Title: Scriptaculous 404 Errors
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Scriptaculous 404 Errors

 *  [nicholasjcoleman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nicholasjcoleman/)
 * (@nicholasjcoleman)
 * [16 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/scriptaculous-404-errors/)
 * I’m stumped!
 * I’m receiving DOZENS of 404 errors in my logs, all pointing to:
 * /wp-includes​/js​/scriptaculous​/wp-slider.js
    ​/wp-includes​/js​/scriptaculous​/
   wp-sound.js /wp-includes​/js​/scriptaculous​/wp-controls.js ​/wp-includes​/js​/
   scriptaculous​/wp-effects.js /wp-includes​/js​/scriptaculous​/wp-sound.js /wp-
   includes​/js​/scriptaculous​/wp-dragdrop.js /wp-includes​/js​/scriptaculous​/
   wp-builder.js
 * 
 * Any ideas?

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 *  [alism](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alism/)
 * (@alism)
 * [16 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/scriptaculous-404-errors/#post-1286031)
 * Have a look at this file:
    [http://after.davecrossweddings.com/wp-includes/js/scriptaculous/scriptaculous.js](http://after.davecrossweddings.com/wp-includes/js/scriptaculous/scriptaculous.js)
 * Now I’m no Javascript expert or anything, but it looks like this part:
 *     ```
       var includes = s.src.match(/\?.*load=([a-z,]*)/);
             (includes ? includes[1] : 'builder,effects,dragdrop,controls,slider,sound').split(',').each(
              function(include) { Scriptaculous.require(path+include+'.js') });
       ```
   
 * …is looking for those files, which as you say, don’t exist. So you’ve either 
   got some files left to upload, or a bit of unnecessary script. I’d probably go
   back to whoever created scriptaculous.
 *  Thread Starter [nicholasjcoleman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nicholasjcoleman/)
 * (@nicholasjcoleman)
 * [16 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/scriptaculous-404-errors/#post-1286075)
 * Since these files are located in the wp-includes folder, I’m guessing that part
   of WordPress base install uses Scriptaculous code to work… and probably, doesn’t
   use these specific modules, but is loading them anyway… except the base WordPress
   install doesn’t use the files, so they aren’t in the folder at all.
 * So… that begs the question, why are they being called? Is this intentional?
 *  Thread Starter [nicholasjcoleman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nicholasjcoleman/)
 * (@nicholasjcoleman)
 * [16 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/scriptaculous-404-errors/#post-1286078)
 * Spoke too soon… I think maybe it’s a result of a plugin that’s trying to load
   the Scriptaculous libraries and is doing it from the base WordPress includes…
 *  [alism](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alism/)
 * (@alism)
 * [16 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/scriptaculous-404-errors/#post-1286079)
 * Yeah, I think you’re probably right there.
 * (for some reason I didn’t twig above that Scriptaculous was part of WP core –
   not sure why! Brain is absent today, sorry)
 *  Thread Starter [nicholasjcoleman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nicholasjcoleman/)
 * (@nicholasjcoleman)
 * [16 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/scriptaculous-404-errors/#post-1286088)
 * Fixed it!
 * It’s an error in the d13slideshow plugin.
 * That plugin calls and loads:
    wp-includes/js/scriptaculous/scriptaculous.js which
   is part of WordPress core… for some reason, this loads the scriptaculous effects
   with a prefix of “wp-“.
 * I altered the d13slideshow.php file to call:
    wp-includes/js/scriptaculous/wp-
   scriptaculous.js which is ALSO part of WordPress core and it now no longer loads
   the effects files with the (incorrect) “wp-” prefix.
 * I’ve notified the plugin author… problem solved (got rid of THOUSANDS of 404 
   errors, thankfully).

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 * Last reply from: [nicholasjcoleman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nicholasjcoleman/)
 * Last activity: [16 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/scriptaculous-404-errors/#post-1286088)
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