Best uses of Ajax in Wordpress Plugins
Written by on July 20th, 2007 in Ajax News.
Pete Cashmore has posted about the 30+ AJAX-Powered WordPress Plugins that he things are good.
He has split-up the plugins into two categories, for the blogger, and for the reader which includes:
Blogger
- AjaxWP - Adds AJAX to all aspects of your WordPress site speeding up the load times.
- Alexa Rank - Display your Alexa rank with pride.
- Ajax Comment Preview - Allows readers to preview their comment before submitting.
- asTunes - Retrieves data from your Audioscrobbler/last.fm profile and posts it as a list on your blog.
- Codebox - Side scrolling box for displaying code snippets.
Reader
- AJAX Comments 2.0 - Auto updates the comments page with no full reload, much smoother commenting than the older full reload system.
- AJAX Google Video Search - Search Google Video without having to leave your favorite blog.
- AJAX Shoutbox - Realtime conversation with sound to alert of new messages.
- Cool Weather - Allows visitors to see the weather forecast for any area they define.
- Currency Converter - Adds a real time currency converter to the page with data pulled from Yahoo Finance.
- Google AJAX Search - Allows you to set search for just the contents of your site and the web, or another option allows for search of a second site such as your Flickr account.
Source: Ajaxian
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