WordPress 3.0 jQuery

Content: Cover
 Copyright
 Credits
 About the Author
 About the Reviewer
 Table of Contents
 Preface
 Chapter 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 wrapperGetting 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
 Chapter 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 themeUsing 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 filtersForm 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 postsKeeping jQuery readable
 Summary
 Chapter 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
 Plugin hooks
 Project: Editing the main loop and sidebar in the default theme
 Changing the loop
 Changing the sidebar