can’t embed scripts in WordPress

[EricM]

I can’t get jquery in my wordpress theme. I’m starting with a blank starkers theme with my database loaded. I can get my own scripts loaded, but once I try to embed jquery, they disappear. Here’s what I have in my header.php

/**

* The Header for our theme.

*

* Displays all of the  section and everything up till 


*

* @package WordPress

* @subpackage Starkers

* @since Starkers 3.0

*/

?>

>
















wp_enqueue_script( 'comment-reply' );

wp_head();

?>

I haven’t touched anything outside the head tag. I also tried to load use google api by putting this at the bottom of my functions.php file:

if( !is_admin()){

wp_deregister_script('jquery');

wp_register_script('jquery', ("http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.4.2/jquery.min.js"), false, '1.4.2');

wp_enqueue_script('jquery');

}

I’m not sure if that is supposed to be wrapped in php tags, but it failed both ways. I might just have to download a theme that’s already running jquery, but that will be a lot more work. What am I missing?

[EricM]

Oops, forgot, this is at http://ericmontzka.com/may10wordpress.

[TheDoc]

From Chris’ other site, Digging Into WordPress:

“Including jQuery in WordPress (The Right Way)”
http://digwp.com/2009/06/including-jquery-in-wordpress-the-right-way/

[EricM]

Thanks Doc, that’s where I got the above code. I also tried this from codex at http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_enqueue_script :

function my_init_method() {

wp_deregister_script( 'jquery' );

wp_register_script( 'jquery', 'http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.4/jquery.min.js');

}



add_action('init', 'my_init_method');

?>

[TheDoc]

What do you mean when you say “the other scripts disappear”?

[EricM]

…in the source code. I embed my own scripts and view source, and they are in there. I try to embed jquery in any of the ways mentioned above, and none of the scripts are there, although I just viewed safari and my non-jquery scripts are there, but nothing is in Firefox.
BTW, I just checked Opera and Chrome, they also have my scripts, but no jquery. So I guess the disappearing is just a firefox thing right now, which might clear up once I figure out the jquery problem.

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