12 Best Free jQuery Plugins of March 2014

Posted on April 4, 2014

The time is gone when you just needed your website to be a static set of web pages with information being broadcasted on it, and you are updating those static web pages time to time, according to the new changed and uses. Nowadays, the websites need to be much more creative, innovative, attractive, and user- interactive, for the user to enjoy the browsing experience and also tend the visitors to stay at your site with interest.

As a developer, you must be familiar with the jQuery plugins! These are javascript libraries, which help in making your website innovative, effective in all ways possible! A huge number of jQuery plugins have been released recently in 2014, and some of them turned out to be extremely useful and resourceful! Some of these best jQuery plugins have been discussed in this article ahead, giving you a great rough brief about the information, and the particular use of every plugin. Basically, the idea of a jQuery plugin is a collection of a few elements of Java combined together solving a particular, or various purposes of the user, providing a great level of convenience to the programmers and the visitors to the website!

You may also create your own jQuery plugins and release them into the jQuery market, if you feel like there is no plugin that exists, solving your purpose. We can extend a jquery prototype object using these plugins, enabling all jquery objects to inherit any methods, that you add. This article will give you a brief about the 12 best jquery plugins released in, or before March-2014! Self developing without Jquery plugins is a hell of a task, and with these plugins, your work becomes as easy as anything!

1) Image Cropper

This image cropper jQuery plugin helps to crop image more easily.

2) PgwModal – Responsive Modal / Dialog Window for jQuery

Fully responsive modal (desktop and mobile devices)
AngularJS native implementation (activated or not)
Full customization with the CSS file included

3) jQuery Pjaxr

jquery-pjaxr is jQuery plugin that uses ajax and pushState to deliver a fast browsing experience. It is able to replace multiple containers and different head tags with full back-forward functionality.

3) Powerange

Powerange is a range slider control, inspired heavily by iOS 7 and the “Power Rangers” TV series. It is easily customizable, both by CSS and JavaScript. With it’s many features, including changing color and overall style, switching between horizontal and vertical style, custom min, max and start values, custom step interval, displaying decimal values, displaying icons instead of min/max numbers, it is a really powerful UI tool to use on your website.

4) 3D Grid Effect

The idea is to rotate a grid item in 3D, expand it into fullscreen and reveal some content.

5) Vibration API

The Vibration API1 is an API specifically made for mobile devices as they are thankfully the only devices that have a vibrate function. The API allows developers to vibrate a device (in a pattern) for a given duration.

6) Devrama Slider

‘Devrama Slider’ is a image slider with many features. It support both images and HTML contents.

7) Sheetrock – displaying data from Google Spreadsheets

Sheetrock is a jQuery plugin for querying, retrieving, and displaying data from Google Spreadsheets. Use it to load entire sheets or leverage SQL-like queries to treat Google Spreadsheets as a quick-and-dirty JSON datastore.

8) Pgw Slider

9) Slick

Fully responsive. Scales with its container.
Separate settings per breakpoint
Uses CSS3 when available. Fully functional when not.
Swipe enabled. Or disabled, if you prefer.
Desktop mouse dragging
Infinite looping.
Fully accessible with arrow key navigation
Add, remove, filter & unfilter slides