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You have introduced 2 additional problems by adding the jQuery from Google CDN. The admin interface needs jQuery called in no conflict mode so it won't interfere with the other scripts WordPress uses for the dashboard. The WordPress dashboard is not yet compatible with jQuery 1.5 thats why it was pulled from trunk right before 3.1 was released. See: WordPress Development Blog . If you want to use Google's jQuery register it like this: function my_init_method() { if (!is_admin()) { wp_deregister_script( 'jquery' ); wp_register_script( 'jquery', 'http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.5/jquery.min.js'); wp_enqueue_script( 'jquery' ); } } add_action('init', 'my_init_method'); Also your...
Full answer by Chris_O: https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/a/13657 (CC BY-SA 3.0).
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