AJAXed WordPress has, according to WordPress.org, finally reached over 1000 downloads in the same week. Thank you to everyone who has left the link on their website, or who has helped to promote it.
If you are wondering why the statistics are done through WordPress.org, it is because AJAXed WordPress downloads are hosted in their download repository, and its own page. It doesn’t matter where you download the file from, here or there, you get the latest released version.
What do these numbers mean? It means on a daily basis, AJAXed WordPress is getting almost as many downloads (not hits) as the day with the biggest spike. (The day it was on the front page of Weblog Tools Collection.) It also means that on a daily basis it is getting more hits that Inline AJAX Page ever did. This shows me that the extra work to bring it from the beast that was INAP to AWP was well worth it.
I have have several people ask if reCAPTCHA and its WP plugin works with aWP. Unfortunately, the plugin was not very AJAX friendly, but the good folks over at reCAPTCHA — in a very aWP-esque move — created an open platform that allows other people to modify the interface and incorporate it into existing projects. I’m happy to announce that reCAPTCHA has been integrated into aWP by default as a module and can be used, without effort, on any WordPress blog that is running aWP.
In further developments, the advanced structure created by AJAXed WordPress allows it to painlessly and finally offer Lightbox support on images that are loaded dynamically. For all that have been wanting it: today is your day.
My original goal in recreating Inline AJAX Page as AJAXed WordPress was more than just a name — INAP originally stood for INline Ajax Post — and a version change, it was to create an AJAX application for WordPress that goes above and beyond what one would normally expect from a plugin and create a platform that anyone can use on their website, or in their projects.
After a round of bug fixes and updates we have a release day.
AJAXed WordPress combines AJAX and WordPress to extend the design and functionality of the interactive elements of any WordPress website.1 Version 1.01 changes are minor and just fixed a couple tiny bugs from the .99992 release, but this marks the official move to the WordPress repositories and its own extend page. As of this release, aWP is considered stable and INAP is officially unsupported considered dead.
Future Posts Calendar displays future posts on the write post page and can also be used as a widget. Version 0.7 fixes a little JavaScript bugs which made it impossible to click on numbers in the month of January, several other tweaks, and it adds a “temperature gauge” by Flavio Jarabeck which allows you to see how many posts you have on a single day at a glance.
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- Which translates to: mmmmm AJAX…cool!
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AJAXed WordPress version 1.23 has been released. This version introduces French and Spanish support as well as compatibility with WordPress 2.6.
Changes in aWP Version 1.23
Lots of little stuff.
AJAX’d Wordpress is now officially a release candidate which translates to an advanced Beta. I’m hoping to officially release within a few weeks, but I will only do this after there has been ample testing on different themes and with other plugins, so I am looking for a few good, adventurous souls to help me test it in different environments.
This website has been running aWP for several week and there don’t seem to be any problems, but please ensure that you test this plugin in a developmental environment before using it on a live website. AJAX’d Wordpress is built off of INAP which was reaching maturity, so I don’t expect there to be a large number of problems, but it has changed drastically, so I expect at least a few new bugs have been created. I am also concerned about compatibility with other plugins.
AJAXed Wordpress (AWP) harnesses the power of both AJAX and Wordpress to improve the user experience, the administration capabilities and the design potential of any Wordpress based blog. It works on all WordPress versions from 2.1 - 2.6.
Some of AWP’s features include loading posts inline, inline comments, threaded comments, AJAX comment submission, AJAX Navigation, live comment preview and much more. AWP is endlessly customizable and extensible. Even though AWP provides many features, you are never forced to use features that you don’t want. All aspects of the plugin are easily customized through a single Administration panel.
What are some of the other benefits to using AWP?
AWP is completely free. Free to use, free to play with, and free support. The continued development of this project is supported by voluntary user donations.
AWP is easy to use. The basic setup of AWP is very simple to use.
