WordPress is without question, the #1 blogging platform and content management system (CMS) available. For obvious reasons like simplicity, speed, flexibility. But what about all those subtle differences that you notice, but can’t quite put your finger on? It has a lot to do with AJAX or asynchronous JavaScript and XML. From saving changes to editing content and post tags, AJAX makes it all easier and faster.
In addition to making the admin’s life easier, there are a number of WordPress AJAX Plugins that will help the user experience as well. Here are 20 of our favorites.
- Google AJAX Search – A live search plugin
- Tagboard Widget
- Gregarious – Social bookmarking plugin
- AJAX Shoutbox
- Google Pagerank
- AJAX Comments
- Inline AJAX Page Very Cool!
- WP-Post Ratings
- Google AJAX Translation
- AJAX’d WordPress – AJAX site navigation
- AJAXed Twitter for WordPress
- Formidable – A drag and drop form builder
- Contact Form 7 – Super easy contact/other form builder
- FAQ Builder
- Business Directory – A link directory plugin
- Link Library – Another link directory plugin
- Comment Rating
- Mingle – a complete social networking plugin (profile pages, profile activities, etc.)
- AJAX Comment Posting
- Pretty Link – Convert affiliate or advertising links to links of your choosing.
Katy from Digital Product Reviews
I absolutely love wordpress! I have been playing the internet marketing game for sometime and just recently discovered how INCREDIBLE having a wordpress blog could actually be. I am always thinking of new features that I want to put on my site and every time I have a new thought, I just search for a plugin that will be able to meet my needs. There is almost always a plugin that will provide me with the functionality I am looking for. That is why I absolutely love finding blogs that list there favorite plugins that allow me to discover even more cool plugins that will make my blog that much better! Thanks for the great list!
Szymon
very usefull list – thanks for sharing
Teena from V8 Supercars
Wordpress is definitely the best. I’ve been using wordpress for a long time now and it has been great. And using the plugin makes it a lot easier depending on what I need. I got a lot of plugins from your post. I’ll surely use one of them sometime. Thanks for sharing it.
m4stono
wordpress is still the best CMS, now wordpress have event in my country, the event title is “wordcamp”
sarbartha
Thanks for the list. It’s a good collection of plugin list using AJAX.
Karl from Musikinstrumente
The Ajax translation sounds good. I have German blogs and so I can maybe reach an foreign audience.
Stefan from Web Design Beach
Very useful list, thanks for sharing… Surely some great plugins to make a wordpress more user friendly.
Steve from make your own beats
Pretty Link is one hell of a plug-in. I’ve never opted for the paid version because the free one is simply great. You can make new “pretty links” in 3-4 seconds. I don’t really let users interact with it, though; it’s purely for my satisfaction hehe. It’s great for SEO purposes as well if you are not too sure about using CPanel etc it can be a great help for 301 redirects and such. I’ve gotta try out some of these other AJAX-coded plugins as well… I like the smooth on-page rendering that AJAX provided (part of the reason I loved Gmail so much when it first came out as it was rockin’ it… no more page-to-page BS!)
Sandra Mallm
Thanks for sharing the information! For me it is pleasure to work with wordpress, because it makes the work faster and much more easier to handle.
Taco from Crime Name
Wow-list
I’ve found the FAQ builder extremely useful. Not only for FAQs but for building browsable lists and tidying up large chunks of data. Not sure about the shoutbox, though. I think the big G doesn’t like those.
Stan from Custom Motorcycle
Great list of WP AJAX resources, I actually just added a few to one of my blogs.
Directory from Business Directory
The WordPress platform has thousands of plugins, and many of them now use ajax to improve usability. thank you for your good collection of plugin list.
Robert from alive themes
I wouldn’t say that it’s the #1 CMS, If you were any close to serious business online, and you would understand how platforms being developed – you wouldn’t even consider WordPress. Why go ahead and use a free platform like WordPress in a serious business, you would better put some money into a good CMS, sure if you need blogging and some content on your site, WP can do the trick, but anything above it, like eCommerce – it just wont carry it.
Thorsten
Pretty Link is one hell of a plug-in. I’ve never opted for the paid version because the free one is simply great. You can make new “pretty links” in 3-4 seconds. I don’t really let users interact with it, though; it’s purely for my satisfaction hehe. It’s great for SEO purposes as well if you are not too sure about using CPanel etc it can be a great help for 301 redirects and such. I’ve gotta try out some of these other AJAX-coded plugins as well… I like the smooth on-page rendering that AJAX provided (part of the reason I loved Gmail so much when it first came out as it was rockin’ it… no more page-to-page BS!)
For sure!
diocelin from website design münchen
I am having trouble with using AJAX on my wordpress blog, but thanks a lot for compiling those useful sites. You have saved me a lot of time. Cheers!
Angela from Webdesign
Hey, thank you for listing this Business Directory plugin! I was looking for something like that. Didn’t know it even existed. Keep more of those great articles coming!