I am using a slider to show my images that works fine on my sit but when I converted my site in to a wordpress theme it started giving me troubles on loading the images, slider is active but images are not showing, I tried using wp_localize_script with no luck, I am probably making some mistake please check my code and let me know what it is that I am doing wrong!

Here is my code:

functions.php

// I took this code snippet from another stackexchange answer!

function wpa_scripts() {

    wp_enqueue_script(
        'wpa_script',
        get_template_directory_uri() . '/js/custom.js',
        array('jquery'),
        false,
        true
    );
    $script_data = array(
        'image_path' => get_template_directory_uri() . '/images/'
    );
    wp_localize_script(
        'wpa_script',
        'wpa_data',
        $script_data
    );
}

    add_action( 'wp_enqueue_scripts', 'wpa_scripts' );

And here is my custom.js file:

  $(function(){
    jQuery(document).ready(function() {
    $('#home').backstretch([
       image_path+"home-bg-slideshow1.jpg",
       image_path+"home-bg-slideshow2.jpg",
       image_path+"home-bg-slideshow3.jpg",
        ],  {duration: 2000, fade: 750});
    });
  })

Any idea how to fix this? its my first time messing with the wp_localize_script

I am using a slider to show my images that works fine on my sit but when I converted my site in to a wordpress theme it started giving me troubles on loading the images, slider is active but images are not showing, I tried using wp_localize_script with no luck, I am probably making some mistake please check my code and let me know what it is that I am doing wrong!

Here is my code:

functions.php

// I took this code snippet from another stackexchange answer!

function wpa_scripts() {

    wp_enqueue_script(
        'wpa_script',
        get_template_directory_uri() . '/js/custom.js',
        array('jquery'),
        false,
        true
    );
    $script_data = array(
        'image_path' => get_template_directory_uri() . '/images/'
    );
    wp_localize_script(
        'wpa_script',
        'wpa_data',
        $script_data
    );
}

    add_action( 'wp_enqueue_scripts', 'wpa_scripts' );

And here is my custom.js file:

  $(function(){
    jQuery(document).ready(function() {
    $('#home').backstretch([
       image_path+"home-bg-slideshow1.jpg",
       image_path+"home-bg-slideshow2.jpg",
       image_path+"home-bg-slideshow3.jpg",
        ],  {duration: 2000, fade: 750});
    });
  })

Any idea how to fix this? its my first time messing with the wp_localize_script

• php
• images
• javascript
• wp-localize-script
• paths

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You're not accessing the value correctly. The 2nd argument of wp_localize_script is the name of a JavaScript object that your data will be added to. In your case it's wpa_data. This means that the image_path is accessed at wpa_data.image_path:

$(function(){
    jQuery(document).ready(function() {
    $('#home').backstretch([
       wpa_data.image_path+"home-bg-slideshow1.jpg",
       wpa_data.image_path+"home-bg-slideshow2.jpg",
       wpa_data.image_path+"home-bg-slideshow3.jpg",
        ],  {duration: 2000, fade: 750});
    });
  })