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Ever wanted to welcome users by name? Well, The Welcome Plugin just allows you to do that. It shows a Welcome Box to every visitor, searching for their name / avatar. Details are below.
Downloads
To install The Welcome Plugin upload and extract the chosen zip in your /wp-content/plugins/ folder. It will create a new folder, “welcome-plugin“: don’t rename it will cause problems.
Once uploaded and extracted, go to your “Plugins” page and activate The Welcome Plugin, then configure it from the new subpage near the plugin; finally, to display it on your blog, place the widget somewhere, via the “Widgets” page.
- English language: The Welcome Plugin 0.4
- Italian language: The Welcome Plugin 0.4 IT
More details
The Welcome Plugin is a WordPress plugin / widget that shows your visitors a welcome message.
It can also welcome them by name, in these cases:
- If they’ve already left a comment they should keep a little cookie on their computer with their name/email/website. These information help determining the name and avatar (first MBL, if not found, gravatar, or the default image)
- If the visitor is a registered user: in the 99% of the cases this will happen for the admin only, if a WP installation has got only one user. Be sure to set the “email” and “website” fields of your profile, to ensure avatars are shown correctly.
- If they’re MBL users, and you too: only if you display the MyBlogLog graphical widget on your blog, the plugin with a script (you have to activate it below) can recognize MBL users and welcome them. Sounds good, huh?
Nice one.. m gonna do that as soon as I go back home!
Btw, if thats you on the header, you are cute!
Thank you Nova
of course it’s me on the header!
Anyway, do you know you can’t use it on a Wordpress.com weblog? You just can’t install new plugins, I’m sorry, you need a self-hosted one!
Wow. I love this one over the previous one as it has many more features! Hats off to you!
Very good plugin. It’s the first time I use it and works fine!!!
Thanks.
Thank you everybody
Creative Plugins, I really like it.
Is there a way to use this plugin without the widget. I just need to call the function on my sidebar with the code. Thanks!
@Jahuari: thank you!
@Ben: of course! The code is this:
<?php welcome_plugin(); ?>yeah, cool man! thanks for this plugin..
the plugin that I have been searching for so long
glad i find it here
by this kind of greeting, our reader will be feel closer and more appereciated
I’d like to change the size of the gravatar/avatar. How do I do that?
Nevermind, I found it. Sorry.
what a great plugin!
do you plan to make an ability to upload a special users avatar through their profiles and then display? it would be fantastic!
This looks good.. I’m gonna try it..
Wow, so far this seems to be working great, I just have one question, do you know if there is any sort of cross browser issues with this plugin?
I like the idea of this plugin however I do not want it embedded into my sidebar, instead it would be nice to have it above the posts on my posts page. Kinda like a non-movable box or something …
Any idea how I might do this ?