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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 1 Monat
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 1 Monat
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 1 Monat
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 1 Monat
Would be really nice to see a widget showing top posts for each button. Like emo-vote
vor 1 Monat
Thanks, I’ll keep it in mind for future releases.
vor 1 Monat
@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 1 Monat
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 1 Monat
Another question … can you use small images instead of the button?
vor 1 Monat
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 1 Monat
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 1 Monat
This is great. Thanks for releasing this. I would also like to see a widget also.
vor 2 Wochen
Cookies are implemented. Next time I’ve got time, I’ll try to do that widget idea.
vor 2 Wochen
Thanks!
vor 1 Woche
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 1 Woche
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 1 Woche
You are right it will be difficult for the widget to know which post its being voted on.
vor 1 Woche
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 1 Woche
I’ll put it on my todo-list. Shouldn’t be too hard.
vor 3 Tagen
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 3 Tagen
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.