Top 12 Ajax Wordpress plugins you might not have heard of
AJAX stands for Asynchronous JavaScript and XML, which is by definition a set of scripting languages used to create browser-based applications that behave more like software applications. The main advantage of AJAX is that it’s faster and visually more appealing to the public.
AJAXed Wordpress (aWP), formerly known as INAP, is an extremely powerful plugin that harnesses the power of AJAX and Wordpress to improve the user experience, the administration capabilities and the design potential of any Wordpress based blog.
There are many comment-related plugins in Wordpress plugin directory. However, if you’d like to find just a simple comment-posting Ajax plugin, you won’t find any. Not only will it post your comment without refreshing the page, but it will also make sure that you’ve filled all the form fields correctly.
This plugin might be conflict with some other plugins with the same features like “QUOTER”, “THRESHOLD” and “AJAX COMMENT”. Please deactivate the others if you want to use this one.
How many times you been to a blog where Trackbacks/Pingbacks were interspersed with the regular comments? Or perhaps you wanted the comments to be displayed with the latest one on the top instead of the bottom. With Comment Sorter, readers can disable Trackbacks and also decide what order they would like to read the comments. As an admin, you also have the ability to assign global options to your comments that you can’t normally do in the WordPress admin panel. For example, if you want Trackbacks to not show on all of your posts, you can do that without modifying any template files. You can also change the default sort order of the comments.
WP Ajax Edit Comments allows users and admins alike to edit comments on a post. Users can edit their own comments for a period specified by the admin, and admins can edit all post comments. What better way to show reader appreciation than letting the readers edit their own typos?
Vivtiger Image Resizer is for those who take a lot of screenshots and like to include them in posts. The plugin allows you to specify a maximum width and resize images based on the maximum width of your blog.
Once it’s installed it adds a new button to the plugin update notification bar. When you click the “Update Now” button it will automatically download the update from WordPress extend and extract it to your plugins directory.
This plugin adds Spotlight like live search with an ajax popup to the default search box. It can be used as a widget or directly as a PHP call in the theme.
AJAX Calendar is a plugin that will display an AJAXified WordPress calendar. This enhances the functionality of the standard calendar by:
- Allowing the asynchronous navigation of months, without updating the page
- Adding a drop-down list of post titles in each month (through the «-» button)
- Adding full caching support to reduce server load
10) AJAX post rating
Adds an AJAX rating system for your WordPress blog’s post/page.
11) AJAX Polls
Adds an AJAX poll system to your WordPress blog. You can easily include a poll into your WordPress’s blog post/page. WP-Polls is extremely customizable via templates and css styles and there are tons of options for you to choose to ensure that WP-Polls runs the way you wanted. It now supports multiple selection of answers.
12) AJAX Email Send
Allows people to recommend/send your WordPress blog’s post/page to a friend.
If you’ve experimented with other AJAX-ed powered plugins that haven’t been included in this lost, please let me know via the contact form and I’ll look into them ASAP.
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