Getting javascript to run in a WordPress blog entry
Saturday, 28 August 2010
It’s not as easy as it looks to get javascript to run from inside a WordPress post. For a recent post, I wanted to run a one-off javascript so I didn’t want to change the header.php file in my theme. Instead I found this info on the WordPress codex on how to call javascript from inside the <body> tags.
Also the javascript that I was originally working with used
<body onload="init()">
to start the javascript when the page loaded but this wouldn’t work from a WordPress blog entry. So I had to change my javascript from:
function init() {
something();
goes();
here();
}
to:
window.onload = function init() {
something();
goes();
here();
}
and then I call the init() function in my blog post using:
<script type="text/javascript"> init(); </script>
*Important*
I can to change my WordPress user settings to disable the visual text editor since it was adding/stripping various parts of the html and breaking it.
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