Chapter 3. Digging Deeper: Understanding jQuery and WordPress Together

Now that we've gotten a look at the basics of jQuery within WordPress, we're ready to dig a little deeper by understanding the following:

• What WordPress themes, WordPress plugins, and jQuery plugins are and do

• The basics of creating your own WordPress themes, plugins, and jQuery plugins

• Best practices for how and when to apply jQuery directly to a theme or to WordPress plugin, as a script or as a jQuery plugin

By taking a closer look at these two main components of WordPress, the theme and the plugin as well as how to encapsulate our jQuery code for easier use across projects inside a jQuery plugin, we're well on our way to mastering dynamic WordPress development.