45+ jQuery Based WordPress Plugins and Tutorials

jQuery is ideal because it can create impressive animations and interactions while being simple to understand and easy to use. WordPress awesomeness lies in its fact that it can be customized to power any type of site you like! But what happens when you combine the power of jQuery with WordPress, the possibilities are infinite.

jQuery Based WordPress Plugins and Tutorials

This article will share some best practices, examples & Plugins for using the most popular Javascript framework to create unobtrusive, accessible DOM scripting effects for your WordPress site.

Including jQuery in WordPress (The Right Way)

jQuery WordPress Plugins and Tutorials
In this tutorial you will learn how to load up jQuery in your theme the smart (and intended) way, avoiding conflicts.

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Infinite Scroll

jQuery WordPress Plugins and Tutorials
Infinite scroll has been called autopagerize, unpaginate, endless pages. But essentially it is pre-fetching content from a subsequent page and adding it directly to the user’s current page.

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jQuery Comment Preview WordPress Plugin

jQuery WordPress Plugins and Tutorials
jQuery Comment Preview WordPress Plugin allows the live comment preview without page reboot. It works on jQuery.

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Create a jQuery Carousel with WordPress Posts

jQuery WordPress Plugins and Tutorials
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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Display a Random Post (with AJAX Refresh)

jQuery WordPress Plugins and Tutorials
In this tutorial you will learn how to display a random post with Ajax refresh, and you will be surprised at how easy this is to do.

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WordPress jQuery Lightbox Plugin (English)

jQuery WordPress Plugins and Tutorials
Just download the plugin, unzip the files to the wp-content\plugins folder and activate the plugin in WordPress options.

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Using jQuery to liven up your WordPress login

jQuery WordPress Plugins and Tutorials
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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WP-Slimbox2

jQuery WordPress Plugins and Tutorials
This is the home of the WP-Slimbox2 plugin which implements the excellent Javascript Slimbox2 written by Christophe Beyls utilizing the jQuery framework.

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Design An Elegant Featured Content Slider for WordPress

jQuery WordPress Plugins and Tutorials
In this tutorial, we’ll create an elegant featured content slider for WordPress like the one featured on http://www.fuseboxtheatre.com.

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WordPress Post Information Plugin

jQuery WordPress Plugins and Tutorials
This plu­gin aims to con­sol­i­date your post infor­ma­tion into a col­lapsi­ble panel (using jQuery) that can save space on your page.

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Create a featured posts slider in WordPress using jQuery

jQuery WordPress Plugins and Tutorials
jFlow is an awesome tool to use for this purpose because it’s super lightweight, and the code is retardedly simple.

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Carousel Gallery (jQuery) for WordPress

jQuery WordPress Plugins and Tutorials
This plugin builds on the builtin WordPress gallery, and replaces any gallery inserted using the

tag with a neat jQuery powered carousel. By carousel it means you can browse through all the pictures in the gallery and they’ll slide from the right to the left and seamlessly start over at the end.

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Create an Attractive jQuery Menu with Fadein and Fadeout Effect

jQuery WordPress Plugins and Tutorials
We will be learning how to create an attractive menu with more advanced CSS and simple jQuery script. It uses jQuery builtin fadein and fadeout effect.

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JPost Slider wordpress plugin

jQuery WordPress Plugins and Tutorials
This jQuery Script, to develop WordPress plugin which can be customized in admin area.

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How To Create Tabs Using jQuery

jQuery WordPress Plugins and Tutorials
Tabbed sidebar elements are in. Why bother making users scroll down the page, when they can simply click a tab to quickly access various parts of your site? Another popular thing is jQuery, “The Write Less, Do More, JavaScript Library.”

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Shadowbox JS

jQuery WordPress Plugins and Tutorials
Shadowbox is an online media viewing application that supports all of the web’s most popular media publishing formats

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A Nice & Clean jQuery Sliding Panel in WordPress

jQuery WordPress Plugins and Tutorials
We will see how to implement it in WordPress 2.7+. Please note I am not going to cover any previous version of WordPress in this tutorial.

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WP-Imagefit

jQuery WordPress Plugins and Tutorials
Rather than relying on a CSS or HTML-driven approach to resize large or wide images, WP-Imagefit relies on Javascript to proportionately resize images based on the width of the containing column.

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SimpleModal Contact Form (SMCF)

jQuery WordPress Plugins and Tutorials
SimpleModal Contact Form (SMCF) is an Ajax powered modal contact form.

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jQuery Lightbox For Native Galleries

jQuery WordPress Plugins and Tutorials
Makes the native WordPress galleries use a lightbox script called ColorBox to display the fullsize images right there in the page. No modifications required.

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Build a Basic Newspaper style layout with WordPress and jQuery

jQuery WordPress Plugins and Tutorials
Grid/Newspaper/Magazine templates are becoming more and more predominant in the wordpress skin and theme community. They look classy, but it can be daunting knowing where to start. In this tutorial we use the power of jQuery to create a grid layout with size-degrading headers!

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µAudio

jQuery WordPress Plugins and Tutorials
The new µAudio plugin is the evolution of Dynamic Audio. Slimmed down (only 495 Byte basic installation), with new configuration screens and a smaller, leaner player, µAudio is a Zero Config, drop in and forget audio player. See µAudio Installation for more.

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WP Wall

jQuery WordPress Plugins and Tutorials
WP Wall is a “Wall” widget that appears in your blog’s side bar. Readers can add a quick comment about the blog as a whole, and the comment will appear in the sidebar immediately, without reloading the page.

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jQuery-Pagebar

jQuery WordPress Plugins and Tutorials
jQuery-Pagebar show instead of the next and prev links a jQuery slider as a modern pagebar. So it’s easy to navigate through many pages.

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Build the ANidea Theme Switcher using jQuery

jQuery WordPress Plugins and Tutorials
This post will take you step by step through how we did it. In the first part of this tutorial, we’ll cover the client side of Theme Switcher, which consists of the HTML, CSS and JavaScript. In a later post, we’ll cover how to integrate the switcher into WordPress and manage the themes.

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WP Events Calendar

jQuery WordPress Plugins and Tutorials
Events-Calendar is a diverse replacement for the original calendar included with WordPress adding many useful functions to keep track of your events.

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OpenID

jQuery WordPress Plugins and Tutorials
OpenID is an open standard that allows users to authenticate to websites without having to create a new password. This plugin allows users to login to their local WordPress account using an OpenID, as well as enabling commenters to leave authenticated comments with OpenID.

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Google AJAX Translation

jQuery WordPress Plugins and Tutorials
The Google AJAX Translation WordPress plugin provides a quick, simple, and light way to add translation to your blog.

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Use jQuery to Jazz Up Your List of Latest Posts

jQuery WordPress Plugins and Tutorials
A lot of blogs display a list of their most recent or popular posts in their sidebar, more often than not just showing the title of each one. But how can you give your reader an idea of what that post is about by using the excerpt, without taking up too much room? Using a little jQuery, you can.

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Image Drop Shadow

jQuery WordPress Plugins and Tutorials
Image Drop Shadow wordpress plugin adds stylish drop shadow to images posted on your blog using jQuery. Just install it and all your posted images will automatically have a drop shadow.

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GD Star Rating

jQuery WordPress Plugins and Tutorials
GD Star Rating plugin allows you to set up rating and review system for posts, pages and comments in your blog. You can set many options for displaying the rating stars, and also add widgets into the sidebars for displaying top ratings and other statistics generated by the plugin.

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Live Blogroll

jQuery WordPress Plugins and Tutorials
Live Blogroll will make your blogroll livelier. It will show a number of ‘recent posts’ for each link in your Blogroll using Ajax.

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µMint Plugin

jQuery WordPress Plugins and Tutorials
µMint is a slim plugin to integrate statistics from Shaun Inman’s Mint statistics package into WordPress.

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Adding Form Validation to WordPress Comments using jQuery

jQuery WordPress Plugins and Tutorials
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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jQuery Reply to Comment

jQuery WordPress Plugins and Tutorials
Add “reply” and “quote” features on each comment list. If you have jQuery installed on you blog, this Plugin add two link in each comments list (on single page). This plugin can auto include jQuery from Google Ajax API repository.

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Tweet Blender

jQuery WordPress Plugins and Tutorials
The plugin can show tweets from just one user (as all other Twitter plugins do); however, it can also show tweets for a topic which you can define via Twitter hashtag or keyword.

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News-Ticker

jQuery WordPress Plugins and Tutorials
A JQuery based News Ticker Displays a sliding or fading list of post titles, rss reeds or comments and excerpts with links to post.

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jQuery Sequential List

jQuery WordPress Plugins and Tutorials
This tutorial will show you how to use jQuery to add a sequent of CSS classes to create a graphical list. The second example will show you how to add a comment counter to a comment list using jQuery’s prepend feature.

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WordPress Multi-Level Drop Down menu using jQuery

jQuery WordPress Plugins and Tutorials
The aim of this short tutorial is help you build a simple multi-level drop-down menu in your WordPress theme using jQuery’s JavaScript library to ensure cross-browser compatibility.

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WordPress & jQuery Contact Form without a Plugin

jQuery WordPress Plugins and Tutorials
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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Twitter News Ticker for WordPress

jQuery WordPress Plugins and Tutorials
This tutorial will teach you how to display up to 20 of your latest Twitter updates in a fading news ticker on your WordPress blog. This is an elegant alternative to using a Twitter Badge and takes up little room on your site.

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Create a Twitter-Like “Load More” Widget

jQuery WordPress Plugins and Tutorials
This tutorial teaches you to use AJAX, CSS, Javascript, JSON, PHP, and HTML to create that magic. This tutorial will also feature both jQuery and MooTools versions of the script.

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Create astonishing iCal-like calendars with jQuery

jQuery WordPress Plugins and Tutorials
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 Create a Better WordPress Options Panel

jQuery WordPress Plugins and Tutorials
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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Integrating Fading Button Navigation

jQuery WordPress Plugins and Tutorials
The goal of the button was to provide three states: regular, hover, and active (pressed).

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5 Tips For Using jQuery with WordPress

jQuery WordPress Plugins and Tutorials
The following are 5 clear, concise, and relevant tips that you should know when using jQuery in your WordPress Theme or Plugin.

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5 tips for using AJAX in WordPress

jQuery WordPress Plugins and Tutorials
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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20 Comments on "45+ jQuery Based WordPress Plugins and Tutorials"

  1. ON&E BLOG says:

    All in one place.. best jquery plugins compilation

    Thanks Wajid

  2. Jay Philips says:

    Awesome roundup. Thank you.

  3. Very useful roundup, thanks for sharing.

  4. Wonderful site and theme, would really like to see a bit more content though!
    Great post all around, added your XML feed! Love this theme, too!

  5. Deepu Balan says:

    Really useful list of jquery plugins and tutorials… Thanks for the share :-)

  6. It’s really a great post dude.. thanks a lot and keep posting more like this :-)

  7. There are a lot of great resources here. I will find these tutorials very useful!

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  9. Tony says:

    Very cool round-up! Thanks

    I also created a plug-in which offers some pretty cool jquery awesomeness, check it out at http://www.OptinBar.com

    Thanks Again!

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