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Fernando Jimenez
Courses Plus Student 8,203 PointsWhy does Jquery work with Wordpress using jQuery('example') and not with $('example')???
everytime I run jquery on the console with Wordpress it doesn't understand the short version $
2 Answers
Jennifer Nordell
Treehouse TeacherFernando Jimenez Hi there! Steven Parker is absolutely correct. As you may know, WordPress is written in PHP. All PHP variables start with the dollar sign $. So when you use that, it thinks you're trying to use a PHP variable, not a jQuery object.
Hope this helps!
Steven Parker
229,786 PointsI haven't done Wordpress programming, but it could be that it uses "$" for something else. It's just an alias after all. You could try resetting it, but that might break something if it was using it.
Or you could create your own shorthand ("var jq = jQuery").
Steven Parker
229,786 PointsSteven Parker
229,786 PointsI wouldn't expect that confusion with PHP variables would be an issue since any php code would likely be in a separate file and contained within identifying tags ("
<?php /* PHP code in here */ ?>").