WordPress Ajax Plugins

Ajax plugins span cart interactions, live search and filtering, content loading, polls, ratings and comments. The category includes 326 plugins, but none has 100,000 or more active installs.

Ajax Plugins Ranking

Top 100 of 327 plugins in Ajax category

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Ajax features for WooCommerce

WooCommerce is the largest related tag, overlapping with 41 Ajax plugins, including three cart-focused options with different adoption and update patterns.

  • WPC AJAX Add to Cart for WooCommerce: 10,000 active installs; updated this month.
  • Ajax Cart AutoUpdate for WooCommerce: 7,000 active installs; last updated 68 months ago.
  • Ajax Cart for WooCommerce: 5,000 active installs; updated this month.

Live search, filtering and content loading

Search overlaps with 33 plugins, while the named options range from 4,000 to 40,000 active installs.

  • SearchWP Live Ajax Search: 40,000 active installs; updated two months ago, making it the most installed of these examples.
  • Relevanssi Live Ajax Search: 7,000 active installs; updated five months ago.
  • Load More Anything: 5,000 active installs; updated 11 months ago.
  • YMC Filter: 4,000 active installs; updated this month.

Ajax for polls, ratings, comments and forms

The category also covers interaction-focused plugins for polls, ratings and comments, alongside related form tags.

WP-Polls has 40,000 active installs and was updated this month; WP-PostRatings has 20,000 and was updated two months ago. Ajaxify Comments, with 3,000 active installs, was also updated two months ago.

Related tags include comments (22 plugins), contact-form (18) and form (16), pointing to a wider range of comment and form-related uses.

A fragmented category with limited recent updates

Adoption is spread across many plugins: five have at least 10,000 active installs, none reaches 100,000, and 25% were updated in the last year.

The leading options include zipaddr-jp at 50,000 installs, WP-Polls and SearchWP Live Ajax Search at 40,000 each, and WP-PostRatings at 20,000. The rest of the field is more niche by install count, with only one other plugin reaching 10,000.

Update dates vary substantially among the listed plugins: some were updated this month, while Ajax Cart AutoUpdate for WooCommerce was last updated 68 months ago. That spread sits alongside the category-wide figure of one quarter updated in the past year.