I found a bunch of new Wordpress plugins thanks to John. The programmer, Lester Chan, has developed 15 plug-ins, I’ve decided to use 3 of them:

WP-Polls - This allows me to post ajax polls anywhere throughout the site. For example, vote and see what you think:

[poll=3]

WP-PostRatings - This gives an ajax rating to all posts, you can see below this one you can choose your rating up to 5 stars. You can also print out a list of highest rated posts.

WP-PostViews - This simple script counts the views for each post made. I’ve put that number right below the post rating. You can also print out a list of the most viewed posts. I’ll more than likely play with this more as my blog continues to grow. Keep in mind that view counts will start as soon as the plug-in is activated and put on the page.

All of these plugins were very simple to install, just upload and activate. They also offer simple ways to remove, which is great because they do make some modifications to the MySQL database. You can grab any of these plug-ins and more from this site.