Marc Tönsing

Removes jQuery from your frontend theme if no administrator is logged-in. jQuery will continue to work in you backend and when the admin toolbar is visible. Plugins which depend on jQuery will not be loaded either.
This plugin does nothing more but this:
<pre><code>function init_without_jquery() {
 if (!is_admin() AND !is_admin_bar_showing()) {
 wp_deregister_script('jquery');
 wp_register_script('jquery', false);
 }
}

add_action('init', 'init_without_jquery');
</code></pre>

Remove jQuery from Theme

Removes jQuery from your frontend theme if no administrator is logged-in. jQuery will still be loaded and continue to work in you backend and when the …

Alex Mills

DISCONTINUATION NOTICE: Development on this plugin has ceased in favor of the carousel module in the <a href="https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/jetpack/" rel="ugc">Jetpack plugin</a>. I recommend you use that plugin instead — it’s much more full featured.
Makes the native WordPress galleries use a lightbox script called <a href="http://colorpowered.com/colorbox/" rel="nofollow ugc">ColorBox</a> to display the fullsize images right there in the page. No modifications required.
You can also make single non-<code>[gallery]</code> images use the lightbox by giving their links a class of “lightbox”, like so:
<pre><code><a href="..." class="lightbox"><img src="..." alt="..." /></a>
</code></pre>

jQuery Lightbox For Native Galleries

Makes the native WordPress galleries use a lightbox script called ColorBox to display the fullsize images.

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