https://www.webbyawards.com/wp-content/mu-plugins/rm-theme-base/as…/rm-theme-jquery-alias.js?ver=2026.09.13.04

1/*
2 * Restore the global $ alias.
3 *
4 * WordPress's jQuery ends with jQuery.noConflict(), which releases $. That is the right default for
5 * a plugin ecosystem, but these themes were written against a plain <script src="jquery.js"> that
6 * left $ defined, and they use it heavily: 188 places in Webbys-2020, 60 in Lovies2, 44 in Anthem,
7 * plus dozens of theme JS files that reference it at the top level without wrapping.
8 *
9 * Rewriting several hundred call sites to say jQuery() would be a large, risky change that buys
10 * nothing a visitor can see. Restoring the one global those files already expected is the smaller
11 * and more honest fix, and it is exactly the state the themes' own jQuery tag used to leave behind.
12 *
13 * Assigned only when nothing else holds $, so a page that does have another library keeps it. No
14 * competing library exists on any of these sites — checked for Prototype, MooTools, Zepto and Cash
15 * across every theme and every rendered page — but the guard costs nothing and states the
16 * condition under which this is safe.
17 *
18 * Depends on the jquery handle, so WordPress orders it immediately after jQuery itself.
19 *
20 * Build: 2026.08.28.06
21 */
22( function ( window ) {
23	'use strict';
24
25	if ( typeof window.jQuery === 'undefined' ) {
26		return;
27	}
28
29	if ( typeof window.$ === 'undefined' ) {
30		window.$ = window.jQuery;
31	}
32}( window ) );