In the recent times, jQuery plugin development is on rise and jQuery plugins are constantly being released, and it’s no surprise considering its popularity. The only problem is being able to sort through them all to find the good ones. That’s why we’re always on the look out for new jQuery plugins to share with our readers. So for this post, we have gathered some really useful jQuery plugins that will help you some fresh jQuery magic to your projects.

Flipboard-like Flip Effect for jQuery Mobile & jQuery Web Library

jQuery/jQuery mobile plugin to give Flipboard app like effect. Flip effect uses css 3D transform. Flip effect currently works on WebKit browsers (e.g. Chrome, Safari, including iOS mobile safari) or Firefox 11. It still works with other browsers but the “slide” effect will be selected forecely.

Buttons with Built-in Loading Indicators

Buttons with built-in loading indicators, effectively bridging the gap between action and feedback. A UI concept which merges loading indicators into the action that invoked them. Primarily intended for use with forms where it gives users immediate feedback upon submit rather than leaving them wondering while the browser does its thing.

Ultra High Entropy Pseudo-Random Number Generator for jQuery

The Plugin that allows you to quickly generate ultra High Entropy Pseduo Random Numbers. By passing a range & count as options (or leaving it blank will use the defaults of 10000 & 10000) to the uheprnGen plugin you will get a block of Psuedo Random Numbers back.

Interactive Image Slider built on jQuery – gSlider

gSlider is an interactive image slider built on jQuery. It is versatile, lightweight and easy to implement in any website or web applications.

SimpleLlibrary for Handling Keyboard Shortcuts in JavaScript

Mousetrap is a standalone library with no external dependencies. It weighs in at around 1.9kb minified and gzipped and 3.5kb minified.

Reveals Social Sharing Links

A free plugin for jQuery for inserting social sharing functionality. Requires that Font-Awesome fonts and CSS be installed.

Makes HTML Tables on Smaller Devices Look Awesome

FooTable is a jQuery plugin that aims to make HTML tables on smaller devices look awesome – No matter how many columns of data you may have in them.

Have you ever wanted to show a lot of data in a table, but hate how badly it scales on smaller mobile devices? The FooTable jQuery plugin solves this problem by allowing you to hide certain columns on smaller devices, but still allowing the user to expand each row to see the columns that were hidden.

Better Responsive Data Tables

Responsive web design (often abbreviated to RWD) is a web design approach aimed at crafting sites to provide an optimal viewing experience—easy reading and navigation with a minimum of resizing, panning, and scrolling—across a wide range of devices (from desktop computer monitors to mobile phones).

Display an Rstimated Time to Read Text on a Page: Reading Time

A simple, lightweight plugin used to display an estimated time to read some text. Inside the element that contains your copy, create an element with the class of ‘eta’ where the estimated reading time will display.

Lightweight Plugin to Create a Preloader – Loadie

Loadie.js is a lightweight plugin to create a preloader that doesn’t suck and that is used by big firms.

Retinize

Retinize will upscale (using nearest neighbor) images to look correctly on retina screens. This is particularly useful for pixel art when you don’t want to store an upscaled version.

Simple Parallax Engine that Reacts to the Orientation of a Smart Device

Parallax.js is a lightweight solution for creating parallax effects. Parallax.js is a simple, lightweight Parallax Engine that reacts to the orientation of a smart device. Where no gyroscope or motion detection hardware is available, the position of the cursor is used instead.

Add File Manager (Finder) Type Highlighting to All Elements

Provides the ability to add file manager (Finder) type highlighting to all elements based on the standard single click, command+click/ctrl+click, command+drag/ctrl+drag, command+A/ctrl+A and shift+click methods. This plugin will by default add a `selected` class to all clicked elements.

Simple, Light weight and Easy to Use Modal jQuery Plugin  - portBox

portBox is a simple, light weight and easy to use modal jQuery plugin. It was originally built to display completed web design projects with photos of the site, information about the project and what when into completing it, but it works as an everything modal as well. No on page JavaScript required, all you have to do is add the files and markup.

A Fluid, Flexible, Minimal  Slider – UnSlider

Unslider is a tiny jQuery slider that’s cross-browser compatible, with fall-backs for older browsers. It includes support for keyboard controls, adjusts for slide height, and of course it’s responsive. It’s easy to set up on your site, and can be customzed on a per-slide basis with CSS.

 Simple Tour Plugin for jQuery – aSimpleTour

aSimpleTourPlugin is a jQuery plugin that will help you to make website tours.

A Zooming, Panning Data-driven Timeline Widget – TimeGlider

Timeglider JS is a zooming, panning data-driven timeline widget written in Javascript. This widget is the core of our our timeline authoring and publishing app, and can be integrated into any HTML application environment.

Timelines can be zoomed by dragging the vertical slider at right: up for zooming in (less time shown) and down for zooming out (more time shown). The mousewheel also works as a zoom controller. Any white area on the “stage” of the timeline can be dragged left and right, as can the blue “ruler” which marks out different units of time. Clicking on an event brings up a small modal window with a description and links if any are provided in the data.

Pull to Refresh, for the Web – Hook

We love that neat little “pull to refresh” feature on our devices, but wouldn’t it be awesome if it was for the web? Well, that’s what Hook is here to do. We took a concept from mobile phones and tablets and made it work for the web. Try it out: Simply scroll down a bit, and then back up to the top. Bam! You’ve just Hooked for the first time on the web.

While it’s true that WordPress developers work very hard to keep the WordPress platform safe, if you own or manage an WordPress based blog/website then you have a responsibility to stop your site from being compromised.

We have collected here a nice collection of WordPress security plugins to help you keep your site / blog safe from hackers.

WP Login Security 2

Secure Your WordPress: Better WP Security

WordPress Website Security Protection: BulletProof Security

Security Against Brute Force Attacks by Tracking IP: Login Security Solution

WordPress Security Plugin: Secure WordPress

Scans WordPress For Security Vulnerabilities: WP Security Scan

WordPress Plugin to Monitors Web Requests: WordPress Firewall 2

Protect WordPress Against Malicious URL Requests: Block Bad Queries

WordPress File Monitor Plus

Password Protection and Security to Your Blog: AskApache Password Protect

Limits the Number of Login Attempts From a Given IP: Login LockDown

Free Enterprise Class Security WordPress Plugin: Wordfence Security

Quickly Change the WordPress MySQL Database Table Prefix

12 Clever Tips for Securing Your WordPress Site

Password Protecting a Directory From Displaying

Hardening WordPress

How To Completely Clean Your Hacked WordPress Installation

Fantastic Free Plugin For Social Media Sharing Buttons: Sociable

Free WordPress Plugin to Supercharges Your Hosted WordPress Site: Jetpack

WordPress Plugin – Social Media Tabs

Your All in One Social Sharing Bar: Digg Digg

Easy-to-Use Sharing Button With Over 100 Social Media Services: AddToAny

Easy to Customize Floating Bar: Get Social

Great Sharing Options and Analytics:ShareThis

Adds a Discreet Follow Us Icon on the Left or Right Side of the Page: Follow Me

Add Social Sharing Buttons to Your WordPress Posts: Socialize

Minimal and Lightweight Social Sharing Buttons Bar: Slick Social Share Buttons

Social Toolbar Puts a Social Toolbar at the Bottom of Your Website

Sharing Buttons Paired with Publisher Analytics: AddThis

Email, Bookmark, Share Buttons for Your WordPress Blog: Sexy Bookmarks

Easy to Install Sharing Bar: Sharebar

Simple Sidebar WordPress Widget: Social Media Widget

Power Up Your Website and WordPress Blog With Social Apps: InsiteBar

Social Media Tracking WordPress Plugin: Most Shared Posts

Monitor the Social Side of Your Blog: Social Metrics

jQuery Social Media Bookmarking Plugin: jsShare

jQuery Floating Social Share Plugin: floatShare

jQuery Plugin Allows to Create Social Sharing Widgets: Sharrre

Share Your Pages to Multiple Social Media Networks: Share

A jQuery Plugin for Social Share with Blur Background: #50C1AL

SocialCount, a jQuery Plugin for Lighter & Faster Social Networking Widgets

A Flexible JavaScript Color Picker: JSColor

Open Source Color Picker Tool: Color Selector

Colorpicker for Twitter Bootstrap

Perfect jQuery Color Picker Plugin: Spectrum

A Scaleable Color Picker: Colorjoe

Color Scheme Designer

Simplified & Lightweight Color Picker: Flexi

Advanced JavaScript Color Picker

Manipulate Colors With jQuery: xcolor

jQuery Color Picker: Farbtastic

PhotoShop-like JavaScript Color Picker

JavaScript Color Picker: mooRainbow

Online Tools for Experimenting/Analyzing Colors

Find Variations of Any Color: 0to255

A Tool For Creating Color Palettes: iWantHue

Online Color Palette Generator: Colllor

Analyze Color Contrasts Of Web Pages Online: Check My Colours

Color Encyclopedia, with CSS Gradients, Blends & Schemes: ColorHexa

A Set Of Web-Based Tools For Working With Colors: Color Explorer

Web-Based Color Palette Tool: COPASO

Analyze Colors Used On Websites: Web Colour Data

Find Color Variations Easily: Coloreminder

Work With Colors In 3D: ColoRotate

A Color Community To Find & Share Palettes, Gradients Or Patterns: Colrd

Discover And Share Colors: kuler

A Gallery Of Major Brand Color Codes To Get Inspired: BrandColors

Get Color Palette By Uploading An Image

Experiment CSS3 Properties Easily With CSS3 Playground

Find, Share, Discuss – Colors, Palettes & Patterns

Firefox Color Picker Plugins

Powerful Color Tool For Firefox: ColorZilla

Show a Color Picker Dialog When Editing a CSS Rule in Firebug: Firepicker

Color Tools for Web Development: Rainbow Color Tools

Chrome Color Picker Plugins

Color Picker, Eye Dropper & Gradient Generator: ColorZilla

Pick Colors From Web Pages: Eye Dropper

Pick Colors or Change Color(s) of Any Element in DOM: colorPicker

Quickly Generate Custom Hex and RGB Color Values: Color Generator

The Ultimate Diptych, Triptych & Ntych Automation Tool: Tych Panel

Link Photoshop Layers in Different Files: CanLinkIt

Photoshop Script to Generate Storyboards: Mr. Stacks

Photoshop Plugin For Working With Grids: GuideGuide

Advance PNG Plugin for Photoshop: SuperPNG

Convert PSD Shapes Files Into CSS3: CSS3PS

Free Photoshop Action to Prevent Banding: No More Banding

PSD to WordPress Theme Converter: Divine (Trial Free)

Instantly Create Images with Impact: Perfect Effects

Free Icon Plugin for Photoshop to Export/Import Windsows Icons (ico)

Remove Wires & Unwanted Objects from Your Images: Wire Worm

The extension is capable of converting them into codes like Obj-C, C++, JavaScript, Processing, ActionScript 3, JSON and raw bezier points.

Cut&Slice me cut and exports your layers in PNG format trimming the pixels you don´t need, or you can specify the size you want, or you can export all states of your buttons in the blink of an eye.

Cut&Slice me export to iPhone and Android, also removes all unsupported characters in the file name. For iPhone design for retina, for Android design for xhdpi and then export to ldpi, mdpi and hdpi with only one click.

This plugin will be made redundant when the format is approved and implemented by browsers. Lets hope that happens soon but in the meantime this plugin will be kept up to date with latest developments.

You have a choice of two ways to use the plugin, with figure tags or with the newly proposed and source tags. Bear in mind that the picture and source tags have only recently been proposed and are not yet valid HTML code.

A MobileCartly stores come with out-of-the-box PayPal Integration. Simply enter in your PayPal address and you’re good to go!

This free shopping cart comes in two flavors: PHP app and an WordPress plugin.

Major Features

• Product Management
• Design Customization
• Paypal Integration
• Order Management
• Order Statistics
• Invoicing
• Traffic Statistics

Instead of using you mouse to resize the browser window you can now use your keyboard. Just hit Alt + Left Arrow to make the window 1px narrower and Alt + Right Arrow to make it wider. Throwing in the Shift key there as well will make it decrease and increase its width by 10px instead.

When you find your break point the tiny icon in the toolbar will tell you the exact width of you browser window.