For a recent project I was asked to build a wizard style interface (among other things) for entering form data. The only requirement the client was adamant about was that there should be some WYSIWYG editor integration. Although the project was primarily a PHP based solution, I couldn’t resist the urge to give the end-users a nice experience with some AJAX. So began my experience with the wonderful world of WYSIWYG editor integration. This is a short post on some of the things I encountered.
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AJAX, css, development, Javascript, jQuery, jQuery UI, PHP

As I have been developing the WordPress theme for this site, I decided it would be nice to use jQuery to minimize/maximize content like the current jQ theme does, though I wanted to do things a bit differently. Mainly I wanted to have different buttons for minimizing and maximizing, and I wanted to be able to use them on parts of the site other then posts. At first I thought this would be accomplished using the jQuery .toggle function, but once I started making it cross-browser compatible I realized things weren’t going to be so simple.

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AJAX, jQuery, tutorial, Wordpress, wp

Today I was working on some of my content over at TC Web Development and needed to add some functionality to one of my pages that would update page content based on what content was visible in a jQuery accordion. After some tinkering I was able to figure out a way to do this and figured I would share as I did not find any other information on the web that achieved the desired effect.

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In our last post we added functionality to our admin section that allowed us to save and retrieve values. In this post we will begin adding functionality for the user. We will create a simple button via CSS on our site. We will also begin to add in javascript to handle when the button is clicked. This javascript will use the jQuery toolkit, which is already included with WordPress at this time.

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I have been using WordPress on a number of my sites for some time now and thought it would be interesting to begin developing some of my own plugins. I also wanted a chance to experiment with thejQuery Javascript library as I haven’t had a chance to do a lot with it yet. I stumbled upon a theme called Fusion that had some AJAX features I really liked. This theme is by digitalnature. Although I do like this theme, I like some of the base features of the K2 theme and have used that theme as a starting point for a few of my websites.

This presented a great opportunity to take some of the AJAX features I liked and turn them into WordPress plugins that I could use on different sites and with different themes. I have decided to create a series of posts on how I developed the elasticFonts plugin from start to finish. I hope that the reader finds this tutorial useful.

AJAX, jQuery, PHP, plugin, tutorial, Wordpress, wp