jQuery slider Orbit with Wordpress

ZURB's Orbit content slider is awesome. Just trying to get it work开发者_Go百科ing with Wordpress.

I was able to implement a similar but trimmed down plugin, Cycle. Was even able to use cycle in widget areas, which is nice.

Trying to accomplish the same with Orbit. Used chrome's console to make sure that javascripts and css were loading. Orbit div shows up, but just pinwheels... Could this have something to do with jQuery "$" shortcut not working in wordpress?

Thanks in advance for any help.

p.s. not sure what code is relevant to paste here... let me know and I will provide it.