AJAX POST request – not sending.

Hi All,

I’ve been trying to find a piece of AJAX code that works, or how to layout my own that successfully sends and recieves a AJAX post request from my own custom plugin.

I started by using the code from here but I think it had something to do with the url missing. I added in ‘admin_url(‘admin-ajax.php’)’

Sorry for the code dump, but I have no idea what an where I am going wrong.
close_pressed and open_pressed are the php functions.
openShop() and closeShop() are JS functions.

add_action("wp_ajax_open_pressed","open_pressed");
add_action("wp_ajax_close_pressed","close_pressed");
add_action("wp_ajax_nopriv_open_pressed","open_pressed");
add_action("wp_ajax_nopriv_close_pressed","close_pressed");

function exampleMenu()
{
echo <<< 'EOD'
//
//backend settings display
//
<h2> Is your Shop open?</h2>
  <p id="Status">The shop is Open</p>
  <button onclick='openShop()'>Indicate Open</button>
  <button onclick="closeShop()">Indicate Closed</button>
//
//
//
//Below is the issue 
//
<script>
function openShop(){
document.getElementById("Status").innerHTML = "The shop is Open";
jQuery(document).ready(function() {
  		var data = {
    	'action': 'open_pressed',
    	'post_type': 'POST',
    	'name': 'Close the shop'
  	};
	
  	jQuery.post("admin_url( 'admin-ajax.php' )" , data, function(response) {
    	console.log( response );
  	}, 'json');
	});
}
function closeShop(){
document.getElementById("Status").innerHTML = "The shop is Closed";
jQuery(document).ready(function() {
	jQuery(document).ready(function() {
  		var data = {
    	'action': 'close_pressed',
    	'post_type': 'POST',
    	'name': 'Close the shop'
  	};
	
  	jQuery.post("admin_url( 'admin-ajax.php' )" , data, function(response) {
    	console.log( response );
  	}, 'json');
	});
}
</script>

EOD;
}
 
function open_pressed(){
	$isOpen = true;
	setIsOpen($isOpen);
	$name	= isset($_POST['name'])?trim($_POST['name']):"";
    $response	= array();
    $response['message']	= "Successfull Request";
    echo json_encode($response);
    exit;
	
}

function close_pressed(){
	
	$isOpen = false;
	setIsOpen($isOpen);
	$name	= isset($_POST['name'])?trim($_POST['name']):"";
    $response	= array();
    $response['message']	= "Successfull Request";
    echo json_encode($response);
    exit;
	
}
}

Note: The Changing of the <p id=’status’> occurs, The javascript does run.
When I check the chrome logs, no Successful request shows up nor does the $isOpen change, so I thus assume the problem lies within the jQuery.

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