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custom spa

Lightweight plugin that turns WordPress front-end navigation into a single-page-app experience, without a JS framework.

by elmira-ashrafi · github.com/elmira-ashrafi/custom-spa

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Install

Download source zip No release zip yet

This is the repository archive. It installs, but the folder name will carry the branch suffix and updates will not flow.

Install straight from GitHub with WP-CLI:

wp plugin install https://github.com/elmira-ashrafi/custom-spa/archive/refs/heads/main.zip
No built-in updater. New versions won't appear under Dashboard → Updates. Install new releases yourself, or let Git Updater track the repository.
Readme github.com/elmira-ashrafi/custom-spa ↗

Custom SPA for WordPress

A lightweight WordPress plugin that turns normal front-end navigation into an SPA-style (single-page-application) experience — without a JS framework, a build step, or touching your theme's templates. Regular WordPress page requests still render exactly as they always have; only AJAX/fragment requests get intercepted and converted into structured JSON, so a front-end script can swap in new content without a full page reload.

✨ Key Features

  • Transparent fragment interception — detects AJAX requests (X-Requested-With: XMLHttpRequest) at template_redirect and captures the page's rendered HTML output before it's sent to the browser.
  • Structured JSON responses — instead of returning full HTML on a fragment request, the plugin extracts and returns just what's needed to update the page: the document title, the #spa-content region, and any `