December 28, 2012 | Chris Rock

AJAX-ifying WordPress – Creating a one-page experience with WordPress

The Challenge Recently a client of ours, Collection Brokerage, came to us who wanted the easy-to-use WordPress system to manage a stylish, one-page website design. In order to get WordPress to do this, we needed to overcome a couple of challenges for web development: Header and footer stay fixed, main content and sidebar content are [...]

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  • AJAX
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  • one-page
  • php output buffers
  • wordpress
April 17, 2012 | Chris Rock

PHP AJAX Long-polling Comet Demonstration

One thing missing from web applications that is found in, say native applications, is the ability to “push” data or events to the application. HTTP was built on the idea that once you got the document, you were done. Clever developers have found a couple of ways to get around this: Web Sockets – Advanced [...]

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  • AJAX
  • development
  • javascript
  • PHP