Overview
Build a community-driven content portal. This plugin adds upvoting and downvoting buttons to your Buzzy posts, allowing your readers to organically highlight the highest quality stories, lists, and videos.
✨ Features
- 🗳️ Upvote & Downvote Controls: Simple up and down arrow buttons next to your posts to let users express approval or disapproval.
- 📈 Dynamic Community Ranking: Organic content curation that highlights popular posts automatically.
- 👥 Guest Voting Support: Allow unregistered visitors to vote, driving immediate engagement from search and social traffic.
- 🛡️ Anti-Manipulation Rate Limits: Built-in limits on how many votes can be cast per minute and hour to keep the voting fair.
- 🔢 Show or Hide Scores: Toggle whether to show the calculated total score card publicly or hide it to focus on reading.
⚙️ How to Configure
As an administrator, you can manage the Post Voting configurations directly from your Buzzy Admin Panel under Post Voting Settings.
- Guest Access: Choose whether guest visitors are allowed to cast post votes.
- Score Visibility: Toggle whether the overall post score is shown publicly.
- Spam Control: Set the maximum upvote/downvote rate per minute and per hour for each IP address to block bot rings.
🌐 User Experience
- Interactive up and down arrow buttons appear next to titles and cards.
- The score dynamically increments or decrements as users vote.
- The platform curates itself, showing the community's favorites at the top of trending and popular list widgets.
