jQuery plugins since the time they were first introduced have left designers and developers amazed. In fact plugins help in so many different tasks that users heave a big sigh of relief and feel happy about the availability of free plugins that help them get the desired results without having to spare extra hours and putting in efforts. Why not, everyone deserves to seek help and get the work done as easily as possible.
There are innumerable resources available doesn’t mean you our designer and developer friends have stopped working hard in fact, they are working the smart way ensuring to enhance the productivity and efficiency.
You all know that, in these initial days of the year 2015, we have been preparing the compilations of the best resources, tools and other useful stuff. Today, we are here with one of the useful compilation of best jQuery plugins 2014 that have been introduced in the year gone by. Enjoy checking them out and let us know which one are your favorite best jQuery plugins 2014!
1. Material Design Preloader
Want to create a Google’s latest Material Design look-alike pre-loader? If yes, this jQuery plugin created by Aaron Lumsden will help you do so and you can use it in your mobile apps or websites.
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2. jQuery Password Peekaboo
A jQuery plugin that helps users to reveal passwords just like you see on Windows 8.
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3. Strip
Strip is a lightbox jQuery plugin that does not cover the full page and leave any space to interact with the page on larger screens. Well, it provides the lightbox experience when it comes to smaller screen devices.
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4. Midnight.js
Made by AeroLab, this jQuery plugin to help developers to switch fixed headers on the fly.
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5. Intro.js
Intro.js is an awesome jQuery plugin that helps you to give step-by-step-guide for your projects or better introductions to websites. It comes with many features and options to customize the use according to your needs.
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6. SnackbarJS
Another jQuery plugin that is inspired by Google’s Material Design that lets users create snackbars and toasts easily.
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7. Pickli
A Carousel list picker jQuery plugin that can also be used as a real time clock and comes with various options to customize.
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8. lazyFade.js
This jQuery plugins comes in the list of lazy effects plugin that fades a row of elements with an appealing lazy effect.
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9. jQuery.Simple-Event-Calendar
It is a plugin that helps users to create an event calendar or use it as a datepicker and much more.
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10. Animated Circle Progress Bar
A very useful jQuery plugin that looks beautiful when used in mobile app or website. It helps users in drawing animated circular gradient progress bar.
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11. Fotorama
Fotorama is a very simple photo album jQuery plugins that helps users in creating a nice looking javascript gallery providing intuitive controls and works in almost every browser.
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12. contip.js
Want to create bubble tooltips, well this jQuery plugin will help you to do so. Not only that, this jQuery plugin will help you create an animated and cuztomizable tooltip plugin.
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13. cxDialog
Create a modal style dialog popups for alerts, confirms and prompt boxes with the help of this light yet highly customizable jQuery plugin.
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14. colResizable
This jQuery plugin is developed by Alvaro Preito that helps users to resize columns and tables by dragging them manually. You can use this plugin to provide the same functionality in mouse and touch devices.
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15. URL Colorup in Text Area
This jQuery plugin by Amit Merchant highlights URL into blue color when typed in the text area.
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16. Bootstrap Application Wizard
This jQuery plugin for Bootstrap developed by Andrew Moffat helps users to create multi-step forms in natural order while remaining flexible.
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17. jQuery fontIconpicker
This is a very light jQuery plugin that allows designers to include a beautiful icon picker in search page or categories inside your administration forms.
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18. Fancy Form
Another lightweight jQuery plugin that allows users to create multiple forms easily in websites.
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19. Geocomplete
It is an advanced jQuery plugin that combines Google Maps API’s Geocoding and Places Autocomplete services that will help you search for a location with an autocomplete drawdown.
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20. Scrolline.js
Well, if you want to show scroll line bar indicator on the webpage, this jQuery plugin developed by Anthony Ly is just perfect for you. There are many options available to show the scrollbar like vertical, reverse, vertical left and one with opacity.
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21. Responsive Tabs
It is a very straightforward tab plugin that provides responsive tab functionality and when it reached a CSS breakpoint, the tab transforms to an accordion.
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22. jQuery YoutubeBackground
Using YouTube API, this jQuery plugin shows Ffullscreen background videos from YouTube and can be used to show regular videos.
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23. WeekSchedulerWidget.js
A very light jQuery plugin that does it job pretty straightforward by a implementing a UI control for enabling users to pick a specific time of one or more weekdays.
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24. TweetParser
Tweetparser is a twitter jQuery plugin that turns @users and #hashtags into working URL’s without much fuss.
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25. Parallax-Scroll
A jQuery plugin that is based on Parallax Image scroll developed by Andreas Neilsen. This jQuery plugins helps users to create elements with background images that behaves as if their background-attachment property is between scroll and fixed like a parallax scrolling effect.
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26. Justified.js
It is a superb jQuery plugins that help users to create justified image gallery of supplied images
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27. Splitchar.js
Developed by Bolosin Razvan, this jQuery plugin allows users to style half of a character with ease.
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28. Tipso
Here’s another jQuery tooltip plugin by Bojan Petkovski that is lightweight and responsive. This plugins allows users to display responsive, animated tooltip when a visitor hovers on a matched element. The plugin is also created as WordPress plugin so you can use the same functionality in WordPress by just installing it.
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29. jQuery Tilted Page Scroll
Developed by Pete R., this jQuery plugins allows users to create a beautiful animated 3D tilted scrolling effect for your website.
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30. Selectonic
A jQuery plugin that lets users making a list selected by mouse and keyboard.
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31. Coverflow.js
This jQuery plugin helps users to create “coverflow” effect using jQuery, jQuery UI and CSS3 transforms.
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32. fakeLoader.JS
One more jQuery plugins that helps users to create an animated spinner with a fullscreen background. It comes with a variety of options so that you can customize it according to your needs.
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33. jInvertScroll
A straight jQuery plugin that allows users to create a horizontal parallax effect on any website when you scroll down.
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34. Anchor
Anchor is another jQuery plugins that animate all native section links and jumps at an element very smoothly.
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35. gifplayer
Have you seen 9Gag’s website, this jQuery plugin provides the same functionality in which users can play and stop animated gifs easily.
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36. ClassyCountdown
Developed by Marius Stanciu that allows designers to create clean circular countdowns. The plugins comes with 12 themes that can easily be customized and used HTML5 for rendering of circles.
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37. Sticky-Kit
A useful jQuery plugin that needs to be in the list of the best jQuery plugins 2014. This jQuery plugins allows users in making sticky notes and it will always visible even the users scrolls the page.
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38. PgwSlideshow
This is a responsive slideshow jQuery plugin that supports slideshow play in both mobiles and desktops. It is easily customizable according to your needs and comes with CSS file also.
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39. FixedContent.js
By Jeremy Church, this jQuery plugins allows users to make a content visible even if the visitor is scrolling the page. It works on desktops and mobiles too.
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40. Labelauty jQuery Plugin
This is a useful jQuery plugin that makes checkboxes and radio buttons looks beautiful.
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41. jQuery Awesome Cursor
This jQuery plugin uses FontAwesome Icons as custom CSS cursors and works flawlessly in Chrome and Firefox browsers.
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42. Chocolat
Chocolat is a lightbox jQuery plugin that is light, powerful and easy to use. It allows users to display one or more image while staying on the same page. You can even have the option to display images as links or thumbnails.
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43. jq.year_planner
This is a very simple year planner jQuery plugins that displays a full year plan without too much customization.
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44. One Book 3D
An awesome jQuery plugin that is easily customizable and developed for photographers to show their portfolios in an open book style.
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45. Guardian
This is a all-purpose form validation jQuery plugin that is developed by Michael Eisenbraun.
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46. noUiSlider
A very lightweight ranger slider jQuery plugin with no bloat. It comes with tons of features and support various devices like iPhone, iPad, Android and Windows devices.
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47. Face Detection
Developed by Jay Salvat, this is a face detection jQuery plugin that works on images and videos.
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48. DocCollapse
A light jQuery plugin that is neat and helps collapse large bodies of text into a manageable set of nested headers and text.
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49. Jqx Media Slider
This one is a jQuery media slider plugin that is light but comes with customization options. You can put anything into content and it sliders, be it images, text, html, or more.
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50. jQuery UI Slider Pips
Another slider jQuery plugin that comes with tons of features and make other jQuery sliders looks a bit more nice.
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51. Brick Work
This is a responsive jQuery plugin that helps users to create dynamic layouts and it is just 15kb in size.
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52. CoverVid
CoverVid is a very lightweight jQuery plugins just 800B in size that helps users to make HTML5 videos behave like a background cover image.
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53. Simple jQuery Slider
A powerful yet simple slider jQuery plugin that uses CSS3 for transitions and other effects.
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54. jQuery.fontFlex
A very useful, simple jQuery plugin that does it job pretty straight. This jQuery plugin dynamically changes font sizes according to the container or browser width.
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55. Sweet Alert
Sweet Alert is a plugin that can be used as a substitute of Javascript’s Alert. It comes with various customizable options and looked pretty beautiful and neat at the same time.
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56. ItemSlide
This jQuery plugin is created by Nir Lichtman and designed by Idan Abarbanel that allows users to create sliders on mobile and tabs very easily.
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57. Progressbar.js
This jQuery plugins helps users to create beautiful and responsive arbitrary shaped progress bars with animated SVG paths.
58. Circular Slider
It seems that we have covered a variety of slider jQuery plugins in our website. Here’s one another circular slider jQuery plugin that helps users to create circular sliders.
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59. gridscrolling.js
A jQuery plugin that positions, sections and asides in a grid directly leading to easy navigation with cursor keys and more.
60. notifyME
A jQuery plugin that is developed by Bruno Rodrigues for self-learning, but later provided as a free download. It helps users to create fixed notifications in pages.
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61. multiscroll.js
A jQuery plugin that provides designers to create multi-scrolling pages without much of a customization.
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62. pagePiling.js
This jQuery plugin is developed to work both on websites and mobiles that help users to create the original scrolling site.
63. jqScrollAnim
Another jQuery plugin that lets users define animations with the vertical scroll.
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64. SliderTabs – Flexible & Simple jQuery Plugin for Sliding Tabs
Another slider jQuery plugin that is very simple and allow users to create sliding tabs with ease.
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65. Gridify
Gridify is a lightweight jQuery plugin that allows users to create Pinterest style grid using jQuery, JavaScript or YUO with image loaded.
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66. jQuery Picture Cut
This jQuery plugin comes with various features like ajax upload, drag image from explorer, image crop and other and allows users to handle images in a simple manner with beautiful interface based on Bootstrap.
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67. Side Comments
Side Comments is a jQuery plugin that provides your website or application the Medium.com style commenting.
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68. flexImages
This jQuery plugin developed by Simon Stienberger that that helps users to create fluid galleries as you have seen on Flickr and Google Images.
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69. WebGL Panorama
An easy-to-use jQuery plugin that displays cube map panoramas on an HTML canvas object using WebGL.
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70. Particleground
Particleground is a jQuery plugin that creates snazzy background particle systems. It works in most all browsers that supports HTML5 Canvas.
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71. Divas Slider
This is a jQuery plugin that is a multipurpose responsive slider that works on desktops and mobile flawlessly.
72. jQuery Focuspoint
Another cool plugin that does responsive cropping and works well with full screen images.
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73. Colorbox – a jQuery lightbox
Another useful lightbox jQuery plugin that is lightweight and customizable.
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74. VenoBox
VenoBox is another responsive jQuery modal Window plugin that works best with images, inline contents, iFrames, GoogleMaps and YouTube videos.
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75. slabText
slabText is a jQuery plugin that enhanced the functionality of websites by producing big, bold and responsive headlines.
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76. scotchPanels.js
This is another lightweight jQuery plugin that enables users to create off canvas menus and navigations.
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77. lighterbox
Lighterbox is a great jQuery plugin that works perfectly in mobile browsers and modern desktops.
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78. jQuery matchHeight
A very useful jQuery plugin that increases the functionality of your website.
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79. Animsition
Want to add page transition on CSS animations? This jQuery plugin does the same job very easily.
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80. Timesheet
Timesheet is a jQuery plugin that visualizes your events and data with sexy HTML5 and CSS3.
81. Heat Map
This jQuery plugin developed by Cam Hoang to display the visualization of proportion data corresponding to geometry locations with ease.
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82. fitter Happier Text
This jQuery plugin developed to create performance and fully fluid headings.
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