Description
Your audio never stops. AjaxPress keeps music, podcasts, and radio streams playing while visitors browse your site.
Pages load in milliseconds. No refresh, no white screen – just instant content.
Radio, Podcast, or Music Site?
Install AjaxPress now. Your listeners will thank you.
- Stream keeps playing during navigation
- No interruption when browsing pages
- Works with HTML5, iframe embeds, Shoutcast, Icecast
How AjaxPress is Different
- Full page swap: All content updates instantly without page reload
- Persistent player: Media keeps playing during navigation
- AJAX forms: Forms and comments submit instantly
- WordPress native: Works seamlessly with most themes and builders
- No jQuery: Lightweight frontend, no dependency
- Size: Only 14KB frontend footprint
Flying Pages only prefetches. InstantClick and Swup need custom setup. AjaxPress works out of the box with persistent media playback.
Features
- AJAX navigation for WordPress – True SPA experience out of the box
- Persistent audio/video – Media keeps playing across pages
- Instant navigation – Content loads without page refresh
- Prefetch on hover – Pages preload before click
- AJAX forms – Contact Form 7, comments submit instantly
- Page transitions – Fade, slide, custom animations
- Progress bar – Visual loading indicator
- 14KB, no jQuery – Lighter than most plugins
Perfect For
- Radio stations – Live stream never stops
- Podcast sites – Episodes play uninterrupted
- Music portfolios – Seamless listening experience
- WooCommerce – Fast product browsing
- Blogs – Instant article switching
SEO & Crawl Safe
- Real URLs via History API (no hash routing)
- Meta tags update per page
- Search engines crawl normally
- Compatible with Yoast SEO, Rank Math
- Google Analytics supported
Who Should NOT Use This Plugin
- Sites with heavy inline JavaScript that can’t reinitialize
- Single-page sites with no internal navigation
- Sites requiring full page reload for tracking
- Developers needing manual History API control
Works With
WooCommerce, Elementor, Contact Form 7, Yoast SEO, Rank Math, WP Rocket, LiteSpeed Cache, Cloudflare.
Compatible with HTML5 players, Spotify, SoundCloud, YouTube embeds, Shoutcast, Icecast.
Performance
- 14KB frontend footprint
- No jQuery dependency
- Zero server overhead – just AJAX fetches
- Works with all caching plugins
Screenshots
Navigation settings 
Loader styles 
Cursor behaviours 
Transitions and page content animations 
Preserve elements for persistent audio/video players 
Accessibility 
Advanced scripting and re-executing 
Help pages 
AJAX search, comments and form submissions 
Loader progress bar
Installation
- Go to Plugins Add New
- Search for AjaxPress
- Click Install Now, then Activate
- Done – your site now loads instantly
Optional: Visit Settings AjaxPress to customize.
FAQ
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What is instant page load?
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Pages appear immediately without waiting. AjaxPress fetches content via AJAX – no full page refresh needed.
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Will my audio/video keep playing?
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Yes. That’s the main feature. Your media player continues uninterrupted while users browse.
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How does prefetch work?
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Pages preload when users hover over links. When they click, content is already loaded.
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What are AJAX forms?
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Forms submit without page refresh. Contact Form 7 and comments post instantly with feedback.
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Will it break my SEO?
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No. URLs update via History API (real URLs, not hash fragments). Meta tags refresh per page. Search engines crawl normally.
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Will it work with my theme?
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Yes. Works with most themes including Elementor, Divi, Astra, and WooCommerce themes.
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My slider stopped working?
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Enable “Script Re-execution” in settings. This reinitializes JavaScript after navigation.
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Is it really 14KB?
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Yes. No jQuery dependency. Lighter than most prefetch plugins.
Reviews
Contributors & Developers
“AjaxPress – AJAX Navigation, Instant Page Load & Persistent Player” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.
Contributors
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Interested in development?
Browse the code, check out the SVN repository, or subscribe to the development log by RSS.
Changelog
2.2.3
- New: Preserve Elements – keep DOM elements intact during navigation
- New: Persistent Player – audio/video continues across pages
- Improved: Script loading with proper sequencing
- Improved: Same-page click handling
2.2.2
- New: Feature tour guide
- Improved: Script re-execution logic
- Improved: Timer/interval cleanup
2.2.1
- New: Script Re-execution for sliders
- New: Exclude Scripts by URL
- Improved: Third-party compatibility
2.2.0
- Complete UI redesign
- New: Link Prefetch, Disable on Mobile
- New: Custom CSS, Developer Hooks
2.1.1
- New: Translation support
- Improved: Caching compatibility
2.1.0
- Fixed: JS conflicts
- Improved: Page builder compatibility
2.0.0
- Major rewrite with new AJAX engine
- New: Progress bar, cursor animation, page transitions
1.0
- Initial release
