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Slickstream: Engagement and Conversions

Use Slickstream to upgrade your site search. Get beautiful as-you-type search, relevant content recommendations, user favorites and more!

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Tested up to WordPress 6.8
Current version3.0.2
WordPress coverageTested up to WordPress 6.8
Minimum stackWP 5.2.0 · PHP 7.4.0
Directory statusactive
Last directory update28 Sept 20261mo ago
Active installations2K+Adoption metric — not a quality score
WordPress.org rating5.0 / 5 from 11 ratings
Official packageDirect from WordPress.org

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WP PlugIndex currently records Slickstream: Engagement and Conversions version 3.0.2 as active, updated 1mo ago and tested up to WordPress 6.8.

Overview

About this plugin

This plugin is for Slickstream customers. It adds our embed code and key metadata into your webpages without affecting site speed or performance.

Slickstream users get unlimited access to all of our tools, including:

– Responsive as-you-type search with a heap of advanced features that your visitors will love

– Customizable recommendation carousels and grids backed by real data

– Hassle-free content favoriting to keep your visitors coming back

– A robust analytics portal with engagement insights you can actually use

The Slickstream Difference

What makes Slickstream different is that we handle the hard work for you. We sit outside of WordPress, which means when you sign up we build a model of your site and use it to populate all of our search and recommendation tools. Then you pick the ones you want to use, flip a switch, and we’re live!

Your site can be running Slickstream tomorrow, with no complicated technical implementation required.

What’s Included

  • Floating Search: Search with Slickstream on any page
  • Hooked Search Buttons: Automatically link your existing search to Slickstream
  • Inline Search Module: As-you-type search results displaying on page
  • Infinite Filmstrip: Content recommendations placed above posts
  • Filmstrip Toolbar: Sticky recommendations that display on scroll
  • Content Grid: Flexible recommendation module that can be placed anywhere
  • Floating Favorites: Interactive content bookmarking with no sign-in required
  • Floating Back-to-Top: Simple option to return to top of content
  • Web Story Player: Full site integrations for existing web stories
  • Campaigns: Incorporate custom objectives into user experience (business only)
  • Analytics Portal: Robust insights into both Slickstream statistics and general

General Features and Integrations:

  • Supports all major themes and editors
  • Search or recommend content across multiple domains
  • Multi-language search results supported
  • Configurable GDPR settings
  • Designed for accessibility compliance
  • Client-side API available
  • Email provider integrations (MailChimp, ConvertKit, ActiveCampaign)
  • First-party data integration with advertising networks
  • Google Analytics integration
  • Recipe card integrations (WP Recipe Maker, Tasty Recipes)
  • E-commerce integration (Shopify)

Configuration Options:

  • Pre-made templates to choose from
  • Granular look and feel controls
  • Custom messaging on all text prompts
  • Attribution removal (additional charge)
  • Built-in CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift) handling
  • Optional opt-in email collection
  • Optional advertising slot inclusions

Search and Recommendation Details:

  • Search by category, content type, or author
  • Default sort by relevance, date, or popularity
  • Custom result weighting in search and recommendations
  • Manual categorization and content grouping control
  • Exclude results by category, content type, or individual posts
  • Custom taxonomies supported
  • Progressively detailed results including metadata
  • Automatic content grouping in results
  • Fuzzy matching and typo forgiveness
  • Highlighted search terms in results
  • Structured data search experience for ingredients or supplies
  • All search queries recorded in analytics

FAQs

What is Slickstream?

Slickstream is a sophisticated market-leading user engagement suite designed for independent publishers. It helps you turn casual visitors into loyal readers that return again and again through intelligent as-you-type search, content recommendations, favoriting and membership capabilities, email sign-up, and other useful features. You can easily design captivating user journeys that lead visitors to exactly what they’re looking for.

The result is higher pageviews, time-on-page, click-throughs, and return visits. As if that isn’t enough, Slickstream’s reporting gives deep insights into its performance and how your visitors are interacting on your site, far beyond what you can see in Google Analytics.

How will Slickstream help me?

Slickstream helps you to get the most out of the traffic that visits your site by turning casual visitors into loyal readers, increasing ad revenue.

Customizable features complement your brand and create a more premium site experience. The powerful recommendation engine serves up the best content to your readers so they spend more time on your site. Slickstream also saves you time, money and hassle from not having to rely on developers, multiple products, or other resources to do a bunch of manual site customization handled with one simple Slickstream installation.

Worried about first-party data? Slickstream helps with that too! Slickstream helps you authenticate traffic and build first-party data with logged-in site visitors.

Slickstream also offers an email sign-up feature that you can use to collect email addresses, but you can seamlessly use your existing email subscription method too. Slicksteam’s Highlighter feature draws attention to any element of your site you choose and has proven to significantly improve conversions.

Do You Support Languages Other Than English?

Yes we do. Our underlying recommendation technology is not English-specific, and we have already localized the Engagement Suite for German, Portuguese, Spanish, Dutch, French, Norwegian, Swedish, Croatian, Russian, Danish, Arabic, Hebrew, Japanese and more. Reach out to us and we can confirm if we support your language too.

Where can I learn more about Slickstream?

com.

How can I report security bugs?

You can report security bugs through the Patchstack Vulnerability Disclosure Program. The Patchstack team helps validate, triage and handle any security vulnerabilities. Report a security vulnerability.

WordPress.org metadata

Plugin tags

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

  • bookmarks
  • engagement
  • favorites
  • recommendations
  • search
Compatibility & maintenance

Compatibility & maintenance

Tested up to WordPress 6.8

Not yet marked as tested with WordPress 7.1. WordPress.org currently lists Tested up to 6.8.

Current WordPress releaseWordPress 7.1
WordPress.org Tested up to6.8
Minimum requirementsWordPress 5.2.0 · PHP 7.4.0
Update activity28 Sept 20261mo ago

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Version3.0.13.0.2
WordPress compatibility6.8.86.8.10
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