WordPress 2.6.3 ships with a broken jQuery?

11.10.2008 | Author: Brandon | Posted in Code Snippits, Error Fixes

We’ve been adding a custom panel for the write post page for one of our clients and having the hardest time diagnosing the errors that we’ve been getting. It turns out that using the built-in jQuery library that ships with WordPress was the problem. We ended up having to download the library from the jQuery site and use some WordPress magic to make it use our library instead. Below is the code to use your own jQuery file. Put it in your theme’s functions.php (<your-blog-url>/wp-content/themes/<your-theme-name>/functions.php) page.

add_action("init", "install_jquery_scripts");
function install_jquery_scripts() {
	wp_deregister_script("jquery");
	wp_register_script("jquery", "/path/to/your/jquery-1.2.6.min.js", array(), "1.2.6");
}