Just a quick PSA in case anyone else runs into this issue.
Was trying to squeeze a bit more speed out of Dragonchasers today and I installed a plugin called Jetpack Boost. This plugin has a few options including one called “Defer Non-Essential Javascript.” When this option is turned on, scripts, or at least some scripts, in the ‘sidebar’ wind up displaying below the page instead of in the sidebar. Which makes sense since, y’know, the script is being deferred.
The correct solution is an option to specify certain scripts as essential so the plugin doesn’t mess with them. There is no way to do this ‘out of the box’ yet, but it is a known issue.
This issue was created on August 5th; hopefully we’ll see a new option soon.
[Header image is from Final Fantasy XIV and has nothing to do with WordPress plugins 🙂 ]