jQuery Flip Effects : Basics

jQuery Flip Effects Can Be Introduced to Any Webpage, Specially in the Landing Pages, HomePage to Make Things Interactive Instead of Boring Slideshows. Yes, Definitely; within “Any Website” WordPress counts. In case of WordPress; you can simply use WP Enqueue Script Method. We are keeping this Guide on jQuery Flip Effects very small and usable by the new users.

jQuery Flip Effects : Understanding The Basics

Practically, there can be hundreds of custom jQuery Plugins for creating so called Flip Effects, some of them are open source, some listed in the official website, some can be fully unknown or has practically no documentation.

When we are saying jQuery Flip Effects Plugin, we are intending to mean that jQuery already has been loaded. WordPress by default loads a jQuery library, however; for frontend, it is safer to include the official jQuery minified version and exclude ; loading the default (otherwise both will load). Although this is not really mandatory or basic – some jQuery Flip Effects Plugin might not work with the default packages. This is why, using JsFiddle or CodePen is recommended to debug.

jQuery Flip Effects : Example Libraries for Inspiration

We really can not custom design and offer something that exactly fits you. Level of Animation and complexity can vary, for example; this is quite basic :

Complex effects, might need to debug; for example :

Basically in the above example, the syncing is happening as expected as the assets are web properties and might not respond as expected! But this is cleaner :

But Clock is not what we were looking for! So, you might enjoy these :

There is more advanced usage of jQuery Plugins for Flip Effects like in this example :

The above working website’s Library is free, which is named as Turn.js :

We think, there is no reason to make them resource hungry by creating or using some WordPress Plugin; because you actually need to change the scripts. Possibly people love the page flipping effect of a book :