Sunday, August 5, 2007

Best uses of Ajax in Wordpress Plugins

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.com

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