
It’s easy to click “Like” on a heartwarming story about a local hero. But what about a fair, but counter-attitudinal, post in a comment section? That may make it a little more challenging to “Like.”
Through our research on social media buttons, we found that people were more likely to click “Respect” over “Like” in comment sections, and significantly more likely to click “Respect” when the view expressed differed from their own.
The Engaging Buttons WordPress plugin allows you to easily set-up and configure alternative buttons to “Like” (and lots more!) on your website.
The Engaging Buttons plugin is made by the Center for Media Engagement. The Center for Media Engagement (CME) provides research-based techniques for engaging online audiences in commercially viable and democratically beneficial ways.
Features
By default, this shortcode displays a list of 5 links to the most clicked button posts (any active post type for that button except comments) for each active button.
You can customize the output of the list by adding in a few optional parameters:
slug=”your_active_button_slug”
Example: [engaging-posts slug=”respect”] would output a list of the top 5 “Respected” posts (of any post type except comments).
Accepted slug Values
– respect
– important
– recommend
– thoughtful
– useful
type=”your_active_post_type”
Example: [engaging-posts slug=”respect” type=”comments”] would output a list of the top 5 “Respected” comments.
Accepted type Values: Any active post type or comments that you have activated and have chosen in your Engaging Buttons options panel.
Common values:
– comment
– page
– post
– your_custom_post_type_slug
how-many=”2″
Limits how many post links to display. Default is 5. Minimum is 1, maximum is 20.
Accepted how-many Values
– Integer from 1 – 20
This plugin adds an optional widget to your Appearance > Widgets page that you can use to display the pages that have the most clicks of your chosen button. It’s powered by the [engaging-posts] shortcode.
To set it up:
NOTE: Popular Button Data is Rebuilt every 5 minutes
Future versions may include a setting option to set this to rebuild instantly on click, or at a length of time you specify (every 1 minute, 600 minutes, etc). Right now it rebuilds every 5 minutes to save your server resources.
Developer Extensions
To see how to query the Engaging Buttons objects or use available filters and hooks, go to our github repository for the Engaging Buttons plugin.
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