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Best Browser for Editing Posts

What browser is best supported by Wordpress.org for editing posts in the visual editor (which I guess is TinyMCE)? I use Google Chrome and have run into issues which are specific to just this browser....
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Wordpress themes that are browser tested and maintained?

Are there any developers that offer themes that have a defined list of browsers tested, on desktop and mobile devices, that are also periodically updated to account for new browser versions?
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