I am trying to add infinite scroll functionality into my Wordpress theme.
I started my exploration of infinite scroll in Wordpress by going here and here.
My question is, I don't understand the codex code, and I also don't understand why it appears that Jetpack's infinite scroll circumvents //calling admin-ajax
as explained in their source code.
In Jetpack's implementation, I don't see any wp_ajax_nopriv()
calls.
I also really don't understand why I could check if_admin()
if the point is that the nopriv()
runs for unauthenticated users.
if ( is_admin() ) {
add_action( 'wp_ajax_my_frontend_action', 'my_frontend_action_callback' );
add_action( 'wp_ajax_nopriv_my_frontend_action', 'my_frontend_action_callback' );
add_action( 'wp_ajax_my_backend_action', 'my_backend_action_callback' );
// Add other back-end action hooks here
} else {
// Add non-Ajax front-end action hooks here
}
I've employed infinite scroll in a custom PHP application before, and it was very easy, but this is currently lost on me.
I simply want to understand how to generate an ajax url to the backend to connect to a function that will handle the output for me, by returning data to the view. How do I go about doing that for unauthenticated users?