The 30 Most Effective jQuery Plugins

1.jqPagination

jqPagination is a jQuery plugin for quickly creating a JavaScript-controlled pagination interface and functionality.

2.Sharrre

Sharrre is a jQuery plugin that eases creating social sharing widgets for Facebook,Twitter, Google Plus, Digg and Delicious.

3.Responsly.js

Responsly.js is a set of simple responsive widgets, written using CSS3 transformations and available as a jQuery plugin.

4.FitVids.js

FitVds.js is a lightweight, easy-to-use jQuery plugin for fluid width video embeds.

5.Dynamic Carousel

Dynamic Carousel is a responsive carousel plugin that works with a responsive/flexible layout, as opposed to many other carousels that are use pixel values instead of percentages and thus have fixed sizes.

6.Isotope

Isotope is a jQuery plugin for intelligent, dynamic layouts.

7.FlexSlider

FlexSlider is a fully responsive jQuery slider plugin.

8.Blueberry

Blueberry is a jQuery image slider written specifically to work with fluid/responsive web layouts.

9.Slidorion

Slidorion is a combination of an image slider and an accordion. It displays beautiful images along with a variable length description. With images linked to each tab, and accompanied by a large array of effects, the Slidorion is a great alternative to the traditional jQuery slider.

10.Diapo

Diapo is a free jQuery slideshow plugin. It is an open source project.

11.Minimit

Minimit Gallery is a highly customizable Jquery plugin that does galleries, slideshows, carousels, slides – practically everything that has multiple states.

12.jQuery Image Gallery

Like the name says, this is a simple jQuery image gallery plugin.

13.HTML5 Music Player

A simple and clean HTML5 music player that’s supported on all major browsers (even IE7 and IE8).

14.Reveal

Reveal is a jQuery modal plugin. You can set up modals in just three easy steps. Attach the needed files, drop in your modal markup then add an attribute to your button.

15.leanModal

leanModal is a simple jQuery modal plugin that works with your CSS. You can use it to create sign up forms, basic content modals, and more.

16.Lettering.js

Lettering.js is a jQuery plugin for radical web typography. It gives you complete down-to-the-letter control of your web type.

17.FitText

FitText is a jQuery plugin for inflating web type. 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.

18.Shuffle Letters Effect

A short tutorial for making a jQuery plugin that will shuffle the text content of any DOM element – an interesting effect that can be used in headings, logos and slideshows.

19.jFontSize

The jFontSize plugin was developed to facilitate the process of creating the famous buttons A+ and A-, which alter the font size on sites with very large texts, such as blogs, journals, tutorials, etc.

20.jRumble

jRumble is a jQuery plugin that rumbles, vibrates, shakes, and rotates any element you choose. It’s great to use as a hover effect or a way to direct attention to an element.

21.jQuery Lifestream

jQuery Lifestream is a plugin that lets you easily create a stream of your online activity.

22.jQuery ComboGrid Plugin

ComboGrid, like autocomplete, when added to an input field, enables users to quickly find and select from a pre-populated list of values as they type, but in a tabular and paginated manner.

23.grumble.js

grumble.js provides special tooltips without the usual limitations of north/east/south/west positioning. A grumble can be rotated around a given element at any angle, all 360 degrees. Any distance can be specified.

24.jQuery Timelinr

jQuery Timelinr is a simple plugin helps you to give more life to the boring timelines. It supports horizontal and vertical layouts, and you can specify parameters for most attributes: speed, transparency, etc.

25.Ninja UI

Ninja UI is a jQuery plugin enabling beautiful web interface objects efficiently and unobtrusively.

26.arbor.js

arbor.js is a graph visualization library using web workers and jQuery.

27.Recurly.js

Recurly.js lets you create secure, PCI compliant transaction forms with fully customizable CSS.

28.MotionCAPTCHA

MotionCAPTCHA is a jQuery CAPTCHA plugin that requires users to sketch the shape they see in the canvas in order to submit a form.

29.Power PWChecker

Power PWChecker is a free jQuery plugin to ensure secure passwords for users.

30.Fly Slideshow

Fly SlideShow is a jQuery Slideshow script to present images as an automatic slideshow with a nice “fly” effect. Images fly from left to right with and have a fade effect.