Facebook has just released a new feature, the "Reaction", and did you ever think to add features such as possessed by the facebook to your wordpress posts? If so, then in this article I will give you a tutorial how to add Facebook like reactions button to WordPress posts. This emotional reaction button is useful to invite your website visitors to provide instant feedback on articles that you have created. Previously let us first identify what it is about the reaction button.
What is Reactions Button?
Facebook in February ago has just adding more features for users who want to show their reactions on upload or post on your facebook homepage. This button is an expansion of belonging facebook namely Like button, with this feature the user can better tell expressions of postings uploaded, various expressions include (like, love, haha, wow, sad and angry). And to show the reactions icon, you only need to press like button and another button will appear and click on the icon corresponding to the expressions that you feel from the upload or post.
But the Facebook feature is not yet available for the WordPress site. On WordPress currently, you can only use the Facebook like button. But there are other WordPress plugins that you can use to invite your visitors to react on your posts with a points system similar to that of facebook.
Let's see how you can add functionality that is similar with facebook reaction button for your WordPress posts.
Adding Emotional Reactions Button In Wordpress
To add a reaction button on WordPress, you need to do is install and activate the DW Reactions plugin.
After you activate the plugin, you'll see a new menu in the Settings menu with name Reactions and click that menu to configure the plugin.
To display automatic reaction button in your blog posts, check the box next to "Show Reactions Button" and "Show Reactions Count" to bring up the number of visitors react to your articles.
By default, this plugin requires registered users and users must log in first if they want give their emotional reaction. But you can change these settings by unchecking the box next to the selection "Users must be registered and logged in to add reaction".
Then click the Save button to save the plugin settings that you've configuration. And now you can visit your web site to see the plugin works well and the reaction button has appeared in each of your posts.
If you only want to show reaction button to the post and the selected page, then you need to disable the automatic display by removing the check on the first two options in the plugin settings.
After that, you can use the shortcode [reactions] in post and page options that you want to show the reaction button.
Above is a tutorial on how to add Facebook like reaction to your WordPress posts. And hopefully this article useful and help make your site more interesting by the reaction facebook button.
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