Love It

Love It is a simple plugin that adds a “Love It” link to your posts, pages, and custom post types. It works similar to Facebook’s Like button, but is exclusive to your website. It provides a great way for users to show their appreciation, and for you to gain a good idea of which posts are your most popular.

The plugin includes a simple widget to show your “Most Loved” items.

This plugin is based of the tutorial I published on creating a simple Love It plugin

The demonstration video for the tutorial and the plugin is below:

An improved Pro version of the plugin is available. Features of the pro version include:

• Show Love It links automatically
• Track your most popular posts, pages, and custom post types
• Setup in less than 5 minutes
• Enabled / disable for every registered post type
• Customize the text displayed for links and “already loved” messages
• Users can only love posts/pages once
• Works for logged-in and logged-out users
• Most Loved widget included
• No coding necessary
• Custom CSS option for advanced users
• Embed help documentation in plugin settings
• Easy to use template tags for developers

1. Upload love-it to wp-content/plugins
2. Click “Activate” in the WordPress plugins menu
3. A “Love It” link will be automatically added to the bottom of all posts / pages
4. Love It links are displayed to logged-in users only.

Can non-logged-in users Love items?

No, not at this time. The ability for non-logged-in users to Love items with JS cookies will be added to the pro version soon.

Can I enabled the Love It link on only some post types?

In the pro version you can.

1.0.5

• Fix: PHP 4 style constructors
• Fix: Undefined indexes when first adding widget to sidebar

1.0.4

• Tested for compatibility with WordPress 4.0
• Added missing esc_attr() calls

1.0.3

• Added new li_display_love_links_on filter that can be used to modify the post types the Love It links display on
• Load the text domain on “init”

1.0.1

• Added the li_love_link($love_text = null, $loved_text = null) function
• Made it so the li_love_link() function can be used on index / archive pages
• Updated to JS to work with archive views

1.0

• Initial release