How do I enqueue jQuery in my theme?

  • 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?
    TA.

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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.

    Thread Starter j@revive

    (@jrevive)

    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.

    Thread Starter j@revive

    (@jrevive)

    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?

    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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