joern.zaefferer

Ever got annoyed when submitting a comment on a wordpress blog and just getting a blank page with a error message like “please fill out required fields” and nothing else? This plugin aims to help by adding validation to the comment form. When a user submits the form and something is missing, an appropiate message is displayed and individual fields are highlighted. When the email or url is in an incorrect format, a message is displayed accordingly.
Why should you install it? Because you care for comments and want to help users reduce mistakes that hold them off from commenting at all.
Whats the technology used? <a href="http://jquery.com" rel="nofollow ugc">jQuery</a> and the <a href="http://bassistance.de/jquery-plugins/jquery-plugin-validation/" rel="nofollow ugc">jQuery Validation plugin</a> with a few customizations to make it fit into the standard WordPress theme.
Is it compatible with other plugins? The plugin is tested with the <a href="https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/draw-comments/" rel="ugc">Draw Comments</a> plugin and works, though the performance is slightly degraded. Other plugins haven’t yet been tested.

Comment Validation

This plugin adds client-side validation to the Wordpress comment form, using the jQuery validation plugin.

kylehotchkiss

Tweet, tweet! What was that? You have a Twitter too? (Who doesn’t tweet these days?) So yeah, if you’re here, you probably have a WordPress install as well! Guess what, 
you’ve just found the collision! Sure, qTwit isn’t the only Twitter widget it out there, but it’s claim-to-fame is that it loads your Tweets on the client-side, meaning 
that it uses the <a href="http://tweet.seaofclouds.com" rel="nofollow ugc">jQuery plugin by Seaofclouds</a> to load your tweets. What does this mean for you? Well, several things:
<ul>
<li>Your tweets are always up-to-date, even with that super-cool caching plugin you just installed!</li>
<li>Your server isn’t coughing up blood from exhaustion loading the tweets by itself all the time!</li>
<li>You can say your blog is powered by jQuery, because everybody knows how legit that is.</li>
</ul>
AND, we can’t forget that Seaofclouds threw in some goodies that pass on to you:
<blockquote>
<ul>
<li>Small size and fast download time.</li>
<li>Will not slow down or pause your page while Tweets are loading.</li>
<li>Automatic linking of @replies to users’ Twitter page.</li>
<li>Automatic linking of URLs.</li>
<li>Automatic linking of #hashtags, to a Twitter search of all your tags.</li>
<li>Converts <3 to a CSS styleable ♥.</li>
<li>Makes awesome text, AWESOME text with AWESOMEIZER.</li>
</ul>
– the Seaofclouds webpage
</blockquote>
So there you have it, go ahead and click “Install” now!
**If you appreciate this plugin, I (<a href="http://twitter.com/kylehotchkiss/" rel="nofollow ugc">@kylehotchkiss</a>) and Seaofclouds (<a href="http://twitter.com/seaofclouds/" rel="nofollow ugc">@seaofclouds</a>) would love a tweet saying so!*

qTwit (for WordPress)

qTwit is a Wordpress widget that loads Tweets (from Twitter) on the client-side, via jQuery, as opposed to on the server.

Comment Validation vs qTwit (for WordPress)