One of the challenges you will run into, when developing for WordPress, is finding a way to make your data (which is accessed via PHP) available to your scripts. For example, you might have a popup notification that is displayed when someone clicks a button. The message in this popup, in order to be translatable, [...]
View Post jquery, Michael Martin, Scripts, wp_enqueue_scripts, wp_localize_scriptA live search is a search form that displays the results for your search query as you type. When done right, they can be exceptionally nice to use, and going through the process of building one covers a lot of really important techniques that can be applied to many other areas as well. This in-depth [...]
View Post add_action, Ajax, jquery, search, wp_ajaxThere has been a lot of talk over the last two days about loading scripts, particularly jQuery, correctly in WordPress themes and plugins, and anyone who follows me on Twitter probably knows that this is an issue I bring up a lot. When providing support for my plugins, I discover themes (and plugins) that are [...]
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Add beautiful full screen background images to your site.
View Post featured, full screen images, images, jqueryWordPress provides a set of great tools for processing ajax requests in plugins (and themes). I’m going to give you a quick example of how these tools can be used to accomplish a variety of tasks. For this example, We’ll just be using some simple alerts, but they will serve very well for demonstration purposes.
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Sugar Modal Windows provides an easy-to-use interface for creating Modal popup windows for your WordPress powered website.
View Post jquery, modal, post typesThe Farbtastic Color Picker is a fantastic tool for developers and designers to utilize as a way to give their plugin (or theme) users an extra level of control. With Farbtastic, we can allow our users to change the colors of certain elements, such as the background color of our widget, by using an elegant [...]
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This plugin, based on my Sliding Contact Form Plugin, places a simple, elegant, sliding login form for your website that will allow users to login without every leaving the page. Once a user is logged in, they are redirected back to the current page, or any custom URL defined in the plugins options page.
View Post jquery, loginLoading scripts, CSS and jQuery, within a plugin for use on admin pages is one of the most common areas that developers make mistakes. If you plugin’s administrative pages require any scripts that are not already loaded in WordPress by default, you should always ensure that those scripts are only loaded on your plugin’s page, [...]
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