WordPress Plugin: My favorite posts

“My favorite posts” is a WordPress plugin which allows logged in users to add posts they like to a private favorite post list.

This post will teach you how to use the plugin.

Current Version: 1.2
Last Update: October 10th 2008

Download

First of all you need do download the zip file, unzip it and place the fav_me.php file at your server at /wp-content/plugins/.

Download(Removed)
Last Update: October 10th 2008, Version: 1.2

Installation

Installation is rather easy: just activate the plugin, it will create the database table it needs to work on its own.

Using the Plugin

We leave the no-brainer part to learn something interesting now: how to implement the plugin in your theme.
Basically all you need are 2 functions:

mfp_the_link();
mfp_display();

mfp_the_link will display an “Add this post to your favorite post list” link wherever you call it. Best practice of course is to add the function anywhere INSIDE your WordPress loop. That will create the add link for each post.

You can pass up to two parameters when calling mfp_the_link().
These are: add_link and remove_link.
The syntax is euqal to many wordpress core functions:

mfp_the_link("add_link=add me please&remove_link=remove me please");

This will replace the default link names with the ones you provide. If you want you can add markup as well:

mfp_the_link("add_link=<span class='add_this'>add me please</span>");

mfp_display will display the list of favorite posts anywhere you like. No WordPress loop required here.
So you can put the list in your sidebar, footer, main content area etc.

Of course you can pass parameters here as well. Calling the function without parameters will create an unordered list: each list item will contain a link to the post and a “remove link”.
The default classes added are:

ul class: mfp_favorites
link class: mfp_link
remove link class: mfp_remove_link

So you don’t like my classes? Or you want to display the items in <div> and <p> instead of <ul> and <li>?
Here are the parameters you may change:

title : Default is no title
display : Default is “list” -> you may change it to “div”
remove_link : Text for remove link, Default is “remove”
class : Class for ul/div , defaul is “mfp_favorites”
link_class : Class for the post link, default is “mfp_link”
remove_link_class : Class for remove link, default is “mfp_remove_link”
order_by : Order of items, default is ID, you can change that to any field name of the wp_posts table: some examples would be “post_title”, “post_author”, “post_date”. Get the full list at the WordPress Codex.

Some examples:

// Add a h3 title
mfp_display("title=<h3>Favorite Posts</h3>")

// Display as Div with different class names
mfp_display("display=div&class=class_1&link_class=class_2");

// Order by post Title & different remove link text
mfp_display("order_by=post_title&remove_link=up up and away");

Another option is to pass the ID of a user to the function. This way it will display another users favorite post list. you can do that by apending the ID as a seperate parameter. The following example would retrieve the posts of user 13 from the database:

mfp_display("order_by=post_title",13);

One of the best options to use this function would be to show it on the authors page of a user. Just insert the ID of the user dynamically ;)

Another option to display the posts is through the widget added in version 1.2.

Thats it. If you encounter any problems, please tell me via contact form or comments. I would also be glad to hear suggestions for improvements, be it in functionality, usability or code wise.

Have a nice day ;)

Version History:

v.1.0: 03.06.2008
v.1.1: 04.06.2008 (major code change, increased flexibility)
v.1.1.1: 10.06.2008 (minor bug fix: broken <a/> tag & php notice)
v.1.2: 10.08.2008 (added widget support and possibility to display other peoples favorite posts)

Attention

This WordPress Theme was discontinued and is no longer available for sale

Aproboi says:

July 31, 2010 at 9:37 pm

I have a feeling that this plugin may be exactly what I am looking for but it doesn’t seem to be available any more, I’m more than happy to make a donation if it can be made available.

Any Help?

Regards, Rob

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Amin says:

August 19, 2010 at 1:16 pm

the link is broken! can u re-upload it?

Seye Kuyinu says:
August 24, 2010 at 7:39 pm

You can find it here http://www.theonemanmission.com/blog/the-lost-my-favourite-posts-plugin

Hoang Quang says:

September 7, 2010 at 3:32 am

That’s great if it work with WP multi-site version.

bulduktrans says:

September 9, 2010 at 7:10 pm

Link broken, can u re upload this plugin? i

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