{"id":18833394,"date":"2026-02-25T11:27:26","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T11:27:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/topic\/reactions-to-posts\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T11:27:26","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T11:27:26","slug":"reactions-to-posts","status":"publish","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/topic\/reactions-to-posts\/","title":{"rendered":"Reactions to posts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Please, consider adding emoticon\/reaction functionality to the support forums. That would enable users to express their &#8220;me too&#8221; and &#8220;thanks&#8221;\/&#8221;this worked for my case&#8221; insight without making needless noise in a form of separate forums posts or deciding not to participate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There are specific guidelines in the <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/forum-user-guide\/faq\/#i-have-the-same-problem-can-i-just-reply-to-someone-elses-post-with-me-too\">forums rules<\/a> about not making extra posts, and I even see annoyed users (plugin authors) making extra posts to explain these guidelines (going off-topic and making noise themselves), which should become much less of a problem if there were better ways (reaction icons) to give one&#8217;s insight or support in a less obtrusive way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-18833394","topic","type-topic","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/18833394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/topic"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/18833394\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18833394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}