django-cms and jQuery

Question

I've got a django site running quite happily with django-cms but now I want to include some of my own fancy javascript using jQuery. I'm rather new to django, so my problems might stem from this.

Django-cms uses jQuery itself, and so if I add jquery to the header - things break rathter unsurprisingly. How do I add my own jQuery without affecting django-cms?

At the moment my javascript files are stored in the media root which I've defined in the projects settings.py and, as mentioned, I reference them in the header.

As I read this, it seems a silly question, but I'm still perplexed.

EDIT::Some Code

I have a media root defined:

MEDIA_ROOT = os.path.join(PROJECT_PATH, 'media')

and in my base template the header includes

<script src="/media/javascript/jquery.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="/media/javascript/application.js" type="text/javascript"></script>

Javascript in application.js works, but it when the django-cms stuff is up it breaks. For example, trying to add a plugin to a placeholder results in:

Uncaught TypeError: Property 'type' of object function ( selector, context ) {
        // The jQuery object is actually just the init constructor 'enhanced'
        return new jQuery.fn.init( selector, context );
    } is not a function

I assumed this was because the two jQuerys were conflicting with each other

::ANOTHER EDIT:: I should probably add that I'm using django to host the static files only because this is still in development...

Answer 1

Well, linking the django-cms's bundled jQuery does fix everything...

Alas, it uses version 1.3.2 but I think I'll deal with that rather than try and upgrade django-cms for now.

Answer 2

A simple solution: keep your JQuery library in the header and place all other your JS at the boottom of the page, right before </body>. In this case in admin mode, your jQuery lib will be overrided by admin's copy, and then all of your code will be added back to it.