Here is my second take on running WordPress and WordPress Multisite locally on my Mac (first is here). I just discovered Pow; ”Pow is a zero-config Rack server for Mac OS X. Have it serving your apps locally in under a minute”, and my first thought was “can I run WordPress on Pow?”. Well, here’s how I did it (I’ll also show you how to install MySQL, PHP 5.4 and Ruby 1.93 on Mac OS X Mountain Lion):
UPDATE: As of WordPress 3.3, you shouldn’t use the wp_print_styles hook, I’ve updated the Adding JavaScript section below to reflect this change.
You can create a personalized plugin template by using my WordPress Plugin Template Creator
When I rewrote my WP-DenyHost plugin, I wanted to do it as fast as possible. Instead of reinventing the wheel (again), I googled after a plugin template and found a very good one at Pressography. It had most of what I needed in a plugin template.
Using jQuery and the form and validate plugins, it is simple to add unobtrusive ajax to your existing form page
1, Modify your existing form page
<input type="hidden" name="isAjax" id="isAjax" value="0" /> to your form. This field will tell the processing script, process_input.php in my example, if the values in the form were submitted using ajax or as an ordinary form submit, defaulting to isAjax = 0 (false).class="required" to the fields that requires input<div id="result"></div> where you want the ajax output[sourcecode language="html"]
<form id="form1" name="form1" method="post" action="process_input.php">
<input type="hidden" name="isAjax" id="isAjax" value="0" />
Name: <input type="text" name="name" class="required" id="name" value="" /> <br />
<input type="submit" name="submit" id="submit" value="submit" />
</form>
<div id="result"></div>
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Still work in progress, but here’s a teaser:
The toksta* chat plugin for BuddyPress makes it easy to add toksta* chat and webcam to your BuddyPress site.