Integrating WordPress Content into a jQuery Slider

it is just a question of translating the jquery ui tabs markup into the appropriate wordpress functions. text is the_title() or the_excerpt(). images are the_post_thumbnail and so on. put this in your template where you want the slider to appear:

// Get any existing copy of our transient data
if ( false === ( $featured_query_results = get_transient( 'featured_query_results' ) ) ) {
    // It wasn't there, so regenerate the data and save the transient
    $args = array( 'numberposts' => 5, 'cat' => 11 );
    $featured_query_results = get_posts( $args );
    set_transient( 'featured_query_results', $featured_query_results );
}

global $post;
$tmp_post = $post;

//if there are posts returned then we'll loop through them
if($featured_query_results):  ?>

<div id="featured"> 

<?php
$i=1;
$ul="<ul class="ui-tabs-nav">";
$divs="";
foreach( $featured_query_results as $post ) : setup_postdata($post); 
    //create the li nav element
    $ul .= '<li><a href="#fragment-'.$i.'">'.get_the_post_thumbnail(get_the_ID(),"thumbnail").'<span>'.get_the_title().'</span></a></li>';

    //create the div tab
    $divs .= '<div id="fragment-'.$i.'">';  
    $divs .= get_the_post_thumbnail(get_the_ID(),"large"); 
    $divs .= '<div class="info" >';
    $divs .= '<h2><a href="'.get_permalink().'" >'.get_the_title().'</a></h2>';
    $divs .= '<p>'.get_the_excerpt().'<a href="'.get_permalink().'" >read more</a></p>';
    $divs .= '</div>';
    $divs .= '</div>';
    $i++;

endforeach; 

//close out the unordered list
$ul .= '</ul><!--.ui-tabs-nav-->';

//echo out the results
echo $ul;
echo $divs;

?>

</div><!--#featured-->

<?php else: ?>

No matching posts found.

<?php endif; ?>
<?php $post = $tmp_post;

and this in your functions.php

// Create a simple function to delete our transient when posts are saved/created
function delete_featured_query_transient() {
     delete_transient( 'featured_query_results' );
}
add_action( 'save_post', 'delete_featured_query_transient' );

do take note that i am using

    $args = array( 'numberposts' => 5, 'cat' => 11 );

as the arguments for my query. you’ll want to use your own. and you might want to comment out the

   set_transient( 'featured_query_results', $featured_query_results );

line while you are setting this up, b/c it will store the query’s results in a transient so that it doesn’t have to make the same query over and over. the transient is deleted when you write a new post (the function i said to put in functions.php) so it will always be up-to-date. you can always delete the transient by changing the delete function from the save_post hook to something that always runs, like init.