I received an email yesterday asking me if I could replicate Twitter’s auto updating popular tweets widget that they have on their front page. So instead of just sending an email back I thought I’d make a tutorial.

Using AJAX in WordPress can be a tricky business. I’ve already explained how to use it in previous tutorials here on Return True, however after several requests I’ve finally made a video tutorial to give a more detailed explanation.

Using AJAX within WordPress can be difficult, mainly due to the use of the nonce security code. This post is designed as an extention of this post to explain how to use nonce codes in more detail.

Basically people keep asking me how to write the query for the jQuery autocomplete plugin by bassistance.de. So I thought I should finally get round to showing how to do it.

This is my first in a line of tutorials based on Kohana PHP Framework. This first tutorial is based on how to use Kohana in conjunction with AJAX. Some people have had some trouble with it, as did I when I first used it, so here are the basics.

I have had a lot of people ask me how to use jQuery to pull information back using it’s AJAX functions. Personally I found it quite hard to believe that the documentation wasn’t enough to show them, but I suppose that if jQuery is completely foreign to you no amount of documentation will show you [...]