This plugin displays a greeting message to visitors that come from different urls (known as referrers). For example, you may want to welcome Diggers with a message that reminds them to digg your story, or you may want to ask Del.icio.us users to bookmark your post, and so on.
Not only about a cool greeting box, it greatly helps to more efficiently interacts with your readers and build a better relationship between you (your website) and them.
Features
- A pure AJAXed admin interface with elements tidily divided into tabs. Entries can be added/modified/(de)activated/deleted without the need to reload the entire page, or even with just one click. Starting from 3.2, there are even bulk actions!
- The greet box position can be set to before, after, or (starting from 3.2) both before and after the post. A custom tag can also be used in case you don’t want to show greetings on every post.
- Users can also put a tag (
<?php if (function_exists('referrer_detector')) referrer_detector(); ?>) into the template to show the greet box anywhere of choice. - Excluded URLs can be specified in order to hide the greet box from specific users (like ones from Google Reader).
- A * wildcard character can be used in both referrers and excluded URLs. For example: google.* will apply for all localized Google domains.
- Multiple URLs can be merged into one entry, seperated by commas. For example: del.icio.us,delicious.com.
- Ability to include WordPress attributes like url, title, author, category etc. into the greetings.
- A STAT panel to get data reporting about the visitor statistic.
- Many installed-by-default entries (which can be restored anytime with one click). Upon installing, you will have these entries available:
- 9 rules
- Bing
- BuySellAds
- Del.icio.us and Delicious.com
- Digg
- Gizmodo
- Lifehacker
- Live Search
- StumbleUpon
- TechCrunch
- Technograti
- TechRadar
- Yahoo!
- Compatible with caching plugins, since the core is written and run in JavaScript which is normally not cached.
- Automatically detect user’s country and display the localized greetings (if any).
- Ability to backup and restore entries, excluded URLs, and options, very convenient for transferring between sites.
- Welcome box now can be shown in lightbox style using SimpleModal jQuery plugin.
- Optimized OOP code allows extreme readability and easy modifications for other plugin developers.
History
- 4.2.1.0
- Temporarily removed Backup/Restore feature for security reasons.
* 4.2.0.3
1. Add Bing and BuySellAds entries. You can either reset the entries or create on your own using the new icons inside referrer-detector/images/icons/ directory
1. Deleting the plugin now removes all options and data – Don’t try it
Download & install the zip archive
The plugin package installer can be downloaded from the WP2E project tab called “code”.
1 – Select the version to download if this option is available otherwise the “latest” version of the main plugin will be used.
2 – After downloading the zip archive install the plugin package installer in you local environment and activate the script from the plugin list.
3 – Under the section “Plugins” of the admin dashboard you should see a new “Dependencies & Licenses” link. Follow the instructions from this panel to finalize the installation of the missing dependencies.
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- Give a name to your project
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- Download the Installer Package
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- Install & activate the plugin locally
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- Install the suggested dependencies
Tips: Use the WP2E panel to add/suggest new dependencies to the local installation. Press F5 in the list of dependencies if the changes are not displayed right away.