AJAXed WordPress Because WordPress loves AJAX.
AJAXed Wordpress (AWP) harnesses the power of both AJAX and Wordpress to improve the user experience, the administration capabilities and the design potential of any Wordpress based blog. It works on all WordPress versions from 2.1 - 2.6.
Some of AWP’s features include loading posts inline, inline comments, threaded comments, AJAX comment submission, AJAX Navigation, live comment preview and much more. AWP is endlessly customizable and extensible. Even though AWP provides many features, you are never forced to use features that you don’t want. All aspects of the plugin are easily customized through a single Administration panel.
What are some of the other benefits to using AWP?
AWP is completely free. Free to use, free to play with, and free support. The continued development of this project is supported by voluntary user donations.
AWP is easy to use. The basic setup of AWP is very simple to use. However, AWP is advanced enough that over time you find that it is infinitely flexible. AWP can be used without any theme edits or can
AWP features an advanced module system — based off of WordPress’ own plugin system — that add features and change its behavior, it can even use third-party extensions.
AWP interacts exceedingly well with most plugins, and it has special features that ensure compatibility with most plugins, and even has support built in for some of the most popular, including Subscribe to Comments and WP Ajax Edit Comments, by default.
AWP is search engine and user friendly. None of the AJAX or JavaScript used in the base modules will interfere with SEO or Accessibility. Every link, including those for multiple pages, are real links and resolve without JavaScript.
AWP is mature. AWP has been actively developed and supported for two full years. You will benefit from this stability as you explore the many ways AWP features interact.
AWP may be in your language.. AWP currently speaks English, Japanese, Italian, Spanish and French (props to Momo-i, Gianni, Eliseo Cordero, and eXa respectively.) Translations are created and maintained by volunteers. Maybe you would like to contribute to this project by translating AWP into your language?
Downloads
If you like to live dangerously, you can always download the latest development version. No guarantees it won’t go moo.
What features does AWP have?
- Load posts, comments, or a comment form inline.
- AJAX Submit comments
- Threaded Comments
- Highly customizable post excerpts.
- Split posts evenly into multiple pages.
- Embed inline posts in a post or page.
- Live Comment Preview
- AJAX full comment preview.
- Rich Text Editor for the comment form.
- AJAX homepage and single post navigation.
- AJAX loading of Pages.
- Clickable Quicktags and Smilies.
- Options can be customized post-by-post.
- Supports TW-Sack, JQuery, Mootools, and Prototype.js.
- Includes Lightbox and reCAPTCHA support.
- Works with WP AJAX Edit Comments.
ScreenShots
Special Thanks
Thank you to the following people and websites for supporting to this project:
- Christopher Rogers
- Steven, Dirk and Dean.
- J-Ro
- Rosina Lippi
- Steve Copley
- SteveS
- Lorelei
- Manfred
- magick2k
- John Lyons Weddings
- Laura Ivanova Photography
- faboo mama
- Craig Carlen
- Sunil Rodger
- ProPhoto Theme
- Apple Watch
- Samantha Uphold
- The Riddle of Middle Earth
- Rowell Photography
- Richard
- Rescue Web
- Details by DiFranco
- Shannon Gibbs
- From This Day Foward Photography
- Wrayco Design
- John Ford
- Frank Courtney
- Shawna Herring
- Danette Kay Photography
- Photo Press Pro
- Kim Townsend
- Skin Mechanic
- Troy
About AWP Modules
Modules are basically mini-plugins that provide all of AWP’s features.
The following modules are included by default in the download:
| Module | Description |
|---|---|
| AJAX navigation |
Adds the ability to paginate the index and single post pages. It also allows you to load pages inline. This plugin is for advanced users who recognize its current limitations and accept them. |
| Custom Options |
Adds the ability to set custom AWP options on individual posts and pages. |
| Embedded Posts |
Adds the ability to embed posts inside other posts and then load them inline. |
| reCAPTCHA |
Integrates a reCAPTCHA into wordpress, and performs flawlessly with aWP inline comment form. |
| Inline Comment Form |
This module controls all aspects of the inline comment form and is required by modules that hook into the AWP comment form. |
| Inline Comments |
This module controls all aspects of inline comments and is required by modules that hook into AWP comments. |
| Inline Posts |
This module controls all aspects of inline posts and is required by modules that hook into AWP posts. |
| Live Preview |
Adds a live preview after your comment form. |
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| Protect tags |
Protects code, blockquote and pre blocks from being included in the word and paragraph counts, so they aren’t trimmed. |
| Paginated Pages |
Permits Persons to Purposefully Paginate Pages. — This plugin requires that Inline Posts be activated and enabled. (However, you may deselect the “use simple posts option” to avoid having posts loaded inline.) |
| Quick Tags and Smilies |
Adds Quicktags and/or clickable smilies support to the comment form. |
| Preview Comment |
Adds a preview button that submits the comment to the server so the privew is exactly like it would appear. It even allows your other plugins to format it. |
| Remove Mores |
If you used more tags before you installed AWP then this module will strip them out. |
| Lightbox Support |
Helps Lightbox, Slimbox, and Lightview to find new links in posts and comments loaded by aWP. |
| Javascript and CSS Core Cache |
File-based cache for the core CSS and JS files so they are not recreated every time a user visits the website. |
| Threaded Comments |
Adds threaded comments support to AWP and your theme. It does not require inline comments, but will function better if inline comments are used. |
Supporters of this project is also include Website Optimization and Web Design Colleges.
This is the main page and permanent home for the AJAXed WordPress Plugin. Please post all support questions in the support forum. General comments, “thank you”s and demos may be posted here. Test comments will be removed in a few hours.
Downloaded and installed AJAXed WP, looks interesting but I have to admit I am a bit lost as to how to use it and what it actually does. Do you have any kind of documentation I can read about this herculean effort?
Reply to violetThere is a sizable readme, but the biggest help will probably be the little hints inside the Admin panel. (click the [?])
The documentation is still a work-in-progress, so if you have any questions outside of what the readme answers, I’ll try to explain them the best I can.
Reply to AaronI must agree. How do i use it? The things it is suppose to do are very attractive. I can’t download the readme file. Perhaps it is a Safari thing.
Reply to John AndersonJust read the posts in the linked forum. That is the readme. There is too much information to be stored in a single file.
Reply to AaronJust dropping by to let you know we went up with our new design tonight. So far so good. Thanks for all your help. I’m sure I’ll be back around at some point if I run into issues…
Reply to J-RoGreen
Reply to Mr GreenAaron thank you so much. Just installed and activated and everything looks good!
Reply to VidaDone.
Reply to TrudenVisit WordPress.Mu to see your work, Aaron.
And don’t hesitate to link to our weblog as an example for brilliant use of AJAXed WP
Looks good, and good luck.
With the release of the next version I’m going to try to start a gallery of people who use non-standard installs of AWP. WP.Mu definitely qualifies.
Reply to AaronLove the plugin! Thank you very much for your effort.
Reply to manele noiHi Aaron,
thanks for your brilliant and fast support. I just donated you $30 for your work. Thanks a lot and thanks for releasing such a great tool for free. I hope this encourages you to keep up the good work.
Reply to magick2kWow, fast reply. Incredible support. Everything is working now. Thanks a lot, even when your plugin was not causing the problem. Be sure I will use PayPal for you in the next days (finishing current month, let me get the money). Thanks a lot again.
Reply to DogDayIs there a chance to paginate the comments ?
Reply to Zalog CatalinNot yet, but it is on my to-do list.
Reply to AaronIs there a chance to add someting like ajax-history too?
Reply to satanowicz(so the URL adress bar will change while browsing
I’m working on the AJAX history now. I haven’t come up with a solution I like perfectly, so it hasn’t been coded yet, but it is in the works.
(What can I say? It is a long to-do list.)
Reply to AaronI have an idea and I’m wondering if this plug would make it work:
I’d like to have people be able to submit posts in the same way you can a comment. This would allow users to post without having to go through a separate login page and the wp dashboard or anything.
On this add post page/form, they could enter in their user/pass via ajax and the rest would look just like the add posts form.
Do you think this could work? It would be really nice to keep the posting simple with NO admin/dashboard, etc. Just like how the comment form is visible to everyone, this form could be too. They’d just have to enter the user/pass to be able to submit.
Thanks for any feedback or ideas.
Reply to valerieValerie »
This would be an interesting project, but I don’t see a wide-spread demand for it, so I don’t think it will find its way into AWP.
Reply to AaronIf you are using AJAXed WordPress 1.19.2 and the AJAX nav module and are having issues with odd links being displayed, please see this support forum post.
Reply to Aaronbaron »
It is compatible will all of the latest WP versions.
Reply to Aaroncrazy…life saver…
looking for inline comment with hide/show…
great work…!!!!!!!!!!!
Thanks alooooot
Reply to seanI’m test this and I very impressed with it!
Reply to AikoraThank you very so much and keep the great work. Cheers.
Great Site - really useful information!
Reply to jammarlibreAaron, Valerie is absolutely right. It would be incredibly useful to let authors (including me) log in and add, edit and manage posts from the front end of the blog, instead of forcing them (and me) to go through the back end process. It would rid everyone of a lot of unnecessary navigation for edits and updates, and getting rid of unnecessary work in a process is always worth a short term effort. For the record, I’d pay for that plugin in a heartbeat, just for the time and effort it would save me.
Also very importantly, it would make it easy for authors to build up blog communities that don’t require lots of training time and support. For instance, I just showed a friend a non-standard way that I use a blog, and he immediately mentioned that an organization he belongs to could really use that for their members. I can have a WP site with a custom theme up in 3 days once I’ve got their needs mapped and their template in hand. But there’s no way a single developer can help a modestly-sized (hundreds of members) organization roll a WP or WP-MU blog site because I’d have to run every user through training on using the backend for posts, and then support them over time too. They’ve got the budget for the site, but not for the training and support (and I don’t have the endless time it would take).
However, if the end-user training consisted of an tutorial email with instructions and a couple of pictures, such as “here’s your blog url, username and password. Click the login link and log in, then click the Add button on the front page, type your post and click Submit” …. that’s a whole WORLD of usability apart from where WP is now. All that backend training and support burden goes away for everyone.
If you need to see demand, how about posting an article that asks the simple Yes - No question-
“Would it be better if you and other authors could add, edit and manage posts on the front end of your site instead of through the Admin panel?”
Actually, just looking at the question, who’s going to say “No” to that? lol
Reply to DavidAI second Valerie and DavidA. What a great idea! I immediately see a huge potential for such a function.
Reply to mintegrali have used at my webpage, and ajaxed make my page pro-professional.
Reply to teknolojithank you man !
I enjoyed your page. Keep up the good work! Feel free to visit my page. It\’s cool too.
Reply to johnThis is awesome. Going to test it out on my blog fairly shortly!
Reply to hendreHi Aaron.
thank you for your wonderful plugin.
do you have any idea why my comment form stopped working correctly in firefox ?
click on “نظر دارم” to see. if you right-click on any of controls, it works.
is it because of the old version of plugin?
Reply to mohammadI think i will test it
Reply to PowerIt is compatible will all of the latest WP versions
Reply to rapmatixThanks in advance for any help on this!
Reply to ilahiwell, i don’t understand what i was doing wrong - but i couldn’t get this plugin to do a damn thing
after an hour of banging my head on the wall and browsing the quite frankly useless documentation, i give up
for the record - this was with wp2.5.1 with virtually no other plugins active (certainly nothing that should conflict)
Reply to AdeHi Aaron,
Congrats for releasing 1.21. Very nice piece of work. However there’s one question:
In order to keep my original theme comment style I chose under ‘Comments->Attempt to modify your theme’s default comment template’ and hacked in the code in my comment.php from my theme. So far, so good, it looks exactly like I wanted it to.
What really bothers me is when I click on the to open my comments, the comment form itself has to opened separately. Is there any chance to open comment list and form simultaneously? Or did I miss some options in the admin section?
Check out my webpage, to left hand side you’ll Kommentare (x), by clicking on it you can open the comments, below the postings there’s the “open the form” button.
Reply to FirebrainForgot to mention: running on WP 2.5.1.
Btw: if you have a look at my webpage: by default my comment form is open on index.php. if you compare the top comment form with the following you might see that they have a different styling. Do you know why’s that different?
Reply to Firebrainforgive me, once again me: when running Wordpress in MAMP/locally on my Mac I don’t encounter the forementioned problem. Only on my host server the forms are different
Reply to Firebrainvery valuable plugin I think, thanks for sharing
Reply to Movie Goerswhy do I recieve this Error?
I only enabled “Ajax Navigation”.
Reply to mohammadI recieve this error right below the header of my site.
I have the same problem.
Reply to SkatoxMe too, could not enable navigation. I’m using the i2theme1-1, it seems like a theme compatibility problem.
Reply to loewezI recently moved from a hosted environment to my own Server. I setup the server so my setup might be different from the hosting environment. All my word-press plugins work, except for AWP which complains with :
I wonder what that is coming from? Google was not exactly helpful. If you need my php.ini, please let me know.
Reply to DavidThanks in advance for any help on this!
Reply to raphey Aaron! long time huh? Guess what, I’ve decided to auto-update… and things got messy - as always =p I lost the commentform I was using, and I have no idea of where it’s gone… if it’s been deleted and all that… it had custom text and didn’t had those formatting buttons…
and yeah, I know I should have posted on the forum, but I forgot my password, and I can’t access personal email at work =( also, that’s why I’m using another email in this comment - if you can answer me on this I’ll be able to read =)
thanks and keep up the great work! as soon as I get my hands on a new card I’ll be sure to make a donation, Ajaxed rlz =D
Reply to Johnny CI have just updated from Version 1.13 to 1.21 and had some problems with IE6 (XP): When i click on the show comments link, the throbber appears but the comments don’t open. Only when i click a second time the comments show and the throbber disappears again.
Reply to Manniaci had to downgrade to 1.13 again, because i didn’t find a solution to this. In 1.13 everything works fine :-S
I have WordPress 2.6 with the Cutline 3 Column Right theme. Even for a newbie there was no problem with installation but the comments are in a very small font and everything seems crammed together, even on a 22″ screen. At 69 years of age even a 10- or 12-point font would be helpful. Also, my comments are just simple type. They don’t have the nice blue header strip to each pos as yours does. Is it a matter of having selected a wrong option or two? I know a little html but no css or php. Is there hope for me?
Reply to Crawford HarrisI can’t wait to see AJAXed Wordpress power. What I like is AWP interacts exceedingly well with most plugins, so it will not interfere with the plugins on my lovely wordpress based website. For all the people who makes this project available, thank you.
Reply to Blue ThunderThis seems like a great plugin.
Reply to Frank LangellaBestttttttttttt!!
Reply to Paulo FrazãoHello bro, this plugins is so AWESOME!!, the last version worked perfect on my blog. I’ll give you a small donation for this great work.
Reply to SkatoxThanks, I’m glad you like it. I really appreciate the donation.
Reply to Aaronnice
Reply to sajjad ebrahimithanks
nice plugin!
Reply to Tobyhave you a list for french themes compatible ?
thank you
Reply to cajlThe features of this plug-in is tempting me to use it in my Wordpress installation. Will be trying it shortly. Thanks for the continuous efforts being made to improve it. Hats off to those who are involved in this effort.
Reply to SamThanks
Reply to DoolangI apologize for my ignorance but I am less than a rookie at this. I downloaded and installed aWP and when I activated it in WordPress I received the following:
Warning: AWP::include_once(/home/tellmeab/public_html/wp-content/plugins/plugins/control/aWP-upgrade.php) [function.AWP-include-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/tellmeab/public_html/wp-content/plugins/aWP.php on line 73
Warning: AWP::include_once() [function.include]: Failed opening ‘/home/tellmeab/public_html/wp-content/plugins/plugins/control/aWP-upgrade.php’ for inclusion (include_path=’.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php’) in /home/tellmeab/public_html/wp-content/plugins/aWP.php on line 73
Warning: AWP::include_once(/home/tellmeab/public_html/wp-content/plugins/plugins/control/aWP-ajax.php) [function.AWP-include-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/tellmeab/public_html/wp-content/plugins/aWP.php on line 98
Warning: AWP::include_once() [function.include]: Failed opening ‘/home/tellmeab/public_html/wp-content/plugins/plugins/control/aWP-ajax.php’ for inclusion (include_path=’.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php’) in /home/tellmeab/public_html/wp-content/plugins/aWP.php on line 98
Warning: AWP::include_once(/home/tellmeab/public_html/wp-content/plugins/plugins/control/aWP-news.php) [function.AWP-include-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/tellmeab/public_html/wp-content/plugins/aWP.php on line 99
Warning: AWP::include_once() [function.include]: Failed opening ‘/home/tellmeab/public_html/wp-content/plugins/plugins/control/aWP-news.php’ for inclusion (include_path=’.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php’) in /home/tellmeab/public_html/wp-content/plugins/aWP.php on line 99
Do I need to be concerned?
Reply to Tom StablerTom Stabler »
It looks like you uploaded the stuff inside the AWP folder rather than the big folder itself.
When you unzip the download, upload everything inside one folder.
Reply to AaronAaron,
Thanks. I guess I didn’t know how to do that but I now have it figured out.
Reply to Tom StablerThanks. I guess I didn’t know how to do that but I now have it figured out.²
Reply to Doren IhamI think I’m encountering a bug that is driving me crazy. I’m using inline comments with hidden on the default of this page (it happens to be an archive page). I can get my “Show Comments” text to show normally and I can format them in the CSS by using the .comments_link class. After I’ve followed the show comments link, they pop up correctly, but the new text that shows up using the .awpcomments_link_hide class is only correct if I don’t do anything weird in the Show comments text. For example if I try to load a … around my show comments text when I enter it into admin, the Hide Comments text don’t show with the formatting for the .awpcomments_link_hide class, the Show Comments text still does. The same thing happens if I add some html like one or multiple links to the Show Comments text when I enter it into admin. If I just add plain text, the Hide Comments that I entered into admin display correctly with the formatting of .awpcomments_link_hide class. Furthermore, after I’ve gone through the Show Comments followed by Hide Comments, the resulting Show Comments text now uses the .awpcomments_link class instead of the .comments_link class that it used the first time. I am assuming this is by design but in case it is a bug, I thought I’d bring it up. As long as I know about it, I can code my CSS correctly, so I don’t care. The other problem, though, is a big issue for me because the wrong Hide text is coming up when I show the comments. I need the html in the code because my .comments_link / .awpcomments_link classes have a background image that is used to indicate the Show Comments instead of the text. I need the html to push the text below or above the background image. As a workaround, I might need to leave a top margin for the text in my background image to contain the text, but I’d rather try to understand better why the code is doing this since it doesn’t seem like the right behavior.
Thanks, Karen
Reply to BusyMomoops, I see I goofed up by not wrapping my codes… The error is encountered when I surround my Show text with span html or br html codes. Hope this is more clear.
Reply to BusyMomHi there.
I would love to use your plugin, but I read it might conflict with “subscribe to comments”, see:
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/182635?replies=8
is that the case ?
Reply to tal galilital galili »
In short, no. Please use the support forums on this website for any further questions.
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Reply to robsonGreat plugin, thanks a lot
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