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Exclusion list fails to stop third-party plugin breaks

Excluding a plugin or script by name does not stop deferred code from breaking third-party plugins like CF7, GiveWP and DataTables.

Tier II · Emerging Problems that are still building up.

4 public reports · first reported 26 June 2023 · last reported 23 October 2024

Idea report · $9 · No contacts · All sales final

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What's going wrong

Owners of sites using contact forms, donation plugins, WooCommerce add-ons and table tools report that Async JavaScript breaks those plugins even after they exclude the plugin or its script by name.

AI-assisted: written with the help of AI from the reports. The idea report has the full summary.

In the idea report

  • The full summary.
  • The products the 4 reports are about, and how many came each month.
  • Related problems.

No business has been found with this problem yet, so the report has no contacts. All sales are final — no refunds. Pricing.