# Liker - WordPress page rating plugin

Liker helps you rate and like articles on a website and keep track of results.

- created: 09/07/2019
- latest update: 10/28/2020
- by: Dmitry Merkulov
- liker.merkulov.design/

WordPress plugins Documentation

### Overview

Liker is a plugin for ratings and likes for WordPress posts and pages. The plugin allows you to quickly and accurately gather information about the usefulness of your articles.

The plugin can collect ratings in both like and opinion formats. You can choose one of: like/dislike, yes/maybe/no and a simple +1 button. This flexibility of settings allows you to use the plugin for sites of various subjects and in multiple use cases. Many popular sites use similar solutions. For example, Google uses this to evaluate the effectiveness of its reference materials.

Works great with all WordPress Themes
Results in the WordPress posts list
Minified & optimized native JS without jQuery
Assignment interface for any entity
Fully compatible with Gutenberg Editor
Completely cross-browser support
Tested with all popular Page Builders
Suitable for all kind of Layouts and Templates

Liker has very flexible settings that do not require knowledge of the code. You can change the color of the text and the background of the buttons; change their number and position; add a description through the WordPress editor and also enable/disable the plugin only on some pages.

### Features of the Liker WordPress Plugin

- Compatible with Elementor, WPBakery, Visual Composer, Divi, and other page builders
- Works well with all WordPress themes
- Three operating modes
- Five different positions to display the plugin
- Includes 13 button styles
- Display results on the front-end and back-end
- Gutenberg ready
- Included pot file for quick translation on any language
- Perfect for RTL direction
- Fast and smooth installing
- Tested and compatible up to WordPress 5.2
- Works great on phones and tablets
- Lightweight and Fast
- Native valid JavaScript, without jQuery
- All major browsers supported Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Opera, Edge, and Internet Explorer
- 100% SEO friendly
- Easy to use and customize
- Built-in interface for binding the plugin to categories, single pages, user roles, devices and more
- Installation Guide
- Detailed Users Manual
- Huge customization capabilities
- Six months Included Support for CodeCanyon buyers

Ratings and likes for WordPress plugin are exceptionally compatible with all modern browsers. Does not matter which browser users view your site: Chrome, Firefox, Opera, Safari, or Edge; on Desktop, Laptop, Tablet, or Mobile. Everything will look great on all devices and in all browsers. And this is especially important if your website has much unique content, such as a Blog, Glossary, Portfolio, Corporate Website, eCommerce Project, Creative Agency, Real Estate Listing, Personal CV, a Restaurant, Retail Company, Global Media Agency or Magazine.

Liker WordPress Plugin tested and compatible with All Major WP Plugins: Yoast SEO, Contact Form 7, W3 Total Cache, NextGen Gallery, Slider Revolution, WooCommerce, and million others. It also works perfectly and improves the user experience with popular Website Page Builders, like Elementor, Visual Composer, Gutenberg, Beaver Builder, Divi, Themify Builder, WP Bakery Page Builder, Layers WP, and many others.

The plugin works perfectly with all significant WordPress frameworks: Genesis, Divi, Themify, Warp 7, Ultimatum, Beans, Unyson, Gantry, and others.

The plugin installation takes only a few seconds. Also, you do not need to make any additional settings. The plugin is ready to work immediately after installation – you only need to install and activate it in WordPress. Lerm more How to start with Liker WordPress Plugin

### Installing

Installing the WordPress plugin is quick and straightforward. After you have downloaded the archive with the plugin, you will see the file with the plugin inside. Unzipped purchased the product you will see inside the archive with the plugin pluginname.zip There are two ways to install it:

## Installation of the Plugin through the WordPress Admin panel ( Recommended for most users )

###### STEP 1

First of all, open WordPress admin area login page and login in into WordPress as Admin. To do this visit http://yoursitename/wp-admin

###### STEP 2

Go to Plugins > Add New

Add New Plugin to WordPress

###### STEP 3

Click Upload Plugin Button

Upload New Plugin to WordPress

###### STEP 5

Choose archive with Plugin and press Install Now Button

###### STEP 6

After Installing go back to the Plugins page and click Activate below plugin title

Activate Installed Plugin

## Installation the plugin through FTP or build-in File manager

###### STEP 1

Use Login and Password to connect to your web-server via FTP or use your hosting file manager.

###### STEP 2

Upload archive with plugin to /wp-content/plugins

###### STEP 3

On next step Unzip the archive with the plugin

###### STEP 4

Installing WordPress Plugin is almost finished. Go to the Plugins page and click Activate below plugin title. You can find out your username and password on the website of your hosting provider.

Activate Installed Plugin

After installing and activating the plugin, you can go to settings of the Plugin. Also, you can read more helpful articles about WordPress Themes and WordPress Plugins.

### Settings

Liker is a plugin for collecting ratings of WordPress posts and pages. The plugin allows you to quickly and accurately gather information about the usefulness of your articles.

## Installing the Liker WordPress Plugin

To install the plugin, read the article Installing WordPress Plugin. Installing the plugin takes only a few seconds.

To open the plugin settings slick Settings below plugin name on the plugins page

Liker on the plugins page

or in the WordPress Sidebar menu go to Liker

Liker Settings

In the plugin settings, there are several tabs responsible for various groups of plugin settings.

- General
- Design
- Results
- Rich Snippet
- Assignments
- Custom CSS
- Activation
- Status
- Uninstall

## General settings

### Post Types

Select the post types, including custom post types, where you need to add the rating display. The available types are in the drop-down list.

#### Position

Position selector sets wherein the Liker will be displayed. You can choose one option:

- Before title
- After title
- Before content
- After content (Default)
- Shortcode [liker] – use a shortcode to add the voting buttons anywhere on a page or site. There is available a shortcode attribute “btn” which allows you to display a different number of voting buttons on different pages.

For example, to display two Liker buttons on the page regardless of the basic plugin settings:

    [liker btn="2"]

#### Liker type

The setting sets the type of rating that will be used on the site. A different number of buttons can be useful for different tasks and different sites. You can choose between:

- Three buttons ( +1 point / 0 points / -1 point )
- Two buttons ( +1 point / -1point )
- One button ( +1 point )

Also in this settings section, you can specify the text for each button. Both plain text and emoji can be used for the button’s caption.

### Layout

The layout setting is needed to control the position of the Liker button block relative to the container. And also to establish the arrangement of the button block relative to the description block.

Layouts

### Description

This is the section of the standard WordPress editor where you can write description text. The description is very important that your users know what to do.

## Design

### Buttons design settings

#### Button(s) style

The Liker WordPress Plugin has 12 predefined styles and the 13th setting that includes the default styles of the theme you are using. You can choose one of:

- Border button – transparent background with a colored button border

Border button style

- Fill button – buttons with a colored background

Fill button style

- Border to Fill – a transparent background with border in a normal button state -> Color background on active state

Border to Fill button style

- Fill to Border – buttons with a colored background in a normal state -> Transparent background with border on active state

Fill to Border button style

- Theme styled button – the theme styles are applied to the buttons, all custom style settings are disabled.

#### Caption color

Select a text color of the buttons in normal state.

#### Base color

Select the background and border color for the buttons in a normal state. Depending on the button style that you choose, this color will be applied to the background or border.

#### Active button caption color

Select a text color of the buttons in active state.

#### Active button base color

Select the background and border color for the buttons in an active state. Depending on the button style that you choose, this color will be applied to the background or border.

#### Hover button caption color

Select a text color of the hover buttons.

#### Hover button base color

Select the background and border color for the hover buttons. Depending on the button style that you choose, this color will be applied to the background or border.

#### Button border-radius

Specify a border radius for voting buttons.

#### Button border-width

Specify a border radius for voting buttons.

## Results settings

#### Results on front-end

This setting allows/denies the display of results on the front end. The results display inside the rating buttons. When the setting is enabled, the toggle Show results before voting is displayed. With it, you can display the voting results to a new user before he votes.

#### User vote

The toggle to enable/disable the display of voting results of the current user. If the option is enabled, the button with which the user voted is highlighted as active with appropriate style.

#### Results in the admin area

This parameter defines the format for displaying the results in the admin panel. You can choose between:

- Amount
- Amount/Total
- +1 | 0 | -1

Results will be displayed in the posts/pages list.

Results in the admin area

#### Voting limit

This parameter sets the limit of votes from one IP address. You can select any number in the range from 1 to 10.

#### Progressbar bar

The toggle to enable/disable the display of voting results in the admin panel in the form of a progress bar.

Progress bar in admin panel

#### Reset ratings

The data reset button resets all rating data for all posts. Use this button after the site debugging is completed to reset the debug rating data ​​to 0.

Please note that the Data reset cannot be undone.

## Rich Snippet

#### Schema markup

This setting adds schema markup to the page HTML code. Schema markup allows you to display page rating data in Google search results.

Example of the Google markup

Your data will be converted to a 5-star rating system regardless of what type of rating you choose in the plugin settings.

###### SEO MICRODATA

The option allows you to enable the schema markup by default or add the Advanced Schema Markup using the JSON+LD structure.

###### JSON+LD MARKUP

Add a markup structure depending on the data types you want to use. Read more about it and find examples in the article https://developers.google.com/search/reference/overview

Once you finish setting up the markup, you can check it for correctness using the tool https://search.google.com/structured-data/testing-tool

## Save Changes

Do not forget to click Save Changes after changing plugin settings. After clicking this button, the settings will be saved and applied to all pages of the website.

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