Give way to attractive scrollers, intuitive menus, smart widgets and much more with these set of jQuery plugins for WordPress. WordPress and jQuery are the two great wonders for web world. Spicing up your wordpress sites is no big deal with the amazing jQuery plugins tailor made for WordPress.
1. Infinite Scroll
Infinite scroll has been called autopagerize, unpaginate, endless pages. But essentially it is pre-fetching content from a subsequent page and adding it directly to the users current page. There is a little known feature in the .load() method that lets you specify the CSS selector of the html you want to include. jQuery will load in any local URL, then parse the html and grab only the elements you have defined with your selector.
2. WordPress post information plugin
This plugin aims to consolidate your post information into a collapsible panel using jQuery that can save space on your page. If real estate is a priority in your theme then this plugin can help by showing post metadata information on demand by using a JavaScript toggle function.
3. µMint
µMint allows you to painlessly integrate Shaun Inmans Mint into WordPress. Unlike the currently existent solution, µMint does not make use of iframes. Instead, µMint is designed to work with both the Exposé API, by Adam Livesley as well as the included API, µAPI for Mint. Furthermore, there is a development version of a connector which allows WordPress to directly query Mint, when the two share a database. µAPI does more than just get your stats, it displays them for you. You can have your choic
4. Shockingly Big IE6 Warning
The Shockingly Big IE6 Warning is a plugin that shows a warning message alerting the user why it is bad to use IE6, the security risk and the bad compatibility of Web Standards.
5. How To Create WordPress Tabs Using jQuery
Tabbed sidebar elements are in. Why bother making users scroll down the page, when they can simply click a tab to quickly access various parts of your site? Another popular thing is jQuery, The Write Less, Do More, JavaScript Library. This tutorial is primarily based off WordPress, but can easily be ported anywhere else.
6. My Page Order jQuery Plugin
My Page Order allows you to set the order of your pages with an easy to use drag and drop interface. Adds a widget with additional options for easy installation on widgetized themes.
7. GD Star Rating plugin
GD Star Rating plugin allows you to set up rating system for posts, pages and comments in your blog. You can set many options for displaying the rating stars, and also add widgets into the sidebars for displaying top ratings and other statistics generated by the plugin.
8. Using jQuery to liven up your WordPress login
When I am coding a project for a client, I always try make using the site as easy as possible. Whether it be using custom fields to automate the use of images in a post, or coding wp-admin pages to make the writing of posts and pages easier for them to do. Less is more. So in applying this principle, I am going to show a really quick method of simplifying the clients login process using a jQuery lightbox.
9. PixoPoint Menu Plugin
The PixoPoint Menu Plugin adds an SEO friendly, accessible regular or dropdown menu to your WordPress blog.
10. Tweet Blender
Tweet Blender is an open source widget that allows to mix twitter streams from different people, hashtags, search results, and Twitter lists into a single conversation. 
11. Google AJAX Translation
The Google AJAX Translation WordPress plugin provides a quick, simple, and light way to add translation to your blog. A Translate button can be added to the bottom or top of posts, pages, and or comments. When the button is clicked a popup window opens showing a list of available languages.
12. jQuery-Pagebar
jQuery is a fast and concise JavaScript Library that simplifies HTML document traversing, event handling, animating, and Ajax interactions for rapid web development. With that new kind of JavaScript Library this plugin works. jQuery-Pagebar show instead of the next and prev links a jQuery slider as a modern pagebar. So it is easy to navigate through many pages.
13. OpenID jQuery WordPress Plugin
OpenID is an open standard that allows users to authenticate to websites without having to create a new password. This plugin allows users to login to their local WordPress account using an OpenID, as well as enabling commenters to leave authenticated comments with OpenID. The plugin also includes an OpenID provider, enabling users to login to OpenID-enabled sites using their own personal WordPress account. XRDS-Simple is required for the OpenID Provider and some features of the OpenID Consumer.
14. sCategory Permalink
Permalink option of WordPress category has one great limitation, when this option is selected, WordPress uses category with lowest ID for permalink generation. This plugin is intented to bypass WordPress permalinks limitation and allows you to select category for permalink generation.
15. WordPress Better Plugin Page
Having 50+ plugins in your Plugin Management page doesnt make things fast when you want to find a particular plugin to deactivate or edit it, or when you want to quickly find the ones that are outdated and need an update. WordPress Better Plugin Page makes it all easy to juggle among your plugins.
16. Quick Search
Quick Search add AJAX Search to your site sorting results by Posts, Page and Comments. You can easly customize the popup menu style by modifying the file quick-search.css. You can find some option through the Plugins menu in WordPress.
