Behind the Scenes of jQuery Style - How the site works

Written By: Zander at Apr 19, 2009

jQuery Plugins:

qTip Tooltips
- Used for the favicons and the gallery image hover tooltips
jQuery Form Validation Plugin
- AJAX form validation for our submit form
jQuery Feed Menu Plugin
- This plugin creates a handy RSS feed menu which can be seen in our menu.
jQuery MagicLabels
- This plugin moves our form labels to inside their respective inputs.
jQuery Twitter Plugin
- This plugin displays the jQuery Style Twitter Feed in my footer
HoverIntent
- A useful plugin that determines the user’s intent; we use it on the gallery list.

Content Management

jQuery Style runs on my favourite CMS, Textpattern and I use a number of great plugins to enhance the site. For those that are interested, here’s the list of currently active plugins:

upm_category_image 0.5.2 by Mary Fredborg: Display image for category.
upm_insert_tab 0.3 by Mary Fredborg: Allow tab insertion within admin textareas.
ako_nav 1.0 by Adrian Kostrubiak: This plugin produces a dynamic navigation bar based on a few specified attributes.
ebl-image-edit 2.0 by Eric Limegrover: Advanced Image Editing Plugin for Textpattern
upm_image 0.6.1 by Mary Fredborg: More powerful image display.
rss_unlimited_categories 0.7.4 by Rob Sable: Enable unlimited categories (tags) per article.
rss_suparchive 0.18 by Rob Sable: Article listings by date or by category/section. Archive menu by month or year with totals
csb_feed_image 0.5 by Christian Sandberg: Inserts the article image in a feed
chh_article_lib 1.04 by Coke Harrington: Function library for article list plugins.
chh_article_custom 1.15 by Coke Harrington: An enhanced replacement for txp:article and txp:article_custom.
chh_related_articles 0.41 by Coke Harrington: An enhanced replacement for txp:related_articles.
wyn_recent_comments 0.1 by wayne: Get recent comments list, with contents displayed
ob1_pagination 2.5 by Henrik Jönsson: Creates a Google inspired pagination.
rss_article_edit 0.1 by Rob Sable: Add edit article links to your public site.
rah_google_translate 0.1 by Jukka Svahn: JavaScript-less and customizable Google Translate plugin
ied_hide_in_admin 0.1.6 by Yura Linnyk: Hides fields in admin panel
upm_plugin_restore 0.1 by Mary Fredborg: Restore modified plugins to their original contents.
jmd_neighbor 0.1 by Jon-Michael Deldin: Pipes neighboring articles into an article form.
lam_image_uploader 0.6c by Steve Lam: Upload Images from the Write tab (based on stm_image_uploader)
rsx_page_number, rsx_last_page_num, rsx_page_number_nav, rsx_pag 3.0.1 by Ramanan Sivaranjan: A few tags to work with page numbers.
wet_if_page 0.1 by Robert Wetzlmayr: Conditionally tests for the current page number being member of a list.
ajw_if_comment_owner 0.3.1 by Andrew Waer: Allows checking one or multiple comment field values to "verify" an indentity
glx_gravatar 2008.1 by Patrick Kollitsch: Implementation of gravatar for Textpattern
zem_contact_reborn 4.0.3.20 by TXP Community: Form mailer for Textpattern
zem_contact_lang 4.0.3.6 by TXP Community: Language plug-in for Zem Contact Reborn
mdn_count 1.4 by Mark Norton: Provides a count of the number of live articles by section or category, or both.
cbs_live_search 0.8 by Christophe Beyls: AJAX-powered search with visual effects using jQuery or MooTools
jnm_feed_custom_item 0.1 by Juanjo Navarro: Customize the format of your feed item
rah_sitemap 0.3.2 by Jukka Svahn: Builds a valid advanced sitemap
rss_auto_excerpt 0.5 by Rob Sable: Automatic article excerpts
myt_google_hilite 0.3 by Jonathan Howard: This plugin is based on the google_hilite mod by Dean Allen.
rvm_privileged 0.3 by Ruud van Melick: Use TXP admin user privileges on public side
ajw_clean_feed 0.2 by Andrew Waer: Extends Atom & RSS functionality to allow for /clean/feed/urls
rsx_plugins_list 1.2 by Ramanan Sivaranjan: Display a list of plugins currently installed.
ebl_swfobject 1.0-2.1 by Eric Limegrover: Adds SWFObject functionality to admin control panel
ebl_upload 3.01 by Eric Limegrover: Multiple Image and File Upload
ebl_upload_swf 3.0 by Eric Limegrover: Binary : EBL Upload SWF
mem_twitter 0.3.1 by Michael Manfre: This plugin will post to twitter whenever an article is published.
aks_rss 0.1.3c by makss: RSS parser plugin that fetches RSS feeds and shows the latest feed content inside TxP articles.
soo_page_numbers 0.2.2 by Jeff Soo: Article list nav and page count widgets
soo_txp_obj 1.0.b.1 by Jeff Soo: Object classes for Txp plugins
rss_admin_db_manager 4.3 by Rob Sable: Database management system.
wlk_phsb 1.0 by Walker Hamilton: A pubsubhubbub plugin to enable the pushbutton web.
aks_header 0.3.4a by makss: Strip white spaces and GZIP compress pages on the fly. Set any page headers. Simple 301 redirect with conditions.
smd_admin_themes 0.11 by Stef Dawson: Admin-side theme manager and editor
bot_write_tab_customize 0.5.2 by redbot: Rearrange and style items in the write tab
wet_quickopen 0.1 by Robert Wetzlmayr: Open recent (and not so recent) articles quickly
wet_peex 0.4 by Robert Wetzlmayr: Peek into Textpattern using XML