Best jQuery Plugins of 2011
jQuery was first released in 2006. Nearly 5 years later, it’s still going strong – due largely in part to the community that’s been built up around it. This community of developers constantly releases plugins that allow web developers to easily add amazing functionality to their projects.
Continuing our “Best of 2011″ series, the focus this week is on jQuery plugins. Over the past eleven months we’ve seen a lot of great new plugins being released, which made choosing our favorites extremely difficult.
Isotope
Isotype is a jQuery plugin for creating dynamic and intelligent layouts. It also lets you reveal & hide items with filtering, re–order items with sorting – all done with captivating animations.
FitText
FitText makes font-sizes flexible. Use this plugin on your fluid or responsive layout to achieve scalable headlines that fill the width of a parent element.
FlexSlider
FlexSlider is an awesome, fully responsive jQuery slider plugin. In other words, it resizes to fit the screen on which it is displayed, and looks good doing it.
Sausage
Sausage is a jQuery UI widget for contextual pagination. It complements long or infinite-scrolling pages by keeping the user informed of her location within the document.
arbor.js
Arbor is a graph visualization library built with web workers and jQuery. Rather than trying to be an all-encompassing framework, arbor provides an efficient, force-directed layout algorithm plus abstractions for graph organization and screen refresh handling.
Mosaic
Mosaic automatically generates sliding boxes & captions, allows slide & fade animations with custom directions, and preloads images within boxes.
Supersized
Supersized is a fullscreen background slideshow built using the jQuery library.
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25 comments
Jayman Pandya
November 23, 2011Nice Collection… Bookmarked…
Rockit Web
November 23, 2011I love these “best of” posts
I’m really liking the FlexSlider gallery, especially as it’s responsive. Thanks
Evan 'OldWorld' Skuthorpe
November 23, 2011FlexSlider is great, thanks for the tip.
Tyus
November 23, 2011I didn’t know about FlexSlider before thanks a lot. I think you should add the Revel plugin too. I think its the easiest around for modal creation.
Evan Willhite
November 23, 2011Nice. I’d also throw FitVids http://fitvidsjs.com/ in there too.
Will
November 23, 2011I just used Supersized in a project, it is very nice for image-heavy portfolio type sites.
IC Web Design
November 24, 2011I would add Nivo Slider in there as well its got a good variation of transitions
Dzinepress
November 25, 2011love these of all really useful plugins. thanks for sharing
webdevelopergeeks
November 25, 2011Thanks for great collection. I used supersized in two of my recent responsive sites. Also used FitText and flexslider. Made my work really easy.
Brij
November 25, 2011Nice List.. Thanks for sharing it !!!
Anna
November 25, 2011I think the only good one on here is supersized, and where is easyslider! tool tips, datepicker and galarific!? There my top for sure!
Shuhab
November 25, 2011A very nice, productive and useful collection.
Theo
November 25, 2011Nice collection, FitText is great, thanks!
Aviron
November 25, 2011Actually Fitext helped me alot by creating my website to mobile phone usage as well, I thank god I didn`t have to use percentage.
Mike @ YasTech Web Design
November 25, 2011I’ve used a few of these. Great collection!
Humera
November 27, 2011Cool compilation. love it!
Michael Lysiak
December 2, 2011Great picks. Gotta love JQuery:)
Gregory Cox
December 4, 2011Absolutely impressive list. Truly the 2011 best! Geez – I want to implement them all – especially the arbor.js – I am going to use that to trick out the Services section on our website. Tie the 4 disciplines together.
aditia
December 4, 2011thanks for the list, some are really new for me
Way2Geeks
December 10, 2011Cool collection .Thanks for sharing and keep sharing…
Caio Ribeiro Pereira
December 16, 2011There is another useful JQuery plugin to learn it calls JQuery Template – http://api.jquery.com/category/plugins/templates/
I made a post on my blog about your advantages and how to use it, look this: http://www.udgwebdev.com/conhecendo-o-jquery-template/
Frank Mai
January 18, 2012nice list. but I would add http://animatedpng.info/ here too.
David Hudson
January 30, 2012Shameless self promotion
You should also check out a plugin called jQuery Bacon which allows you to easily align text to a bezier curve – http://baconforme.com/
Rafael
February 21, 2012Good work! Thanks for this collection.
Mikel
May 10, 2012Hello, i would like that my plugin get listed here, it just got released yesterday
for more.. http://jc0de.blogspot.com/2012/05/jquery-think-box-plugin-released.html