Packt WordPress 3.0 jQuery 316pages software manual

WordPress 3.0 jQuery - Enhance the usability and increase visual interest in your WordPress 3.0 site with easy-to-implement jQuery techniques
- Create advanced animations, use the UI plugin to your advantage within WordPress, and create custom jQuery plugins for your site
- Turn your jQuery plugins into WordPress plugins and share with the world
- Implement all of the above jQuery enhancements without ever having to make a WordPress content editor switch over into HTML view

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.

<b>What you will learn from this book :</b>
- Take maximum advantage of the flexibility and power offered by jQuery, within WordPress
- Learn the best practices for getting the jQuery library into your WordPress blog/site and plugins using WordPress' 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 WordPress' “content constraints”
- Find out how to use AJAX techniques specifically within WordPress
- 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 WordPress 2.8 to 3.0.

<b>Who this book is written for</b>
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.