Tessa B. Silver & Matt Mullenweg: WordPress 3.0 jQuery [EPUB]

Using j Query you can create impressive animations and interactions which are simple to understand and easy to use. Word Press is the leading publishing platform that can be customized to power any type of site you like. But when you combine the power of j Query with Word Press‚Äîthe 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 Word Press personal publishing platform. It will walk you through clear, step-by-step instructions to build several custom j Query solutions for various types of hypothetical clients and also show you how to create a j Query and Word Press Plugin.This book covers step-by-step instructions for creating robust and flexible j Query solutions for today’s top site enhancements: expanding/sliding content, rotating slideshows and other animation tricks, great uses of j Query’s UI plugin widgets as well as AJAX techniques. Along with these it will also show you best practices for j Query and Word Press development. That means, you’ll learn how to implement just about any j Query enhancement you can dream of on a Word Press 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 j Query feature work.From development tools and setting up your Word Press sandbox, through enhancement tips and suggestions, to coding, testing and debugging, and ensuring that the Word Press 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 j Query development but specifically j Query within Word Press development.