Yahoo! Shortcuts for WordPress Blog

Yahoo! Shortcuts for Wordpress is a plugin to enriches blog posts with great content from Yahoo! Maps, Finance, News Headlines, Flickr photos, and much more.

With Yahoo! Shortcuts, WordPress bloggers have an additional content from Yahoo’s various content services, including the Flickr photo sharing site. It acts as an assistant to monitor blog posts, and look for relevant links, images, and other shortcuts in the background.

Yahoo! Shortcuts display the Shortcut as a term underlined with a blue dotted line. When a mouseover, it shows a popup with additional content related to the linked term. It is easy for your readers to see interesting related content in the context of your post and makes your blog more engaging and informative.

How does it work?

As you compose your blog post, the Shortcuts plugin looks for content related to what you are writing about. A Shortcut may lead your reader to a finance quote for a public company, a map of a point of interest, a Flickr image, or information about specific companies, products, and people. When it finds relevant content, it lets you know. Yahoo! Shortcuts plugin works best with English language blog posts.

You can download Yahoo! Shortcuts for WordPress plugin from Yahoo! Shortcuts or WordPress.