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Helpful – Article Feedback Plugin

Easily add a "Was it helpful?" survey on your blog or knowledge base pages with this article feedback plugin.

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Tested up to WordPress 7.1
Current version1.16
WordPress coverageTested up to WordPress 7.1
Minimum stackWP 6.5 · PHP 7.3
Directory statusactive
Last directory update22 Oct 202611d ago
Active installations600Adoption metric — not a quality score
WordPress.org rating4.4 / 5 from 8 ratings
Official packageDirect from WordPress.org

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WP PlugIndex currently records Helpful – Article Feedback Plugin version 1.16 as active, updated 11d ago and tested up to WordPress 7.1.

Overview

About this plugin

” survey on your blog or knowledge base pages.

Use this quick pool to understand if your content resonates with your audience and apply the proper improvements to your website.

Pro Version

The Pro Version of this plugin is now available with additional features such as the ability to send email notifications when new feedback is received, export the feedback data, download the single feedback in PDF format, options to configure the feedback form position, and more.

Why should you use a “Was this helpful? Yes/No” survey to improve your content?

People are willing to share feedback when they do not have to make an effort to open the survey and fill out a lengthy form. Consequently, a simple “Was this helpful? Yes/No” feedback form is ideal for finding issues in your articles.

How the plugin applies the “Was this helpful?” survey to your WordPress site?

The plugin, using filters, automatically applies the feedback form at the end of the articles that belong to the configured custom post types. ), buttons to submit positive or negative feedback, and an optional field that lets the user send a feedback comment.

Browse the feedback data

The plugin collects the feedback value (positive or negative) and, optionally, a comment from the user. These data are stored in a custom plugin database table and available to you in the Statistics menu or from a dedicated Post sidebar section.

Statistics menu

The statistics menu displays statistics on the feedback received by the posts. Here, you will find essential metrics like the positive feedback ratio and the number of positive and negative feedback. In addition, the plugin will also present details on the single feedback values and feedback comments in a dedicated submenu.

We have also included the ability to filter the statistics. So you can, for example, quickly find posts that need improvements by displaying only the ones with a specific positive feedback ratio.

Feedback menu

The feedback menu shows the single feedback received by the articles. Filters are available and can be used, for example, to find submissions received on a specific date, comments that include certain keywords, and more.

Post sidebar section

The plugin adds a new dedicated section named “Helpful” in the block editor sidebar. Here you can easily monitor positive and negative feedback while editing the articles.

Features

Limit multiple feedback on the same article

Prevent multiple form submissions by using cookies or by checking the user IP.

Apply “Was this helpful?” only to specific custom post types

” survey only to specific post types. Use this option, for example, to collect feedback only on your knowledge base pages and not on your blog articles and pages.

Feedback comments

Receive comments from the users. With a dedicated option, you can enable this feature under the following alternative conditions:

  • Always
  • After a positive feedback
  • After a negative feedback
  • Never

Multiple Rating Buttons Styles

Select between multiple types of rating buttons. Your options include text-only buttons, icons, and text buttons with icons.

Customizable SVG for the icons

We included high-quality icons in SVG format to submit the ratings.

Currently, the following SVG icons are available:

  • Happy face
  • Sad face
  • Thumb up
  • Thumb down

Note that from the plugin options, you can select your favorite icons and customize the icon’s colors.

Content customizations

Configure the exact textual content displayed in the form. ”

Here you can also configure the other sentences included in the form. For example, you can encourage the user to leave a feedback comment with sentences like “We’re glad that you liked the post! ”, “We’re sorry to hear that.

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Typography customization

Easily configure the font family, font size, font style, font weight, and line height of any textual element displayed in the feedback form.

In addition, you can load custom Google Fonts by including the embed code in a dedicated plugin option.

Colors Customizations

You can customize the color of any displayed form element with dedicated options.

Spacing

Configure the margin and padding of the form elements with dedicated options.

Back-end customizations

Customize the back-end menus of the plugin, for example, by restricting the plugin menus only to users with specific capabilities, configuring a custom number of paginated items, and more.

Test mode

” form with a dedicated “Test Mode” option before going live.

Configure the feedback comment length

Limit the maximum number of characters the users can include in the feedback comment.

Enable the form on a per-post basis

Enable or disable the feedback form on a per-post basis with a toggle available in a dedicated section of the block editor sidebar.

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Credits

This plugin makes use of the following resources:

  • Select2 licensed under the MIT License
WordPress.org metadata

Plugin tags

Topics listed for this plugin in the WordPress.org directory.

  • article feedback
  • post rating
  • rate post
  • user feedback
Compatibility & maintenance

Compatibility & maintenance

Tested with WP 7.1

Marked as tested with the current WordPress 7.1 release.

Current WordPress releaseWordPress 7.1
WordPress.org Tested up to7.1
Minimum requirementsWordPress 6.5 · PHP 7.3
Update activity22 Oct 202611d ago

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Recent tracked changes

Version1.151.16
WordPress compatibility6.9.77.1.3
WordPress requirement5.06.5
PHP requirement5.37.3
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