Title: That Was Helpful
Author: Thorsten Frommen
Published: <strong>August 13, 2015</strong>
Last modified: September 25, 2015

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This plugin **hasn’t been tested with the latest 3 major releases of WordPress**.
It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when
used with more recent versions of WordPress.

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# That Was Helpful

 By [Thorsten Frommen](https://profiles.wordpress.org/tfrommen/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/that-was-helpful.zip)

 * [Details](https://wordpress.org/plugins/that-was-helpful/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/plugins/that-was-helpful/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://wordpress.org/plugins/that-was-helpful/#installation)
 * [Development](https://wordpress.org/plugins/that-was-helpful/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/that-was-helpful/)

## Description

**Find out what posts logged-in users found helpful.**

Have you ever wanted to know about the quality of your posts? At least a little 
bit?

This is exactly when _That Was Helpful_ kicks in.

This simple plugin lets you track how many logged-in users found individual posts
helpful.

#### Usage

What this plugin is all about is providing a means to mark individual posts helpful.
Each unique user can vote only once for each post. Of course, cast votes can be 
retracted.

**Actions**

In case you want to show the form depending on some (complicated) condition (and
not always), simply wrap `do_action( 'that_was_helpful', $optional_post_id )` in
the condition, and put it in your desired template file(s). If you provide an existing
post ID as parameter, the according post’s votes are displayed. Otherwise the current
post is used.

**Filters**

In order to customize certain aspects of the plugin, it provides you with several
filters. For each of these, a short description as well as a code example on how
to alter the default behavior is given below. Just put the according code snippet
in your theme’s `functions.php` file or your _customization_ plugin, or to some 
other appropriate place.

**`that_was_helpful_capability`**

Managing the plugin’s settings is restricted to a certain capability, which is by
default `manage_options`.

    ```
    /**  * Filters the capability required to manage the settings.  *  * @param string $capability Capability required to manage the settings.  */ add_filter( 'that_was_helpful_capability', function() {      return 'edit_users'; } ); 
    ```

#### Contribution

To **contribute** to this plugin, please see its [**GitHub repository**](https://github.com/tfrommen/that-was-helpful).

If you have a feature request, or if you have developed the feature already, please
feel free to use the Issues and/or Pull Requests section.

Of course, you can also provide me with translations if you would like to use the
plugin in another not yet included language.

## Screenshots

[⌊Settings page - Here you can manage your settings (i.e., automatically append 
to content and/or excerpt).⌉⌊Settings page - Here you can manage your settings (
i.e., automatically append to content and/or excerpt).⌉[

**Settings page** – Here you can manage your settings (i.e., automatically append
to content and/or excerpt).

[⌊Frontend - Frontend view for a logged-in user who marked the according post helpful.⌉⌊
Frontend - Frontend view for a logged-in user who marked the according post helpful
.⌉[

**Frontend** – Frontend view for a logged-in user who marked the according post 
helpful.

## Installation

This plugin requires PHP 5.3.

 1. Upload the `that-was-helpful` folder to the `/wp-content/plugins/` directory on
    your web server.
 2. Activate the plugin through the _Plugins_ menu in WordPress.
 3. Use the _That Was Helpful_ form either by defining _Automatic Appending_ to content/
    excerpt on the according _That Was Helpful_ settings page, or by using `do_action('
    that_was_helpful', $optional_post_id )` somewhere in your template files.

## Reviews

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## Contributors & Developers

“That Was Helpful” is open source software. The following people have contributed
to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ Thorsten Frommen ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/tfrommen/)

[Translate “That Was Helpful” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/that-was-helpful)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/that-was-helpful/),
check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/that-was-helpful/),
or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/that-was-helpful/)
by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/that-was-helpful/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Changelog

#### 1.1.0

 * Bugfix nonce method.
 * Rename namespace root to tfrommen.
 * Compatible up to WordPress 4.3.1.

#### 1.0.1

 * wordpress.org release.
 * Compatible up to WordPress 4.2.4.

#### 1.0.0

 * Initial release.

## Meta

 *  Version **1.1.0**
 *  Last updated **11 years ago**
 *  Active installations **Fewer than 10**
 *  WordPress version ** 3.5.0 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **4.3.34**
 * Tags
 * [helpful](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/helpful/)[posts](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/posts/)
   [quality](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/quality/)[vote](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/vote/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://wordpress.org/plugins/that-was-helpful/advanced/)

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## Contributors

 *   [ Thorsten Frommen ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/tfrommen/)

## Support

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