Kingston Duffie

Slickstream

This plugin is for <a href="https://www.slickstream.com" rel="nofollow ugc">Slickstream</a> customers. It adds our embed code and key metadata into your webpages without affecting site speed or performance.
Slickstream users get unlimited access to all of our tools, including: 
– Responsive as-you-type search with a heap of advanced features that your visitors will love 
– Customizable recommendation carousels and grids backed by real data 
– Hassle-free content favoriting to keep your visitors coming back 
– A robust analytics portal with engagement insights you can actually use
<h3>The Slickstream Difference</h3>
What makes Slickstream different is that we handle the hard work for you. We sit outside of WordPress, which means when you sign up we build a model of your site and use it to populate all of our search and recommendation tools. Then you pick the ones you want to use, flip a switch, and we’re live! Your site can be running Slickstream tomorrow, with no complicated technical implementation required.
<h3>What’s Included</h3>
<ul>
<li>Floating Search: Search with Slickstream on any page</li>
<li>Hooked Search Buttons: Automatically link your existing search to Slickstream</li>
<li>Inline Search Module: As-you-type search results displaying on page</li>
<li>Infinite Filmstrip: Content recommendations placed above posts</li>
<li>Filmstrip Toolbar: Sticky recommendations that display on scroll</li>
<li>Content Grid: Flexible recommendation module that can be placed anywhere</li>
<li>Floating Favorites: Interactive content bookmarking with no sign-in required</li>
<li>Floating Back-to-Top: Simple option to return to top of content</li>
<li>Web Story Player: Full site integrations for existing web stories</li>
<li>Campaigns: Incorporate custom objectives into user experience (business only)</li>
<li>Analytics Portal: Robust insights into both Slickstream statistics and general</li>
</ul>
<h3>General Features and Integrations:</h3>
<ul>
<li>Supports all major themes and editors</li>
<li>Search or recommend content across multiple domains</li>
<li>Multi-language search results supported</li>
<li>Configurable GDPR settings</li>
<li>Designed for accessibility compliance</li>
<li>Client-side API available</li>
<li>Email provider integrations (MailChimp, ConvertKit, ActiveCampaign)</li>
<li>First-party data integration with advertising networks</li>
<li>Google Analytics integration</li>
<li>Recipe card integrations (WP Recipe Maker, Tasty Recipes)</li>
<li>E-commerce integration (Shopify)</li>
</ul>
<h3>Configuration Options:</h3>
<ul>
<li>Pre-made templates to choose from</li>
<li>Granular look and feel controls</li>
<li>Custom messaging on all text prompts</li>
<li>Attribution removal (additional charge)</li>
<li>Built-in CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift) handling</li>
<li>Optional opt-in email collection</li>
<li>Optional advertising slot inclusions</li>
</ul>
<h3>Search and Recommendation Details:</h3>
<ul>
<li>Search by category, content type, or author</li>
<li>Default sort by relevance, date, or popularity</li>
<li>Custom result weighting in search and recommendations</li>
<li>Manual categorization and content grouping control</li>
<li>Exclude results by category, content type, or individual posts</li>
<li>Custom taxonomies supported</li>
<li>Progressively detailed results including metadata</li>
<li>Automatic content grouping in results</li>
<li>Fuzzy matching and typo forgiveness</li>
<li>Highlighted search terms in results</li>
<li>Structured data search experience for ingredients or supplies</li>
<li>All search queries recorded in analytics</li>
</ul>
<h3>FAQs</h3>
<h4>What is Slickstream?</h4>
Slickstream is a sophisticated market-leading user engagement suite designed for independent publishers. It helps you turn casual visitors into loyal readers that return again and again through intelligent as-you-type search, content recommendations, favoriting and membership capabilities, email sign-up, and other useful features. You can easily design captivating user journeys that lead visitors to exactly what they’re looking for. The result is higher pageviews, time-on-page, click-throughs, and return visits. As if that isn’t enough, Slickstream’s reporting gives deep insights into its performance and how your visitors are interacting on your site, far beyond what you can see in Google Analytics.
<h4>How will Slickstream help me?</h4>
Slickstream helps you to get the most out of the traffic that visits your site by turning casual visitors into loyal readers, increasing ad revenue.
Customizable features complement your brand and create a more premium site experience. The powerful recommendation engine serves up the best content to your readers so they spend more time on your site. Slickstream also saves you time, money and hassle from not having to rely on developers, multiple products, or other resources to do a bunch of manual site customization handled with one simple Slickstream installation.
Worried about first-party data? Slickstream helps with that too! Slickstream helps you authenticate traffic and build first-party data with logged-in site visitors.
Slickstream also offers an email sign-up feature that you can use to collect email addresses, but you can seamlessly use your existing email subscription method too. Slicksteam’s Highlighter feature draws attention to any element of your site you choose and has proven to significantly improve conversions.
<h4>Do You Support Languages Other Than English?</h4>
Yes we do. Our underlying recommendation technology is not English-specific, and we have already localized the Engagement Suite for German, Portuguese, Spanish, Dutch, French, Norwegian, Swedish, Croatian, Russian, Danish, Arabic, Hebrew, Japanese and more. <a href="https://www.slickstream.com/contact" rel="nofollow ugc">Reach out to us</a> and we can confirm if we support your language too.
<h4>Where can I learn more about Slickstream?</h4>
You can find more information about Slickstream at our website: <a href="https://slickstream.com" rel="nofollow ugc">https://slickstream.com</a>.
<h4>How can I report security bugs?</h4>
You can report security bugs through the Patchstack Vulnerability Disclosure Program. The Patchstack team helps validate, triage and handle any security vulnerabilities. <a href="https://patchstack.com/database/vdp/a5ba44ba-8ef4-4d10-a395-b0589af7d09e" rel="nofollow ugc">Report a security vulnerability.</a>

Slickstream: Engagement and Conversions

Use Slickstream to upgrade your site search. Get beautiful as-you-type search, relevant content recommendations, user favorites and more!

Kyle Phillips

Why Favorites?
Favorites is designed for end users and theme developers. It provides an easy-to-use API for adding favorite button functionality to any post type.
The plugin can provide a way to save favorites, likes, bookmarks, or any other similar types of data with its customizable button text.
Visit <a href="http://favoriteposts.com" rel="nofollow ugc">favoriteposts.com</a> for a full list of available template functions and shortcodes.
Features
Use with Any Post Type – Enable or disable favorite functionality per post type while automatically adding a favorite button before and/or after the content. Or, use the included functions to display the button anywhere in your template.
Available for All Users – Don’t want to hide functionality behind a login? Favorites includes an option to save anonymous users’ favorites by either Session or Cookie. Logged-In users’ favorites are also saved as user meta
Designed for Developers – Favorites works great out-of-the-box for beginners, but a full set of template functions unlocks just about any sort of custom functionality developers may need. Favorites outputs the minimum amount of markup needed, putting the style and control in your hands.
GDPR
As of version 2.2, a setting is provided to help comply with GDPR standards. To enable this setting, visit Settings > Favorites > Users, and check the field under “User Cookie Consent.” When this setting is enabled, the content saved under the setting displays in a modal window, and the user must agree to the terms you provide before favorite cookies can be saved. Note: There is no language provided by default. This should be supplied by a qualified attorney or legal entity. Once the user has approved or denied cookies, that is saved in the “simplefavorites” cookie along with the timestamp of approval or denial. If the site is part of a multi-site installation, the setting will carry through to all sites.
If your site already has a cookie compliance solution in place, there are two document-level jQuery events that may be triggered in order to approve or deny cookies in the background.
To approve the use of cookies, trigger the event “favorites-user-consent-approved”. To deny the use of cookies, trigger the event “favorites-user-consent-denied”.
Multisite Compatible – As of version 1.1.0, Favorites is multisite compatible. User favorites are saved on a site/blog basis, and may be retrieved and displayed across sites.
For more information visit <a href="http://favoriteposts.com" rel="nofollow ugc">favoriteposts.com</a>.
Important: Favorites requires WordPress version 3.8 or higher, and PHP version 5.4 or higher.
<h3>Usage</h3>
Favorite Button
The favorite button can be added automatically to the content by enabling specific post types in the plugin settings. It may also be added to template files or through the content editor using the included functions or shortcodes. The post id may be left blank in all cases if inside the loop. The site id parameter is optional, for use in multisite installations (defaults to current site).
<ul>
<li>Get function: <code>get_favorites_button($post_id, $site_id)</code></li>
<li>Print function: <code>the_favorites_button($post_id, $site_id)</code></li>
<li>Shortcode: <code>[favorite_button post_id="" site_id=""]</code></li>
</ul>
Favorite Count (by Post)
Total favorites for each post are saved as a simple integer. If a user unfavorites a post, this count is updated. Anonymous users’ favorites count towards the total by default, but may be disabled via the plugin settings. The post id may be left blank in all cases if inside the loop.
<ul>
<li>Get function: <code>get_favorites_count($post_id)</code></li>
<li>Print function: <code>the_favorites_count($post_id)</code></li>
<li>Shortcode: <code>[favorite_count post_id=""]</code></li>
</ul>
Favorite Count (by User) 
Displays the total number of favorites a user has favorited. Template functions accept the same filters parameter as the user favorites functions.
<ul>
<li>Get function: <code>get_user_favorites_count($user_id, $site_id, $filters)</code></li>
<li>Print function: <code>the_user_favorites_count($user_id, $site_id, $filters)</code></li>
<li>Shortcode: <code>[user_favorites user_id="" site_id="" post_types=""]</code></li>
</ul>
User Favorites
User favorites are stored as an array of post ids. Logged-in users’ favorites are stored as a custom user meta field, while anonymous users’ favorites are stored in either the session or browser cookie (configurable in the plugin settings). If the user id parameter is omitted, the favorites default to the current user. The site id parameter is optional, for use in multisite installations (defaults to current site).
<ul>
<li>Get function (returns array of IDs): <code>get_user_favorites($user_id, $site_id)</code></li>
<li>Get function (returns html list): <code>get_user_favorites_list($user_id, $site_id, $include_links, $filters, $include_button, $include_thumbnails = false, $thumbnail_size = 'thumbnail', $include_excerpt = false)</code></li>
<li>Print function (prints an html list): <code>the_user_favorites_list($user_id, $site_id, $include_links, $filters, $include_button, $include_thumbnails = false, $thumbnail_size = 'thumbnail', $include_excerpt = false)</code></li>
<li>Shortcode (prints an html list, with the option of omitting links): `[user_favorites user_id=”” include_links=”true” site_id=”” include_buttons=”false” post_types=”post” include_thumbnails=”false” thumbnail_size=”thumbnail” include_excerpt=”false”]</li>
</ul>
List Users Who Have Favorited a Post
Display a list of users who have favorited a specific post. If the user id parameter is omitted, the favorites default to the current user. The site id parameter is optional, for use in multisite installations (defaults to current site). The get function returns an array of user objects.
<ul>
<li>Get function (returns array of User Objects): <code>get_users_who_favorited_post($post_id, $site_id)</code></li>
<li>Print function (prints an html list): <code>the_users_who_favorited_post($post_id = null, $site_id = null, $separator = 'list', $include_anonymous = true, $anonymous_label = 'Anonymous Users', $anonymous_label_single = 'Anonymous User')</code></li>
<li>Shortcode (prints an html list): `[post_favorites post_id=”” site_id=”” separator=”list” include_anonymous=”true” anonymous_label=”Anonymous Users” anonymous_label_single=”Anonymous User”]</li>
</ul>
Clear Favorites Button
Displays a button that allows users to clear all of their favorites.
<ul>
<li>Get function: <code>get_clear_favorites_button($site_id, $text)</code></li>
<li>Print function: <code>the_clear_favorites_button($site_id, $text)</code></li>
<li>Shortcode: `[clear_favorites_button site_id=”” text=”Clear Favorites”]</li>
</ul>
Favorite Count (Across all Posts) 
Displays the total number of favorites for a given site.
<ul>
<li>Get function: <code>get_total_favorites_count($site_id)</code></li>
<li>Print function: <code>the_total_favorites_count($site_id)</code></li>
</ul>

Favorites

Works really well thanks for the great plugin!

The only thing its missing is a way to add the Post ID in the results.

This would be so useful for utilising this to pull in more advanced information easily when using other plugins with conditionals etc.

Thanks

Brilliant plugin

Favorites for any post type. Easily add favoriting/liking, wishlists, or any other similar functionality using the developer-friendly API.

Slickstream: Engagement and Conversions vs Favorites