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Reaction Buttons
Reaction Buttons adds buttons below your posts to make it easy to get reactions to the post, but without the hassle of writing a whole comment. It makes it easier for the reader to interact with you. The buttons are configurable (how many, what text) and simply are counters to how often they were clicked. There is also a widget that shows the top x posts for each button.
You can see them in action on this blog or check the screenshot below.
Download: Reaction Buttons
vor 7 Monaten
Reaction Buttons is a great little app. Seems to work and is very simple to set up. I will be trying it on my blog to see whether and how my visitors are going to use it.It would actually be useful if I could specify by individual post whether to use Reaction Buttons or not and I would really like to be able to change the highlight colour to fit in with my colour scheme.
vor 7 Monaten
Actually, I just discovered a little bug: On every page that uses the buttons, there is a “what do you think of this post” line at the top of the page. Not sure why but I think it should not be there.
vor 7 Monaten
Thanks for the feedback!
Strange, don’t have that in my test or live blogs. I’ll try to find out where it comes from.
vor 7 Monaten
Would be really nice to see a widget showing top posts for each button. Like emo-vote
vor 7 Monaten
Thanks, I’ll keep it in mind for future releases.
vor 7 Monaten
@Wolf: I just released a new version 0.9.1, which should work with spaces and apostrophes in button names. (It should be online in a couple of minutes) Sadly I couldn’t reproduce your problem, but perhaps it will help .My plugin uses two hooks to get printed out, the hook for the article and for the excerpt. I cannot figure out why it would be called in your header (it’s not even in the body on your page). I only have one header hook and thats for the javascript, which is inserted correctly in your blog.
vor 7 Monaten
You have a little bug here: On your site and my test site the following is observed. I can vote more than once and I can also click each button in turn and create a new vote. You need to change the cookie function, I think …
vor 7 Monaten
Another question … can you use small images instead of the button?
vor 7 Monaten
I didn’t think that would be neccessary, but you are right, the simple check with a cookie would be nice. I’ll implement it in a later version.
As for the images, I’m a bit unsure what you mean. You should be able to do everything by editing the CSS (or better: Disabling the CSS from the plugin in the settings and using your own.)
vor 7 Monaten
Thanks Jakob for your comments. The cookie would just make it ideal. Ok, I mean like icons that you can click instead of the boxes. But, yes, I now see, it’s all in the CSS anyway.Looking forward to the next release. These plugins are so useful for user interaction.
vor 7 Monaten
This is great. Thanks for releasing this. I would also like to see a widget also.
vor 6 Monaten
Cookies are implemented. Next time I’ve got time, I’ll try to do that widget idea.
vor 6 Monaten
Thanks!
vor 6 Monaten
Just wanted to say thank you for this plugin and I am waiting for the widget edition, because that way I will be able to place it right besides my comics. I would also recommend the option of disabling individual post and just using the “widget only” version.Thanks
vor 6 Monaten
ATM the widget is only supposed to show what posts get the most clicks on button 1 through n. (Actually the code in svn already does that, but I have to find time and figure out how to make the widget configurable.)
You would like to have a widget for the vote option? So that you can click on the buttons in the sidebar? But how should the widget know for which post that should count? I mean you can show more that one post on a page.
vor 6 Monaten
You are right it will be difficult for the widget to know which post its being voted on.
vor 6 Monaten
My comics are tied to the post. Is there a way I can introduce (via php) the button code anywhere within the post. Similar to what we have for other mods where you can just type in <–My Buttons –> within the post and the wordpress just posts the code over there… just a thought.
vor 6 Monaten
I’ll put it on my todo-list. Shouldn’t be too hard.
vor 6 Monaten
A great feature would be the ability to make the reactions different for posts, author pages, etc.Example: For posts, let’s say you want the reaction buttons you have set up right here on your post. Then for authors, let’s say you want “What do you think of this author/author’s name?” And then the admin can make buttons like Good Writer, Funny Person, etc.
vor 6 Monaten
Its a really nice idea and I’ll keep it in mind, but I’m not sure if I have the time for this soon.
vor 5 Monaten
Nice plugin, I can see some use for this one. Like some people above me I’d like to see a more configurable edition. Like using a shortcode, something like [reaction]. It would be great if you could configure it in the shortcode itself, giving the options which people can choose from. something like [reaction title="What did you think of this movie?" option1="Great" option2="Average" option 3="Bad"]. But that might get complicated
vor 5 Monaten
Sorry for my late answer, been busy otherwise. :/
I’m currently a bit short on time, but the shortcode is on top of my list. But perhaps you can try to clarify the idea a bit for me: Do you want to be able to include [reaction_buttons] somewhere in your theme to being able to include it in a different position? Or do you guys want something like described in the wordpress shortcode documentation, i.e. that you could include in specific posts only? You can already deactivate Reaction Buttons in every post… Or is this about the position of reaction buttons?
Your second idea sounds like a vote plugin.
I don’t see much use for it in my concept, it wouldn’t fit very well in my data structure and I bet there are a lot of vote plugins out there already. I don’t think that I will be able to include it.
But thank you all for your feedback, love it!
vor 5 Monaten
hi.. this plugin does not work for other users on my site.It only works for admin login
vor 5 Monaten
Please provide a bit more information (wordpress version, addons, theme) as a new thread on http://wordpress.org/tags/reaction-buttons?forum_id=10#postform and I’ll try to help you. At first sight I don’t have any ideas, especially since I don’t have any code in my plugin that uses authorizations or login status.
vor 5 Monaten
Re #22
Yeah, I’d like a shortcode to put it anywhere in a post where I want to. It’s a funnier version of a vote plugin
But the whole option thing in the shortcode isn’t necessary of course, just a shortcode would do
vor 5 Monaten
All right, shortcode support is done. I’ve uploaded it, but didn’t marked it as stable yet. It runs great on two of my blogs, but I’ll test them a bit more next weekend. If you want to try the new version, 0.9.5 already is available at wordpress.org under “other versions“. (Download 0.9.5, not the current stable version 0.9.4.1)
vor 5 Monaten
This is a great plugin, but unfortunately, I had to disable it. It appears that if your host has a firewall installed to protect their clients, this plugin interacts with it in a way that it will ban people from being able to access the entire site. The error I was show by my host was this:ModSecurity:
Access denied with code 406 (phase 2). Pattern match
“(?:\\b(?:(?:type\\b\\W*?\\b(?:text\\b\\W*?\\b(?:j(?:ava)?|ecma|vb)|application\\b\\W*?\\bx-(?:java|vb))script|c(?:opyparentfolder|reatetextrange)|get(?:special|parent)folder|iframe\\b.{0,100}?\\bsrc)\\b|on(?:(?:mo(?:use(?:o(?:ver|ut)|down|move|up)|ve)|key(?:press|d
…” at REQUEST_FILENAME. [file
"/usr/local/apache/conf/modsec2.user.conf"] [line "117"] [id "950004"]
[msg "Cross-site Scripting (XSS) Attack"] [data ".cookie"] [severity
"CRITICAL"] [tag "WEB_ATTACK/XSS"] [hostname "http://www.mydomain.com"]
[uri "/wp-content/plugins/reaction-buttons/jquery.cookie.js"]
[unique_id "S6kcfkgJ-hoAAB98CRAAAAAs"]If I’m reading this correctly, it seems that the problem happens if you enable the cookie setting.
vor 5 Monaten
Check it out, looks good. The shortcode works. Thanks!
vor 5 Monaten
Happy that you like it Giovanni.
As for the problem with ModSecurity problem: Thank you very much for telling me that. For the moment I don’t see what damage someone could do with my script besides in the worst case mess with the counts. (But cookies weren’t a secure solution anyways and there is none, since we don’t want people to log in…)
But I’ll try to see were the error is coming from and will try to fix it, perhaps I really missed something important.
vor 5 Monaten
Was the plugin upgrade also for the Mod Security issue?
vor 5 Monaten
I’m sorry, missed your comment. No, I hadn’t had any time to work on that.
But again, I don’t think there is any security risk since I don’t work with anything security related, it is just that some generic mod_security rule picked something up.
vor 5 Monaten
This plug is similar to what i want for a plugin for showing Multiple Choice Questions.Each button will represent a choice,and the click count will be recorded.Still I want some modification to this:the click count should only be shown after the botton was clicked,also the correct choice was shown,and the click count was changed to percent.So would you like make another plugin for showing Multiple Choice Questions?That’s would be a great pluginhere is some examples of MCQs,http://mcqs.medicalisland.net/
vor 5 Monaten
Yeah, I’m not worried about the security. It’s just that I can’t access my entire site when that happens. However, when I turn off the cookie option, the problem goes away. I’ll just keep it that way for now. =)
vor 5 Monaten
Thanks for bearing with me here Sha, I think I found the problem, which seems to be quite simple: mod_security seems to have a problem with the filename of the javascript library jquery.cookie.js. (Source.) Strange rule I guess, but easily fixed. I’ll rename the javascript file and push a new dev release in a couple of minutes.
@wew: Thanks for your suggestion, but I simply don’t have time to develop plugins I don’t want to use. (I barely have time to cope with all the feature requests and problems for the stuff I use myself.
) Perhaps I should do that for hire, but since I don’t think you want to pay me, I sadly cannot help you. But the plugin is licensed under the GPL, if you like you can modifiy it yourself or find someone else to do it. 
vor 5 Monaten
0.9.6 is on wordpress.org, please try it out, should help with your mod_security issue.
vor 5 Monaten
Hi there,Thanks for this plug in.Is there a way to disable it on pages? (I like it on posts, but not pages)Also, is there a way to link it into a popularity contest? (I.e. the top most “funny” rated blogs can be showed in a widget on the right column). I realize this is probably a tall order, but no harm in asking if it’s possible, right?
vor 5 Monaten
Both things are already implemented: You can (de)activate Reaction Buttons for the front page, pages, individual blog posts, category archives, tag listings, date based archives, author archives and search results. And you can deactivate them also for individual posts/pages.
As for the widget: There is a widget that shows the top x entries for each button. Not sure if its that what you are looking for. If not, maybe I can modify it (some time in the future
)
vor 5 Monaten
Oh and if you guys like my addon, I really wouldn’t mind some (5 star
) votes! I got some when releasing the first version but nothing after that…
vor 4 Monaten
We really like the reaction buttons and love the fact we can name them ourselves. However the number doesn’t change immediately to show their vote when people click the button. We think people are getting confused that it doesn’t work and are clicking it several times. The vote only shows if we go out of the blog and go back in again. Is there something we need to do for their vote to show up immediately? Thanks again for the plugin!
vor 4 Monaten
I seem to have found the problem: The spaces. Your button labeled funny works as expected (sorry, didn’t read the article, only clicked around
), but the other one with spaces in it doesn’t.
I’m fairly sure I tested it with spaces, but I will try again later, since my blogs don’t use spaces in their buttons. But you are using the latest version (0.9.6) of the plugin?
vor 4 Monaten
I am using v0.9.6. I just installed the plugin on Friday. I see what you mean about the “funny”one working. I’ll go back and change the others to one-word buttons. And good heavens, I certainly don’t expect you to read a quilting blog, for heaven’s sake LOL!! It might put you to sleep.
vor 4 Monaten
But don’t change them just yet, I’ll try and fix the problem, I want others to be able to uses spaces. I’m quite sure I’ve tested it, perhaps I broke it with a change. I’ll make sure to have spaces in a button on my test blog for the next time.
vor 4 Monaten
Well, found the problem: The javascript function only replaced the first whitespace and I never tried with more than one. I changed the function and it should work with all your buttons.
0.9.7 should be on the wordpress page shortly and fix your problem.
BTW: Cool generations thing you got going there, I can understand that you are excited about it.
vor 4 Monaten
Thank you for the update!! It’s working now. I did have to change the last button though. Apparently it doesn’t work when there is an “!” in the button. That’s okay. I took out the ! and it works just fine. This is a great plug-in, and we appreciate everything you’ve done to make it work correctly for us. You’re really fast! BTW – I’m adding my 5 stars to your plugin.
vor 4 Monaten
You are welcome. Thanks for the 5 star rating, it seems to be quite the criterion while looking for a new plugin.
As for the exclamation mark: Yeah, I’ve got a problem with the javascript there and I’m still unsure how to solve it. Maybe I’ll try some other time.
vor 3 Monaten
Just wanted to say that the fix for the security issue works! The plugin has no other issues now.Thanks!
vor 3 Monaten
thanks for your wonderful plugin, i use some face to decorate it! to do this, i modified the reaction_buttons_html function. hope you can add this to your next version!
vor 3 Monaten
I’m not sure what you mean, you already have all you need to add images by means of CSS. I don’t want to add this feature into the configuration screen since it would get unnecessary complicated.
But as you already did, you can add to your CSS a background-image and a padding-right to each button class. Every button gets a class namend “reaction_button_$NAME_count” which you can easily match then.
But thanks for your input!
vor 3 Monaten
yes, thank your. But, as you said, the class name is “reaction_button_$NAME_count”, when I use chinese characters as the $NAME value, i can not modified the css directly because chinese characters can not be used in css, i should hack your file( the reaction_buttons_html function) to add a new class.
vor 3 Monaten
All right, I see the problem. Funny enough it seems to work (even the javascript) with the chinese characters. But I guess it would break compliance with the standard to use them… Since I don’t have id’s for each post, I sadly don’t know no solution to the problem.
But if you hack something that works for everyone, please let me know.
vor 3 Monaten
code: http://pastebin.com/cLhck4mF
vor 3 Monaten
Thanks for the plugin.I added a function (thanks to xaprb) to show the most clicked post of each button. Don’t know if it is already coded.http://pastebin.com/CRbVHAyD
vor 3 Monaten
Thanks for your contribution.
Your code has a little flaw: It sorts the posts by a string value, you need to cast it to an integer or something like that. Had the same problem with my widget.
But since there is no need to code the same function two times, I extracted the function from my widget and used it for the shortcode if you need it.
Version 0.9.9 should be online shortly and adds the shortcode [reaction_buttons_most_clicks limit_posts=3]
vor 3 Monaten
Hi.
I saw you cast() the string to output as unsigned. I just wanted my buttons to be sorted alphabetically.
I will take a look at your next realease.
Nice work.
vor 3 Monaten
Now I understood why you cast() in first time.
Seems way better than the logic I coded in that file.
Didnt know about extract(shortcode_atts(array(), atts)). That is nice. It isn’t that obvious at first glance, but it saves some lines of code.
Fábio.
vor 3 Monaten
I was talking with a co-worker about a “statistic” page. Some kind of feedback to the admin about how many posts are “awesome” (and which ones); how many “sucks” and so on.
If I have time, I will work on that this afternoon. I will post here if I get something done.
vor 3 Monaten
Sure, I would love some contributions.
If you have the possibility to send in a diff, I would appreciate it.
vor 3 Monaten
Hi Jakob.
I just finished the changes.
Well, I never worked with a diff or cvs / svn of any kind. I used winmerge to generate a patch file. Is that what you want?
Here is: http://www.4shared.com/file/kHD2OXZv/reaction-buttons-0-9-9-modifie.html
Feel free to make your changes.
The stats page is simple. There is a link inside the Reaction Buttons settings page.
I also added pagination there. I tested a few times here and found no bug. Same with the shortcode. Didn’t test with the widget.
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Fábio
vor 3 Monaten
Thanks, looks good!
The pagination had a little bug there (could only be tested with more posts than buttons
), it was around line 729 (in the new uploaded source), which I fixed. But the rest seems fine. Thanks for the contribution, you should be able to see it online in a few minutes (though not yet marked stable, you need to download it manually from other versions).
Oh, and about the diff: Since unix and win have different newline symbols the diff didn’t work out. Manually integrating works too.
vor 3 Monaten
Oh, Hi.
I am at home right now (will look line 729) when I get back to office.
I remember changed the settings of winmerge.
http://drupal.org/node/75805
“In WinMerge go to Edit > Options… > Editor > Check Preserve original EOL characters”
I did that
I will try UnixUtils next time.
vor 3 Monaten
I’m not sure why it didn’t work, but as long as you only add functionality to the plugin it should be always easy to merge this, especially if you tell me from which version you started modifying.
vor 3 Monaten
Lol, my bad.
COUNT() returns the maxRecords. I just didn’t get that when I first tried what you did. I was gettting the last value of _reaction_buttons_@button (where @button was the last query inside the buttons’ loop).
That was strange. What worked (as you said, with few posts) was that sum (+=) of the returned data to maxRecords. :S
I even tried the wpdb->query() because I thought the problem was with the way wpdb->get_results() work.
vor 3 Monaten
Love the concept of the reactions. If your short of idea’s/suggestions if have some that, in my opinion would make it the killer app!
- ability for a list style display
- add tabs to the widget – so tab 1 displays reaction 1, tab 2 displays reaction 2 etc. This
would be a huge space saver.
- add more options to the widget. E.g. most popular of the day/week/month and perhaps a ‘more’ link to an archive that show all in a paginated fashion.
The post popular by day option would be something I could really use!
Found a small bugsy; enabling cookies seem to break to ability to vote.
Thanks for the plugin!
vor 3 Monaten
I will keep it in mind, perhaps I’ll make it configurable or entirely as a list, which can be switched between horizontal or vertical mode.
But is there enough space for the tabs? I’ve seen some blogs with looong button names.
Sorry, not possible due to database restrictions. It would mean to change everything to a dedicated database table and I don’t want that at the moment. Feel free to fork your version with that functionality though, it is open source after all.
I’m sure its a useful feature, but I want to keep it simple.
Could you specify that? Best in a new topic in the reaction buttons part of the wordpress forums? I can’t see that there is anything wrong with voting with cookies (like in my blogs for example…) Do you have javascript deactivated?
vor 3 Monaten
“Found a small bugsy; enabling cookies seem to break to ability to vote.”
Maybe he is talking about the ability to vote many times by just refreshing the page.
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vor 3 Monaten
As long as cookies are enabled (in the plugin and the browser), you shouldn’t be able to vote twice. If that happens there is a bug or a config error. But without more information I can’t do anything about it.
vor 3 Monaten
Thanks much for this plugin! I’m looking forward to seeing how it goes over on my (rather new) blog. The only thing that would make it better would be if it gave voters some feedback that their vote had been counted. For instance, the counter would increase without a page refresh, or perhaps just whichever button had been clicked would stay filled in with the background color to let voters know that they’d chosen that option.
vor 3 Monaten
It should and does refresh without reload, for example on this page. You need of course javascript enabled for this.
As for color changes, you can simply edit/add css: After a button was clicked, it gets the voted class assigned.
If you like the addon, please vote for it on the wordpress page.
vor 3 Monaten
Odd, when I was testing it at home, it didn’t increase the counter (on your site or mine), though I have JS enabled. Testing it at work this morning it works fine. Will have to look into my browser settings more deeply.
*shrug* Oh well! Thanks for the info about the new class being assigned.
Will totally give it a vote when I get home (can’t remember my WP.com login info right now…). Thanks again!
vor 3 Monaten
In case you’ve still got problems with that, please open a thread at the support forum and I will see what I can find out.
vor 3 Monaten
I’m happy if that code works for you, but I’m sorry that I cannot include it: You are generating non unique id attributes, which isn’t allowed even though most browsers still work with it. Since I don’t have an id field for every post+button combination there is sadly no way I can include something like this without making the html invalid.
vor 2 Monaten
Hi,
Love the buttons! However, I only need three vote buttons. But I can click on all three. I can vote Yes, No, and Maybe. Any option to allow a user to click on just one button and that’s it?
Thanks
vor 2 Monaten
It isn’t possible at the moment, but I’ll put it on my TODO list, maybe I’ll implement it in one of the next versions.
vor 2 Monaten
Cool, waiting for V1.1
vor 2 Monaten
a small bugsy:
When I checked “Use cookies to make it harder to vote twice? ”
I can vote many times by just refreshing the page.
vor 2 Monaten
Can you vote *one* button more than once? And if yes, does it work on this post as well?
vor 1 Monat
Hello there… first… that’s a great plugin! thanks a lot for your work…
My doubt is… Is there any implementation to show the same information that we can see at “Reaction Buttons Button Statistics” Admin Page, on the blog’s page, for the visitors? like… every ‘reaction’ will have a link that’ll lead to a page showing a DESC list of the reaction choose by the visitor.
Thanks for your time!
vor 1 Monat
Ok… I’ve already done that… I’ve made a simple modification to ‘reaction_buttons_get_top_button_posts’ function… added a new variable that is the reaction I want to list…
Is there’s already a way to do this using your plugin? Or my modification was necessary?
vor 1 Monat
Did you check the widgets? They might do what you want.
vor 1 Monat
It would be if the number of reactions where showed after a person put their input. Like here for example: http://bit.ly/bGTDx8
That way people aren’t subconsciously going with what the crowd says.
vor 1 Monat
I’ll note it on the TODO list, but I wouldn’t hold my breath, I’m swamped ATM.
vor 1 Monat
Hai Jakob.
jQuery.cookie() isn’t working. It is preventing the update of buttons’ count.
Firebug logged “jQuery.cookie isn’t a function”.
Firefox 3.6.7
vor 1 Monat
Thats strange. Is jquery.kekse.js loaded?
vor 1 Monat
Yes, it loaded.
vor 1 Monat
Is the site publicly available? I don’t have any problems with FF 3.6.7
vor 1 Monat
Yes, it is.
A post from the blog:
http://www.neonico.com/bazar-dermetropol-corrao11/
You will see your reactions at the bottom.
I can’t uncomment the jQuery.cookie. If I do that, the vote’s count won’t update.
If you really want to see that, we need to be online at the same time, then I log in uncomment in the code. My msn is on mail field.
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fmachs
vor 1 Monat
@Fábio:
I only have jabber, icq and skype… Do you have an account of those? (A gmail account is a jabber account for example…)
Could it be that there is some javascript battling itself? You seem to have several versions of jquery running, perhaps it would be enough to have only one jquery library loaded…
But I love what you did with the plugin, great job on the looks and integration into the design.
vor 1 Monat
My gmail is on the mail field. I’ve used it here since my first comment
I saw that more than one jquery was running. Someone changed the header to include the script tag instead of the wp_enqueue_script(). I will check that.
But, as I remember, when I got a call from my last boss (im at a new job), there was only one jquery. I am sure about that.
Well, thanks. The idea to use the plugin that way came from the client and was tunned by my last boss.
Call me at gmail when you get at your home.
vor 1 Monat
I’m not at home the rest of the evening, will try to catch you tomorrow during the day.
vor 1 Monat
I work from 9 am to 7pm. If you are in Berlim, we have a 5h difference. Here is 14:32 pm now. There is 19:32 (night, right?). That’s what google says.
vor 1 Monat
19:32 is correct, I’ll try to continue the rest via mail instead of those tedious blog comments.
vor 1 Monat
I wanted to know if someone could take a quick look at my site . Ever since I’ve installed the reaction buttons, I’ve been getting a webpage error in IE8 as the browser.
The webpage details are:
Message: Object required
Line: 53
Char: 3
Code: 0
URI: http://aprama.com
I think this particular code is the problem:
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I pasted the source code into notepad ++ which is an enhanced version of the one which comes with Windows. I checked carefully and i know it was the reaction buttons causing the issue, voting buttons. The line of the error supplied pointed directly to the reaction buttons.
Thanks
vor 1 Monat
We will try to solve it in your thread you opened at wordpress.org: http://wordpress.org/support/topic/427544
vor 1 Monat
hello,
here is the script that I believe is causing the problem: