SiteOrigin – Situation with WordPress 5.6

Hi ,

This is a follow up post to wowcreativeswhitby’s earlier post on a similar subject – it seems I can’t reply to that one however if they are still watching the forum, this might contain some information to work aorund the issue :)

I’ve had a similar-ish issue where updaging to WordPress 5.6 kinda broke certain sections of a test site that I’m building. The TL;DR version is that I’ve used WordPress’s “Enable jQuery Migrate Helper” plugin to identify that there were elements of my site theme, as well as the SiteOrigin page builder, that were using deprecated and this likely was causing parts of the site to break under WordPress 5.6.

To wowcreativeswhitby if you see this – YMMV, but I’ve found at least a temporary workaround is to use the same plugin to switch back to the previous version of jQuery while I get this fixed. This may, or may not, work for you though if it does, it should probably only be considered a temporary workaround rather than a permanent fix.

The reason for my post is to try and help me plan out how to make the necessary updates. I did notice shortly after the release of 5.6, SiteOrigin did release an update to both the Page Builder and the SiteOrigin Widgets Bundle. It appears though the plugin is still getting flagged by the jQuery Migration Plugin as containing deprecated functions, so I suspect this still might be a work in progress. I just want to confirm that this is the case before proceeding, as the theme author seem to be a bit slower in responding so I may need to engage with a developer to help sort the theme out. I’d much rather do that knowing that SiteOrigin should be fixed and that the only issues I need to sort are with the theme.