Category Archives: Wordpress

Adding AJAX to your WordPress plug-in

Posted on April 12, 2010 by Mike

AJAX is a great way to add some ease of use functionality to your plugin by updating part of a page based on user input. I use it for updating a list of checkboxes in the example below when a … Continue reading →

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Messaging for your WordPress Plugin.

Posted on March 23, 2010 by Mike

Ever wonder how the yellow Completed and red Error messages are generated in WordPress? Well, it’s really quite simple. For Informational messages, just add: echo "<div id=’message’ class=’updated fade’>Group updated successfully.</div>"; The id of message and the class of updated … Continue reading →

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Add JavaScript to your WordPress plugin.

Posted on March 23, 2010 by Mike

Instead of putting your javascript in-line with the rest of your html, it is recommended that you use the WordPress API to add the scripts in a managed way. I experienced this recently while developing the Tag Grouping plug-in. Before … Continue reading →

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