A link to your site would be useful. Also, I don’t know if it is the Plugin you are using that is causing the problem, never used it myself.
Also, I blogged about getting jQuery UI widgets active on your blog posts a while ago. You might want to take a look.
http://www.presscoders.com/jquery-ui-widgets-on-blog-pages/
The approach I use is to load the Google jQuery UI library as it includes ALL UI functionality. However the jQuery UI library that ships with WordPress 3.1 includes all UI widgets apart from the accordion. So, if it is the tabs component you need you can just use what is included with WordPress.
Just add something like this to your themes functions.php file say (or you can create your own Plugin file):
add_action( 'init', 'jquid_init' );
// Register the blog scripts
function jquid_init(){
if(!is_admin()){ // Only load these scripts on non-admin pages
wp_enqueue_script( 'jquery' );
wp_enqueue_script( 'jquery-ui-core', array('jquery') );
wp_enqueue_script( 'jquery-ui-widget', array('jquery-ui-core') );
wp_enqueue_script( 'jquery-ui-tabs', array('jquery-ui-widget') );
}
}
This should load the correct jQuery UI libraries that ship with WordPress 3.1, in the right order, and with the correct dependencies as specified here (right hand side of the page, half way down):
http://jqueryui.com/demos/tabs/
Once the libraries are loading correctly (view page source, or use Firebug to check this) you can use the standard jQuery code to set up your tabs. I do this in my blog post via a shortcode so the jQuery code ONLY gets inserted into the posts you want to show tabs on. Otherwise it will get loaded on every single page.
To do a simple shortcode for jQuery tabs just add this code to your theme functions.php file (or your custom Plugin):
add_shortcode('jQuery-UI-tabs', 'jquid_tabs_shortcode');
function jquid_tabs_shortcode(){
echo '
<script>
jQuery(document).ready(function($) {
$( "#tabs" ).tabs();
});
</script>
';
}
Then in your post editor, where you want tabs to appear, add:
[jQuery-UI-tabs]
<div id="tabs">
<ul>
<li><a href="#tabs-1">Nunc tincidunt</a></li>
<li><a href="#tabs-2">Proin dolor</a></li>
<li><a href="#tabs-3">Aenean lacinia</a></li>
</ul>
<div id="tabs-1">
<p>Proin elit arcu, rutrum commodo, vehicula tempus, commodo a, risus. Curabitur nec arcu. Donec sollicitudin mi sit amet mauris. Nam elementum quam ullamcorper ante. Etiam aliquet massa et lorem. Mauris dapibus lacus auctor risus. Aenean tempor ullamcorper leo. Vivamus sed magna quis ligula eleifend adipiscing. Duis orci. Aliquam sodales tortor vitae ipsum. Aliquam nulla. Duis aliquam molestie erat. Ut et mauris vel pede varius sollicitudin. Sed ut dolor nec orci tincidunt interdum. Phasellus ipsum. Nunc tristique tempus lectus.</p>
</div>
<div id="tabs-2">
<p>Morbi tincidunt, dui sit amet facilisis feugiat, odio metus gravida ante, ut pharetra massa metus id nunc. Duis scelerisque molestie turpis. Sed fringilla, massa eget luctus malesuada, metus eros molestie lectus, ut tempus eros massa ut dolor. Aenean aliquet fringilla sem. Suspendisse sed ligula in ligula suscipit aliquam. Praesent in eros vestibulum mi adipiscing adipiscing. Morbi facilisis. Curabitur ornare consequat nunc. Aenean vel metus. Ut posuere viverra nulla. Aliquam erat volutpat. Pellentesque convallis. Maecenas feugiat, tellus pellentesque pretium posuere, felis lorem euismod felis, eu ornare leo nisi vel felis. Mauris consectetur tortor et purus.</p>
</div>
<div id="tabs-3">
<p>Mauris eleifend est et turpis. Duis id erat. Suspendisse potenti. Aliquam vulputate, pede vel vehicula accumsan, mi neque rutrum erat, eu congue orci lorem eget lorem. Vestibulum non ante. Class aptent taciti sociosqu ad litora torquent per conubia nostra, per inceptos himenaeos. Fusce sodales. Quisque eu urna vel enim commodo pellentesque. Praesent eu risus hendrerit ligula tempus pretium. Curabitur lorem enim, pretium nec, feugiat nec, luctus a, lacus.</p>
<p>Duis cursus. Maecenas ligula eros, blandit nec, pharetra at, semper at, magna. Nullam ac lacus. Nulla facilisi. Praesent viverra justo vitae neque. Praesent blandit adipiscing velit. Suspendisse potenti. Donec mattis, pede vel pharetra blandit, magna ligula faucibus eros, id euismod lacus dolor eget odio. Nam scelerisque. Donec non libero sed nulla mattis commodo. Ut sagittis. Donec nisi lectus, feugiat porttitor, tempor ac, tempor vitae, pede. Aenean vehicula velit eu tellus interdum rutrum. Maecenas commodo. Pellentesque nec elit. Fusce in lacus. Vivamus a libero vitae lectus hendrerit hendrerit.</p>
</div>
</div>
Then just change the html to whatever you want to display for each tab! That should give you enough to get going. 🙂
By the way the discussion above supports only one tab instance per post/page so if you wish to get multiple tabs working on a single page then you need to use something like:
http://flowplayer.org/tools/demos/tabs/multiple.html
