Designing your site with a slick, stylish look, along with some cool Ajax-y features definitely impresses the visitors. They'll come to your site more, the traffic goes up and the revenue grows. Yes, it does require a lot of work involving CSS/JavaScript and HTML, but that's why JQuery is here for!
This lightweight JavaScript framework and the plugins built with it for implementing numerous front-end features, have made the lives of web developers and designers a lot easier. This article is a round up of some really cool Jquery plugins available on the Internet for download and use.
How to add JQuery library to WordPress Theme
Wordpress already comes with the latest jQuery library so all you have to do is include it in your theme if you want to make use of it. Once you include the JQuery library you can start using all the cool JQuery functions. There are two ways you can include the JQuery library in your theme:
Option A: Insert the following in your "header.php" file of the WordPress theme:
<?php wp_enqueue_script('jquery'); ?>
Option B: Add the following bit of code in the "functions.php" file of your WordPress theme:
function insert_jquery()
{
wp_enqueue_script('jquery');
}
add_filter('wp_head','insert_jquery');
Some Cool JQuery Plugins
1. Slider Gallery
With Slider Gallery you can create a ...
