With this post, I’m starting a series of complementary articles dedicated to developing plugins for WordPress. The goal of our plugin will be to implement AJAX-based post search with autocomplete. To achieve this functionality, we’ll need to cover several topics, including:
- Plugin file creation
- Shortcode development
- Connecting styles and scripts
- Working with AJAX in WordPress
- Using jQuery Autocomplete
- Displaying post lists on the page and adding pagination
As you can see, there’s a lot of work ahead. For those just starting out with WordPress development, this should be especially useful.