Wordpress 3.0 jQuery -- Table of Contents -- Wordpress 3.0 jQuery -- Credits -- About the Author -- About the Reviewer -- Preface -- What this book covers -- What you need for this book -- Who this book is for -- Conventions -- Reader feedback -- Customer support -- Errata -- Piracy -- Questions -- 1. Getting Started: WordPress and jQuery -- This book's approach -- Core fundamentals you need to know -- WordPress -- Basic programming -- JavaScript and AJAX techniques -- PHP -- Essential tools -- Code/HTML editor -- Firefox -- Web Developer toolbar -- Firebug -- Not essential, but helpful: Image editor -- jQuery background and essentials -- What jQuery does (really well) -- How we got here: From JavaScript to jQuery -- Once upon a time, there was JavaScript -- Why jQuery is simpler than JavaScript -- Understanding the jQuery wrapper -- Getting started with jQuery -- Downloading from the jQuery site -- Including the jQuery library -- WordPress background and essentials -- Overview of WordPress -- Essentials for getting WordPress running -- Using WAMP -- Using MAMP -- Choosing a hosting provider -- Rolling out WordPress -- jQuery and WordPress: Putting it all together -- Summary -- 2. Working with jQuery in WordPress -- Getting jQuery into WordPress -- jQuery now comes bundled with WordPress -- Registering jQuery in a WP theme -- Avoiding problems registering jQuery -- Using Google's CDN -- Registering and including jQuery through Google's CDN into a theme -- Understanding Google's versioning system -- Using WordPress' bundled jQuery versus including your own jQuery download or using Google's CDN -- Keeping conflicts out! -- Setting your own jQuery variable -- But I really want to use the variable! -- Launching a jQuery script -- Our first WordPress and jQuery setup -- Registering jQuery in our setup -- Registering your own custom script file.

Setting up the custom-jquery file -- jQuery secret weapon #1: Using selectors and filters -- Selecting anything you want from the document -- Filtering those selections -- Basic filters -- Child filters -- Content filters -- Form filters -- Attribute filters -- Visibility -- jQuery secret weapon #2: Manipulating CSS and elements in the DOM -- Manipulating CSS -- Manipulating attributes -- Manipulating elements and content -- Working with the DOM -- jQuery secret weapon #3: Events and effects (aka: the icing on the cake) -- Working with events -- Helpers are so helpful! -- Working with bind, unbind, and the event object -- Adding effects -- Showing and hiding -- Sliding in and out -- Fading in and out -- Working with the animate function -- Making it all easy with statement chaining -- Our First Project: Expanding/collapsing WordPress posts -- Keeping jQuery readable -- Summary -- 3. Digging Deeper: Understanding jQuery and WordPress Together -- Two ways to "plugin" jQuery into a WordPress site -- WordPress themes overview -- WordPress plugins overview -- jQuery plugins overview -- The basics of a WordPress theme -- Understanding the template's hierarchy -- A whole new theme -- The Loop -- Tags and hooks -- Conditional tags -- Template include tags -- Creating custom header, footer, sidebar includes -- Plugin hooks -- Project: Editing the main loop and sidebar in the default theme -- Changing the loop -- Changing the sidebar -- The basics of a WordPress plugin -- Project: Writing a WordPress plugin to display author bios -- Coding the plugin -- Activating our plugin in WordPress -- The basics of a jQuery plugin -- Project: jQuery fade in a child div plugin -- Extra credit: Adding your new jQuery plugin to your WordPress plugin -- Putting it all together: Edit the theme or create a custom plugin? -- Summary.

4. Doing a Lot More with Less: Making Use of Plugins for Both jQuery and WordPress -- The project overview: Seamless event registration -- What the "client" wants -- Part 1: Getting everything set up -- What we'll need -- ColorBox -- Cforms II -- Installing the WordPress plugin -- Setting up the registration form with cforms II -- Striking a balance: Forms should be short and easy and yet retrieve useful information -- Creating the register page using WordPress 3.0's custom menu option -- Working with WordPress 3.0's custom menu option -- Customizing the theme -- Creating the custom page template -- Creating the custom category template -- Getting jQuery in on the game plan -- Including the ColorBox plugin -- Writing a custom jQuery script -- Pulling it all together: One tiny cforms II hack required -- Part 2: Form validation-make sure that what's submitted is right -- The trick to client-side validation: Don't just tell them when it's wrong! -- Blank input validation -- Properly formatted e-mail validation -- Final thoughts and project wrap up: It's all about graceful degrading -- Summary -- 5. jQuery Animation within WordPress -- jQuery animation basics -- CSS properties made magical -- Making it colorful -- Taking it easy, with easing control -- Timing is everything: Ordering, delaying, and controlling the animation que -- Getting your ducks in row: Chain 'em up -- Delay that order! -- Jumping the queue -- Stepping to completion -- Grabbing the user's attention -- Project: Animating an alert sticky post -- Creating easy, animated graphs -- Delving deeper into animation -- Project: Creating snazzy navigation -- Project: Creating rotating sticky posts -- Putting in a little extra effort: Adding a loop indicator -- Summary -- 6. WordPress and jQuery's UI -- Getting to know jQuery's UI plugin -- Widgets -- Interactions -- Effects.

jQuery UI plugin versions bundled in WordPress -- Picking and choosing from the jQuery's UI site -- Making it look right: Easy UI theming -- Including the jQuery UI plugin features into your WordPress site -- Including jQuery's UI from WordPress' bundle -- Including from the Google CDN -- Loading up your own custom download from your theme or plugin directory -- Don't forget your styles! -- Enhancing effects with jQuery UI -- Effects made easy -- Easing is just as easy -- Color animation with jQuery UI -- Enhancing the user interface of your WordPress site -- Project: Turning posts into tabs -- Setting up custom loops in the WordPress theme -- Implementing tabs entirely with jQuery -- Project: Accordion-izing the sidebar -- Project: Adding a dialog box to a download button with icons -- Summary -- 7. AJAX with jQuery and WordPress -- What AJAX is and isn't: A quick primer -- AJAX: It's better with jQuery -- Assessing if AJAX is right for your site-a shorter disclaimer -- Getting started with jQuery's AJAX functionality -- Using the .ajax() function -- Taking shortcuts -- Specifying where to .load() it -- Transforming loaded content -- Project: Ajaxifying posts -- .getJSON: The littlest birds get the most re-tweets -- JSON and jQuery basics -- What JSON looks like -- Using JSON in jQuery -- Using .getJSON with Twitter -- Using Twitter's user timeline method -- What's Twitter sending back? -- Using getJSON with Flickr -- Other popular services that offer APIs with JSON format -- Project: Ajax-izing the built-in comment form -- Summary -- 8. Tips and Tricks for Working with jQuery and WordPress -- Keep a code arsenal -- Free your arsenal -- Your arsenal on-the-go -- jQuery tips and tricks for working in WordPress -- Try to use the latest version of jQuery -- Stay current with the Google CDN -- Stay in No Conflict mode.

Make sure other scripts in the theme or plugin use the Script API -- Check your jQuery syntax -- Colons and semicolons -- Closing parenthesis -- Mismatched double and single quotes -- Use Firefox and Firebug to help with debugging -- Know what jQuery is doing to the DOM -- Web Developer's Toolkit: View Generated Source -- Seeing what Firebug sees -- Tips for writing great selectors -- Don't forget about your selection filters! -- Keep the WordPress editor's workflow "flowing" -- But my jQ script or plugin needs to have specific elements! -- WordPress tips and tricks for optimal jQuery enhancements -- Always use wp_enqueue_script to load up jQuery and wp_register_script for plugins for custom scripts. -- Always start with a basic, working, "plain HTML" WordPress site -- Validate, validate, validate! -- Check your PHP syntax -- PHP shorthand -- Check for proper semicolons -- Concatenations -- Summary -- A. Appendix: jQuery and WordPress Reference Guide -- jQuery reference for WordPress -- noConflict mode syntax -- Useful selector filters for working within WordPress -- Selection filter syntax -- Selector filters -- Content filter syntax -- Content filters -- Child filter syntax -- Child filters -- Form filter syntax -- Form filters -- jQuery: Useful functions for working within WordPress -- Working with classes and attributes -- Traversing the DOM -- Important jQuery events -- Animation at its finest -- Getting the most out of WordPress -- The WordPress template hierarchy -- Top WordPress template tags -- Conditional tags -- Quick overview of loop functions -- Setting up WordPress shortcodes -- Creating a basic shortcode -- Summary -- Index.