jQuery is totally amazing. It let you add something extra to your website. It adds extra functionality and improve the website overall to make it more neat and tidy. Designing a website is not an easy task and you can always use some help. jQuery plugins can prove to be really helpful. They save time and reduce the hecticness you would otherwise have to go through. So today we have a list of 10 Amazingly Useful jQuery Plugins for you. These handy plugins will help you a lot in making your website stand out from all the rest. Check them out!

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Grid portfolio

A really chic and stylish way to display items, while still allowing previewing the content very easily. You can always use it with other resizing elements allowing the user see them rearrange.

Slide out contextual tips

This one expands with a smooth animation, showing extra content only when the user wants to see it. You can use this with pictures that show many products (e.g. books) or at the time of explaining the highlights of a design in your portfolio.

Quicksand – reorder and filter

As the name suggests, this Quicksand allows organising and reordering items in order to make finding what you need really simple. Simply click then watch everything glide into its place.

jVectorMap

This is a great map that can be expanded for other uses. It boasts the world map, US, Europe and Germany.

Mosaiqy – picture shuffle

An awesome way of displaying images. It exhibits images in a simple grid that shuffles the elements just like a Rubik’s cube.

MopTip2

This plugin allows adding customizable tooltips to many different elements. Tooltips can close automatically, but you have the ability of manually closing the tooltips; and they might also display pictures.

jqFancyTransitions

A very simple, yet elegant and slick gallery with strip transitions and many different formats.

jqZoom

jqZoom has the ability of being customized in many ways and boasts many zooming options, like the drag-zoom or through easy mouse-over.

PhotoShelf

PhotoShelf is a really sleek and chic gallery that allows scrolling through a collection of pictures and zooming in on portions of the chosen picture. You can also organise your items by using separators. Please note that it is not for free.

Latest tweets tooltip

Latest tweets tooltip is a really cool and useful plugin that allows displaying the latest tweets about a specific topic inside a resizeable tooltip.