You can hide and show DOM elements in CSS as well as jQuery. But you can also combine the effects and create very elegant presentations with ease. Let’s consider my own ID named #myown. Once styled to look ravishing, I’ll set it to disappear via this bit of CSS: #myown { /* my styles go … Read more
Sometimes you want to add your own DOM element to an existing class or ID. For example, maybe you’d like to insert something like a header advert into an existing theme without having to hack core files. jQuery makes this possible. You can either add your own element to the beginning or the end of … Read more
One thing I’ve been struggling with was to use jQuery UI elements in my plugins, for example jQuery UI Tabs. Even though the libraries are included with WordPress, I couldn’t get them to work. Thanks to Pippin’s Plugins I could figure it out – thanks, Pippin! My initial mistake was the way I created the … Read more
On a standalone (non-WordPress) project you’d import the jQuery library in the head tag, then call a jQuery function towards the bottom of your file. This approach isn’t working in WordPress. Since jQuery and many other useful libraries are already part of WordPress, there’s no need to link to your own copy. Instead, you need … Read more
