Hope someone can shed some light on this for me. I am using jQuery in a few of my themes and I was advised by the excellent ebook Digging into WordPress to use the built-in wordpress jQuery library by adding this code ...
<?php wp_enqueue_script('jquery'); ?>
So I plonked that in my themes in the <head> but it has no effect. At the mo I have uploaded a copy of jQuery to my themes and am linking to that, which works just fine. But obviously better to use the wordpress version already loaded. Can anyone tell me what I need to do?
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How do I enqueue jQuery in my theme? (6 posts)
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j@revive
Posted 2 years ago #
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You did the correct thing. That line has to be inserted BEFORE the
<?php wp_head(); ?>line. Usually it doesn't work because its been inserted after that line. -
Posted 2 years ago #
Thanks for your reply stvwlf.
I checked and my enqueue is before the wp_head. Actually I checked the source code and there IS a link to the wordpress jquery copy in the wp-includes folder, but for whatever reason that copy isn't cutting the mustard with my accordion menu script. I'm using the jquery-1.4.2.min.js version which I include in my theme and that makes it work fine, so I don't know what the difference is here. It should be the same. Tested on two sites and same result. Anyone else had this problem? -
make sure you are using
jQuery(document).ready(function($) {
and not
$(document).ready(function() {and, if that doesn't resolve it,
make sure your accordion menu script works OK with jQuery 1.4.2 and does not require an earlier jQuery version. Some older scripts require earlier versions. -
Posted 2 years ago #
hmmm... the plot thickens. Thanks again for your reply stvwlf. I made that change and still no effect. Then I took a copy of the jquery.js file in wp-includes/js/jquery/ and tested it on my local server with lightbox and it didn't work with that either. I am currently using jquery-1.4.2.min.js which works with those plugins. But when I substitute this file in wordpress it does not. I'm not a javascript person. Any clues anyone?
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iftomkins
Posted 1 year ago #
Same for me! I can't enqueue for the life of me. Maybe it has to do with Buddypress or Bbpress?
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