17 Best jQuery and WordPress Tutorials

jQuery is a cross-browser JavaScript library which is helpful in building amazing web applications. jQuery simplifies JavaScript programming. In this article, we have displayed close to 17 Best jQuery and WordPress Tutorials.

Now if you want to learn how to integrate or use jQuery with WordPress, then here are some collection of tutorials that will help you in

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Including jQuery in WordPress (The Right Way)

If you want, you can just download jQuery, put it on your server and link to it from your header.php file in the <head> section. But that can cause you grief. For one thing, some plugins use the jQuery library, and they are going to load it as well. This can cause problems. How was your plugin to know you already had it loaded?

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Build the ANidea Theme Switcher using jQuery

That idea was the genesis for the Theme Switcher on the site. After some research and clever thinking by the team, we came up with the current system. If you haven’t played with it, give it a shot: click the button that says “Change Theme” on the bottom right of your browser window and select a new image. Go ahead and play with it, you’ll stay on this page.

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An Elegant Featured Content Slider for WordPress

This featured content slider is based on “The Coda Slider,” a neat device used by Panic Software to display information about their “Coda” product..

The purpose of this tutorial is to seamlessly integrate this slider with an existing WordPress installation to create a beautiful, automatically populated, easy to manage featured content section. Let’s get to it!

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How to Create a Better WordPress Options Panel

Today, we’ll go through the entire process of creating an admin options panel for a WordPress theme, using the excellent WooFramework as an example. Then, we’ll take things a step further, as we implement jQuery to improve some of the functionality.

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Attractive jQuery Menu with Fadein and Fadeout Effect

I got this tutorial request from a reader, if you have any request at all, please contact me, give me some suggestions for the upcoming tutorial! :)

Apparently, I have seen this kind of menu before, in Dragon Interactive . During the implementation, I was having a bit of problem, I thought it’s just a simple fadein and fadeout effect, but it actually required a lot of CSS works and the right images.

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5 tips for using AJAX in WordPress

AJAX is used in many WordPress themes and plugins. However, not all of those themes and plugins implement AJAX properly. This article reveals 5 best practices in developing AJAX for WordPress.

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How to Highlight Search Terms with jQuery

A neat way to spice up your WordPress search page is to highlight search terms within your search results. I’ve seen some tutorials on the net on how to do this, but I haven’t found one that highlights both title and post content and is a drop-in modification for WordPress. Today I will bring you this drop-in hack for highlighting search terms on your WordPress blog.

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Troubleshooting, Implementing Sidebar Tabs

WordPress and jQuery can work effectively if implemented correctly. It can enhance your blogs functionality and usability. In this post we will look at some wordpress-jQuery troubleshooting tips, techniques and also how to add tabs to your sidebar.

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Build a Basic Newspaper style layout with WordPress and jQuery

Version 2.0 of Picturesque has finally been released by Acqualia. And let me tell you, it is beautiful. It is elegant. It is a fantastic tool for bloggers. Created for mac, it adds nice apple effects to your images.

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Create a jQuery Carousel with WordPress Posts

Over the past few months I have had various requests for content sliders and carousels that integrate WordPress posts on each slide.

This post will give you a quick run down of how to easily add a simple and easily customizable carousel with WordPress posts from a specified category.

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Adding Form Validation to WordPress Comments using jQuery

When it comes to simpler user experience, having your form validation happen instantly on the same page is a lot cleaner than reloading pages and possibly losing some form content. In this tutorial I’ll show you how to use jQuery to do some instant checking on an example comment form.

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Astonishing iCal-like calendars with jQuery

According to my web designer experience, one of the most common requests from clients when it comes to WordPress personalization, is to add a basic event calendar to their website.

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How to add featured sliding content to WordPress

In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to add a sliding content region to your WordPress site. You can download the source code for the tutorial, which contains everything you need to put this little thingy on your site in 5 minutes max.

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Using jQuery to Liven Up Your WordPress Login

Just in case you’ve been coding in a box for the last 10 years, jQuery is a great JS library that has a number of nifty usages. One of its popular plugins is the ‘thickbox‘ and its what we’re going to use now to create a simple means of logging in for you/your clients.

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Easy Way To Make WordPress Ajax Pagination Using jQuery

Making your paginated content in WordPress load using AJAX is extremely easy using a bit of jQuery. Here is how.

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Show/hide a widget in WordPress with jQuery

In a previous post I talked about how to show/hide a single div html code with a search inside. Today I’d like to show you how I implemented jQuery into my new theme.

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Contact Form without a Plugin

There are lots of WordPress plugins for contact forms, but wouldn’t it be nice to have more control over the markup? In this tutorial, I am going to show how to use a custom page template to create a contact form in WordPress without a plugin.

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One Response to “17 Best jQuery and WordPress Tutorials”

  1. Abigail Carpio

    Dec 19. 2011

    Outstandingly written article, if only all people provided the same information just like you, the web would be a more effective destination.

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