{"id":117975,"date":"2013-07-05T11:30:16","date_gmt":"2013-07-05T15:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wpmu.org\/?p=117975"},"modified":"2013-07-05T00:01:50","modified_gmt":"2013-07-05T04:01:50","slug":"let-your-wordpress-visitors-collect-favorite-posts-on-your-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/let-your-wordpress-visitors-collect-favorite-posts-on-your-site\/","title":{"rendered":"Let Your WordPress Visitors Collect Favorite Posts on Your Site"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you\u2019ve ever wanted to let visitors to your site save their favorite posts to an area on the site for later perusing, then the <a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-favorite-posts\/\" target=\"_blank\">WP Favorite Posts<\/a> plugin is just what you need. While super easy to use, it adds a level of functionality to your site that many visitors expect only from sites with lots of cash behind them.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_117976\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" data-caption=\"true\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-117976\" src=\"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/heart-favorite.jpg\" alt=\"If your visitors love your content, let them save their favorite posts.\" width=\"803\" height=\"403\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">If your visitors love your content, let them save their favorite posts.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Let\u2019s first take a quick overview of some of the things it will let you do:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Let both registered users or non-registered users save posts<\/li>\n<li>Control the position of the \u201csave to favorites\u201d link<\/li>\n<li>Control the icon of the \u201csave to favorites\u201d link<\/li>\n<li>Control the text of the \u201csave to favorites\u201d link<\/li>\n<li>Let users remove individual saved posts<\/li>\n<li>Let users remove all saved posts at once<\/li>\n<li>Display a widget with most popular saved posts for the site<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<h2><b>How It Works<\/b><\/h2>\n<p>The WP Favorite Posts plugin lets you place a link wherever you like \u2013 either automatically at the top of the post or the bottom of the post, or anywhere else with a piece of code that you put into your theme.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s a look at one type of link.<\/p>\n<div class=\"image-grid cgrid-row\">\n<div class=\"cgrid-col cgrid-col-span-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-117977\" src=\"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/link.jpg\" alt=\"link\" width=\"701\" height=\"285\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>As mentioned, however, you have the option to customize the link \u2013 changing the text or the icon beside it. Here\u2019s a look at the settings page.<\/p>\n<div class=\"image-grid cgrid-row\">\n<div class=\"cgrid-col cgrid-col-span-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-117978\" src=\"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/settings.jpg\" alt=\"settings\" width=\"701\" height=\"941\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Creating the section for the favorite posts to show up is as easy as putting a small piece of code in a Page. Here\u2019s the code in the editor and then a look at some favorited posts on the page.<\/p>\n<div class=\"image-grid cgrid-row\">\n<div class=\"cgrid-col cgrid-col-span-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-117980\" src=\"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/favorites-page.jpg\" alt=\"favorites-page\" width=\"700\" height=\"349\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>And then there\u2019s also a widget that will let you display the most favorited posts on the site from all the users combined.<\/p>\n<div class=\"image-grid cgrid-row\">\n<div class=\"cgrid-col cgrid-col-span-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-117981\" src=\"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/widget.jpg\" alt=\"widget\" width=\"700\" height=\"349\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Once again, you can pick up the handy <a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-favorite-posts\/\" target=\"_blank\">WP Favorite Post plugin here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p>Photo credit: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/gail_thepinkpeppercorn\/5084847252\/\" target=\"_blank\">gail<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This plugin encourages your visitors to personalize and engage with your site even more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84404,"featured_media":117976,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"blog_reading_time":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_tutorials_categories":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"tutorials_categories":[],"class_list":["post-117975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plugins"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84404"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117975"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":216560,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117975\/revisions\/216560"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117975"},{"taxonomy":"tutorials_categories","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tutorials_categories?post=117975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}