35 Stylish And Modern WordPress Plugins Using jQuery UI
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.
1. UberMenu – WordPress Mega Menu Plugin
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.
1.1. Styles with Shortcodes for WordPress
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!
1.2.HOW TO: Create a jQuery Carousel with WordPress Posts
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.
2. WP Slimbox 2
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.
3.WordPress jQuery Lightbox Plugin
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.
4.Carousel Gallery (jQuery)
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.
5.Shadowbox JS
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.
6.jQuery Lightbox For Native Galleries
Makes the native WordPress galleries use a lightbox to display the fullsize images.
7.jQuery Comment Preview
Live comment preview without page reboot. Works on jQuery.
8.WordPress Plugin jQuery Pagebar
jQuery is a fast and concise JavaScript Library that simplifies HTML document traversing, event handling, animating, and Ajax interactions for rapid web development.
9.Google Analyticator
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.
10.OpenID Comment Form
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.
11.sCategory Permalink
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.
12.Google AJAX Translation
The Google AJAX Translation WordPress plugin provides a quick, simple, and light way to add translation to your blog.
13.Infinite scroll
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.
14.GD Star Rating
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
15.Image Drop Shadow
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.
16.J Post Slider
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.
17.Live Blogroll
Live Blogroll will make your blogroll livelier. It will show a number of ‘recent posts’ for each link in your Blogroll using Ajax.
18.WP Wall
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.
19.WordPress Sidebar Turned Apple-Flashy Using jQuery UI
Beautiful tutorial, explaining how to modify and add Apple type sidebar using the Accordion plugin in jQuery UI.
20.Adding Form Validation to WordPress Comments using jQuery
This tutorial will show you how to use jQuery to do some instant checking on an example comment form.
21.Snazzy Archives
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!
22. Shockingly Big IE6 Warning
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:
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TOP, a discreet top bar
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FULL, a fullscreen warning
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CRASH, the mean option
23.WordPress Plugin – My Page Order
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.
24.Using jQuery to liven up your WordPress login
Nifty WordPress login page using Thickbox jQuery plugin.
25.Plugin Central
Plugin Central is a comprehensive WordPress plugin solution. Main features are:
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Install plugins directly by typing the name of plugin or the URL to zip file!
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Multiple-plugin install feature allows you to move your plugins from one blog to another
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Displays status of plugins in need of update on the Dashboard
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Option to update all plugins at once!
26.Tweet Blender
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
27.Advanced Spoiler
Show or hide contents(text, image etc.) with animated effects wrapped by spoiler markup tag([spoiler][/spoiler]).
28.SimpleModal Contact Form (SMCF)
SimpleModal Contact Form (SMCF) is an Ajax powered modal contact form. It utilizes the jQuery JavaScript library and the SimpleModal jQuery plugin.
29.Accordion Image Menu
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
30.PixoPoint Menu Plugin
Adds an SEO friendly, accessible regular or dropdown menu to your WordPress blog.
31.Quick Search
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.
32.Ozh’ Better Plugin Page
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.
33.Highlight Search Terms
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.
34. µAudio Player
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.
35.News-Ticker
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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holiday palace
Posted 373 days ago 52Good article. i never used before, but thanks for you kind.
Adit
Posted 380 days ago 51Great collection. I’ll try some of these plugins. Thx.
Kelly
Posted 432 days ago 50Veru nice templates for wordpress. Thanks
soufiane
Posted 434 days ago 49thank you :D
jeka
Posted 459 days ago 48Fantastic job man. Tnx))))
Brian Abella
Posted 460 days ago 47very nice collection of plugin. can you add cufon plugin for wordpress thanks .
Wiwi
Posted 566 days ago 46Very nice!
Thx :)
Dennis
Posted 584 days ago 45Thanks, 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
Posted 609 days ago 44really cool! you guys going a great job. Best of luck. Thanks
job ballard
Posted 697 days ago 43thanks for this… it is one of the most useful resources for me in 2010 – good one.
Lada
Posted 723 days ago 42Amazing collection of themes, i love wordpress
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andol
Posted 723 days ago 41hi man i love this post, it is bloody useful
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Martin
Posted 730 days ago 40I’m applying today mypage order plugin. so basic but so fr*** cool… ;)
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Anders
Posted 749 days ago 39It 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.
Egzonche
Posted 758 days ago 38Great article, thank you.
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Maksim Shaihalov
Posted 775 days ago 37Thanks! This is what i looking for.
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Dima
Posted 793 days ago 36Excellent collection, thanks for review
Tazin Pervez
Posted 794 days ago 34Hi, Like all your plugins. Can you tell me what plugins add special effect on your page images when scrolling?
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Saad Bassi
Posted 794 days ago 35It is wordpress jQuery lazy load plugin.
Chlorella
Posted 796 days ago 33The 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!
Augusto
Posted 816 days ago 32Loved your tips about jquery
Kenneth
Posted 822 days ago 31Blog comments are a GREAT way to get backlinks and traffic! Not sure why more people don
MostlyBlog
Posted 826 days ago 30wow good collection, i loved 10th one
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Adal Design
Posted 840 days ago 29More good stuff, I dig it!
Harri
Posted 866 days ago 28Perfect!!:)
Mark
Posted 940 days ago 27Amazing collection of plugins. I will definitely by trying out a few of these. Thank you!