Cycles

Design Feedback & Approvals (formerly Cycles) allows you to share any design (mockups, wireframes, sitemaps) with clients and colleagues, who view your work in their browser and post feedback directly on your designs.
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Note: This plugin is the used to be called <a href="https://cycleshq.com" rel="nofollow ugc">Cycles</a>, and is the predecessor of new Cycles software with a new plugin submitted to the repo and coming any day now.
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<h4>Overview</h4>
This plugin allows you to:
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Share designs with anyone – Upload any design (mockups, moodboards, wireframes, etc) and share with your clients. They’ll only need the URL (and optional password) to view and make comments. No attachments or accounts required.
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Collect design feedback – Clients view mockups in their browser, and click directly on the design to comment. Feedback remains organized, eliminating back and forth emails and miscommunication.
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Record approvals/sign off – When you’ve made requested changes, your client approves the design by agreeing to terms and providing a digital signature. The time, date, and name of the approver are recorded.
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Keep project members informed – When you publish a design, the plugin can send an email invitation with access details and instructions. Additionally, you can configure instant email notifications for new comments and approvals.
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Import design feedback into 3rd party services – Connect your designs to Trello, Basecamp, Asana, Slack, Help Scout, or any 3rd party service with project based email addresses, to bring feedback and approvals into your team’s project management workflow.
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<h4>Why you should use the new Cycles plugin</h4>
First, many of the “designers” we speak with are moving from creating mockups in Photoshop and Illustrator to starting projects with themes and designing straight in the browser.
So, we’ve launched a new version of Cycles that collects feedback and approvals on any web page that works on many web development platforms (not just WordPress). A (free) Cycles account enables:
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<li>A record of all comments, replies, and approvals (outside of your WordPress database or client’s site)</li>
<li>Easy notifications and integrations without configuring your WordPress email settings</li>
<li>Feedback and approvals on any web page or site</li>
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Free accounts have no trial time limits, and include all visual feedback and approval features.
Get more info at <a href="https://cycleshq.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">https://cycleshq.com</a>.
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<h4>Plugin features</h4>
Email Invites & Notifications 
Send your client an invitation to review your newly published design, directly from your WordPress site. Then, when someone makes a comment or provides their approval, get notified at the email address(es) of your choosing. Note: As this plugin relies on the <code>wp_mail()</code> WordPress function, this feature requires your web server/host to have email correctly configured, or the use of a plugin like <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/postman-smtp" rel="ugc">Postman-SMTP</a>.
3rd party integration 
Enter project-specific email addresses in the notification section to send new comments and approvals directly to many 3rd party services like Trello, Basecamp, Asana, Slack, and Help Scout.
Approvals & Digital Signatures 
When a client is ready to “sign off,” they approve designs by agreeing to terms and providing their digital signature for the system to record.
Custom Design URL and Slug 
Make sharing easier with custom, client friendly and easy to pronounce URLs. Now including the path/slug.
Self Hosted 
Works on your (or your client’s) WordPress installation, so files stay private and secure on your client-friendly, recognizable domain.
Upload images 
Upload single or multiple files of any type supported by WordPress, such as JPEG, GIF, PNG, and BMP.
Image Library 
Organize designs in the WordPress media library for quick sorting and searching.
Password Protection 
Set optional passwords to keep designs private and secure from unwanted visitors.
Annotated Feedback 
Viewers leave comments anywhere on the design so others can view their feedback with context.
Feedback List 
Comments are gathered into a single, easy to reference list of design feedback.

Design Feedback & Approvals

Something that is built really well. Worked flawlessly on our internal PM tool. A feature to discuss, rather than just one sided feedback would be awesome add. 
Loving what I am seeing at the moment.



Awesome

Share designs with clients for feedback and approval.

Alireza Mojarad

Mojarad Screenshot Mockup Carousel is a lightweight WordPress plugin for presenting long website screenshots inside animated desktop and mobile device mockups.
It is designed for portfolio websites, agencies, freelancers, UI/UX designers, product teams, and WordPress developers who want to showcase websites and case studies in a more polished and visual way.
Instead of displaying static screenshots, the plugin places your desktop and mobile screenshots inside responsive device mockups. Long screenshots scroll smoothly inside the device screens, while desktop and mobile slides stay synchronized in one clean carousel.
This creates a modern showcase experience that is useful for:
<ul>
<li>Website portfolios</li>
<li>Client project presentations</li>
<li>UI/UX case studies</li>
<li>Landing page previews</li>
<li>Product showcases</li>
<li>Web app screenshots</li>
<li>WordPress project galleries</li>
</ul>
Version 1.1.0 adds performance improvements for pages that contain multiple showcase shortcodes. It introduces lazy image loading, viewport-based carousel activation, progressive slide loading, skeleton placeholders, and a shortcode slide limit attribute.
The plugin is built with a lightweight frontend architecture and does not depend on heavy slider libraries or external frontend frameworks.
<h4>Key Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Animated desktop and mobile mockups</li>
<li>Smooth auto-scrolling screenshots</li>
<li>Synchronized desktop and mobile slide transitions</li>
<li>Responsive 4:3 showcase layout</li>
<li>Lightweight frontend rendering</li>
<li>Shortcode support</li>
<li>Shortcode slide limit attribute</li>
<li>Lazy image loading</li>
<li>Viewport-based carousel activation</li>
<li>Autoplay pause outside viewport</li>
<li>Progressive slide image preloading</li>
<li>Skeleton loading placeholders</li>
<li>Global animation settings</li>
<li>Hover pause support</li>
<li>Automatic image scaling</li>
<li>Drag and drop slide sorting</li>
<li>Theme-independent architecture</li>
<li>Built-in fallback screenshots</li>
<li>Persian language files</li>
</ul>
<h4>Performance Improvements</h4>
Mojarad Screenshot Mockup Carousel is designed to work better on pages that include multiple showcases.
The plugin does not immediately load all showcase images on page load. Instead, it waits until each showcase gets close to the viewport, then loads and activates that showcase.
This helps reduce the initial page load weight when using several showcase shortcodes on the same portfolio page.
Version 1.1.0 includes:
<ul>
<li>Lazy image loading</li>
<li>Carousel activation near viewport</li>
<li>Autoplay pause when outside viewport</li>
<li>Progressive slide image preloading</li>
<li>Skeleton placeholders before images load</li>
<li>Fixed image width and height attributes where possible</li>
</ul>
<h4>Shortcode Usage</h4>
Display all slides:
[mojasmc_showcase id=”1″]
Display only the first two slides:
[mojasmc_showcase id=”1″ limit=”2″]
The limit attribute is useful for portfolio overview pages, archive pages, landing pages, and pages that contain multiple showcases.
If the limit attribute is not provided, all slides will be displayed.
<h4>Recommended Screenshot Workflow</h4>
For the best visual result, use full-page screenshots.
For desktop screenshots, it is recommended to use the GoFullPage Chrome extension to capture full-length website screenshots.
Long screenshots create smoother scrolling animations inside the desktop mockup.
For mobile screenshots, full-page continuous screenshots are recommended as well. Many Samsung devices support long screenshot capture natively. Other devices may require browser tools or third-party applications depending on the operating system.
Recommended workflow:
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<li>Capture a full-page desktop screenshot.</li>
<li>Capture a full-page mobile screenshot.</li>
<li>Add both images to the same slide.</li>
<li>Keep each desktop and mobile image pair related to the same page or section.</li>
<li>Repeat for additional slides.</li>
</ol>
<h4>Built-in Fallback Images</h4>
If a slide is missing a desktop or mobile screenshot, the plugin automatically displays a built-in fallback image.
This keeps the showcase layout stable even if one image is not provided.
<h4>Global Settings</h4>
The plugin includes a global settings page where you can customize the showcase behavior and controls.
Available settings include:
<ul>
<li>Arrow color</li>
<li>Arrow background color</li>
<li>Arrow hover background color</li>
<li>Dot color</li>
<li>Active dot color</li>
<li>Scroll duration</li>
<li>Start hold</li>
<li>End hold</li>
<li>Autoplay</li>
<li>Pause on hover</li>
<li>Device shadow</li>
<li>Maximum showcase width</li>
<li>Controls position</li>
</ul>
<h4>Perfect For</h4>
<ul>
<li>Freelancers</li>
<li>Agencies</li>
<li>Portfolio websites</li>
<li>Product showcases</li>
<li>Case studies</li>
<li>UI/UX presentations</li>
<li>Creative studios</li>
<li>WordPress developers</li>
</ul>

Mojarad Screenshot Mockup Carousel

Create animated website showcases using smooth scrolling desktop and mobile mockups.

Design Feedback & Approvals vs Mojarad Screenshot Mockup Carousel