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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Sometimes you have to parse and search through some really large files and this is where bash tools and scripts work best. A little perl script, grep, awk, or sed can help you quickly read a portion of a file, do a search and replace, etc. Since I often code on a Mac, I have covered some simple OSX command-line one liners that I find helpful. But what about managing huge files in the browser? I noticed that Ace Editor can handle a file of few megabytes without any issues in a browser, and it comes with Regex search. It actually works faster on big files that my SublimeText for some strange reason.
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I have been getting a lot of traffic to my HTML5 sample video files post so I wanted to follow up with a general post that covers a multitude of sample files that are often needed in web development. I often also search for samples when testing and putting together different demos so I think this should be helpful to others. Below I will provide sample files for various image formats, video files, data structures, fonts, and even specific web development files.
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