Thaya Kareeson has written an excellent article for plugin developers. It goes through how to make plugins work with WP Super Cache by using dynamic AJAX calls. WP Super Cache can make static html copies of pages served by WordPress which is great for performance. Unfortunately that means some plugins […]
Make your WordPress plugin talk AJAX
This morning at BarCamp Cork I gave a short talk on how to add AJAX functionality to WordPress plugins. Here are the example scripts I used during the talk. Rename the files to .php and install as you would normal WordPress plugins. helloworld1.txt – very simple and basic “Hello World” […]
AJAX in IE without ActiveX
Kae discovered that AJAX functions in IE depend on ActiveX being enabled. This is terrible – something that’s useful (AJAX) depends on something awful(ActiveX)! Anyway, Kae found a way around this limitation. It’s not complete but it’s a stab in the right direction.