Kingston Duffie

Slickstream

<p>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.</p>
<p>Slickstream users get unlimited access to all of our tools, including:<br />
– Responsive <em>as-you-type search</em> with a heap of advanced features that your visitors will love<br />
– Customizable <em>recommendation carousels and grids</em> backed by real data<br />
– Hassle-free <em>content favoriting</em> to keep your visitors coming back<br />
– A robust <em>analytics portal</em> with engagement insights you can actually use</p>
<h3>The Slickstream Difference</h3>
<p>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.</p>
<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>
<p>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.</p>
<h4>How will Slickstream help me?</h4>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<h4>Do You Support Languages Other Than English?</h4>
<p>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.</p>
<h4>Where can I learn more about Slickstream?</h4>
<p>You can find more information about Slickstream at our website: <a href="https://slickstream.com" rel="nofollow ugc">https://slickstream.com</a>.</p>
<h4>How can I report security bugs?</h4>
<p>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></p>


Slickstream: Engagement and Conversions

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

Kirtikumar Solanki

<p><strong>Like Dislike, Star Ratings, Favorites & Post Views & Share – Posts, Comments, Products</strong> is a lightweight, user-friendly plugin that lets users engage with posts, comments, and WooCommerce products using <strong>Like</strong>, <strong>Dislike</strong>, <strong>Star Rating</strong>, <strong>Post View Tracking</strong>, and <strong>Favorites</strong> (wishlist-like system).</p>
<p>Built with performance in mind, the plugin uses AJAX for seamless interaction and offers customization for labels, icon colors, display positions, view counters, tooltips, and more.</p>
<blockquote>
<p>⚠️ <strong>Note:</strong> The product star rating system in this plugin is a <strong>custom-built functionality using its own database table</strong>, not the default WooCommerce or WordPress rating/comments meta. This ensures better performance and independent control over ratings.</p>
</blockquote>
<h3>🎯 Key Features</h3>
<h4>🔥 Code Optimization (Added in 2.6)</h4>
<ul>
<li>I have Optimizate code of this plugin</li>
</ul>
<h4>🔥 Added set default options (Added in 2.5)</h4>
<ul>
<li>Introduced a new “Set Default Options” panel to automatically pre-configure recommended plugin settings.</li>
<li>Allows users to quickly apply optimal defaults with a single click.</li>
</ul>
<h4>🔥 Added user activity shortcodes for displaying engagement history (Added in 2.4)</h4>
<ul>
<li><code>[ldppp_user_history]</code> – Shows all user activity (likes, dislikes, ratings, and comment votes).</li>
<li><code>[ldppp_user_likes]</code> – Displays all liked or disliked posts/products by the user.</li>
<li><code>[ldppp_user_ratings]</code> – Lists all user-given ratings with average rating details.</li>
<li><code>[ldppp_user_comment_votes]</code> – Shows comment like/dislike history.</li>
<li>Added simple, responsive layout for displaying user activity lists.</li>
</ul>
<h4>🔥 New Admin columns functionality (Added in 2.3)</h4>
<ul>
<li>Admin columns (Likes, Dislikes, Ratings, Reads) now display only for selected post types.</li>
<li>Ratings column shows average rating instead of sum (e.g., 3.5/5).</li>
<li>Comment Likes/Dislikes columns can be enabled via backend option.</li>
<li>Fully supports WooCommerce products with proper column alignment.</li>
<li>Read count tracking added per post/product.</li>
<li>Default values displayed when no data exists; ratings rounded to 1 decimal.</li>
</ul>
<h4>🔥 Update Design (Added in 2.2)</h4>
<ul>
<li>Update uninstall file code and remove tables and options data when uninstall</li>
<li>Fixed ratings structure</li>
</ul>
<h4>🔥 Progress / Ratio Bars (Added in 2.1)</h4>
<ul>
<li>Added <strong>Like/Dislike ratio bars</strong> for posts and comments.</li>
<li>Added <strong>Rating ratio bar</strong> for star ratings.</li>
<li>Ratio bars visually show the percentage difference between likes/dislikes and rating scores.</li>
<li>Smoothly updates instantly when user interacts (AJAX powered).</li>
<li>Fully responsive and inherits theme styles for smooth integration.</li>
<li>Added admin settings for ratio bar options</li>
</ul>
<h4>🔗 Update Admin UI (Added in 2.0)</h4>
<ul>
<li>Admin settings now include a dedicated Social Share tab in the plugin settings page.</li>
<li>Added custom text field to display a label before the share icon (e.g., “Share this post:”).</li>
<li>Improved admin UI for better usability and tab navigation.</li>
<li>Bug fixes and minor improvements for like/dislike and ratings system.</li>
</ul>
<h4>🔗 Social Share Buttons (Added in 1.9)</h4>
<ul>
<li>Add share icon automatically after post/product content.</li>
<li>Modern popup showing popular share platforms (Facebook, X/Twitter, LinkedIn, WhatsApp, Telegram, Pinterest, Reddit, Tumblr, Email, Copy Link).</li>
<li>Admin setting to select which post types display the share button.</li>
<li>Uses Font Awesome/Dashicons for platform icons.</li>
<li>Works responsively on all devices.</li>
</ul>
<h4>❤️ Add to Favorites (Added in 1.8)</h4>
<ul>
<li>New: Added <strong>Shortcode:</strong> <code>[ldppp_user_history]</code> to display logged-in user’s interaction history.</li>
<li>New: Display user’s Likes and Dislikes with post type labels (Post, Product, Page, or CPT).</li>
<li>New: Show Ratings history with post/product title, rating value, and post type.</li>
<li>New: Show Comment Votes history including comment excerpt, related post link, post type, and user’s action (Like/Dislike).</li>
<li>Display a <strong>heart icon</strong> at the end of post content.</li>
<li>Users can <strong>add/remove posts to/from favorites</strong> with one click.</li>
<li>Supports <strong>all custom post types (CPTs)</strong>.</li>
<li>Admin settings to:
<ul>
<li>Enable/Disable Favorites feature.</li>
<li>Select which post types display Favorites.</li>
<li>Customize label text for Favorites.</li>
<li>Set active and inactive heart icon colors.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><strong>Shortcode:</strong> <code>[ldppp_user_favorites]</code>
<ul>
<li>Display a logged-in user’s favorites list on any page or section.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Tooltip support for Favorites icon.</li>
</ul>
<h4>👍 Like / 👎 Dislike Buttons</h4>
<ul>
<li>Interactive Like and Dislike buttons for posts, comments, and products.</li>
<li><strong>Choose how counts are displayed</strong> – Numbers or Percentages.</li>
<li>Customize labels and icon colors.</li>
<li>Optionally hide counts for Likes and Dislikes.</li>
<li>Dynamic option to select which post types display Like/Dislike.</li>
<li>Restrict voting to logged-in users only (optional).</li>
</ul>
<h4>⭐ Star Ratings System</h4>
<ul>
<li>Display 1–5 star rating on posts and WooCommerce products.</li>
<li>Custom product rating system using its own database table.</li>
<li>Option to hide star ratings on post detail pages.</li>
<li>Show average rating instantly with AJAX.</li>
<li>Restrict ratings to logged-in users (optional).</li>
</ul>
<h4>👁️ Post View / Read Tracking</h4>
<ul>
<li>Enable post view/read counter with anti-spam options.</li>
<li>Prevent multiple counts from the same IP.</li>
<li>Configure how much content (%) must be read before counting.</li>
<li>Configure how much time (seconds) must be spent before counting.</li>
<li>Choose how to display views – as icons or text.</li>
<li>Meta box inside post/product edit screen shows:
<ul>
<li>Likes  </li>
<li>Dislikes  </li>
<li>Views  </li>
<li>Ratings  </li>
<li>Favorites  </li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<h4>⚡ AJAX-Powered Interaction</h4>
<ul>
<li>All actions (like/dislike/star/view/favorites) run without page reload.</li>
<li>Real-time updates for user feedback.</li>
</ul>
<h4>🛡️ Anti-Spam & Access Control</h4>
<ul>
<li>Restrict multiple votes/views/favorites via IP, cookies, or user login.</li>
<li>Allow/disallow guest voting or favorites.</li>
<li>Restrict features to logged-in users (optional).</li>
</ul>
<h4>🎨 Highly Customizable</h4>
<ul>
<li>Custom label text for Like/Dislike buttons (posts, products, comments).</li>
<li>Custom label text for Favorites.</li>
<li>Icon color controls for Like, Dislike, and Favorites (active/inactive).</li>
<li>Counter display type (Number or Percentage).</li>
<li>Position controls: before/after content or buttons.</li>
<li>View counter display as <strong>Icon</strong> or <strong>Text</strong>.</li>
<li>Fully responsive and theme-compatible.</li>
</ul>
<h4>💬 Comments Reactions</h4>
<ul>
<li>Enable comment Like/Dislike voting.</li>
<li>Custom label for comment buttons (e.g., “Was this comment helpful?”).</li>
<li>Restrict to logged-in users or allow guests.</li>
</ul>
<h4>🧰 Developer-Friendly</h4>
<ul>
<li>Clean, lightweight code.</li>
<li>Includes hooks and filters for developers.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Privacy & Supported Networks</h3>
<p>This plugin itself does not collect or send any personal data to external servers.<br />
All Likes, Dislikes, Ratings, Favorites, and Post View counts are stored locally in your WordPress database.</p>
<p>The social share buttons included in the plugin redirect users to external platforms. These platforms may collect data according to their own privacy policies. The following external services are used to enable sharing:</p>
<p>  Network<br />
  Share URL<br />
  Privacy Policy</p>
<p>  Facebook<br />
  https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php<br />
  <a href="https://www.facebook.com/policy.php" rel="nofollow ugc">Privacy Policy</a></p>
<p>  Twitter<br />
  https://twitter.com/intent/tweet<br />
  <a href="https://twitter.com/privacy" rel="nofollow ugc">Privacy Policy</a></p>
<p>  LinkedIn<br />
  https://www.linkedin.com/shareArticle<br />
  <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy" rel="nofollow ugc">Privacy Policy</a></p>
<p>  Pinterest<br />
  <a data-pin-do="embedPin" href="https://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/" rel="nofollow ugc"></a><br />
  <a href="https://policy.pinterest.com/en/privacy-policy" rel="nofollow ugc">Privacy Policy</a></p>
<p>  WhatsApp<br />
  https://api.whatsapp.com/send<br />
  <a href="https://www.whatsapp.com/legal/privacy-policy" rel="nofollow ugc">Privacy Policy</a></p>
<p>  Gmail<br />
  https://mail.google.com/mail/<br />
  <a href="https://policies.google.com/privacy" rel="nofollow ugc">Privacy Policy</a></p>
<p>  Telegram<br />
  https://t.me/share/url<br />
  <a href="https://telegram.org/privacy" rel="nofollow ugc">Privacy Policy</a></p>
<p>  Reddit<br />
  https://www.reddit.com/submit<br />
  <a href="https://www.redditinc.com/policies/privacy-policy" rel="nofollow ugc">Privacy Policy</a></p>
<p>  Tumblr<br />
  https://www.tumblr.com/widgets/share/tool<br />
  <a href="https://www.tumblr.com/policy/en/privacy" rel="nofollow ugc">Privacy Policy</a></p>
<p>  Email<br />
  Uses browser-based default email client<br />
  No external service</p>
<p>  Print<br />
  Opens the print dialog in the user’s browser<br />
  No external service</p>
<p>  Copy<br />
  Copies the current page URL to clipboard<br />
  No external service</p>
<blockquote>
<p>⚠️ Note: Email, Print, and Copy actions are handled locally in the user’s browser. The plugin never sends this data to any external service.</p>
</blockquote>
<h3>Credits</h3>
<p>Developed by <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/solankisoftware/" rel="nofollow ugc">Kirtikumar Solanki</a>.<br />
Donations welcome via <a href="https://paypal.me/kirtikumar89" rel="nofollow ugc">PayPal</a>.</p>


Like Dislike, Star Ratings, Favorites & Post Views & Share – Posts, Comments, Products


This plugin makes it super easy to add like/dislike buttons and ratings that actually encourage users to engage. Clean design, works smoothly with posts and products, and setup takes minutes.


Boosts Interaction Instantly

Add AJAX Like/Dislike, star ratings, post views, comment reactions, and favorites, share for posts or WooCommerce products to boost engagement.

Slickstream: Engagement and Conversions vs Like Dislike, Star Ratings, Favorites & Post Views & Share – Posts, Comments, Products