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In this post you’ll find out about very flexible and stylish WordPress plugins, which are based on Jquery UI. For a long time now jQuery has been very popular and modern approach displaying text, images, search, comment boxes etc. in modern way without any use of flash!
Release jQuery power and enjoy benefits right now – hope you like my findings and you’ll put them in good use.
UberMenu is a user-friendly, highly customizable mega menu ( or mega drop down menu ) WordPress plugin. It works out of the box with the WordPress 3 Menu Management System, making it simple to get started but powerful enough to create highly customized and creative mega menu configurations.
Have you ever been in the situation where you have a great looking WordPress theme, but you are missing some custom styling for different elements? Maybe you don’t know PHP , CSS and Javascript and are not able to implement the cool feature you are missing.
Styles with Shortcodes is the solution for this problem. This plugin lets you customize content faster and easier than ever before by using Shortcodes. Choose from 100 built in Shortcodes like; jQuery Accordion, Tabs and Toogle, Tooltips, Column Shortcodes, Gallery and Image Shortcodes, Button Styles, Alert Box Styles, Pullquotes, Blockquotes, Twitter buttons, Retweet button, Facebook Like, Follow me on Twitter buttons, Linkedin, Google +1, Flattr and many more!
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.
A WordPress implementation of the stellar Slimbox2 script by Christophe Beyls (an enhanced clone of the Lightbox script) which utilizes the jQuery library to create an impressive image overlay with slide-out effects.
Used to overlay images on the current page, a little bit different popular Lightbox plugin.
If you want to see live demo of this plugin, just scroll down the page to see sample image and click on it.
This plugin tweaks the gallery tag in WordPress 2.6 thusly by replacing it with a javascript carousel. The plugin uses jQuery and a jQuery plugin called jCarousel.
Shadowbox is an online media viewing application that supports all of the web’s most popular media publishing formats. Shadowbox is written entirely in JavaScript and CSS and is highly customizable. Using Shadowbox, website authors can display a wide assortment of media in all major browsers without navigating users away from the linking page.
Makes the native WordPress galleries use a lightbox to display the fullsize images.
Live comment preview without page reboot. Works on jQuery.
jQuery is a fast and concise JavaScript Library that simplifies HTML document traversing, event handling, animating, and Ajax interactions for rapid web development.
Google Analyticator adds the necessary JavaScript code to enable Google Analytics logging on any WordPress blog. This eliminates the need to edit your template code to begin logging. Google Analyticator also includes several widgets for displaying Analytics data in the admin and on your blog.
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. The plugin also includes an OpenID provider, enabling users to login to OpenID-enabled sites using their own personal WordPress account.
Permalink option of WordPress %category% has one great limitation – when this option is selected, WordPress uses category with lowest ID for permalink generation. This plugin is intented to bypass WordPress permalinks limitation and allows you to select category for permalink generation.
The Google AJAX Translation WordPress plugin provides a quick, simple, and light way to add translation to your blog.
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. This means they never need to click “Next Page”, which dramatically increases stickiness.
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. Plugin includes advanced settings panels that will allow you to control many aspects of rating. Plugin also supports multi ratings along with thumbs based ratings.
Check out live demos throughout their whole homepage
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.
Show your post in fancy jQuery box, rotating images, with show-up text box with post description. This Plugin will present your HOT posts, in jQuery animation show.
Live Blogroll will make your blogroll livelier. It will show a number of ‘recent posts’ for each link in your Blogroll using Ajax.
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.
Beautiful tutorial, explaining how to modify and add Apple type sidebar using the Accordion plugin in jQuery UI.
This tutorial will show you how to use jQuery to do some instant checking on an example comment form.
Snazzy Archives is a visualization plugin for your WordPress site featuring an unique way to display all your posts. Your archive page will never be boring again!
The Shockingly Big IE6 Warning is a plugin that shows a warning message alerting the user why it is bad to use IE6, the security risk and the bad compatibility of Web Standards.
You can choose from 3 types of warning:
My Page Order allows you to set the order of pages through a drag and drop interface. The default method of setting the order page by page is extremely clumsy, especially with a large number of pages.
Nifty WordPress login page using Thickbox jQuery plugin.
Plugin Central is a comprehensive WordPress plugin solution. Main features are:
Similar in functionality to Twitter’s own widget but has support for multiple authors, hashtags, and keywords all blended together. 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. But there is more! It can also show tweets for multiple authors AND multiple keywords AND multiple hashtags all blended together into a single stream.
Check out live demo on right sidebar of author’s site
Show or hide contents(text, image etc.) with animated effects wrapped by spoiler markup tag([spoiler][/spoiler]).
SimpleModal Contact Form (SMCF) is an Ajax powered modal contact form. It utilizes the jQuery JavaScript library and the SimpleModal jQuery plugin.
This is a different menu that uses your post images as a background. You can insert the menu wherever you want: content, php files or widget if your theme allows it.
Live demo on author’s website sidebar
Adds an SEO friendly, accessible regular or dropdown menu to your WordPress blog.
Quick Search add AJAX Search to your site sorting results by Posts, Page and Comments. You can easly customize the popup menu style by modifying the file quick-search.css.
Better Plugin Page brings a few valueable enhancements to the Plugin Management page: tiny icons, less clutter, quick action links. Handy for those who have 70+ plugins on their blog.
Highlights search terms using jQuery when referer is a Google, Yahoo or Lycos search engine or within WordPress generated search results. This plugin is a light weight, low resource demanding.
µAudio is a slim (450 Bytes!), fast plugin to create a flash mp3 player when mp3 links are clicked. In order to reduce clutter and file transfer, the links are unmodified until they are clicked, at which point a div with the player is faded in after the link. A second click on the link fades the player back out.
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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Monday, January 16th, 2012 05:57
Amazing, this article so helping me which I still newbie in developing wordpress site
Thursday, December 29th, 2011 13:49
Thanks for sharing and it is good to have it all in one place with demo lives.
Monday, December 19th, 2011 13:24
Always love to see a well collated list of themes. Keep it up!
Friday, December 2nd, 2011 06:51
Awesome collection. I am going to bookmark this collection for future reference.
Wednesday, November 2nd, 2011 00:45
whoops that link goes to optionbar, it should be OptinBar.com
Monday, October 24th, 2011 20:44
Thanks for putting this collection together!
Wednesday, October 5th, 2011 12:33
Excellent Collection. Thanks for share.
Sunday, October 9th, 2011 02:22
Fantastic! I’ve taken 6 plugins from here. Thanks!
Wednesday, July 20th, 2011 21:46
Jquery plugins always rocks. I love using them.
Wednesday, July 13th, 2011 22:01
I am trying to find a “rotating” jquery image plugin for wordpress. Or at least info on how to make a wordpress plugin…I don’t see how it’s so hard!
Thursday, June 16th, 2011 21:31
Although i arrived here searching for an AJAX navigation i am not disappointed. Unbelievable collection of plugins ( dude you wrote the title wrong, i haven’t seen the “best of” words in there :) ).
Wednesday, June 15th, 2011 18:45
cool jquery apps collection, and i am using 4 of them !
Saturday, June 11th, 2011 07:41
I confuse to use Accordion Image Menu , my wordpress said fatal error
Sunday, June 5th, 2011 00:42
Amazing collection of themes, i love wordpress
Friday, June 3rd, 2011 10:11
Very nice tips.I am studying jquery for my BLOG,I thinks this is very useful for me to easy study about jquery.
Wednesday, May 11th, 2011 06:05
Great collection. I’ll try some of these plugins. Thx.
Saturday, February 19th, 2011 20:04
very nice collection of plugin. can you add cufon plugin for wordpress thanks .
Saturday, November 6th, 2010 04:03
Very nice!
Thx :)
Monday, October 18th, 2010 21:15
Thanks, i have been looking for a plugin like Advanced Spoiler, I am using it to creat a FAQ page with JQuery.
Been looking for way too long until I stumble upon your Site…
Great List
Friday, September 24th, 2010 08:27
really cool! you guys going a great job. Best of luck. Thanks
Tuesday, May 25th, 2010 23:34
I’m applying today mypage order plugin. so basic but so fr*** cool… ;)
Thursday, May 6th, 2010 11:42
It is the best guide to jquery for wordpress I every have seen. I really like to use this technology to my websites. As fare I have problems to use more than one plugin because they conflict with each other.
I will just say thanks for the help and inspiration from this website.
Tuesday, April 27th, 2010 18:11
Great article, thank you.
Tuesday, March 23rd, 2010 20:05
Excellent collection, thanks for review
Monday, March 22nd, 2010 19:26
Hi, Like all your plugins. Can you tell me what plugins add special effect on your page images when scrolling?
Sunday, March 21st, 2010 09:15
The better plugin page is realy useful. Our chlorella website uses more than 30 plugins in order to function as a cms and maintaining all our chlorella benefits pages was such a pain. Thank you so much!
Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010 04:59
Blog comments are a GREAT way to get backlinks and traffic! Not sure why more people don
Friday, February 5th, 2010 03:23
More good stuff, I dig it!
Wednesday, October 28th, 2009 00:56
Amazing collection of plugins. I will definitely by trying out a few of these. Thank you!
Monday, October 26th, 2009 19:30
Nice collection of jQuery plugins.. Some really useful stuff in there.. Thanks for compiling the list..
Monday, October 19th, 2009 08:04
chebre el post
Wednesday, September 30th, 2009 07:13
Thats a very good collection to bookmark and look at various occasions. Thanks for sharing.
Monday, September 21st, 2009 07:57
Thanks a lot for such a superb list. I have used 75% of them on my website….
Monday, September 14th, 2009 01:56
Great list of plugins thanks
I’m going to go mess with that carousel one :)
Sunday, September 13th, 2009 21:54
Thank you for the post en plug-in Dainis, Bye!!
Friday, September 11th, 2009 19:38
Thanks for this great list. Bookmarked and have already got plans to incorporate several of these. Especially the Carousel Gallery. I wish I had seen this before I set up the featured scroller on my website.
Friday, September 11th, 2009 09:35
Yes, it is like that – definitely big BOOM, great to hear you’ll find this article useful!
Thursday, September 10th, 2009 17:27
I like jquery and it has become mre powerful than flash. I think these plugins ae really good.
Thursday, September 10th, 2009 08:02
plugins are very good, I have seen other collections and bad.
Thursday, September 10th, 2009 07:58
Thank you for including my jQuery Post Carousel HOW TO :)
Thursday, September 10th, 2009 06:38
This is an awesome list of resources and something I definitely need to bookmark to come back to later. Thanks for taking the time to compile such a great list.
All the best,
Eren
Wednesday, September 9th, 2009 21:49
amazing list and also very useful! Thank you very much Dainis! seems like you come with better and better posts everyday!
Wednesday, September 9th, 2009 19:37
You really did a great research for this list, because a lot of this plugins are unknown for me, though I recommend Community news plugin, is also jquery based and the welcome visitor.
Wednesday, September 9th, 2009 15:49
You have an excellent collection of useful resources.
Great job you must have spent a lot of time on this.
Thanks :)
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Augusto
Sunday, February 28th, 2010 18:17
Loved your tips about jquery
Egzonche
Tuesday, April 27th, 2010 18:11
Great article, thank you.
MostlyBlog
Thursday, February 18th, 2010 22:50
wow good collection, i loved 10th one
Adal Design
Friday, February 5th, 2010 03:23
More good stuff, I dig it!
Mark
Wednesday, October 28th, 2009 00:56
Amazing collection of plugins. I will definitely by trying out a few of these. Thank you!
Sumeet Chawla
Monday, October 26th, 2009 19:30
Nice collection of jQuery plugins.. Some really useful stuff in there.. Thanks for compiling the list..
Kenneth
Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010 04:59
Blog comments are a GREAT way to get backlinks and traffic! Not sure why more people don
Bunnygotblog
Wednesday, September 9th, 2009 15:49
You have an excellent collection of useful resources.
Great job you must have spent a lot of time on this.
Thanks :)
Maksim Shaihalov
Saturday, April 10th, 2010 13:35
Thanks! This is what i looking for.
Dima
Tuesday, March 23rd, 2010 20:05
Excellent collection, thanks for review
Tazin Pervez
Monday, March 22nd, 2010 19:26
Hi, Like all your plugins. Can you tell me what plugins add special effect on your page images when scrolling?
Saad Bassi
Monday, March 22nd, 2010 21:13
It is wordpress jQuery lazy load plugin.
Chlorella
Sunday, March 21st, 2010 09:15
The better plugin page is realy useful. Our chlorella website uses more than 30 plugins in order to function as a cms and maintaining all our chlorella benefits pages was such a pain. Thank you so much!
miguel
Monday, October 19th, 2009 08:04
chebre el post
Suneel
Wednesday, September 30th, 2009 07:13
Thats a very good collection to bookmark and look at various occasions. Thanks for sharing.
Alan
Thursday, September 10th, 2009 08:02
plugins are very good, I have seen other collections and bad.
Dre
Thursday, September 10th, 2009 07:58
Thank you for including my jQuery Post Carousel HOW TO :)
Eren Mckay
Thursday, September 10th, 2009 06:38
This is an awesome list of resources and something I definitely need to bookmark to come back to later. Thanks for taking the time to compile such a great list.
All the best,
Eren
Luis Lopez
Wednesday, September 9th, 2009 19:37
You really did a great research for this list, because a lot of this plugins are unknown for me, though I recommend Community news plugin, is also jquery based and the welcome visitor.
Alex Yang
Wednesday, September 9th, 2009 21:49
amazing list and also very useful! Thank you very much Dainis! seems like you come with better and better posts everyday!
gautam hans
Thursday, September 10th, 2009 17:27
I like jquery and it has become mre powerful than flash. I think these plugins ae really good.
Dainis Graveris
Friday, September 11th, 2009 09:35
Yes, it is like that – definitely big BOOM, great to hear you’ll find this article useful!
Vikram
Monday, September 21st, 2009 07:57
Thanks a lot for such a superb list. I have used 75% of them on my website….
audreyd
Wednesday, September 16th, 2009 16:59
Thanks a lot… You have a very good blog
John Sullivan
Monday, September 14th, 2009 01:56
Great list of plugins thanks
I’m going to go mess with that carousel one :)
Bill Ludwig
Friday, September 11th, 2009 19:38
Thanks for this great list. Bookmarked and have already got plans to incorporate several of these. Especially the Carousel Gallery. I wish I had seen this before I set up the featured scroller on my website.
omar tringali
Sunday, September 13th, 2009 21:54
Thank you for the post en plug-in Dainis, Bye!!
Anders
Thursday, May 6th, 2010 11:42
It is the best guide to jquery for wordpress I every have seen. I really like to use this technology to my websites. As fare I have problems to use more than one plugin because they conflict with each other.
I will just say thanks for the help and inspiration from this website.
Martin
Tuesday, May 25th, 2010 23:34
I’m applying today mypage order plugin. so basic but so fr*** cool… ;)
Stanley
Wednesday, October 5th, 2011 12:33
Excellent Collection. Thanks for share.
Pulkit Kaushik
Sunday, October 9th, 2011 02:22
Fantastic! I’ve taken 6 plugins from here. Thanks!
MiLaT
Wednesday, August 31st, 2011 21:03
Thank you really need it for :)
Tamlin
Wednesday, July 20th, 2011 21:46
Jquery plugins always rocks. I love using them.
AndreiS
Thursday, June 16th, 2011 21:31
Although i arrived here searching for an AJAX navigation i am not disappointed. Unbelievable collection of plugins ( dude you wrote the title wrong, i haven’t seen the “best of” words in there :) ).
Chris Quinn
Wednesday, July 13th, 2011 22:01
I am trying to find a “rotating” jquery image plugin for wordpress. Or at least info on how to make a wordpress plugin…I don’t see how it’s so hard!
Chinthaka Herath
Monday, October 24th, 2011 20:44
Thanks for putting this collection together!
Patt
Monday, January 16th, 2012 05:57
Amazing, this article so helping me which I still newbie in developing wordpress site
Matrus
Thursday, December 29th, 2011 13:49
Thanks for sharing and it is good to have it all in one place with demo lives.
Andrew
Monday, December 19th, 2011 13:24
Always love to see a well collated list of themes. Keep it up!
Tony
Wednesday, November 2nd, 2011 00:45
whoops that link goes to optionbar, it should be OptinBar.com
himanshu
Friday, December 2nd, 2011 06:51
Awesome collection. I am going to bookmark this collection for future reference.
G.N.R.S.U
Wednesday, June 15th, 2011 18:45
cool jquery apps collection, and i am using 4 of them !
Bogor
Saturday, June 11th, 2011 07:41
I confuse to use Accordion Image Menu , my wordpress said fatal error
Wiwi
Saturday, November 6th, 2010 04:03
Very nice!
Thx :)
Dennis
Monday, October 18th, 2010 21:15
Thanks, i have been looking for a plugin like Advanced Spoiler, I am using it to creat a FAQ page with JQuery.
Been looking for way too long until I stumble upon your Site…
Great List
Ali Nasir
Friday, September 24th, 2010 08:27
really cool! you guys going a great job. Best of luck. Thanks
andol
Tuesday, June 1st, 2010 13:35
hi man i love this post, it is bloody useful
Lada
Tuesday, June 1st, 2010 20:16
Amazing collection of themes, i love wordpress
Brian Abella
Saturday, February 19th, 2011 20:04
very nice collection of plugin. can you add cufon plugin for wordpress thanks .
jeka
Sunday, February 20th, 2011 12:56
Fantastic job man. Tnx))))
Mirasel
Sunday, June 5th, 2011 00:42
Amazing collection of themes, i love wordpress
Stanley
Friday, June 3rd, 2011 10:11
Very nice tips.I am studying jquery for my BLOG,I thinks this is very useful for me to easy study about jquery.
Adit
Wednesday, May 11th, 2011 06:05
Great collection. I’ll try some of these plugins. Thx.
soufiane
Thursday, March 17th, 2011 14:06
thank you :D
Kelly
Sunday, March 20th, 2011 02:37
Veru nice templates for wordpress. Thanks