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Using jQuery you can create impressive animations and interactions which are simple to understand and easy to use. WordPress is the leading publishing platform that can be customized to power any type of site you like. But when you combine the power of jQuery with WordPress-the possibilities are infinite.The combination creates a powerhouse of possibilities for generating top-notch, professional websites with great usability features and eye catching visual enhancements. This easy-to-use guide will walk you through the ins and outs of creating sophisticated, professional enhancements and features, specially tailored to take advantage of the WordPress personal publishing platform. It will walk you through clear, step-by-step instructions to build several custom jQuery solutions for various types of hypothetical clients and also show you how to create a jQuery and WordPress Plugin.This book covers step-by-step instructions for creating robust and flexible jQuery solutions for today's top site enhancements: expanding/sliding content, rotating slideshows and other animation tricks, great uses of jQuery's UI plugin widgets as well as AJAX techniques. Along with these it will also show you best practices for jQuery and WordPress development. That means, you'll learn how to implement just about any jQuery enhancement you can dream of on a WordPress site and also learn how to do it with minimal edits to the site's theme and while allowing the site's content editors to continue adding content the way they've always been (usually with the WYSIWYG editor), and never having to worry that they'll forget or not know how to add a special attribute or custom HTML to a post to make the jQuery feature work. From development tools and setting up your WordPress sandbox, through enhancement tips and suggestions, to coding, testing and debugging, and ensuring that the WordPress content editor's workflow isn't interrupted by having to accommodate an enhancement with special HTML, this book covers the best practices for not only jQuery development but specifically jQuery within WordPress development. Expert help on getting started with and using jQuery, the most user friendly JavaScript library to enhance your WordPress site. What you will learn from this book: Take maximum advantage of the flexibility and power offered by jQuery, within Word Press Learn the best practices for getting the jQuery library into your Word Press blog/site and plugins using Word Press' Script API Discover how to create rotating slide-shows of sticky posts Enhance the site and still keep the site's editors chugging away happily in WYSIWYG-land. Create sleek eye-catching animations and leverage the jQuery UI plugin within Word Press' “content constraints” Find out how to use AJAX techniques specifically within Word Press Learn how to keep the site's editors happy without having to dramatically change the theme or impose having to use the HTML View to add content on them. Expert guidance with practical step-by-step instructions for adding interactivity to your content and forms Includes tips, tricks, troubleshooting ideas, and a cheat-sheet reference for using jQuery with Word Press 2.8 to 3.0. Approach This book walks the reader from a basic overview and introduction to jQuery with illustrations of how it works with a WordPress site and then starts building enhancements that start off very simply and increase in dynamics as the book progresses. You'll start off with some simple CSS manipulation and move on to creating some sleek visual validation to your site's forms and by the end of the book use the UI plugin seamlessly within WordPress and create a custom rotating slide-show and incorporate AJAX techniques to your site. All the while showing you how to create these enhancements without “breaking up the work-flow” of the WordPress content editors. Who this book is written for This book is for anyone who is interested in using jQuery with a WordPress site. It's assumed that most readers will be WordPress developers with a pretty good understanding of PHP or JavaScript programming and at the very least experienced with HTML/CSS development who want to learn how to quickly apply jQuery to their WordPress projects. About the Author Tessa Blakeley Silver's background is in print design and traditional illustration. She evolved over the years into web and multi-media development, where she focuses on usability and interface design. Prior to starting her consulting and development company hyper3media (pronounced hyper-cube media) http://hyper3media.com, Tessa was the VP of Interactive Technologies at eHigherEducation, an online learning and technology company developing compelling multimedia simulations, interactions, and games that met online educational requirements like 508, AICC, and SCORM. She has also worked as a consultant and freelancer for J. Walter Thompson and The Diamond Trading Company (formerly known as DeBeers) and was a Design Specialist and Senior Associate for PricewaterhouseCoopers' East Region Marketing department. Tessa authors several design and web technology blogs. Joomla! Template Design is her first book. Table of Contents Preface Chapter 1: Getting Started: WordPress and jQuery Chapter 2: Working with jQuery in WordPress Chapter 3: Digging Deeper: Understanding jQuery and WordPress Together Chapter 4: Doing a Lot More with Less: Making Use of Plugins for Both jQuery and WordPress Chapter 5: jQuery Animation within WordPress Chapter 6: WordPress and jQuery's UI Chapter 7: AJAX with jQuery and WordPress Chapter 8: Tips and Tricks for Working with jQuery and WordPress Appendix: jQuery and WordPress Reference Guide Index