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I know that wordpress ships with jquery. I have built my site first in html and every script that I have running in the html version works fine running version 1.4.2. I included this same jquery script and now one of my features don't work. This is how I am loading jquery into the head of my site

function register_savior_scripts(){
    wp_enqueue_script('prettyPhoto', get_template_directory_uri().'/js/jquery.prettyPhoto.js', array('jquery'));
    wp_enqueue_script('slider', get_template_directory_uri().'/js/coin-slider.min.js', array('jquery'));
add_action('wp_head','register_savior_scripts', 0);

If I check the head, I see the script. It looks like this

<script type='text/javascript' src='full path removed/js/jquery.js?ver=3.4.1'></script>

It's not version 3.4.1. Not sure that matters. The script that it is running I put directly into the head and is this code

            if($(this).hasClass('down-arrow')) {
            else {

Is there a better way to load the script above into the head? Do you know why it would work on the html but not wordpress?

All it does is slide a div up or down to hide it if you press a link.

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you're deregistering jquery, then registering it under the handle js-scripts, but then specifying the jquery handle as a dependency for your other scripts. also, use the wp_enqueue_scripts hook for wp_enqueue_scripts function, not wp_head. the appended version doesn't matter, but you can pass null as version parameter to get rid of it completely if you want.

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well, I made the changes you suggested. Those were good ideas. I found that the reason the code isn't working is because of other scripts I have loading in the head section of my site. This is weird because it works just fine on the html version. Why would the WordPress version be any different? –  Jamie Aug 16 '12 at 0:20

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