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
Engaging News Project. The Engaging News Project (ENP) provides research-based techniques for engaging online audiences in commercially viable and democratically beneficial ways.
Features
- Create buttons for your website: Respect, Recommend, Important, Useful, and/or Thoughtful
- Customize your button by selecting the design and colors that best fits your website.
- Easily display your Top Posts with the Engaging Button widget, shortcode, or with one click from the settings page.
- (Optional) Send click data back to the Engaging News Project so we can continue to provide free, research-based, high-quality plugins and update the plugin with high-engagement words.
- Customizable by developers via CSS and PHP (WordPress filters and hooks).
- Lightweight & Performance-focused: Only adds 2 files and ~2kb to your site (with GZIP compression).
There's a shortcode and widget for displaying the most Respected/Important/etc posts/pages/comments/etc on your site. Here's instructions for how to use them.
Engaging Buttons 1.0.5
- Added long PHP start tags (<?php) for greater reliability.
Engaging Buttons 1.0.4
- Engaging Buttons can be activated in PHP v5.2.
Engaging Buttons 1.0.3
- Engaging Buttons now works in PHP v5.3 and greater.
- Fixed "Powered by..." text displaying under comment sections, even when that option was turned off.
- Minified all CSS files and removed CSS sourcemaps. Each file is now only ~1kb (Gzipped).
- Minified Javascript file to only ~1kb (Gzipped).
- Fixed minor Javascript warnings.
- Added Open Sans Font option to use if the buttons are not displaying quite right.
- Advanced CSS fields only show if a custom color is chosen (otherwise the field is empty)
- Advanced CSS classes are all prefixed with 'body' to give it a better chance of overriding the default CSS while still keeping best practices in mind.
Engaging Buttons 1.0.2
- Color picker for customizing buttons.
- Advanced CSS output for easier overriding.
Engaging Buttons 1.0.1
- Fixed svg icon not displaying on Firefox
- Moved to inline SVG for easier customization by users
Engaging Buttons 1.0 - January 25th, 2015