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Author: Thaya Kareeson

This plugin lets you show a different greeting message to your new visitors depending on their referrer url. For example, when a Digg user clicks through from Digg, they will see a message reminding them to digg your post if they like it. Another example, when a visitor clicks through from Twitter, they will see a message suggesting them to twit the post and follow you on Twitter. You can also set a default greeting message for new visitors (not matching any referrer URLs) suggesting them to subscribe to your RSS feed. Having these targeted suggestions will help your blog increase exposure, loyal readership, and reader interaction. Best of all, this plugin is compatible with WPMU and various WordPress cache plugins (so you do not have to sacrifice speed).

Features

• Show a different greeting message to your visitor depending on the referrer URL. You can add/edit/delete/disable these greeting messages as you choose.
• Beautiful set of icons shipped along with the different default referrers.
• Clickable icon in greeting messages with target=_blank option.
• Greeting messages automatically get inserted into the top of your posts upon activation. There is no need to modify theme files.
• Ability to auto-insert greeting message to the top or bottom of the post.
• Greeting messages can be user closeable or not.
• Ability to detect the visitor's search keywords from major search engines and automatically display related posts under or above the greeting message.
• Show a default greeting message even if the vistor does not match any of your configured referrer URL.
• Show a default greeting message even if the visitor does not have javascript enabled.
• Cache compatible mode makes use of AJAX to display greeting messages in the frontend. This makes WP Greet Box compatible with other caching plugins (such as WP Super Cache) and WPMU.
• AJAX administrative interface that uses nonce verification to discourage hackers.
• Ability to keep displaying the greeting message until after the user clicks close for the first time. After that, the greeting message will not show up for that user anymore.
• Ability to set a timeout to forget a visitor so we do not keep nagging them with greeting messages.
• Ablity to set rules to exclude some referrer URLs from seeing greeting messages. Regular expressions is also supported (but not required!).
• Ultra customizeable greeting message box (with CSS) allowing you to prepend/append HTML around the greeting message box.
• Ability to disable included CSS for manual CSS management.
• Ability to disable included JS for manual JS management.
• Available "greetboxtext" filter for other plugins to modify greeting message before outputting.
• Ability to import and export all WP Greet Box Settings.
• Currently the following referrers are installed by default, but you can easily create your own if your favorite referrer is not on the list!
  1. bing.com
  2. blinklist.com
  3. blogmarks.com
  4. del.icio.us
  5. delicious.com
  6. digg.com
  7. diigo.com
  8. facebook.com
  9. flickr.com
  10. friendfeed.com
  11. furl.com
  12. google.*
  13. linkedin.com
  14. ma.gnolia.com
  15. mister-wong.com
  16. myspace.com
  17. netvibes.com
  18. newsvine.com
  19. plurk.com
  20. reddit.com
  21. search.live.com
  22. search.msn.com
  23. search.yahoo.com
  24. simpy.com
  25. stumbleupon.com
  26. technorati.com
  27. twitter.com
  28. youtube.com

Changelog

• 5.1.0
  1. Added option to make the greet icon open up a new browser window when clicked on.
  2. Added POT file for translations.
  3. Added bing.com. (Thank you mynetx!)
  4. Updated Google icon. (Thank you Shahar!)
  5. Fixed svn:executable properties for php scripts and images.
  6. Removed legacy "Allow self referral option" (and always leave it on).
• 5.0.2
  1. Fixed greeting message showing up when it's not supposed to in PHP mode.
  2. Changed auto insertion filter content priority 100 (low priority)
  3. Remove OMNINOGGIN dashboard widget.
• 5.0.1
  1. Fixed array_slice() warning in the admin dashboard.
  2. Fixed version check to not break page when $wp_version is empty.
• 5.0
  1. Added ability to expand related posts by default.
  2. Added ability to display related posts before the greeting message.
  3. Added localization support.
  4. Added version checking.
  5. Cleaned up a lot of code.
• 4.9.1
  1. Fix page reload (in some cases) when closing greet box.
• 4.9
  1. Added the ability to keep displaying the greeting message until after the user clicks close for the first time. After that, the greeting message will not show up for that user anymore.
  2. Added support for icon links so icons are now clickable.
  3. Fixed default CSS display for when the greet box is too long compared to the greeting message.
  4. Fixed PHP cookie writing outside of place bug in PHP mode (Thank you Daniel from Bonetree Blog!).
  5. Fixed cookie bug in PHP mode (causes message to show up too often).
  6. Fixed some XHTML stuff.
  7. Fixed other minor bugs.
• 4.8.1
  1. Fixed PHP & JS cookies conflict when switchng WP Greet Box modes.
  2. Fixed admin general configuration page not saving options.
• 4.8
  1. Added support for non-cache-compatible mode for people who do not use this plugin with any caching plugins.
  2. Added option to disable JS references for manual JS management.
• 4.7
  1. Added friendfeed.com, linkedin.com, and plurk.com along with corresponding icons.
  2. Made related posts not show up if no related results are found.
• 4.6.2
  1. Fixed WP Greet Box triggering wp-include/query.php WordPress core error for some themes.
• 4.6.1
  1. Fixed broken manual insertion.
• 4.6
  1. Added ability to import and export all WP Greet Box options (including greeting messages).
  2. Added option to disable CSS for manual CSS management.
  3. Enhance upgrade procedure. Now all you have to do is visit any admin page after every upgrade.
• 4.5
  1. Added applyfilters("greetboxtext", $greethtml) filter for other plugins to modify message before display.
  2. Added icons for WordPress (thanks Joost De Valk!) and Tumblr
• 4.4.3
  1. Fixed WP 2.5 backwards compatibility (though pre WP 2.6 is not officially supported)
  2. Added option to allow self referral to trigger greet box.
  3. Added [[email-link]] short code for displaying "Subscribe via Email" links in greeting messages.
• 4.4.2
  1. Fixed MySQL index key conflicts by using a more unique index key name.
  2. Fixed XHTML validity with IMG tag and CSS file reference.
  3. Moved JS reference to the footer to help page load faster.
• 4.4.1
  1. Fix preg_match() error that occurs when there are slashes (/) specified in the referrer URL of each custom greeting message.
• 4.4
  1. Added more default greeting messages.
  2. Created and used my own set of free transparent icons.
  3. Added support for wildcard referrers (*.fr, *.uk).
  4. Added ability to specify multiple referrers per greeting message.
  5. Adjusted default CSS again.
  6. Fixed bug with stumbleupon & digg URLs that won't work on some sites.
• 4.3.3
  1. Fixed incompatibility on some web server setups which required URL escape.
• 4.3.2
  1. Fixed site_url() compatibility.
• 4.3.1
  1. Fixed /index.php to index.php in onload.js again.
• 4.3
  1. Added ability to detect the visitor's search keywords from major search engines and automatically display related posts under the greeting message.
  2. Fixed blank line bug in RSS feeds.
• 4.2.3
  1. Fixed bug that causes WP Greet Box to not work with sites with WordPress not installed in the root directory.
  2. Changed donation URL.
• 4.2.2
  1. Added ability to auto-insert greeting message before or after the post.
  2. Fixed default CSS (again).
  3. Fixed parse_url() incompatibilty in some version of PHP.
  4. Fixed blank line bug that shows up in IE when no greeting is shown.
  5. Fixed invalid reference to wp-greet-box/js/admin_functions.js.
  6. Hide advanced options in general configurations.
  7. Gave administration pages a bit of a facelift.
• 4.2.1
  1. Added optional "Powered by WP Greet Box" at the bottom right of messages.
• 4.2
  1. Auto-insert into the top of posts by default.
  2. Added ability to auto-insert into the top of pages.
  3. AJAXify adding new greeting message in administration.
  4. New settings to make messages closable or not.
  5. Easier exclusion rules (with regex toggle).
  6. Prevent self-referral to trigger greeting messages.
  7. Refferals are now per domain, instead of per URL.
  8. Fixed a bug that causes greeting messages to not work if one of the custom messages did not have a referrer URL specified.
  9. Fixed a bug that causes greeting messages to not work on non-default path WordPress installations.
  10. More generic/stable CSS defaults.
• 4.1.1
  1. Modification so that Javscripts are only ran on pages with that has calls.
  2. Fixed adding new message bug.
• 4.1
  1. Security patch using nonce verification on admin AJAX calls.
• 4.0.3
  1. Fixed regression AJAX bug.
• 4.0.2
  1. Fix some IE compatibility issues.
  2. Also fixed Javascript to work with non-standard directory WordPress installs.
• 4.0.1
  1. Fix PHP4 compatibility issue.
• 4.0
  1. Greeting message now fades out when the close button is clicked.
  2. Frontend greeting message display now uses AJAX to display the proper greeting message.
  3. There is no longer a need to pre-generate a static wp-greet-box.js file for these greeting messages. This also fixes the "Fatal error: Cannot redeclare wpgreetbox()" error that many people are getting from incorrect permissions.
  4. Greeting message administration UI became a lot easier and quicker after AJAXification.
• 3.1.1
  1. Fixed a bug that caused the greet box to not show up if exclusion rules are not specified.
• 3.1
  1. Added referral URL exclusion rules capabilities.
  2. Added noscript support for users with javascript disabled.
  3. Paginate admin pages.
• 3.0
  1. Added cookies support so we do not keep showing the same message to returning visitors.
  2. Added default message when no referrer match is found.
• 2.1
  1. Fixed PHP4 incompatibility.
• 2.0
  1. Added ability for users to add/delete/disable greeting messages.
  2. Added confirmation dialogs for delete and reset function.
• 1.0
  1. Initial release