Working with JavaScript and WordPress
Offered By: Pluralsight
Course Description
Overview
This course will help you avoid the pitfalls of using JavaScript when developing with WordPress, and introduces the WP REST API.
There are a number of possible pitfalls when using JavaScript and WordPress together, such as conflicts with JavaScript files loaded by other plugins and the theme on a site, security when passing data between JavaScript and the WordPress database, and site performance. This course will show you how to help avoid these pitfalls and introduce you to the new WP REST API available starting in WordPress 4.4. You should have a WordPress site set up locally on your machine which you can do with a number of tools (VVV, MAMP, WAMP, etc).
There are a number of possible pitfalls when using JavaScript and WordPress together, such as conflicts with JavaScript files loaded by other plugins and the theme on a site, security when passing data between JavaScript and the WordPress database, and site performance. This course will show you how to help avoid these pitfalls and introduce you to the new WP REST API available starting in WordPress 4.4. You should have a WordPress site set up locally on your machine which you can do with a number of tools (VVV, MAMP, WAMP, etc).
Syllabus
- Course Overview 1min
- Introduction to JavaScript with WordPress 6mins
- Using JavaScript in Plugins and Themes 35mins
- Using AJAX to Send and Save Data 46mins
- Minifying and Combining Your JavaScript with Grunt 11mins
Taught by
Brian Hogg
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