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Today’s article concludes the series of lessons on developing an autocomplete plugin. Due to the plugin's functionality expansion, many changes have been made. So we’ll need to go through the code from the very beginning again, but without too many details. In short, two additional shortcodes have been added for more flexible output manipulation. One shortcode displays the list of posts, the other — the pagination.
Today we’re publishing the second-to-last lesson in this tutorial series. In this lesson, we’ll connect the autocomplete functionality and make a few adjustments to our previously written code. By the end, we’ll be able to see the list of matching posts displayed via autocomplete.
Let’s continue developing our post autocomplete plugin. Today we’ll explore Ajax functionality in the WordPress engine—what, how, and where to hook into it, how to test the logic without a frontend, and what requests should be sent to the server.
We continue developing the plugin “wp-post-autocomplete”. In today’s article, we will connect styles, a JS file, and the autocomplete library from the jQuery framework (which comes bundled with WordPress by default).
Let’s continue developing our WP plugin for post autocomplete. Today, we will create a shortcode with an input field for the search query.
Generally speaking, there are two approaches to structuring plugin code: