Did you know that there are plugins you can get for WordPress blogs so people can indicate that they ‘like’ your blog post? Yes, as in the ‘like’ feature on facebook.
I started thinking yesterday that it would be a nice thing to do and went looking, and lo! There they were!
I found three:
- WP Likes by Aakash Bapna
- I like this by “LeBen” Burgener (who seems to be French), and
- Visitor like/dislike by Plugin Taylor
There were a few others that looked like possibles but they did not seem to work (or maybe it was me not doing it right).
I have installed all three (and then uninstalled two) and given them a go. The WP likes is the most sophisticaed one, and this is the one I have used here and on my Landlord Law blog. In its original state it is a bit big and black, but I ameliorated this by changing the colour to our standard blue and making it a bit shorter. I think it looks pretty cool. There is a rather neat little hand icon too.
The WP likes plugin would not work on my eco blog (www.greenblogging.co.uk) so I used the french one, which perhaps appropriately, has a little heart. Its rather sweet but I would not want to use it for a legal blog.
The third one rather scarily allows people to say that they *don’t* like your blog as well as say that they do like it. However it was not as attractive as the other two, so I decided to give it a miss (nothing to do with not wanting to know about people hating the blog of course…).
So there you are. What do you think of them? Will you use them on your blog now? Do you like this post? (If so please click below).
Thanks very much for the tip — we will launch one or two blogs in the new year and I’ll definitely look into this as an additional feature.