Plugin Review – WP ULike

Plugin Review – WP ULike

https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-ulike/

Version Tested: V 2.4.2

WP ULike is a WordPress plugin that also supports BuddyPress, bbPress and a number of other plugins, it aims to be a comprehensive “Like” system for your site and enables site users to like a wide range of content types, including posts, forum topics and replies, comments and activity updates.

Installing WP ULike is a case of installing and activating the plugin, following which the plugin will take you to an About page which takes you through getting started. This page gives you a basic introduction to WP ULike and provides the option either to view the statistics that it collects or to go to the settings page.

The settings page is located at Dashboard>>WP ULike>>WP ULike Settings and it is here that you can choose the theme for likes, the location of the like button, display filters, whether guests or only logged in users can like items, information about which users liked the item and their avatar display and a wide range of other options.

Once you have chosen your preferred settings, like buttons will appear for Posts, Comments, in the forum areas and also the BuddyPress areas and WP ULike will start collecting statistics based on who is liking what.

Opening up the DashBoard>>WP ULIike>>WP ULike Statistics page displays all of the statistics gathered for your site, including the total number of likes, a graph of likes over time, the top likers etc. It’s pretty comprehensive though what it does not tell you is the top liked content, which is a shame as this is probably one thing that would be most valuable on a large site.

I find WP ULike to be a very useful plugin and I install it on most sites I help setup, I give this plugin 9 out of 10 as it gives you the ability to like most items that are desired with the exception of media content from plugins such as MediaPress or rtMedia, I suggest that adding these would be of great benefit.

My Star Rating

Other Peoples Reviews

tufty

Tip top

It's lovely when a plugin just does what it's supposed to do!

November 28, 2023

igmadx

Works great

Like this plugin so much

October 4, 2023

FragMagnet

Works Like a Charm (pun indended)

Set this up ages ago and has just been a great way for my subscribers to interact with my posts without needing to worry about what to say. Getting that kind of feedback has been invaluable.

August 16, 2023

bjoura

Great

Works just like it's supposed to!

August 15, 2023

shidapu

Super

I am using FREE version for voting

March 23, 2023

Gleb Ivanov (webfactorydotsu)

It's amazing plugin

I'm using wp-ulike in my little project, and its really amazing! [...] But if you want to use PHP 8+ interpreter, you will get an error 500 in admin-ajax.php. I'm not sure if this is due to a bug in the wp-ulike code, but error is exists. Everyone knows how faster PHP 8+, but because of wp-ulike you can't use it, unfortunately. I also noticed a bug when displaying the status of likes in ajax-loaded articles (using infinity scroll). Like-button is not active and when pressed, the state changes to "liked" and the counter decreases. Moreover, this applies only to some articles; it was not possible to establish the exact dependence. Read more »

March 15, 2023

martin1723

Great: function, customization, support

I tried some, but this is the best Like-plugin I could find (pro-version). It is easy to customize, works perfect and has an outstanding support. Love it!

February 20, 2023

narururu

シンプルで良い

私は画像を猫の足跡にして使っています。 とてもいいです。

January 8, 2023

damarowerbeagentur

Nothing changed

Suddenly after liking / dislinking I get infinite loading. No new plugins installed, changing layout does not help. It gets liked (I see after refreshing) but it keeps loading. Please help.

October 24, 2022

dzeqis

Awesome support

Support reacted quickly, provided working code in their response and even update their plugin regarding the question (WPML Synchronization)! Great support!

October 11, 2022