WordPress Upload Files with Ajax
How do you upload files to WordPress with Ajax? Maybe you want fileupload functionality on the front end or enable file uploads in your WordPress plugin. There are a lot of good tutorials on this subject but I couldn’t find any simple example that works with native WP files.
This tutorial on multiple file uploads on the front-end does work but it requires using a server side file for the back end and custom functions in functions.php that use media_handle_upload without Ajax. Tutorials on WordPress file uploads with ajax leverage special jQuery plugins, queuing wordpress scripts, and server side functions to process the Ajax request. This might be needed if you need a lot of control but if you just need to easily upload and delete files, I will show you how to do it in a few lines of simple vanilla JavaScript.
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