Customisation of web software sometimes requires that you get it to pass around some additional information whenever it makes a page request. Often, putting that information into a cookie isn’t appropriate, so you try to squeeze it into the page query parameters, or form post data through hidden fields. But what if the software makes AJAX requests from jQuery? Luckily, jQuery can help you intercept AJAX requests so that you can customise them too. Continue reading
WordPress now comes with a reasonably complete copy of jQuery UI, which you can easily incorporate into your themes and plugins using wp_enqueue_script. But it doesn’t come with any jQuery UI themes, leaving you to supply your own. Here’s how to make use of the standard themes easily. Continue reading
I just had to find a way to add autocomplete to an admin screen for a WordPress plugin I’m writing. Although a few pieces of jQuery UI are bundled into the WordPress distribution, that doesn’t include jQuery UI autocomplete. But on the way to investigating how to drop that into my plugin, I discovered that WordPress does bundle in a similar, simpler plugin called jquery.suggest. Continue reading