Plugin still demanding wp_footer

[artchester]

A very similar question has been asked before, but the Forum threads seem to be closed to comment.

I’m using Weaver Xtreme Plus with the plugin Slideshow Gallery by Tribulant (a very nice free slideshow).  It presents a trouble message “your theme is missing the wp_footer() function” and refers me to this page in the WordPress Codex:

http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_footer

The WordPress page states:

/* Always have wp_footer() just before the closing </body>

* tag of your theme, or you will break many plugins, which

* generally use this hook to reference JavaScript files.

*/

wp_footer();

This sounds like a WordPress spec that Xtreme is not obeying.

BTW I am using Weaver II Plus on another site with the same plug-in and it does not give me this trouble message.

Should I just ignore this error message as long as my plugins seem to be working OK?

Thanks for advice - Art Chester

[Weaver]

This is 100% the fault of the plugin.

Weaver Xtreme meets the standard fully. The theme wouldn’t work at all if that were not true. Because of Weaver’s internal code layout, a simple minded check (as is apparently the fault with the plugin) for this would likely fail.

The fact is, I don’t think there is a theme in existence that fails to meet the standard, and it is totally silly that a plugin is checking for  this at all. What a waste of time (checking for that and generating a message would likely cause a measurable performance hit) and unnecessary alarm it is causing.

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