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A plug-in (or plugin) is a set of software components that adds specific abilities to a larger software application. If supported, plug-ins enable customizing the functionality of an application.

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Menu Bar Animation Plugin

I'm fairly new to JS/jQuery (a few months), and I think it's time to start getting involved in the community. So I wrote a little plugin. Nothing revolutionary. Really, the project is to write a clean,...
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Communicating between plugins whilst maintaining context in Javascript

I'm making some changes to a JavaScript plugin on a site I've been made steward over. This main plugin has it's own sub-plugins and I'm trying to make certain aspects modular. Currently, I'm ...
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jQuery Modal Plugin

This is my first attempt at a jQuery plugin, which is a simple modal window. I'm keen for feedback of whether I've got the principle correct, the usability of the plugin and any improvements that ...
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JavaScript jQuery plugin options. Defaults, User Options, and immutable settings pattern?

I'm writing a jQuery plugin. I'm allowing the user to pass options (optionally-- argument 2 to extend) but I also require some defaults (argument 1), and some things user is not allowed to modify (...
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Private methods and properties in jQuery "lightweight start" pattern

For non-plugin code, I generally use the module pattern, but I'm working on a jQuery plugin and decided to try out the "lightweight start" pattern. The problem is, I find myself needing ...
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Leanmodel plugin

I have recently adapted the popular leanmodal plugin (with permission). Being "intermediate" with JS (need to learn more), I was wondering if anyone would like to review my code for efficiency. ...
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Implementing plugins in my Ruby social aggregator app

Some time ago I started with a small Ruby project. I call it social_aggregator. This software aggregates information from different networks to one xml-stream, ...
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Tooltip plugin for portfolio website

I am writing my own tooltip plugin for my portfolio website that I am currently working on. It works rather well, however, I feel that there is a lot I could improve. This is one of my bigger jQuery ...
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Replace radio/checkbox plugin

I've just created my first plugin, but I think I've written too much bloated code. Could you point me to the right direction? ...
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jQuery plugin to ajaxify forms

This is my first foray into the wild world of jQuery plugin development. The plugin "ajaxifies" forms, which isn't particularly spectacular: It gets the basics (action, method) from the form itself, ...
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Wordpress filter post by metavalue

I am making a filter to get posts by status that are saved by post metavalue in a Wordpress plugin. It is a question and answer system, where the question and answer are post objects. ...
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jQuery plugin best practice

This is a plugin I wrote a while ago and I'm trying to improve it. Is this the best practice for jQuery plugins? Should I use options for flexibility? The initial aim was to replicate the syntax for <...
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My first jQuery plugin - blurStuff()

I've played with jQuery for some time now but have never written my own plugin. A question was asked: "can I blur an image using jQuery?" and I thought this to be a decent candidate to play with. ...
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jQuery plugin that helps create a responsive Menu

I've just launched my first project on GitHub. It's a jQuery plugin that helps create a responsive menu. It deals with interactivity (essentially using toggle and some classes), and leaves all the ...
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jQuery Color Picker Sliders plugin

I want to access some of the methods from outside of the plugins scope, namely showPopup(), hidePopup() and ...
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jQuery carousel plugin

I have recently written my first jQuery plugin. It is a responsive jQuery carousel plugin. It seems to be functioning well apart from on window re-size. Sometimes if the window is re-sized too fast I ...
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Display Twitter timelines and lists on a website

I've built a Twitter plugin recently and was wondering if I could get some feedback on it. There is also a PHP side that grabs the actual tweets and I can post that code if it's needed. http://...
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Plugin for pulling Tweets

I've been working on a jQuery plugin for pulling tweets since the v1 endpoints were all closed off and you need oAuth now. This is just the jQuery part but if you want to see the php behind it I'll be ...
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First jQuery Plugin - SmoothSlider

I've been working with jQuery, mostly consuming plugins and using bits and pieces here and there for other functionality. Anyways, I wrote some standalone functionality in jQuery for a project and ...
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Custom event to match CSS :target pseudo-class

The following code makes jQuery trigger a new target event on elements when they become the target of the fragment identifier. For a very basic example, the ...
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Allowing developers to quickly create image hover effects

I've created a simple jQuery plugin to allow developers to quickly create image hover effects with very simple markup. I also created an option to automatically create the mouseover or mouseout ...
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RSS Feed Calendar Plugin

This plugin is initialized like so: ...
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slideToggle plugin

I would like a code review for my first simple slideToggle jQuery plugin. Demo ...
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Plugin for WordPress and Foundation Reveal

I figure that someone here probably knows a much better way to do this. I'm still figuring out AJAX and jQuery, so I consider that I still need to master quite a bit of knowledge. My function ...
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First jQuery Plugin, Would like a code review

I created my first jQuery plugin over this weekend. I would like a code review so that I can improve my code in the future and learn from any mistakes I make. Any tips for Github would also be greatly ...
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Review my browser reward plugin

I've never put together a plugin before but I thought this would be useful to push technology forward. It's basically a browser sniffer, but if the user has a modern browser it will reward them for ...
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Review my jQuery plugin structure

I'm trying to learn learning javascript and jQuery plugin standards, and after some googling and testing I've come up with this pattern: ...
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jQuery plugin authoring: Vertical Center example

I am fairly new at writing jQuery plugins. Moreover, I am a huge fan of best practice. I have written a plugin which centers an element inside its parent. I would love some feedback on how I could ...
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WordPress plugin for obfuscating a file URL

I'm making a WordPress plugin that obfuscates the real file URL and forces the download of one of this 3 types of URL: Local: ...
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InstaSlider slider/carousel plugin

InstaSlider is a lightweight jQuery image slider / carousel plugin that populates content from an Instagram hashtag. After searching for a similar solution for one of my own projects with no luck I ...
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Zepto / jQuery plugin base

I am looking for a starting point to code plugins, primarily for Zepto.js (with fall back for jQuery). These will provide reusable functions for Tumblr theming. However, I can't seem to find ...
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jQuery dropdown plugin

I'm looking for OOP tips or advice. ...
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jQuery highlightNavigation plugin

I have written my first jQuery plugin using one of the design patterns suggested on jQuery's site: http://docs.jquery.com/Plugins/Authoring. As listed below in the description comment, it's purpose ...
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Is this jQuery Plugin for TreeView correct?

Looking for a review of my first published jQuery Plugin. It's for TreeViews, very basic example demo can be seen at: Demo Everything works fine, just looking to see if I can get some feedback on ...
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Optimizing my jQuery form popup plugin

Im trying to get better at writing jQuery plugins. Was hoping to get some feedback on my notes, but also just about the general architechture and implenmentation of this pattern (dont even know this ...
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Tooltip popup plugin

This plugin displays a tooltip popup with the data obtained via Ajax. I am sure there are better ones out there, but my objective is to learn how to correctly build a plugin, not find the best one ...
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CSS Good Practice on a JavaScript Plugin

I've realized a jQuery Plugin recently and made a basic default CSS for it. As I'm mainly a server-side guy, I'm not too familiar with CSS and would like to have insight about what could be improved. ...
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jQuery Object Oriented Plugin [closed]

Update: Great answers up to now, but I would still love to have a bit of review about possibility of variable caching and the filter I'm using for rows and page sets! After seeing a lot of Paginator ...
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jQuery plugin boilerplate jquib

Inspired by jqueryboilerplate.com, I extended their boilerplate to fit my needs. Coming from PHP development, I wanted to have a good starting point for writing jQuery plugins with a defined API/...
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jQuery plugin for easy CSS3 transformation

I wrote it more for educational reasons and less as something that can compete with existing alternatives. But I enjoyed writing it and wish to get some feedback, JavaScript is my second language :) ...
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Creating and referencing markup....cloning, etc. efficient system for this plugin

I am pulling multiple feeds from youtube that have a callback function which makes markup from each feed. They add that markup to a documentFragment stored in var data. When all the feeds have ...
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Pattern for creating a globally accessible custom plugin

I'm currently using this pattern to create and extend a globally accessible custom plugin to be used in a web application: ...
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jQuery countdown - accuracy

I'm using this simple plugin to show a simple countdown in my pages, what I would like is to keep it more accurate, cause somentimes it seems it isn't accurate. This is the plugin: ...
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jQuery plugin to detect Konami cheat code sequence

How can this be written a bit shorter? ...
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Ajax plugin that binds to click and page load

I have an app that has a number ajax requests and instead of writing them all out, I created a plugin that takes options based on the request I am making. I would like the ajax requests to occur when ...
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jQuery plugIn to manage forms

I have just created my first jQuery plugin. I am looking to suggestions on how to improve it, leading to a code optimization. ...
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Review my first jQuery slider plugin

This is my first jQuery plugin. It is a simple slider that requires very little mark up in html. It works for my purposes but I am not a jQuery expert and I am wondering if there are mistakes or ...
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Library providing an extension mechanism

I have written a JS library (think, jQuery, but with much much less features, and targeted for newer browsers on mobile). This library provides an extension mechanism. One of the ways the extension ...
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Creating boilerplate for jQuery plugins

I've been writing some smaller jQuery plugins lately, and I've been thinking of writing up some boilerplate that I can use when writing new ones. I have code that works (for now), but I want to share ...
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jQuery 'flip' plugin

A little while ago I wrote some jQuery code to make a div flip (similar to the Apple Dashboard). I know there is already code that has this idea from Jon Raasch, but this code positioned divs ...
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