Hey Guys,
Today I am announcing a completed plugin for your WordPress blog, Facebook Like or Google Plus One To Unlock Content Plugin. Yeah I know that you have seen a couple of jQuery plugins from me in my previous post but I tell you what, there was nothing for WordPress that I did regarding utilizing socially aware content manipulation.
I really don’t have to talk about it much, You’ll will see it in action in a moment. First we cover a few bits and pieces on why I developed this.
Why?
When someone ask me this question, my usual reply is Why not? I spend most of my time building something or improving something that I did in the past. So most of my time maybe 70% goes towards building/developing stuff. It keeps me busy and keeps me going. Well that’s the overall picture but here are some key points why Facebook and Google matters.
- SEO: Search Engines such as Bing and Google are now looking for social signals. If your post is being shared say on Facebook or Google plus then its always a plus for you
- Exposure. Say someone likes your post and this means that it will end up on user timeline and this user’s friends will see it immediately and if your post is good, it has chance to go viral, thus giving you some more traffic juice and accolades
- Increase user activity: Agenda here is, if they like half of what you’ve posted they may want to read more, thus those clicks on your page means that user is actually engaging with your content.
- And there are heaps more that you can think of associated with Social
Features
Here is a list of things that you could control from the administration page
- Facebook Like button attributes
- Google plus button attributes
- Call to action message
- Type of content obfuscation you would like to use such as hiding, blurring, dimming etc
- You can disable the
- Search engine friendly
- Even hides videos (when using blur option, colors are dropped for videos)
- Remembers Likes or +1’s by IP address, so returning visitors will not see Like to Unlock option if they have already liked the page.
- and more
Usage
It can’t get simple that this.
All you need to remember is the ltu tag as shown below
and you are done. So while editing your post just remember to insert the ltu starting and closing tags at appropriate places, You can only have one instance of it.
This plugin is heavily dependent on my jQuery plugins.
Browser Support
All major browsers are supported such as latest
- Chrome
- Firefox
- IE9+
- Safari
Other won’t matter that much and I don’t really consider testing on them. But if you find any issues, just let me know
A Video Tutorial
Pardon my English, hopefully it will make sense to you
Demo
Just Like or plus one using the buttons below to continue reading..
Pricing
Well if you like this plugin and would like to purchase it, its only $49 for a single server and $79 for multiple server owned by you, If you want to purchase it for your multiple clients then $199 will be charged for Business edition of this plugin, which allows you to install this plugin on any number of sites owned by you and their sub domains and also any blogs you are maintaining for your clients. You are not allowed to Resell this plugin.
Caveats
If you are using blur mode then it is possible that if you are including images from third party server, then they may not be rendered properly, this limitation is not there if images in your post are coming from your own domain.
Automatic Upgrades
If and when a update is available, WordPress will look to upgrade it automatically as you do with other plugins.
Theme support
Supports themes that supports wp_footer and wp_head hooks
Support
Fill up all the fields in the form below or just goto contact me page of this website to initiate a contact.
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I am not able to locate any download link for this wonderful Plugin. If possible kindly send me a copy of this plugin.
not working at all ( lite version)
now.. your writeup states: ‘This plugin is heavily dependent on my jQuery plugins’.
Where do I find these jQuery plugins?
Hi where is the like and G plus button I need to click to unlock this content?
If you have already +1nd or Liked then buttons will not appear else they are there under demo section.
Cheers,
Hi there. Thank you for the video tutorial. It seems I may be having difficulty creating the Facebook app correctly. I wonder if you might be willing to post a “how to” video for how to create and configure the Facebook app to work with your Like To Unlock app?
Thanks
I will gladly pay for the pro version of this plugin if you can help me get this up and working. I just need to see it actually work before I pay for it.
Perhaps I set up my facebook app incorrectly? More explicit instructions or a video would certainly be helpful. This would be an awesome app if we can actually get it working correctly. Last week it was working on your website, however, as of today I can’t even get your website like to unlock working correctly. Please help.
I am not seeing any like button above or below the “like gate” image on this page. In addition, the lite plugin is not working on my site and I can’t figure out why.
Hi Daniel
Send me a URL where you’ve used this plugin. Use contact me form. I will do a video tutorial for this plugin by end of this week.
Cheers,
Hmm. This plugin seems to have the same problem many do. I liked the post, I also +1 the post and read the details. Then left the site.
Now that I come back to re-read some details, the content is hidden again from me and I can’t reveal it. Which means I also couldn’t buy it.
Thanks for letting me know but good thing is that This feature is under implementation expect a release in couple of days time.
Jas
Hey Jeff,
Likes are now remembered by IP addresses. So page will stay non hidden/blurred/dimmed as long as person is browsing from same Public IP address. There is other possible solution too that is possible, I’ll explore that option too.
Cheers,
it does’nt support
Can you elaborate? Which theme are you using?