50 Most Useful jQuery Plugins from 2014

Today, we have the 2014 edition of our top 50 jQuery plugins of the year. They are the 50 jQuery plugins that we feel are the most useful, most innovative and most time-saving solutions to many of the modern design and development issues you may have.

Just to help you find exactly what you are looking quickly, we have classified all of the jQuery plugins into the following categories: Web & Mobile Layouts Plugins, Menu & Navigation Plugins, Plugins for Media, Slider, Carousel & Gallery Plugins, Text Effect Plugins, Form Plugins, and finally a bunch of uncategorized Utility Plugins.

It really has been a tremendous year for jQuery!

jQuery Plugins for Web & Mobile Layouts

pagePiling.js, a jQuery plugin for ‘piling’ your layout sections over one another and accessing them by scrolling.
pagePiling.js, a jQuery plugin for 'piling' your sections over  one another and accessing them by scrolling

fullPage.js, a simple plugin for creating fullscreen scrolling websites.
fullPage.js fullscreen scrolling websites jQuery plugin

The jQuery Tilted Page Scroll allows you to create a beautilful and unique 3D tilted scrolling effect on your website.
 frontend jQuery Tilted Page Scroll plugins

FixedContent.js, a mobile-friendly jQuery plugin that fixes/sticks content while scrolling.
FixedContent.js - A mobile-friendly jQuery plugin that fixes/sticks content while scrolling

gridscrolling.js, a plugin for positioning sections and asides in a grid & allowing for easy cursor key navigation.
gridscrolling.js, a jQuery plugin A layout for positioning sections and asides in a grid & allowing for easy cursor key navigation

Flickerplate, a responsive, touch-enabled and lightweight plugin that allows you to ‘flick’ through content.
Flickerplate responsive touch-enabled lightweight flick content

jInvertScroll, a lightweight plugin that allows you to move horizontally with a parallax effect while scrolling down.
jInvertScroll lightweight plugin horizontal parallax effect

Animsition, a simple plugin for adding page transitions with CSS animations.
Animsition - A simple jQuery plugin for adding page transitions with CSS animations

scrollToBySpeed.js, a plugin that let’s you scroll the window by speed rather than by duration.
scrollToBySpeed.js a jQuery plugin that let's you scroll the window by speed rather than by duration designers

Brick Work, a lightweight (15kb) and feature-rich plugin for creating responsive dynamic layouts.
Brick Work is a lightweight (15kb) and feature-rich jQuery plugin for creating responsive dynamic layouts

ScrollMe, a lightweight plugin that allows you to add simple scrolling effects to webpages.
ScrollMe is a lightweight jQuery plugin that will allow you to add simple scrolling effects to web pages

jquery.smoothState.js, a plugin that progressively enhances pages to behave more like a single-page application.
jquery.smoothState.js - A jQuery plugin that progressively enhances pages to behave more like a single-page application

multiscroll.js, a simple plugin for creating multi scrolling websites with two vertical scrolling panels.
multiscroll.js is a simple jQuery plugin for creating multi scrolling websites in this weeks designer news

jquery.matchHeight.js, a more robust equal heights plugin for jQuery.
jquery.matchHeight.js is a more robust equal heights plugin for jQuery front-end

jQuery Navigation & Menu Plugins

Slidebars, a lightweight (2kb) plugin for creating an app-style push-menu.
Slidebars frontend app-style push-menu jquery plugins

scotchPanels.js, a jQuery off-canvas menu and panel plugin.
scotchPanels.js a jQuery off canvas menu and panel plugin

jQuery Plugins for Media (Images & Video)

Focuspoint, a plugin for dynamically cropping images to fill the available space without cutting-out the image’s subject.
Focuspoint, a jQuery plugin for responsive cropping

Fluidbox, a replication of the Medium.com lightbox module, with some added improvements.
Fluidbox frontend Medium lightbox module jquery plugins

GifPlayer, a small plugin that allows you to control when to play and stop animated GIFs.
GifPlayer plugin control play and stop animated gifs jquery

rowGrid.js, a plugin for placing images on a grid with support for infinte scrolling.
rowGrid.js images grid infinte scrolling frontend jquery plugins

Magneticmediajs, a jQuery based library that will allow you to display media content in a stylish and efficient way.
Magneticmediajs, a jQuery based library that will allow you to display media content in a stylish and efficient way

SVGMagic, a simple SVG fallback plugin that finds SVG images on your site and creates PNG versions if the browser doesn’t support them.
SVGMagic simple SVG fallback jquery plugin

Vide, a jQuery plugin for easily adding video backgrounds to your webpages.
Vide - easy as hell jQuery plugin for video backgrounds

Data-Img, a simple plugin for dealing with responsive image delivery by replacing the images from ‘image src’ or ‘background-image url’ depending on screen width.
Data-Img responsive image delivery jquery plugins

Dense.js, a plugin for easily serving retina-ready images.
Dense.js - A jQuery plugin for easily serving retina-ready images

Covervid, a simple plugin that will allow you to make HTML5 video behave like a background image.
Covervid is a simple jQuery plugin that will allow you to make your HTML5 video behave like a background image

jQuery-Cropbox, a really useful plugin for in-place image cropping (zoom & pan, as opposed to select and drag).
jQuery-Cropbox image cropping frontend jquery plugins

Face Detection, a powerful jQuery/Zepto plugin that detects faces on images, videos and canvases.
Face Detection - A powerful jQuery/Zepto plugin that detects faces on images, videos and canvases

BttrLazyLoading, a plugin that allows your web app to only load images within the viewport as the user scrolls.
BttrLazyLoading load images viewport scrolls plugin

jQuery Slider, Carousel & Gallery Plugins

Simple jQuery Slider, a lightweight jQuery Slider that does exactly what a slider should do: ‘slides slides’.
uper-simple and lightweight jQuery Slider

FSVS, a simple fullscreen vertical slider using CSS3 transitions with jQuery fallback.
FSVS, a simple fullscreen vertical slider using CSS3 transitions with jQuery fallback

anoFlow, a feature-rich and responsive lightbox/gallery plugin.
anoFlow feature-rich responsive lightbox gallery plugin

nanoGALLERY, a responsive, touch-enabled and easy to use image gallery plugin.
nanoGALLERY responsive touch-enabled easy to use image gallery plugin jquery

Photopile JS, a jQuery image gallery that simulates a stack of scattered photos on a surface.
Photopile JS is a JS/jQuery image gallery

Justified.js, a plugin that creates a justified image grid of images.
Justified.js - A jQuery plugin that creates a justified image grid of images

Shuffle Images, a jQuery plugin that allows you to display and shuffle multiple images within a gallery by moving or shaking the cursor.
Shuffle Images plugin that allows you to display and shuffle multiple images within a gallery

Skippr, a super simple and lightweight slideshow plugin for jQuery.
Skippr is a super simple and lightweight slideshow plugin for jQuery

jQuery Text Effect Plugins

jQuery.fontFlex.js, a lightweight plugin for dynamically changing font sizes.
jQuery.fontFlex.js, a lightweight jQuery extension for dynamically changing font sizes

t.js, a lightweight jQuery plugin for typewriter-like text effects.
t.js, a lightweight jQuery plugin for typewriter-like text effects

CurvedText, a simple jQuery plugin that allows you to align text on any curve.
 frontend jquery CurvedText align text curve

Morphext – An Animate.css powered jQuery carousel plugin for text phrases.
Powered by Animate.css Morphext is a simple jQuery carousel plugin for text phrases

Splitchar, a jQuery plugin that allows you to style and design the first, second or both halves of a character.
Splitchar is a jQuery plugin that allows you to style and design the first, second or both halves of a character in this weeks designer news

jQuery Form Element Plugins

BootstrapValidator, a jQuery plugin for validating Bootstrap forms.
BootstrapValidator - A jQuery plugin for validating Bootstrap forms

Labelauty – A nice and lightweight jQuery plugin that gives beauty to checkboxes and radio buttons.
Labelauty - A nice and lightweight jQuery plugin that gives beauty to checkboxes and radio buttons

Guardian, a flexible and easy to extend all-purpose form validation jQuery plugin.
Guardian, a flexible and easy to extend all-purpose form validation jQuery plugin

fontIconPicker, a lightweight plugin that allows you to include a simple icon picker (with search and pagination) within any form.
fontIconPicker lightweight plugin simple icon picker

HideSeek, a simple, yet customizable jQuery plugin for live search.
HideSeek customizable jQuery plugin for live search

ClockPicker, a clock-style timepicker for jQuery or Bootstrap.
ClockPicker is a clock-style timepicker for either Bootstrap or jQuery

jQuery Utility Plugins

jQuery Confirm Mailto, a plugin to Confirm with users before opening any mailto: link through their default email client.
jQuery Confirm Mailto, a jQuery plugin to confirm before opening mailto links

jQuery prettySocial, a custom sharing button plugin for Pinterest, Twitter, Facebook & Google+.
jQuery prettySocial - A custom sharing button plugin

jNottery, a plugin that allows you to add notes to a page.
jNottery jQuery plugin that allows you to add notes to a web page

Responsive Tabs, a plugin that offers responsive tab functionality.
Responsive Tabs A jQuery plugin that offers responsive tab functionality

jquery.adaptive-backgrounds.js, a cool plugin that extracts the dominant color from the images on your web page and applies the color to their parent.
extracts the dominant color from the images on your web page and magically applies the color to their parent jquery plugins

…and finally…

jQuery.planetarium, a jQuery plugin that allows you to construct interactive planets and build the Universe!
jQuery.planetarium Construct interactive planets and build the Universe

jquery.wanker.js is a humourous jQuery plugin that reveals a public service announcement when people start excessively resizing their desktop browser as they try to see your responsive breakpoints. As they say ‘The web is meant to be read, not squished!’
jquery.wanker.js frontend jquery plugins

Finished!