jQuery is an intuitive, light-weight JavaScript Library that has quickly become popular, mostly due to its ease of use. Amongst many other things, jQuery provides the ability to make website content dynamic without reloading a page.
Using jQuery with WordPress affords many wonderful design and development opportunities. I thought I’d take the time to explain the steps necessary to start working with jQuery on a (self-hosted) WordPress installation, as it is under-documented and potentially confusing.
This post was updated on January 21, 2009 to reflect changes in the way the wp_enqueue_script tag is used in WordPress 2.6 and above.
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