What’s the preferred method of writing AJAX-enabled plugins?

the “safer and cleaner” way would be to use admin-ajax.php that comes with wordpress and wp_ajax hook to call your processing function from your plugin file and use wp-nonce to check the integrity of the call. for example: your ajax JQuery call would be <script type=”text/javascript” > jQuery(document).ready(function($) { var data = { action: ‘ACTION_NAME’, … Read more

Ajax takes 10x as long as it should/could

Yep, this is nasty issue that to have full WordPress environment you need to spend considerable time loading it. I’ve needed much better performance (for very dynamic incremental search feature) for work and what I went with is: Custom file as Ajax handler. SHORTINIT constant for limited WP core load. Very selectively loaded parts of … Read more

Jquery Slider for profile template

You can use carousel javascript to get the desired output. There are various carousel available, you can use some thing like jcarousel. Download the js and css from the jcarousel website and en-queue it in your theme to use it. Note : You will have to manage the dependencies of it with jQuery. Let me … Read more

jQuery ajax error function

I have an ajax call passing data to a page which then returns a value. I have retrieved the successful call from the page but i have coded it so that it raises an error in the asp. How do i retrieve that error from the jquery? For example: It’s the error bit that I … Read more