Finding plugins and help

The jQuery website provides a large repository of plugins at http://plugins.jquery.com/. Many of the plugins listed in this Plugin Registry have links to demos, example code, and tutorials to help us get started. The plugins referenced from this registry are all managed in the GitHub (http://github.com/) code repository. Because GitHub tracks how many developers have "starred" and forked a repository, we can get a sense of a plugin's quality, or at least popularity, as this information is conveniently presented in the sidebar of the plugin's page on the Plugin Registry.

If we can't find the answers to all of our questions in the Plugin Registry, GitHub, the author's website, or the plugin's comments, we can always turn to the jQuery community for assistance. The jQuery forums include a dedicated area for discussion on using plugins at http://forum.jquery.com/using-jquery-plugins. Many of the plugin authors are frequent contributors to the forums and are eager to help...