18 Cool jQuery Plugins that will make you WOW!

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jQuery was released in January 2006. 6 years later, it still holds its position as best JavaScript library due to its simplicity. Well, I believe it will be even stronger in the future because of its large community of contributing developers.  Thanks to this community, so that’s why we have a lot of amazing and cool jQuery plugins out there.

This post roundup 18 amazing and cool jQuery plugins that will make you WOW! I know, they might not as practical as what they are look like. Still, they are providing us those amazing and cool effects. Maybe, they will come in handy when you are trying to make something WOW! Enjoy…

If you were looking for an ordinary and practical jQuery plugin, then this post might NOT suit you. =) Please do visit my other jQuery plugins posts:

• Image Hover Effects jQuery plugins
• Free & Premium jQuery Sliders plugins
• Lightbox and Modal Dialog jQuery plugins
• Navigation Menu jQuery Plugins

Zoomooz jQuery Plugin

by Janne Aukia

Zoomooz.js is a powerful jQuery plugin for making your web page element zoomable. Let’s zoom zoom!

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jQuery Quicksand Plugin

by Jacek Galanciak

jQuery Quicksand is an awesome jQuery plguin which used to sort and filter items through beautiful shuffling animation. It provide better user experience in displaying your products.

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Isotope jQuery Plugin

by David DeSandro

Isotope is an exquisite jQuery plugin for magical layouts. It creates similar sorting and filtering effect like jQuery Quicksand plugin. Moreover, it allows different layout to positioning your items.

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Promptumenu jQuery Plugin

by Janis Zaržeckis

If you’re iPhone or Android mobile fans, definitely you will like this sliding navigation menu by Promptumenu.

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Turn.js Plugin

by Emmanuel

turn.js is a jQuery plugin that adds a beautiful book flipping transition for HTML5. Besides, it can even works on tablets and smartphones.

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jParallax Plugin

by StephBand

jParallax allows you to turns a selected element into a viewport, through multiple layers with Parallax. These layers will move by different amounts relative to the user mouse position.

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Scrollorama jQuery Plugin

by John Polacek

Scrollorama is the jQuery plugin for creating cool scrolly web page. How cool it is? You should take a look at their website.

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jQuery Scroll Path

by Joel Besada

Fell bored with either vertical or horizontal page scrolling path? Why not define your own scroll paths using  jQuery Scroll Path?

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Textualizer jQuery Plugin

by kiro.me

Wish to animate your page’s text like those in movie? Try this Textualizer jQuery text effects plugin, it lets you transition throught blurbs of text.

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slabText jQuery Plugin

by Brian McAllister

slabText is a powerful jQuery plugin used to creates responsive headlines. It helps resize your headlines accordingly to fill into available space.

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Airport Text Effect jQuery Plugin

by Jan Jarfalk

Airport is a rather simple text plugin for jQuery. It emulates the styles of those flickering information boards on airports or train station.

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jQuery.moatext

by Bitmeister Inc.

Another amazing jQuery text effect plugin for you – jQuery.moatext. It make your text animated in wave-like effect when mouseover.

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jQuery Three Dee Plugin

by Steve Fenton

jQuery Three Dee is amazing! It can converts text into 3D text. Have fun with Three Dee!

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jQuery Circulate Plugin

by Chris Coyier

Sometimes, have you ever wanted to animate something in a circle like this by jQuery Circulate?

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jQuery Fly-To-Basket Effect

by WebResourcesDepot

Well, perhaps this is future trends of ‘add to cart’ function for those e-commerce sites.

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Fly Off Page jQuery Plugin

by James

Feel bored with old style fade out effect when you want to remove an element from page? Why not make the element fly off from the page! XD

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jQuery Photoshoot Plugin

by Martin Angelov

Have you tried photo shooting in your browser? If not, then you should really check out this amazing jQuery plugin which allows you to convert your page into a photo shooting effect.

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jQuery Lens Flare Effect Plugin

by Raff Cecco

This amazing jQuery plugin will automatically adding lens flare effect to any specific images. Look cool!

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More Cool jQuery Plugins?

I know I’m not the only one who found out those cool jQuery plugins, right? If you know other cool jQuery plugins that make you WOW, make sure to share them with us!