How to make AJAX calls in WordPress
What is AJAX?
Ajax has been in web development as a way of communicating between the front end and the back end of web applications for quite some time. With Ajax, the frontend pages do not need to reload after it makes requests to the backend. Chances are quite high, even as a new developer, you must have included Ajax calls in your web applications.
If you are a WordPress developer or new to Wordpress custom website development, you might be looking for ways to do Ajax requests. You probably implemented it the way you used to do it in other web applications that do not utilize the power of wordpress. And pretty sure, you must have got an error. Then, you got frustrated and got frustrated; you google ‘how tos’ one after another. And, now you hit this post.
Welcome, I am here to help you. let me show you how to do it in WordPress style!
AJAX in WordPress
Making Ajax requests in WordPress is different from how you do it in other web applications. Remember WordPress is a Web Application. It already utilizes Ajax as a technology. All the Ajax requests in WordPress are first directed to one file called admin-ajax.php.
Now lets us see how to implement it. We are going to create a page based on a custom wordpress template and make Ajax calls…
