SO Recommended Reading wordpress plugin resources analysis

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Name	SO Recommended Reading
Version	2014.08.15
Author	Piet Bos
Rating	100
Last updated	2014-12-14 03:18:00
Downloads	445
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SO Recommended Reading plugin has no negative impact on PageSpeed score.

Home page PageSpeed score has been degraded by 0%, while Post page PageSpeed score has been degraded by 0%

SO Recommended Reading plugin added 249427 bytes of resources to the Home page and 322982 bytes of resources to the sample Post page.

SO Recommended Reading plugin added -1 new host(s) to the Home page and -3 new host(s) to the sample Post page.

Great! SO Recommended Reading plugin ads no tables to your Wordpress blog database.

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Description

The SO Recommended Reading plugin is an Extension for the fantastic Meta Box plugin by Rilwis. The purpose of the plugin is to let the user add recommendations to external content.

With the plugin installed you will find a Recommended Reading box underneath the Post Editor. On the frontend the Recommended Articles are shown in their own class with an unordered list, right after the_content(). The class will use the styling of your theme and you can style it further to your own liking.

Background

During the Beijing WordPress Meetup of January 2014 a member asked me to recommend a plugin that would let him add links to articles he wants to recommend to the readers of his blog. He would like to give his readers such a Recommended Reading list on a daily basis.

Because I couldn't come up with such a plugin from the top of my head and because I am planning on releasing a series of extensions for the Meta Box plugin, I thought it would be best to put something together myself.

The titles of the URLs you input are automatically extracted and shown on the front end. The meta box is only visible in the Edit Post screen

Since version 2014.07.29 the plugin has a small settings page where you can change the title of "Recommended Reading" into something that fits better with your site. I have also included the wpml-config.xml file, so if you run a multilingual website with WPML, you can translate this string via the String Translations page of WPML.

I have decided to only support this plugin through Github. Therefore, if you have any questions, need help and/or want to make a feature request, please open an issue over at Github. You can also browse through open and closed issues to find what you are looking for and perhaps even help others.

PLEASE DO NOT POST YOUR ISSUES VIA THE WORDPRESS FORUMS

Thanks for your understanding and cooperation.