how to include a simple jquery file into a wordpress plugin

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ok this is my first time to include jQuery into wordpress and it has taken me the 2 full days trying to figure this out. No matter how many articles I read I cannot find a perfect example.

Ok so this is my plugin file… very simple.

<?php
    /*
    Plugin Name: jQuery Include Test
    Plugin URI: http://jquery.com
    description: A test to include jQuery.
    Author: blah blah
    Author URI: 
    */


// jQuery alert to pop up when the page loads.

    function pop_jquery_test() {
    $src = plugins_url('includes/jquerytest.js', __FILE__);
    wp_register_script( 'jquerytest', $src );
    wp_enqueue_script( 'jquerytest' );
    wp_enqueue_script( 'jquery' );
}
add_action('init','pop_jquery_test');

and this is the jquerytest.js file that 

$j=jQuery.noConflict();

$jQuery(document).ready(function(){

 alert('hi there');
});

now the question is how do i get this to work? in the sense when i activate the plugin, it pops-up like the jquery code above says.

2 Answers
2

Your jQuery is wrong. what you want is jQuery(docu.... not $jQuery(docu....

You should try to make sure the components work individually before you put them together (within reason of course), it will make troubleshooting MUCH easier for you.

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