 <p>There is a trick you could use. If your version of jQuery is second which loads, you will need first move to safety theirs version before you load it, something like this</p> <pre><code>&lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt; (function($){ var theirs_jquery = $; })(jQuery); &lt;/script&gt; </code></pre> <p>Then add your jQuery version script include tag</p> <pre><code>&lt;script src="link/to/my/jquery.js"&gt;&lt;/script&gt; &lt;!-- add your plugins --&gt; &lt;script src="link/to/my/jquery/plugins/plugin1.js"&gt;&lt;/script&gt; &lt;script src="link/to/my/jquery/plugins/plugin2.js"&gt;&lt;/script&gt; </code></pre> <p>then add another script block with folowing</p> <pre><code>&lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt; (function(){ var $$ = jQuery; // this is your shortcut var $ = theirs_jquery; // put back their version })(jQuery); &lt;/script&gt; </code></pre> <p>after this you can access your jquery version with $$ shortcut</p>