Chapter 2. Working with jQuery in WordPress

Now that we understand the basics of jQuery and WordPress and have a little background on how they'll interact with each other, we're now ready to take a look at using jQuery to dynamically enhance a WordPress installation. We'll start with getting jQuery included in WordPress and end up with our first cool project: Expanding and collapsing content. This is only the beginning of the jQuery possibilities in store for your WordPress site! Again, we'll be using WordPress 3.0 in this title and the new default Twenty Ten theme with jQuery 1.4.2, but rest assured that if your site or project is still using WordPress 2.9, these jQuery techniques will work just fine.

In this chapter, we'll cover the following topics:

• Registering jQuery in WordPress

• Using Google's CDN to include jQuery

• Reviewing all of jQuery's "secret weapons"

• Our first jQuery and WordPress enhancement