Your favorite posts saved to your browsers cookies. If you clear cookies also favorite posts will be deleted.
I made a plugin named as WP Favorite Posts. This plugin allows visitors to mark a post as favorite. There is no register requirement because this plugin saves data to cookies. Furthermore it can save data to database if user logged in. The user can see his/her favorite posts list from “Your Favorites” page which you created.
Don’t forget to donate
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Installation
It’s very easy;
- Download the WP Favorite Posts plugin.
- Unzip into your
/wp-content/plugins/directory. - Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
- Place
<?php if (function_exists('wpfp_link')) { wpfp_link(); } ?>in your single.php or index.php template file. Then favorite this post link will appear in all posts. - Create a page e.g. “Your Favorites” and insert
text into content section. This page will contain users favorite posts. - That’s it :)
Widget
And there is a widget and template tag for listing most favorited posts. You can go widgets page for using widget. Template tag’s usage;
<h2>Most Favorited Posts</h2>
<?php wpfp_list_most_favorited(10); ?>
The parameter for limiting post count of list. Default value is 5 posts.
Bugs & Appreciations
You can report bugs or write your appreciations by using comments of this post. Also you can see the source code and the ChangeLog. Thanks for using my plugin!
New Feature Request or Need Modification
If you have a feature request or need modification which is urgent for you, contact me. We can make a deal.
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Some Details
Show Link In Post Content
You can show Add/Remove Favorites Link into post wherever you want with writing 
Add to favorites
Change Template Of “Your Favorites” Page
(version 1.4) You can change “your favorites” page’s templates easily.
First copy wpfp-page-template.php from plugin’s directory to your theme’s directory. Then make template changes (add thumbnail image, make what you want).
If you make something wrong just delete or rename wpfp-page-template.php from your theme’s directory and page’s view will be turn back to basic view.
Who Uses This Plugin ? (DEMO)
http://www.nefisyemektarifleri.com/tarif-defterim/
http://www.hdvideoclip.com/my-playlist
It works! Thank you! :)
amazing!
but when i add Blog Entry it doesn’t apper in the widget
@mohamed, can you explain more ? i didn’t understand your problem.
Hi Huseyin,
First i would like to congratulate you on this nice plugin.
I am having a problem here. I added the “Add to favorite” link on all the posts in he index.php of my theme folder. Now when i go to my homepage, and click on “Add to favorite” and after that i click on “Remove from favorites” i get “ERROR”.
Do you have an idea why i am getting this.
Thanks again for your time.
Hi Noura,
Update the plugin to 1.4.1 version and try again please.
Hi. Can this be modified so that registered users can favorite comments instead of posts, and then see a list of their favorites? I would SO donate if that were the case! Thanks!
It’s not easy to do it fastly. If you really really need it contact me.
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I mean i have created a test blog
i have added the blog entry to my favorite but it don’t appear in the Most Favorite Posts Widget
i have opened phpmyadmin and all posts= zero fav
do you know what is the problem ?
I love this great plugin. but I got a problem, when I enter my website from different PCs , I see all the same favorites record. any idea why this is happening?
@yiii if you are logged in on both of two pcs you will see same favorites. Are you logged in ? logout and try again.
@mohamed; go http:///wp-admin/options-general.php?page=wp-favorite-posts
and check that Most favorited posts statics* option is enabled.
I am not sure if you got my email but i upgraded to the latest verion and still getting this error.
You can see this error on your demo page http://wpfptest.nxsn.com/
If you add few posts to favorites and then go on to remove them one by one you will notice when you hover over the remove link that they all link to the same post which was http://wpfptest.nxsn.com/?wpfpaction=remove&postid=55
Can you please have a quick look and let ,e know if you can find a fix for this.
Thanks :)
@Noura Yehia, thanks for bug report. I fixed it and released a new version.
Thanks Huseyin for your quick fix, would you mind telling me what exactly did you change cause i have modified the plugin a lot to fit my site’s requirements and didn’t update since version 1.4
I know this might sound too much but it would really save us a lot of work here if you can just let me know what modifications you you did since version 1.4 including the bug you you just fixed now.
Thanks again :)
Noura,
You can see the changes from here; http://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/227268
But i don’t suggest to edit plugins codes. You can do this via actions and/or filters. If you tell me where you need an action i can add it for you. i’ve already added two actions;
http://nxsn.com/wp-favorite-posts-1-4-1-released/
Hi,
Could you have a look at this image ->
http://img696.imageshack.us/img696/9656/tmpdf2c.png
The plugin sent a full page response, to an ajax request. This problem
seems to be with the plugin.
Let me know your thoughts about it and if there is a quick fix for it.
Thanks again
Noura; i checked dolody.com and i couldn’t see this problem.
Noura; you use last version of plugin, don’t you ?
Yes, i am using the latest version. The problem is that i am calling the posts in the bottom tabs through ajax, and the same posts in the bottom tabs are displayed in the top of the page.
So when i add a post through the tabs, it’s not added in the top of the page and same applies to deletion.
Also when i remove a post from the top and go to remove to remove it again from the bottom, i get a whole new page displayed beside the post title.
pls see image here:
http://img340.imageshack.us/img340/9191/26229317.jpg
I tested the page again and i couldn’t see this error.
I will tell you how to rpoduce this error step by step:
Please go to the main page and add “Hello world!” post to favorite. At the bottom you will see a tabbed box, click on the jquery tab and remove “Hello world!” from favorite, then go outside the tabbed box and remove “Hello world!” again from favorite, you will see a whole page displayed the post title.
I sent you an email, let me know what’s your thought.
Thanks
great idea ! we’re having a try here
http://fatratas.net/ma-liste-perso/
thanks a lot
“I’m having a problem with the plugin in php5. It says Fatal error: Cannot re-assign $this in /nfs/c01/h12/mnt/8786/domains/oxr.pulsecreativepartners.com/html/wp-content/plugins/wp-favorite-posts/wp-favorite-posts.php on line 133.”
Looks like I have this same issue. Was there a remedy found?
randy; i’m using plugin with php 5.2.12 and there is no problem. Which version of php are you use ? And which version you use of plugin ?
How to change template to show thumbnail images?
I used:
function retrieve_my_thumbnail() {
global $post, $posts;
$first_img = ”;
ob_start();
ob_end_clean();
$output = preg_match_all(‘//i’, $post->post_content, $matches);
$first_img = $matches [1] [0];
if(empty($first_img)){ //Defines a default image
$first_img = “/images/default.jpg”;
}
return $first_img;
}
Thx
@Rosadi, read the -CHANGE TEMPLATE OF “YOUR FAVORITES” PAGE- section from this article.
I’m not interested listing the most favored posts in the sidebar, the only thing I’d like to do is to allow single user to save posts and display his or hers saved posts in sidebar widget? Is there a way to achieve this? Many many thanks!
Wrote a blog post about your wonderful plugin. I’m using it for users to save a list of the pictures they like.
http://www.beckermanphoto.com/blog/your-favorite-images-photography.html
You can see it in action in the store: http://www.beckermanphoto.com if you go to a picture. Feel free to list it as a demo if you want to.
Dave
Hi :)
I contacted you about the bug where users could rate their unpublished posts via preview, and you released a fix right away, which was awesome! I have another issue now, though…
I had some test posts up, which I had been favoriting and unfavoring, everything was working perfectly. I trashed those posts today to start putting up real posts in preparation for taking my site live, and when testing the favoriting feature on them (which works fine on the posts themselves) found that there’s no longer anything displaying in my “most favorited posts” widget. Not sure if you added a threshhold for how many times a post has to be favorited or not, but before this, even posts that had been favorited once would show up if the display limit for the widget was large enough.
I tried removing and replacing the widget as well as deactivating and reactivating the plugin, but no luck. I haven’t done an uninstall/reinstall yet because I didn’t want to lose my settings, but I can try that later tonight if that’s the only fix.
Really loving this plugin, though, and can’t wait to show you the site I’m using it on! Maybe I can be in your demo list :D
P.S. statistics ARE enabled ;)
Just deleted the plugin and reinstalled. All of my settings were still intact, but still nothing in the sidebar widget :(
This plugin is great, but I’d love to be able to add a thumbnail and I’m totally lost as to how to go about doing that.
I copied the template into my theme and I tried to use Rosandi’s code from above, but I don’t think I’m putting it in the right place? I can get it to load the default image, but it doesn’t seem to be able to find the thumbnail associated with the post. Guidance would be appreciated. Thanks!
Dave; Thank you. I’ve added your page as demo.