$.ageCheck is not a function

[dxdc]

Similar problem to the one reported by another user TypeError: $.ageCheck is not a function:

• https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/dispensary-age-verification/

Was able to trace the problem to these lines:

wp_enqueue_script( 'age-verification-cookie', plugin_dir_url( __FILE__ ) . 'js/js.cookie.js', array( 'jquery' ), $this->version, false );
wp_enqueue_script( $this->plugin_name, plugin_dir_url( __FILE__ ) . 'js/dispensary-age-verification-public.js', array( 'jquery' ), $this->version, false );

The side effect is that these scripts are not loaded at all. If this JS code is pasted into the console, then the $.ageCheck script works just fine. Also, these scripts are not present in the HTML code at all, meaning they never got loaded.

Trying to debug this, I found that plugin_dir_url( __FILE__ ) . 'js/dispensary-age-verification-public.js' does produce the correct path, so I'm not sure if there is a filter removing these somewhere else? The site I'm debugging for this problem is extremely complex so not sure what other features may be involved.

Was able to temporarily get around this using the following hack solution in another function:

    ?>
    <script type="text/javascript">
	  <?php echo file_get_contents(__DIR__. '/js/js.cookie.js'); ?>
    </script>
    <script type="text/javascript">
	  <?php echo file_get_contents(__DIR__. '/js/dispensary-age-verification-public.js'); ?>
    </script>
    <?php

Any idea why this could be failing or how to fix it?