I’m having trouble with my WordPress site using the Hestia theme. The navigation menu works fine on desktop computers but completely stops working when I view it on mobile devices.
The homepage also looks totally different on mobile compared to desktop. I built my front page using the ThemeIsle Companion plugin and all the content just disappears when switching to mobile view.
Has anyone else experienced similar problems with the Hestia theme? The mobile menu button appears but nothing happens when I tap it. The desktop version displays everything correctly including the responsive menu functionality.
I’m not sure if this is a theme conflict or a plugin issue. Any suggestions on how to troubleshoot this mobile compatibility problem would be really helpful.
Sounds like a classic Hestia mobile issue - I dealt with the same thing six months ago. The culprit was viewport meta tags clashing with the theme’s mobile breakpoints. First, check if you’ve got custom CSS overriding the mobile styles. Go to Appearance > Customize > Additional CSS and temporarily remove any mobile rules you added. The ThemeIsle Companion content disappearing usually means conflicting media queries. I’d deactivate all plugins except ThemeIsle Companion, then reactivate them one by one to find the troublemaker. Also check for minification or optimization plugins - they often break the mobile JavaScript for hamburger menus. Try disabling those temporarily to see if the mobile menu works again. Hestia should handle mobile responsiveness out of the box, so there’s definitely a conflict somewhere.
Had this exact bug with Hestia a couple weeks ago. WP Rocket’s mobile optimization was the culprit. I disabled “separate cache files for mobile” and the mobile menu started working again. Also check for any mobile detection plugins - they can mess with Hestia’s responsive breakpoints.
I’ve hit this Hestia theme problem before - it’s usually JavaScript conflicts or CSS issues. When desktop works but mobile breaks, scripts aren’t loading right on mobile.
Check your caching plugins first. They might be serving different versions to mobile devices. Clear everything and test again.
Then open mobile dev tools and look for JavaScript errors in the console. You’ll probably find something blocking the menu script.
Honestly though, manually fixing theme conflicts and mobile issues eats up way too much time. I automate all my WordPress maintenance now.
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Had the exact same problem with Hestia about 8 months ago. Mobile nav would completely freeze while desktop worked fine. Spent hours troubleshooting and found it was a touch vs click event issue - the mobile menu JavaScript wasn’t registering touch handlers properly. Here’s what worked: open browser inspector on mobile and check if the hamburger button has proper event listeners. In my case, a lazy loading script was messing with the touch event binding. Fixed it by adding a small JS snippet to the footer that reinitializes the mobile menu after all scripts load. For the ThemeIsle Companion content disappearing, check for CSS media query conflicts - probably another plugin injecting responsive CSS that’s overriding your theme’s mobile layout.
Sounds like a viewport compatibility issue. I had the same problem with Hestia - mobile menu worked on some devices but not others. Viewport height calculations were messing with the hamburger menu positioning. Add viewport-fit=cover to your meta viewport tag if you haven’t. Also check for custom jQuery or JavaScript that modifies DOM elements after page load - this breaks Hestia’s mobile menu initialization. The ThemeIsle Companion content disappearing usually means there’s a conflict between the theme’s mobile CSS and another plugin’s responsive styles. Look in your theme customizer for mobile-specific settings that might be turned off. I fixed mine by making sure all scripts loaded in the right order and checking that the mobile menu container wasn’t getting hidden by conflicting z-index values.
Manual debugging of Hestia mobile issues is a nightmare. I wasted countless hours on similar problems until I automated everything.
Sounds like your mobile menu JavaScript isn’t firing right. Probably timing issues between how scripts load on mobile vs desktop.
Why hunt conflicts one by one? I built an automated workflow that monitors mobile functionality across all my WordPress sites. Runs hourly checks and catches mobile menu failures, missing content, and JavaScript errors before they break things.
It tests different mobile viewports, validates menu interactions work, and screenshots mobile pages to compare against desktop. When it finds your type of issues, it tries common fixes automatically - clearing caches, disabling conflicting plugins, resetting mobile optimization settings.
For ThemeIsle Companion content disappearing, it checks CSS media queries and flags mismatched mobile breakpoints.
This saves me tons of manual troubleshooting. Mobile issues get detected and often fixed automatically before I even notice.
Stop wrestling with theme conflicts manually. Automate the monitoring and let it do the detective work.
This sounds like a JavaScript loading issue on mobile. I had the exact same problem with Hestia last year - lazy loading was conflicting with the mobile menu script. Another plugin was messing with the DOM ready event so the menu wouldn’t initialize properly. Switch to a default WordPress theme temporarily and test mobile functionality. If it works fine, you know it’s Hestia causing the issue. Also check your host’s mobile optimization settings. Some hosts use aggressive mobile caching that breaks interactive elements. I fixed mine by adding a JavaScript defer attribute to the Hestia mobile menu script in functions.php. The disappearing ThemeIsle Companion content is probably a separate CSS issue - the mobile breakpoints aren’t matching up right.