I remember being excited at the AJAX enhancements to WordPress's admin back end with the last major 2.0 update, but what about the front end theme and UI? Unless you either do some digging and find an AJAX'ed theme or build one yourself, your WordPress blog will look just as boring as everyone else's. Right?

Wrong: AjaxWp brings some UI sexiness to your WordPress blog. Basically, through minimal configuration, this WordPress plugin brings that no-page-refresh effect to your entire blog. There are actually two basic configuration options, 'quick' and 'optimized', and the author has posted extensive instructions for both. Optimized, as you might expect, is a more efficient method and offers a smaller footprint, but requires a bit more PHP ninja work, so chose wisely, young padawan.

AjaxWp is offered from Gianni Milanesi's blog, and as you might expect, it's used on the blog itself so you can see it in action before you start digging into your own site.