Title: jQuery & wp-enqueue-script not playing nicely
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# jQuery & wp-enqueue-script not playing nicely

 *  [Maracas1970](https://wordpress.org/support/users/maracas1970/)
 * (@maracas1970)
 * [14 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/jquery-wp-enqueue-script-not-playing-nicely/)
 * Child theme of twentyeleven
 * Hi im trying to make [this](http://davidwalsh.name/fading-links-jquery-dwfadinglinks)
   bit of jQuery work on my page, mainly to understand how to get jQuery working
   in a WordPress child theme.
 * So far I have come across nothing but brick walls after trying several thousand
   different combinations of the wp-enqueue-script.
 * Here is a link to the code in my header. [http://pastebin.com/ve4Ymv7Q](http://pastebin.com/ve4Ymv7Q)
 * All it is, is a little script to make links fade in or out when hovered over.
   What i would love to know is, am i calling it properly?
 * I have a blank functions.php file with just the wp_enqueue_script(‘jquery’); 
   and a script to limit excerpt lengths.
 * I tried putting the .js files in my child’s js folder and in the
    h**p://my_domain/
   wp-includes/js/jquery/my_plugin folder.
 * I am running around n circles not knowing wether i`m just getting one bit of 
   code wrong, a backslash here or a brace there??
 * Here is the script: [http://pastebin.com/mh6dN77b](http://pastebin.com/mh6dN77b)
 * Tried taking the “$” and replacing with “jQuery” in the script to no avail.
 * The only other thing i can think of is that some CSS rule is overwriting the 
   script. Whatever it is i am blind to it.
 * Please help. I never ran into any of this when dropping jQuery into static sites.
   Just want to understand how WP implements jQuery and to understand best practice
   going forward
 * Regards
 * Marcus

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 *  Thread Starter [Maracas1970](https://wordpress.org/support/users/maracas1970/)
 * (@maracas1970)
 * [14 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/jquery-wp-enqueue-script-not-playing-nicely/#post-2579362)
 * Actually just tried several other scripts cant get a damn thing to run..

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