I’ll assume you know how to enqueue your javascript into WordPress.  You can also read more about doing it “the right way.”  I’m going to show the quick little thing that made my morning the other day.

I was trying to get the jqModal working.  This is the code I had:

$().ready(function() {
$('#dialog').jqm();
});

It wasn’t working… then reading the “the right way” to do it and a flash of inspiration, I now have this:

var $j = jQuery.noConflict();
$j(document).ready(function() {
$j('#dialog').jqm();
});

Of course, you can replace $j with whatever you want.  This works with the jqModal fix shown in Part I.

Now, jQuery and jqModal play nice in my WordPress. It’s been a good morning. Funny how such little, simple things make life good.

Except it didn’t play nice with jQuery 1.4.x.  It would break.  It drove me nuts.  I’m OK at jQuery and Javascript, so it wasn’t quickly obvious how to fix it.

Thanks to Oleg responding to a sort of related post at StackOverflow I now, too,  have the answer!
Oleg said:

If you use jQuery 1.4.x you should verify whether the jqModal.js contain $() (for example {$()[t]("keypress",m)[t]("keydown",m)[t]("mousedown",m);} in jqModal.js). This can not be used together with jQuery 1.4.x. To fix the problem replace $() to $(document).

Fortunately, the change was simple. One location in the jqModal file and you’re good to go. I’ve made the change and provide the file to you for download.

Full jqModal documentation available at the jqModal site.

jqModal is copyright 2007, 2008 by Brice Burgess under both MIT and GPL licenses.  A hearty thanks to Brice for writing such an awesome jQuery add-on.

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