Gwolle Guestbook

Description

Gwolle Guestbook is the WordPress guestbook you’ve just been looking for. Beautiful and easy.
Gwolle Guestbook is not just another guestbook for WordPress. The goal is to provide an easy and slim way to integrate a guestbook into your WordPress powered site. Don’t use your ‘comment’ section the wrong way – install Gwolle Guestbook and have a real guestbook.

Current features include:

• Easy to use guestbook frontend with a simple form for visitors of your website.
• List of guestbook entries at the frontend with pagination or infinite scroll.
• Widget to display an excerpt of your last or your best entries.
• Simple and clean admin interface that integrates seamlessly into WordPress admin.
• Dashboard Widget to easily manage the latest entries from your Admin Dashboard.
• Easy Import from other guestbooks into Gwolle Guestbook.
• Notification by mail when a new entry has been posted.
• Moderation, so that you can check an entry before it is visible in your guestbook (optional).
• 7 anti-spam features, like Honeypot, Nonce, Form Timeout, Akismet, Stop Forum Spam and Custom Quiz Question.
• Simple Form Builder to select which form-fields you want to use.
• Simple Entry Builder with the parts of each entry that you want to show.
• Multiple guestbooks are possible.
• MultiSite is supported.
• Localization. Own languages can be added very easily through GlotPress.
• Admins can add a reply to each entry.
• A log for each entry, so that you know which member of the staff released and edited a guestbook entry to the public and when.
• IP-address and host-logging with link to WHOIS query site.
• RSS Feed.
• BBcode, Emoji and Smiley integration (optional).
• Easy uninstall routine for complete removal of all database changes.

… and all that integrated in the stylish WordPress look.

Import / Export

You may have another guestbook installed. That’s great, because Gwolle Guestbook enables you to import entries easily.
The importer does not delete any of your data, so you can go back to your previous setup without loss of data, if you want to.
Trying Gwolle Guestbook is as easy as 1-2-3.

Import is supported from:

• DMSGuestbook.
• WordPress comments from a specific post, page or just all comments.
• Gwolle Guestbook itself, with Export supported as well (CSV-file).

Support

If you have a problem or a feature request, please post it on the plugin’s support forum on wordpress.org. I will do my best to respond as soon as possible.

If you send me an email, I will not reply. Please use the support forum.

Translations

Translations can be added very easily through GlotPress.
You can start translating strings there for your locale. They need to be validated though, so if there’s no validator yet, and you want to apply for being validator (PTE), please post it on the support forum.
I will make a request on make/polyglots to have you added as validator for this plugin/locale.

Demo

Check out the demo at https://demo.zenoweb.nl.

Add-On

Gwolle Guestbook: The Add-On is the add-on for Gwolle Guestbook that gives extra functionality for your guestbook.

Current features include:

• Meta Fields. Add any field you want; company, phone number, you name it.
• Social Media Sharing (optional).
• Star Ratings, with voting and display and Rich Snippets for SEO (optional).
• Average star rating per guestbook.
• Like an entry and view likes for each entry.
• Preview for the frontend form.
• Preview for the admin editor form.
• Automatic Refresh of guestbook list with new entries.
• Admin reply on the frontend with AJAX.
• Edit content/author/origin of entry on the frontend with AJAX.
• Report Abuse.
• Easy String Replacement in the default text so you can make this guestbook into a review section or anything you want.
• Delete button in each entry for the moderator and author (optional).
• Permalink button in each entry for easy access (optional).
• Email button to contact each author (optional).
• Upload Images through the form. (Only for Author, Editor and Administrator with capability ‘gwolle_gb_upload_files’) (optional).
• Sitemap support for popular SEO/Sitemap plugins.
• Auto Anonymize timer (optional).
• Auto Delete timer (optional).

Since version 5.0.0 the Add-On is included in the main plugin.

Demo with Add-On

Check out the demo with the Add-On enabled at https://demo.zenoweb.nl.

Compatibility

This plugin is compatible with ClassicPress.

Contributions

This plugin is also available in Codeberg.

Technical details