So you find a cool tutorial that includes jQuery….and you decide to use it with WordPress…. and y0u follow the download files to a “T”….and nothing. You check the example code against your code and all is good, except the outcome.
The fix is simple and well documented in this article by :chriscoyier: at Digging Into WordPress.

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