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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.
What you will learn from this book:
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Take maximum advantage of the flexibility and power offered by jQuery, within WordPress
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Learn the best practices for getting the jQuery library into your WordPress blog/site and plugins using WordPress` Script API
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Discover how to create rotating slide-shows of sticky posts
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Enhance the site and still keep the site`s editors chugging away happily in WYSIWYG-land.
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Create sleek eye-catching animations and leverage the jQuery UI plugin within WordPress` “content constraints”
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Find out how to use AJAX techniques specifically within WordPress
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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.
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Expert guidance with practical step-by-step instructions for adding interactivity to your content and forms
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Includes tips, tricks, troubleshooting ideas, and a cheat-sheet reference for using jQuery with WordPress 2.8 to 3.0.
ISBN - 9789350232804
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Pages : 297
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