The 'show' and 'hide' JQuery event detection is a neat trick, but turns out there are others doing similar things, so this can cause conflicts. By namespacing the custom event, we narrow the scope of functionality to just this plugin, and avoid conflicts w/ other scripts/plugins (namely, Visual Composer).
The 'show' and 'hide' JQuery event detection is a neat trick, but turns out there are others doing similar things, so this can cause conflicts. By namespacing the custom event, we narrow the scope of functionality to just this plugin, and avoid conflicts w/ other scripts/plugins (namely, Visual Composer).
You can see some background here: https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-5-0-2-4/#topic-11069144-replies