What's Your Reaction

About

What's Your Reaction plugin allows you to share your reaction to a post, using nice looking badges.

Installation

The plugin is built into the theme so after theme activation you will be asked to install it.

Updates?

After theme update, if new version of the plugin is available, you will be asked to update it (notice on top of the Dashboard).

If for somehow reason you can't see the notice, you can update the plugin manually.

To do that, go to the WP Admin Panel › Appearance › Install plugins, find the "What's Your Reaction" plugin on the list and click "Update" right below it.

Setting up reactions

What's Your Reaction allows users to set up their own reactions and tag posts with them.

To create your own reactions, please:

  1. Go to the WordPress Admin › Posts panel
  2. Go to the Reactions section
  3. Set up the name for your new reaction
  4. Choose an icon from available sets or upload your own
  5. Slug and description fields are optional
  6. Put a number inside Order field to affect the order in which reaction will be displayed next to others
  7. Press Add New Reaction button

To tag a post with a reaction, please:

  1. In the post editor find the Reactions section
  2. Type in the name of reaction and press add

Reactions are visible in the site's header, on a single post and as entry flags in post archives

SVG Support

The reason SVG is not part of WordPress core yet is that there are security concerns to be addressed. SVG is an XML file, which by itself opens it up to different vulnerabilities of which normal image formats aren’t affected. To allow you upload custom icons, we needed to add SVG to WordPress supported mime types. Although it works, it's a little bit risky. Best and, what's more important, safe way to allow SVG uploads is to use the Safe SVG plugin. The theme is fully compatible with it, so when you enable the Safe SVG plugin it will take full control over uploaded SVGs, the same protect your site against SVG/XML vulnerabilities.

More detailed info about SVG security concerns you will find in the How to Safely Enable WordPress SVG Support article.

Why a post is not visible on reaction page? I voted for that reaction!

Posts are only tagged with a reaction, when there are at least 3 votes for a given reaction from different users.

Hide reactions in the header

In order to hide reactions in the page header, please:

  1. Go to the WordPress Admin › Appearance › Customize panel
  2. Go to the What's Your Reaction Integration section
  3. Change the Show reactions in header option to "no".

Hide single post reaction flags on archive view

In order to hide reactions in the page header, please:

  1. Go to the WordPress Admin › Appearance › Customize panel
  2. Go to the What's Your Reaction Integration section
  3. Change the Show entry reactions option to "no".

Fake reactions

Fake reactions functionality allows you to display a certain starting number of reactions for every post, so you don't have to start from 0. This can be set globally or locally for every post.

Use auto-calculation

Automatic reactions calculation gets into account post publish date. At first reactions counter won't be equal to value you set as Fake reaction count base (see below) but will be only 10% of it. The counter will reach the final value after 30 days which makes it look more natural during post lifetime.

To enable auto-calculation, please do as follows:

  1. Go to the WordPress Admin › Appearance › Customize panel
  2. Go to the What's Your Reaction Integration section
  3. Set the Fake reaction count base option to a number to set it globally
  4. Set the Fake reaction count base option to empty to disable it

To set it up for a particular post, please:

  1. In the Post Editor find the Fake reactions metabox just below the main post content
  2. Set Fake reactions count to empty if you want the global setting to be used
  3. Set Fake reactions count to a number to set it up individually for a post

Notice

If you can't find the Install plugins link in the WP Admin Panel › Appearance section, all your plugins are up to date and you don't need to update anything.