Beiträge gettagt mit reaction buttons

I just uploaded a new version of Reaction Buttons, which features a widget now. In that widget you can show the top x posts with the most clicks for each button.

Coding took less time than putting the new version online, since there are a lot of places where you can set a version and they are parsed directly out of svn by some wordpress magic script. I tagged the new release properly in the svn repository and added the version nubmer as stable in the parsed readme.txt. But I forgot to change the version in the main .php file, which seems to be important too. Thanks to #wordpress on irc.freenode.net for pointing that out.

Download from wordpress.org or directly through the install/update function of wordpress.

Yesterday I finally found some time to include cookies into reaction buttons, so that you could push every button only once. Sure, It’s quite easy to circumvent, but without authentication it’s not possible to prevent that. And authenticating before using the buttons would be against their primary idea.

Download from wordpress.org or directly through the update function of wordpress.

My Reaction Buttons plugin got accepted on the wordpress plugin site. Yeah! I guess thats not too hard, but I’m happy about it anyways. Now you can install Reaction Buttons right out of your wordpress blog, without the hassle of downloading and uploading it to your blog.

Next hing to do is make some colors configurable through the admin menu. Or is CSS enough? Not sure yet.

I finally found time last weekend to try to build my first wordpress plugin. I stumbled across a Blog at bloggers with an interesting little feature: There were a couple of buttons below the post to express your reactions to the post, like “interesting” or “cool”. Since I always like to interact with my readers, especially on my blogs which cover a certain topic, it’s always nice to find ways to make it easier for your readers.

But I couldn’t find a plugin which does that on wordpress and well, long story short, here it is: Reaction Buttons. You can check it out on this very blog and on the screenshot of a clean german wordpress installation below.