10 Useful jQuery Wordpress Plugins To Enhance Your Blog

jQuery can help designers and developers create impressive animations and interactive websites that are appealing and accessible to the widest range of browsers.

Here are 10 useful jQuery Wordpress plguins focusing on gallery and slideshows, navigations and further resources to reduce time and effort while increasing your audience.

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1 Snazzy Archives

Snazzy Archives is a visualization plugin for your WordPress site featuring an unique way to display all your posts. Your archive page will never be boring again!

Download Snazzy Archives Plugin

2 Accordion Image Menu

This is a different menu plugin that uses your post images as a background. You can insert the menu wherever you want: content, php files or widget if your theme allows it.

Download Accordion Image Menu Plugin

3 Tweet Blender

Similar in functionality to Twitter’s own widget but has support for multiple authors, hashtags, and keywords all blended together. The plugin can show tweets from just one user (as all other Twitter plugins do); however, it can also show tweets for a topic which you can define via Twitter hashtag or keyword. But there is more! It can also show tweets for multiple authors and multiple keywords and multiple hashtags all blended together into a single stream.

Download Tweet Blender Plugin

4 Lightbox Gallery

The Lightbox Gallery plugin changes the view of galleries to the lightbox. Main features is display of gallery, tooltip view of caption of images, desplays the associated metadata with images, divides gallery into several pages, extends the default gallery options and much more.

Download Lightbox Gallery Plugin

5 Image Archive

With this plugin display blog posts as gallery style archive, and the images are linked to the permalink to posts.

Download Image Archive Plugin

6 History Manager

With History Manager, your recent posts, recent comments, archives by month, tags, and categories are displayed in one widget that allows visitors to unfold whatever they want to see and hide what they don’t care about.

Download History Manager Plugin

7 WP Pretty Photo

Pretty Photo is a jQuery based lightbox clone by Stéphane Caron. Not only does it support images, it also add support for videos, flash, YouTube, iFrame. It’s a full blown media modal box. WP-prettyPhoto embeds these functionalities in WordPress.

Download WP Pretty Photo Plugin

8 Clean Post Archives Reloaded

Clean Archives Reloaded generates a list of all of your posts, sorted by month. It’s enhanced with Javascript to allow collapsing and expanding of months. It’s highly efficient and won’t kill your server with tons of MySQL queries.

Download Clean Archive Reloaded Plugin

9 jQuery Lightbox For Native Galleries

Makes the native WordPress galleries use a lightbox script called ColorBox to display the fullsize images right there in the page.

Download jQuery Lightbox for Native Galleries Plugin

10 Carousel Gallery

This plugin tweaks the gallery tag (

) in Wordpress 2.6 thusly by replacing it with a javascript carousel.

Download Carousel Gallery Plugin

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