Do you want to allow users to add their favorite articles to WordPress? Allowing users to bookmark articles offers another way to interact with your content. In this tutorial, we'll show you how to allow users to easily bookmark articles on WordPress.
Why add an add feature to favorites?
Some of our clients often ask us how to decrease the bounce rate and boost user engagement on their WordPress blogs.
When most beginners created a WordPress blog, they try to get as many comments as possible, because for them it's a way to boost user engagement.
However, most of the users on your site do not leave comments. This can be easily solved by adding other interactions that don't require a lot of effort.
Your users will be more likely to click a button than to write a comment. You can add notes to your articles, or add to favorite button allows you to provide effortless interactions on your site.
Allowing users to add articles to their favorites, allows registered users to proofread their favorite articles. It will also allow you to understand what type of content interests your visitors.
So you can on the basis of that make suggestions of content to your visitors.
That said, we'll see how to allow visitors to bookmark articles on WordPress.
How to allow articles to be added to favorites in WordPress
The first thing you need to do is to install and activate the plugin " WP favorite Post". For more details, see our step-by-step guide to way to install a WordPress plugin .
Upon activation, you must visit Settings WP Favorite Posts to configure the plugin settings.
The first option on the settings page will allow you to allow registered users to add articles to favorites. You should leave this box unchecked if you want all visitors to be able to use this feature as well.
Then you need to choose where to display the "add to favorite" link. The plugin can automatically appear before or after the content of the article. Advanced users can also choose the custom method and use the tag <?php wpfp_link() ?> inside the files of WordPress theme.
Now you need to choose the icon of the image you want to display next to the “Add to favorites” link. The plugin offers a few images that you can use. You can also upload your own image or not display an image at all.
After that, you can choose how many articles you want to display on a favorite articles page. The default option is 20, you can change that if you want.
Finally, you can activate or deactivate the statistics. You'll need to keep it enabled if you want to show most liked posts in your blog's sidebar.
Remember to save your options.
You can now visit a single article on your website and you will see the "Add to your favorites" link.
How to display similar articles on WordPress
You can display the articles on your sidebar on WordPress. Here is how you can do that.
Meeting on " Appearance »Widgets". Below the list of available widgets, you will notice the “Most Favorited Posts” widget. You will need to drag and drop this widget onto a sidebar. If you need help adding a widget then check out our guide on way to add and use widgets in WordPress.
How to view a user's favorite articles
This plugin stores favorite articles for non-registered users in cookies. For registered users, it saves its favorite items in your WordPress database.
Here's how you'll be able to view each user's favorite posts.
Meeting on Appearane »Widgets, from this location you will see a widget named " Users Favorite Posts Which you will also need to add to the sidebar.
You can select the number of items you want to display in the widget. Don't forget to click on the “Save” button to save the widget settings.
Here's how it should look on your site:
That's it for this tutorial, I hope it allows you to add a feature to add to article favorites.
