Like button

[discobot]

Put a Jetpack-style like button for both posts and comments.

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Read-only archive: https://petitions.classicpress.net/posts/224/like-button

Author: NyssaTheHobbit

Vote count: 4

Status: open

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Comments

What purpose does it serve?
I would rather see a “mark as solution” instead.

Giving the thumbs up seem pointless to me.

~ posted by thesnippet.dev

So we bloggers can disable Jetpack and let our commenters “like” everything as they’re used to.

~ posted by NyssaTheHobbit

The like button is a nice feature because it connects different blogs together - as long as you have a WP.com account you can use the same identity on any WP.com or Jetpack blog. In order for this to work, we would basically have to introduce our own Jetpack alternative that uses “official” accounts synchronized across multiple sites.

Given that Jetpack and WP.com integration is the source of most of the conflicts of interest in the WP ecosystem I am wary of offering this as an official solution.

Perhaps some enterprising plugin developer would like to build this instead?

~ posted by James Nylen

NyssaTheHobbit okay. Disabling JetPack is something I understand as it’s ore or less pure bloat.

That said; there are several plugins that provides the “like” or “thumbs up” and similar services for liking / voting and connecting.

~ posted by thesnippet.dev

Does it need to be cross-site?

~ posted by azurecurve

Does it need to be cross-site?
I think so, in order to avoid the need for users to create an account on every ClassicPress site, and also the need for administrators to enable user account registration.

~ posted by James Nylen