Enable jQuery Migrate Helper
Get information about calls to deprecated jQuery features in plugins or themes.
4.8(109 reviews)
·80K+ active installs·Updated 1 year agoAs of April 2026, Enable jQuery Migrate Helper is a WordPress jquery plugin with 80K+ active installations and a 4.8/5 rating from 109 reviews. It has been downloaded 2.4M+ times in total. Requires WordPress 5.4+ and PHP 5.6+. Available on WordPress.org since 2020. Last updated 1 year ago — may have compatibility concerns. Downloads are down 6% this week. Support resolution rate: 0%. Top alternative: Animate It!.
4.8/5109 reviews
80K+active installs
0%resolved
6 yearssince 2020
Overview
With the update to WordPress 5.5, a migration tool known as jquery-migrate was no longer enabled by default. This may lead to lacking functionality or unexpected behavior in some themes or plugins that run older code.
This plugin serves as a temporary solution, enabling the migration script for your site to give your plugin and theme authors some more time to update, and test, their code.
With the update to WordPress 5.6, the included version of jQuery is also upgraded. This means that old code that previously caused warnings now may instead may cause errors or stop working entirely.
Some of the features no longer working will just stop working behind the scenes without any apparent problem.
The plugin will let you downgrade to a previous version of jQuery for a period, but as a site admi…
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Recent Reviews
Great plugin, solved a big issue!
by Aleks Simov·2 years ago
The WooCommerce checkout error was solved and customers can now purchase successfully again.
jQuery.Deferred exception: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading ‘defaults’) TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading ‘defaults’)
- This topic was modified 2 years, 3 months ago by Aleks Simov.
I wish I found this before.
by lesliedeanbrown·2 years ago·1 reply
I really do think that you should still include or incorporate jquery migrate files in new versions or updates of wordpress. It’s crazy that you know this is gonna crash a bunch of sites (like thousands) yet you do it anyway.
Oh, and while I’m here, please get rid of the block editor (or whatever the hell it is) in these comments! It’s not intuitive enough. Poor UX/UI. 😟☹️
It magically fixed the problem within the website
by Simone Longato·2 years ago·2 replies
Congratulations to whoever made this plugin. There were some editor display issues on wordpress and the plugin fixed them. Now clearly I have to go back to the problem to restore the correct functioning of wordpress. but wow! it was amazing!
Excellent!
by peterstavrou·3 years ago
This is an excellent plugin! Works perfectly!
I just wish there was an option to turn off the message that says this is not a permanent fix.
Life saver bandaid. Thanks!
by jleahy·4 years ago
Boy did this come in handy. Thanks for doing this. It got the menus working. This will give us time to replace the existing theme with our own.
Thanks again!
JL
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Download Trends
Today: 344Yesterday: 368This week: 3KPeriod total: 209K
Compatibility
| WordPress | 5.4+ requiredTested up to 6.7.5 |
| PHP | 5.6+ required |
Version Adoption
v1.4
78.3%
v1.3
17.9%
Other
3.9%
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Changelog
v 1.4.1 (2024-12-25)
- Update jQuery version reference to match WordPress core.
- Tested on latest WordPress core release.
- Added some more urgency to the weekly reminder email if outdated jQuery versions are used, as they may not include the latest security patches.
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