I Recommend / Like this Plugin for WordPress

I Recommend/Like this plugin for WordPress

- taking forward the work of Benoit “LeBen” Burgener

This plugin allows your visitors to simply Recommend/like your posts instead of commment it. I wanted a tumblr like feature and wanted something similar for WordPress.

Background

Benoit “LeBen” Burgener had created a similar plugin http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/i-like-this/ that works similarly like the like feature on tumblr. However its development has been discontinued. I had customized the CSS of this plugin to make it work a little more like tumblr and had requests by few other developers the code. So after taking permission from Benoit for further development of the plugin I have recently applied at WordPress to create a new plugin with the updated code.

This plugin include

  • A counter/button to display the number of “like” and to vote.
  • A widget and a function to display the X most liked posts.
  • A preference pane with some options

If you are interested in this plugin (the way its used on this website, simply leave a comment below with your email so I could get back to you with the download file)

 

UPDATE:

You can download this from here http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/i-recommend-this/

Please post your comments so we can enhance this plugin together as  a community.

 

UPDATE: Version 1.4

If you wish to customize the link color, recommend image (heart), you can do so by using below classes in your style sheet. make sure to add !important to every style.

.iRecommendThis
a.recommendThis
a.recommendThis.active

  • krembo99@yahoo.com

    Have you ever gotten into developing that plugin ??

  • http://www.gls-scouts.org.uk Paul

    Hi, we have been using this plugin for a while but as a result of recent updates to WP it stopped working, would love to get it working agian.

  • http://www.harishchouhan.com Harish

    @ kremboo99 & Paul,
    So far I only fixed a small bug pointed out by another user and modified the CSS to make it more like tumblr.

    I would be updating and releasing the code on WordPress.org by end of next week.

  • Tony

    Hey please can you send me the link to download it as well? My email it’s in the comment form e-mail field.Thanks!

  • http://wilfrid.me Wilfrid

    Hi,
    Can i have a copy of your updating code ?
    Thanks

  • mutty

    Yes please! Are you pulling through with your plan? When can we expect to see updates? Exciting…

  • Baltazar

    Hi Harish! Me too I’m very excited about the updated plugin.

    Any fresh news by any chance? :)

  • http://www.bloggerseed.com Shameer

    Hello Harish,
    Can u pls send me the “i like ithis ” plugind download link to above e-mail Id

  • http://www.allthingshomerelated.com Ronda

    I cannot get the words “I recommend this” to show up on the bottom of my post. It is only showing a “heart”. I have changed the option from Image to text and saved my changes, but it only shows the image. Have I done something wrong in my installation? Thanks.

  • http://www.allthingshomerelated.com Ronda

    Your update solved my problem. Thank you!

  • Simon Hudson

    Hello….

    Please can you send me the updated Plugin to please.

    My website is only allowing me to like a post once, It wont allow anymore?

    S

  • Eva

    Hey,
    I really really appreciate your plugin! I was wondering if it’s possible to add a hover class for the image? Is this something that needs to be added in the javascript? I just want to be able to have three different colors (regular, hover and active). Please let me know if you can :)

    Best,
    Eva

  • Eva

    Sorry to be spamming, but just to give an example, I wanted to accomplish something like the like/heart button in this post http://demo.themezilla.com/memo/post-formats/
    when you hover over it, the background image changes too, as opposed to just the link…

  • KD

    I would also like the same functionality and look as Eva. If you reply instructions to her, could you also send them to me? Thanks!

  • http://www.harishchouhan.com Harish

    @Eva & @KD, please check the update. You can use the class to overwrite the styles.

  • http://blog.lemmymobile.com/ lemmy morgan

    help me on how to remove this plugin it has jusr crashed my blog am receiving the following errors in my blog http://blog.lemmymobile.com. please help me where should i go to get this fixed

    • http://www.harishchouhan.com Harish

      Hello can you paste the errors here so I can try to find the reason.

  • http://blog.gil-galad.com Derek Java

    Crashed my blog, too. Here is the error:

    Fatal error: Cannot redeclare setoptionsirt() (previously declared in /home/content/i/w/e/iween25/html/blog/wp-content/plugins/i-recommend-this/i-recommend-this.php:29) in /home/content/i/w/e/iween25/html/blog/wp-content/plugins/i-recommend-this/i-recommend-this.php on line 417

    And you can see that if you visit my blog. Address linked in form.

    • http://www.harishchouhan.com Harish

      The bug is now fixed. Do update with latest version 1.4.2

  • http://hamedt.com/ Hamed

    hi, there is a problem when i click on recomment it the button show me :
    1 recommended
    but when i refresh the page the text was gone and just show the number:
    1
    please fix it and email me .
    thanks for your usefull plugin…

  • Joe

    Hello

    Is it possible to have a widget which can show an individual users favorited posts (when logged in), like the WP Favorite Posts (by Huseyin Berberoglu – http://nxsn.com), also, it would be great if users could see other users favorites as well, any possibility of this in later releases? Thanks,

    Kind regards, Joe

    • http://www.harishchouhan.com Harish

      Hello Joe,
      The feature you require could certainly be made. It would take some time as this is something I work in my free time but I have noted this so will start experimenting with it soon.

  • http://shop.studioreforma.com Boyan

    Hi,
    I’m using the I Like This plugin on my site, but as it is discontinued, I would like to switch to this one. Will the current count of “likes” be preserved when I do this?

    • http://www.harishchouhan.com Harish

      @Boyan,
      The code was changed and to avoid errors and to avoid errors the naming conventions were changed too.
      However if you do know how to modify a MySQL database, you can change the names of all fields in the database based on the new plugin and that way your data won’t be lost.

  • nk

    hello,

    thanks so much for continuing on with this plugin. great work! would you be able to provide the code needed to add the sidebar widget directly into the template file please?

    thanks in advance.

  • Dyllan Khawam

    Hello,
    Is there a possibility of accessing the data file, as in the amount of likes per certain post? To decrease/Increase?

    • harishchouhan

      Hello Dyllan. The only way to do that would be to modify the database directly.

  • Karl

    Hi, thanks for this plugin, started trying it out recently.

    Just noticed an error message today:

    Warning: Division by zero in / … /wp-content/plugins/i-recommend-this/i-recommend-this.php on line 393

    Using v 1.4.5 of plugin and v 3.4.2 of WP.

    • http://www.harishchouhan.com Harish

      Hello Karl,

      This seems to be a strange error. Can you try disabling other plugins and test again if it works?
      The line on which you mentioned about an error is from the analytic sub plugin. If you could edit the plugin manually, I would suggest you delete, I would suggest you delete lines from 367 to 416 in the i-recommend-this.php file and that should fix your error.

  • betoevangelisti

    I have a problem, the plugin load jquery 1.7.2, can i disable this? Thanks

    • harishchouhan

      Hello. A new version of the plugin would be added to WordPress.org within next 2 days. I would suggest you wait until then. The new version has very modular code and also more efficient.

  • aideen

    Hi,

    So far great plugin. Thank you. I’m using it to create simple like counter at the bottom of my posts in my blog, but can’t figure out how to change the location so it sits under the meta tags rather than above. Ideally I would like it to float above the comments div. Can you help me?

    Thanks,
    Aideen
    http://www.aideenmcfadden.com

    • harishchouhan

      Hello,

      Please wait for few hours. I am about to commit a major revamp of the plugin on WordPress.org. Once its up, you would be able to add the counter where ever you wish in the template using a code.

  • http://www.facebook.com/bryant.williams Bryant Williams

    Thanks for a the plugin. A few notes…

    1. put the shortcode and function examples on the installation page, on the FAQ, and on this page. The only place they are listed right now is in the wordpress configuration after installation.

    2. the shortcode listed on that configuration page is wrong. you changed it to “dot_recommends”

    3. some functionality I added that you might want to include is specifying a specific post id. With this you can put the like button for a specific post/page anywhere even when not in the loop. To do that you need to add the param to the allowed shortcode attrs, add the paramater to dot_recommend, and fix the post id references in dot_recommend. Relevant code below

    function shortcode( $atts ) {
    extract(shortcode_atts(array(‘id’ => null), $atts));
    return $this->dot_recommend($id);
    }

    function dot_recommend($id=null)
    $post_ID = $id ? $id : get_the_ID();
    change $post->ID to $post_ID in two places

    • harishchouhan

      Bryant, thank you so much for sharing the code. I definitely would update the plugin with this code and also update the help pages. If there is anything else you could suggest, please feel free.

    • harishchouhan

      Hello Bryant, Do you have to check updated code? Would love to have your inputs before I publish to the WP repo.

      Also regarding the ID, how would you add a shortcode with the ID in it?

  • http://www.facebook.com/marianna.hw Marian Hillmar

    Hey,

    love that plugin, but I get some strange errors after updating a post, it shows me:

    Warning: call_user_func_array() expects parameter 1 to be a valid callback, class ‘DOT_IRecommendThis’ does not have a method ‘dot_setup_recommends’ in /wp-includes/plugin.php on line 403

    and

    Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at wp-includes/plugin.php:403) in wp-includes/pluggable.php on line 881

    how can I fix that?

    Thanks a lot.

    • harishchouhan

      Hello Marian,

      Thank you for letting me know. I have been able to replicate that error too. The fix is simple, if you want to do it yourself let me know or else if you wait for a day I would be submitting a new fixed version on WordPress.

      • http://www.facebook.com/marianna.hw Marian Hillmar

        Thanks a lot!!!!! I’m gonna wait for a day.

      • harishchouhan

        I hope you have downloaded the latest version

  • riverlan

    how display the X most liked posts without widget?

    • harishchouhan

      You would have to do database query for that in your theme. I would suggest creating a widget area(sidebar) instead and then adding the widget into it.

  • Nicolas Mollet

    Great plugin, thanks for continuing Benoit’s work.

    Disabling CSS doesn’t work. Checking or unchecking the “Disable CSS” checkbox has no effect. Can you please fix it?
    Kind regards

    • harishchouhan

      Thanks for your kind words Nicolas. I will test and submit the updated code on WordPress within a day.

    • harishchouhan

      The issue is fixed in an update pushed right now. You would be able to update it soon. If you want to download the files now, please use this link http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/i-recommend-this.2.1.2.zip

      • Nicolas Mollet

        Thanks a lot Harish. It seems to work as expected.

  • Mohammad

    Hi,
    I’ve been using “I Like This” plugin for a while and I was looking for a widget that displays most liked posts on the first page and found yours. It looks great but is there any way to import the likes from “I like this” to your plugin? I can use the database if you tell me the table names.
    Thanks

    • http://twitter.com/harishchouhan Harish Chouhan

      Hey Mohammad,

      Please follow below steps:

      1. If you have already installed my plugin, then delete the database table “irecommendthis_votes”.
      2. Rename table ilikethis_votes to irecommendthis_votes

      And you are good to go. I will try creating an upgrade option in next version but it will take some time.

      • Mohammad

        Hi Harish,

        Thank you for the quick response. I renamed the table and new likes are being appended to the table and everything looks fine when I check the table but the old posts with likes show 0 likes

        Thanks

      • http://twitter.com/harishchouhan Harish Chouhan

        Sorry. Missed one thing.

        You will need to go to postmeta table and change all the meta options where meta_key is “_liked” to “_recommended”.

        Do let me know the MySQL query you use to do this.

      • Mohammad

        Another problem I am facing is that the most recommended posts are not ordered by the number of likes as I check the database. I have a post with 12 likes which is shown before a post with 25 likes.

      • http://twitter.com/harishchouhan Harish Chouhan

        Hi again. Do give me time till this weekend to roll out a updated version to address these issues. Will also look into the other error you mentioned below.

  • Fernando Morales

    Hi, is there a way to limit the like to 1 per ip adress?

    • harishchouhan

      Hello, Yes the plugin does exactly that. One Vote for each post per IP.

  • http://twitter.com/kaayaAIA @

    Hello. Can I resize the heart icon? :D

    • harishchouhan

      Hello Aia, unfortunately nope. However you can add your custom css. Drop me your email or email me using the contact us form on this site with the size you require and will try to send you the code and image this weekend.

  • http://gurgleslurp.com/ C.T. Thomas

    Hi – I’m just getting the number 0 instead of a heart or thumbs up. When clicked, the page just back to the top and the counter stays at 0. I’ve used the plugin on another site (with near identical design) with no problems, so I have no idea what happened.

    Thanks!

    • harishchouhan

      Can you please share the 2 websites, one on which you are facing the issue and the other where its working?

      • http://gurgleslurp.com/ C.T. Thomas
      • harishchouhan

        Hi there.
        I checked both sites. The issue you are facing could be because of absence of JQuery file and also the JavaScript & CSS files of my plugin.
        I am assuming that your theme does not have wp_head in the header. Please check the header of both themes.

      • http://gurgleslurp.com/ C.T. Thomas

        You’re too awesome! That totally fixed it – Thank you so much!!

  • http://www.facebook.com/kelly.lindsay.52 Kelly Lindsay

    Sorry—bit of a novice here… I’ve installed I Recommend This plug in via WordPress and set it for the heart button to appear on all posts, but nothing shows up on existing posts (I haven’t posted anything new since installing the plug-in). Is there something else I’m supposed to do? Do I have to do anything with the Shortcode and Template Tags? And is there a manual or some other instructions I should be reading rather than bothering you with such basic questions? Many thanks!

    • harishchouhan

      Hello Kelly,

      No need to apologize.Can you please post your website link so I can check.

      Once you activate the plugin, from the page you set the hearts option, on the top there is a “Automatically Display” option. You would have to set this for the heart icon to display.

  • http://www.marolinedesign.com/ marolinedesign

    Hi Harish, I’m working on a website and the ‘i recommend this’ heart is working great on their category page or single posts, but not on the home page.. I started a support thread on WP 3 days ago and just wondering if you’ve seen it? It’s prob something really simple.. :-) would appreciate any feedback: http://wordpress.org/support/topic/i-reccomend-this-not-showing-up-on-home-page-single-pagecategory-pages-works?replies=1 Thanks :-)

    • harishchouhan

      Hello Maroline,
      I have replied to your query on WP.org.

      • http://www.marolinedesign.com/ marolinedesign

        Thank you! I’ll try that an post back there if it worked!

  • Anh Tuan Bui

    Hi harishchouhan,

    Your plugin works very well on my site.

    And I want to display posts has beend recommended in recently day/week/month

    Could you please help me how to do this ?

    • http://www.harishchouhan.com Harish

      That would require lot of custom coding. Basically you would have to create your own widgets and query the database to analyze data and then display it according to your requirements. There are no immediate plans to add these features as they would take a while to develop.