About this plugin
eCards Lite lets your visitors pick a card, write a message and email it to a friend, straight from any post or page.
- Pick card images visually in Settings → eCards Lite → Shortcode Generator, drag them into order and copy the [ecard] shortcode.
- Seasonal email themes: Christmas, New Year, birthday and thank you.
- Spam protection built in: a hidden honeypot field, a limit of 10 cards per hour per visitor, and optional Akismet checks.
- Emails include a plain-text version and use the visitor’s address as Reply-To, which helps them reach the inbox.
- Accessible form with proper labels and status messages.
There are two ways you can use this plugin:
- Add the [ecard] shortcode to a post or a page.
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Call the function from a template file:
if ( function_exists( 'wp_ecard_display_ecards' ) ) {
echo wp_ecard_display_ecards();
}
If your images are already uploaded, and they are present in your Media Library, use their IDs to display them (in that order):
[ecard id="1, 2, 3, 4, 78" theme="christmas"]
The IDs correspond to images in your Media Library. This feature eliminates the need to manually attach images and also eliminates the need to upload the same image multiple times, just to have it attached to different posts or pages.
Documentation
Check out the eCards Documentation for advanced installation, usage, and setup instructions.
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Premium Features
Just in case you want some advanced features, you can purchase the PRO version to get access to additional features for your eCards. Lite and PRO share the same settings, so you can switch at any time.
- 1 year support
- User uploads
- eCard designer (email template editor)
- Redirection (send users to a special “Thank You” page after sending an eCard)
- eCard Collections (design and organize your eCards and re-order your images)
- Include post/page content (useful if you have a certain eCard “story” or message you want to convey)
- Allow the sender to CC self, or send to many recipients (CSV upload)
- eCard scheduling
- CAPTCHA and GDPR consent checkbox
- Sent eCard history with statistics and automatic clean-up
- eCard CPT (developers only)
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