Yahoo Releases WordPress Plugin

Yahoo has released a plugin for WordPress blog creators, a convenient Yahoo Shortcuts plugin that helps you put Yahoo content in your blog posts. It simplifies the process of including Yahoo Maps, data and charts from Yahoo Finance, inserting Flickr images, showing product comparison results, Yahoo Auto info, and web and news searches.
The plugin scans your posts as you write and tells you how many Shortcuts it has found. Click a button, and you can choose whether to have the shortcuts appear as links beneath the chosen words with the added info as an overlay, or to activate a “badge” box, like an embedded map or stock chart, to appear alongside your post.
It isn’t perfect. It conflicts with some other word-linking plugins, performance isn’t great, having to do the work on a seperate page (and one located under the Write tab, not the Manage tab), not being able […]

Original post by Nathan Weinberg