Well.. ajax everywhere ! If you don’t know what ajax is, it’s programming technique used to update, change, or add content of the webpage without reloading the entire site. Ajax will makes your site more responsive and lovely ( huh ? ). However, we need some programming knowledge to implement ajax in our hompage. It’s not rocket science but doesn’t mean easy too.

However.. don’t be sad wordpress user !! There is so many nice programmers out there. They have build so many usefull wordpress plugin those allow us to taste ajax without any programming skill ! Check this out 

AJAXed Wordpress

AJAXed Wordpress (aWP) 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. AWP’s basic features include inline paginated posts, inline comments, threaded comments, the ability to submit comments with AJAX, pagination of your homepage, live comment preview and much more, but it does not, however, force you to use any feature, and it also allows all aspects of the plugin to be easily customized through a single Administration panel. It also has special features that will ensure compatibility with many other plugins.

cformsII - contact form

cforms is a highly customizable, flexible and powerful form builder plugin, covering a variety of use cases and features from attachments to multi form management, you can even have multiple forms on the same page!

Vote It Up

This plugin adds voting functionality for posts. This function is similar to Reddit or Digg, in that visitors can vote for and against. Votes for the post will fill up the bar (in blue), while votes against the post will empty the bar.  

WP-CodeBox

WP-CodeBox provides clean syntax highlighting and AJAX advanced features for embedding source code within pages or posts. It support wide range of popular languages highlighting with line numbers, code download, Copy to clipboard, collapse codebox,automatic keywords link to API manual and maintains formatting while copying snippets of code from the browser.

Quotes Collection

Quotes Collection plugin with Ajax powered Random Quote sidebar widget helps you collect, manage and display your favourite quotations on your WordPress blog. All quotes or a set of quotes can also be displayed on a page using a[quote] tag.

Ajax Comment Preview

Other preview plugins don’t know what sort of changes WordPress will make to a visitor’s comment, but this plugin uses AJAX to send each previewed comment through WordPress’ inner voodoo in order to figure out those changes.

Wordpress Thread Comment

This Plugin is an enhancement for Wordpress’s comment function. It enables users to reply on a exist comment, and the discussion will be displayed threaded or nested.

WP-Polls

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.

Google AJAX Translation

The Google AJAX Translation WordPress plugin provides a quick, simple and light way to add internationalization feature onto your blog.

DM Albums

DM Albums™ is a powerful WordPress plugin based on DM PhotoAlbums™. DM Albums™ takes full resolution photos and automatically builds thumbnails and allows browsing of the photo album in-line with your post, meaning your visitors can view the entire photo album without leaving your post. Once you follow the simple configuration to set up and customize the look of DM Albums™ in wordpress, simply upload full-resolution photos to a directory on your web site, and link to it in your blog post - DM Albums™ will do the rest, even allowing administrator users of your blog to add captions to the Photo Album - directly through the blog post (as long as they’re logged in).

Infinite Scroll

Infinite Scroll adds the following functionality to your wordpress installation: When a user scrolls towards the bottom of the page, the next page of posts is automatically retrieved and appended. This means they never need to click “Next Page”, which dramatically increases stickiness.

CurrentlyWatching

This plugin displays recently viewed post by other visitor. It is automatically updated using ajax. This will increase your traffic

WP-EasyDigg

The plugin will add a digg button to every post, so your readers could digg the post if they really like it.

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