Title: Kudos
Author: Alex
Published: <strong>April 16, 2013</strong>
Last modified: January 28, 2014

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This plugin **hasn’t been tested with the latest 3 major releases of WordPress**.
It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when
used with more recent versions of WordPress.

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# Kudos

 By [Alex](https://profiles.wordpress.org/ahoereth/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/kudos.1.1.1.zip)

 * [Details](https://twd.wordpress.org/plugins/kudos/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://twd.wordpress.org/plugins/kudos/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://twd.wordpress.org/plugins/kudos/#installation)
 * [Development](https://twd.wordpress.org/plugins/kudos/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/kudos/)

## Description

Kudos, as seen on the svbtle.com blogging network, are an unobtrusive and playful

way for your readers to show their appreciation. To give kudos for a post the visitor
simply hovers the Kudo-Button: A small animation starts for as long as the visitor
does leave his cursor on the Kudo. When the animation is finished and the Kudo-Button
is filled the count goes up by one. By clicking the then filled button the visitor
can take his Kudo off the post again.

See the plugin in action on [yrnxt.com](http://yrnxt.com/category/wordpress/kudos/).

[Dustin Curtis](http://dcurt.is/codename-svbtle), creator of svbtle.com and inventor
of Kudos, describes Kudos like this:

    ```
    Each post has one unusual feedback mechanism which has no external repercussions: Kudos.
    ```

By default Kudos are displayed in the top right of your post contents. You can
 
customize the positioning and texts at `Settings -> Kudos`. More customizations 
will be added in upcoming updates.

Beside the default automatic insertion into your posts you can make use of the PHP-
Functions and shortcode to display the Kudos more individually:

    ```
    [kudos]

    kudos()
    get_kudos( $post_id, $attr )
    kudos_count( $post_id, $text, $hover )
    get_kudos_count( $post_id )
    ```

For more information on those take a look at the contextual help on your Settings-
> Kudos screen.

This plugin makes use of [Masukomi’s Kudos](https://github.com/masukomi/kudos) implementation.

If you like Kudos and the overall look of Svbtle take a look at [wp-svbtle](https://github.com/gravityonmars/wp-svbtle).

## Screenshots

 * [[
 * Kudos-Button in the top right of a post in the twentythirteen theme.
 * [[
 * Triggered Kudos-Button in the top left of a post in the twentytwelve theme.
 * [[
 * Settings -> Kudos

## Installation

 1. Visit your WordPress Administration interface and go to Plugins -> Add New
 2. Search for “_Kudos_“, and click “_Install Now_” below the plugin’s name
 3. When the installation finished, click “_Activate Plugin_“

By default the Kudos are displayed in the top left of your content. Take a look

into `Settings -> Kudos` for customizations.

## Reviews

There are no reviews for this plugin.

## Contributors & Developers

“Kudos” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ Alex ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/ahoereth/)

[Translate “Kudos” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/kudos)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/kudos/), check out 
the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/kudos/), or subscribe to 
the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/kudos/) by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/kudos/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Changelog

#### 1.1.1: 2014-01-28

 * Tiny PHP 5.2 fix

#### 1.1: 2013-04-23

 * Added option to disable unkudo’ing
 * Added contextual help
 * Added settings action link
 * Removed kudos from feeds

#### 1.0: 2013-04-16

 * Release

## Meta

 *  Version **1.1.1**
 *  Last updated **12 years ago**
 *  Active installations **10+**
 *  WordPress version ** 3.1 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **3.9.40**
 *  Language
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/kudos/)
 * Tags
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## Ratings

 3.6 out of 5 stars.

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## Contributors

 *   [ Alex ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/ahoereth/)

## Support

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