Title: Custom theme JavaScript not working Last modified: August 21, 2016 --- # Custom theme JavaScript not working * Resolved [sorenkalla](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sorenkalla/) * (@sorenkalla) * [12 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-theme-javascript-not-working/) * I am attempting to design my own wordpress theme, but I’m having issues getting my JavaScript to work, and nothing I have researched seems to have the answer. If anyone can help me out I’d greatly appreciate it! * Things I have done: * Enqueue my javascript file in functions.php: * ``` function sorenTheme_scripts() { wp_enqueue_style('style', get_stylesheet_uri()); wp_register_script( 'soren-script', get_template_directory_uri() . '/js/soren-script.js', array( 'jquery', 'jquery-ui-core' ), '1', true ); wp_enqueue_script('soren-script'); } add_action('wp_enqueue_scripts', 'sorenTheme_scripts'); ``` * Create a simple javaScript file in the directory {template folder}/js named soren- script.js, which currently just contains a very simple alert test * `alert('Hello World');` * and that’s it. When I tried to put the alert in the index.php file directly using the script tags, the alert came up as expected, but when I move it to the js file I get nothing. Is there something i need to add to the .php or .js files? Viewing 2 replies - 1 through 2 (of 2 total) * [stephencottontail](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stephencottontail/) * (@stephencottontail) * [12 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-theme-javascript-not-working/#post-4933903) * Shot in the dark, but are you remembering to call [`wp_footer()`](http://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API/Action_Reference/wp_footer) in your theme? Because you put `true` for the final argument to `wp_register_script()`, WordPress will load the script at the bottom of the `` tag, but you need to call `wp_footer()` for that to work. * [eco7eco](https://wordpress.org/support/users/eco7eco/) * (@eco7eco) * [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-theme-javascript-not-working/#post-4934248) * Thank you x1,000,000, [@stephencottontail](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stephencottontail/)! I was tearing my hair out trying to figure out why pretty much anything related to jQuery wouldn’t work on my extremely stripped down custom theme, which I made to embed elsewhere. I recklessly removed the footer thinking that I wouldn’t need it. * This has been plaguing me for hours. After reading dozens of blog posts and help articles, I stumbled upon your comment. I restored get_footer(), and all is right again in my little corner of the world! Viewing 2 replies - 1 through 2 (of 2 total) The topic ‘Custom theme JavaScript not working’ is closed to new replies. ## Tags * [custom](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/custom/) * [javascript](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/javascript/) * [Javascript not loading](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/javascript-not-loading/) * [loading](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/loading/) * [not](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/not/) * [php](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/php/) * [working](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/working/) * 2 replies * 3 participants * Last reply from: [eco7eco](https://wordpress.org/support/users/eco7eco/) * Last activity: [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-theme-javascript-not-working/#post-4934248) * Status: resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics