title: How to load jQuery into WordPress properly
body: <p>I have a WordPress site that I would like to use a jQuery plugin called DataTables. I've been having troubling figuring out the right way to load the jQuery script and the DataTables script into WordPress.</p>
  
  <p>I know I'm supposed to use something with: <code>wp_enqueue_script("jquery")</code> - but I do not know where to put it or how to load the other jQuery plugin i need.</p>
  
  <p>The last bit I tried was putting this in the <code>header.php</code> file for my WordPress site:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;?php wp_enqueue_script("jquery"); ?&gt;
  
  &lt;?php wp_head(); ?&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Any help would be greatly appreciated!</p>