I Recommend This – Love/Like Button for WordPress Posts

“I Recommend This” allows your visitors to effortlessly like or recommend your posts with a single click, making it easier for them to show their appreciation without leaving a comment. Enhance your site’s engagement by providing a simple, user-friendly way for readers to interact with your content.

Features:

• Display a counter for likes/recommendations.
• Widget and shortcode to display the most liked posts.
• Choose between a “Thumbs Up” or “Heart” icon.
• Prevents multiple votes from the same user via cookies and IP address tracking.
• View and sort posts by likes in the post edit page.
• Better GDPR compliance with anonymized IPs
• Built-in query block compatibility
• Extensive action and filter hooks for developers

Advanced Options:

• Hide the counter if the count is zero.
• Customize messages for zero, one, or multiple likes.
• Disable plugin CSS for custom styling.
• Option to disable IP address saving to comply with GDPR.
• Enhanced cookie management
• IP address anonymization for stronger GDPR compliance

Shortcodes:

• [irecommendthis] – Add the voting link to any page.
• [irecommendthis_top_posts post_type='post' container='div' number='10' year='2023' monthnum='7'] – Display most recommended posts.

This plugin is based exactly on Benoit “LeBen” Burgener’s “I Like This” Plugin and has been modified after getting requests for the changes I had made on my website.

If you love the plugin, please consider rating it and clicking on “it works” button.

Example Sites Using the Plugin:

• Flat UI Design Gallery

For Developers:

This plugin is being developed on GitHub.. If you want to collaborate, please look at I Recommend This plugin on GitHub.

Translations

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