Loading jQuery from the Google CDN with wp_register_script

wordpress snippet

Adding this snippet to the functions.php of your wordpress theme will register and include jquery from the Google CDN.

snippet : PHPcopy

add_action( 'init', 'jquery_register' );
function jquery_register() {
if ( !is_admin() ) {
    wp_deregister_script( 'jquery' );
    wp_register_script( 'jquery', ( 'http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.6.2/jquery.min.js' ), false, null, true );
    wp_enqueue_script( 'jquery' );
   }
}

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Gabe
Aren’t we up to version 1.6.2 with jQuery now?

http://wpsnipp.com Kevin Chard
Whoops thanks Gabe, my bad grabbed an old version, updated!

paul
why do this? not to say it isn’t good I am just not experienced enough.

http://wpsnipp.com Kevin Chard
Well CDN is content distribution/delivery network, it can improve access to the data and bandwidth etc. However you could easily replace that to something local this page has more details on loading locally.
http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_enqueue_script