It’s time for another little Wordpress plugin, which helps you spread the word about your website, but also spreading the word with the idea of show casing it with your best information.

Recommend It is a simple to install wordpress plugin, which gives users the ability to recommend your website to other people. This sounds rather normal and straight forward, but the beauty of it, is that you can recommend them to your best articles. A lot of the time, you latest article might not be your best article, and therefore you might lose new readers through this - so with Recommend It, your new readers will arrive at posts, which are your best ones. The installation process is fairly straight forward, take a look:

1. Download recommendit.rar, extract the .php file and upload
it to the /plugins/ folder in Wordpress.

2. Activate the Plugin in Wordpress, as per usual.

3. index.php - add the following code before any other code:

<?php
if(!isset($_SESSION[’recpost’]))
{
		session_start();
	    session_register(’recpost);
     $_SESSION[’recpost’][0] = -1;
}
?>

4. Add the following code where you want the "Recommend this Article"
button in your single.php:

<?php RecommenditPlugin(); ?>

5. To add it to your sidebar, add this code to the sidebar.php:

<li><h2>Recommended</h2>
<ul>
<?php get_recommends(); ?>
</ul>
</li>

You can use get_recommends(5); or get_recommends(5, 60); for limitation purposes.

6. If you would like to style the button, add div#recommendit,
form#recommenditform and input#recommenditbutton into your css file.

These six simple steps can lead to a nice increase in reader loyalty and traffic. Play around, style your button/link appropriately, and enjoy the sharing of your information!