Herd Effects – Social Proof and Notification Plugin Plugin

Herd Effects is a powerful, free marketing tool designed to post popup notifications on your website, enhancing user engagement and boosting conversions. By showcasing real or simulated activities of other visitors, it creates a “live queue” effect, motivating users to take specific actions on your site.

Herd Effects offers a simple and effective way to increase conversions through social proof. By displaying user activities, the plugin captures attention and encourages visitors to follow suit, leveraging the psychological impact of herd behavior.

Main features

Herd Effects allows you to create customizable templates with various variable values defined by the administrator. The notifications are designed to motivate users to join the actions of others. Key features include:

• Configuring templates with variables to generate popup notifications
• Setting custom titles
• Access to over 2000 FontAwesome 6 icons
• Inserting custom icons
• Specifying lists of values for text variables
• Setting minimum and maximum numeric values
• Defining time intervals for consistent notification display
• Editing display settings for screens with specific resolutions
• Inserting alerts on your site using shortcodes

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Discover even more features with the Pro version of the Herd Effects plugin, available at wow-estore.com.

Preview of Pro Version

Use Cases

• Registration notifications
• Purchase information notifications
• Service order notifications
• Application or program installation notifications
• User activity demonstrations
• Event subscription notifications
• Social media mentions
• Real-time activity updates on the site
• And much more

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Support

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• Installation option 1: Find and install this plugin in the Plugins -> Add new section of your wp-admin
• Installation option 2: Download the zip file, then upload the plugin via the wp-admin in the Plugins -> Add new section. Or unzip the archive and upload the folder to the plugins directory /wp-content/plugins/ via ftp
• Press Activate when you have installed the plugin via dashboard or press Activate in the in the Plugins list
• Go to Herd Effects section that will appear in your main menu on the left
• Click Add new to create your first set of notifications
• Enter title that will appear in the notifications
• Choose the icon that will appear in the notifications.
• If you want a custom icon, tick Custom, upload your image via Media – Add new, then insert the link to your image. Recommended icon size is 60×60 pixels.
• Construct your notifications template in the Text field.
• Enter the values for your [variable_1] and [variable_2] variables. You can get the list of names and cities here. Note that you can use these variables for any kind of content, not just names and citites. Just enter any values you want and the plugin will randomly pick the values to be displayed in the notifications. Do not create new lines in the list of your variable, or the notifications will not work! Just enter the values, separated by comma.
• Enter the minimum and maximum values of the Amount, if you are using it.
• Click Save
• Copy and paste the shortcode, such as [Wow-Herd-Effects id=1] to where you want the notifications to appear.
• If you want the notifications to appear everywhere on your site, you can insert it in your header.php, like this: <?php echo do_shortcode('[Herd-Effects id=1]');?>
• If you want to insert the shortcode into a widget, use this plugin

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   Pro version features

6.0

• Added: Advanced style customization options.
• Added: Tag, link, and button ‘Duplicate’ in the notification option.
• Added: Open notification content in HTML Editor.
• Improvement: Refreshed Interface – Revamped the plugin’s dashboard page style for a more intuitive and user-friendly experience.
• Improvement: Code Optimization – Rewritten jQuery code in vanilla JavaScript for improved performance.

5.2.7

• Fixed: minor bug with nonce

5.2.6

• Fixed: creating the databased

5.2.5

• Fixed: dynamic property for PHP 8.2

5.2.4

• Fixed: minor bug

5.2.3

• Fixed: minor bug

5.2.2

• Fixed: minor bug in page-list

5.2.1

• Fixed: security issue

5.2

• Added: Export/Import functions
• Fixed: minor bug

5.1.3

• Fixed: minor bug

5.1.2

• Fixed: minor bug

5.1.1

• Fixed: script download queue

5.1

• Updated: Font Awesome Icons to version 5.14
• Fixed: minor bugs

5.0.2

• Fixed: include script in footer

5.0.1

• Fixed: custom image

5.0

• Added: Live preview
• Added: test mode option
• Added: Unit for location
• Updated: Admin style
• Update: Font Awesome Icon to v. 5.12

4.1

• Fixed: display of notification

4.0.1

• Fixed: option ‘Show every (sec)’

4.0

• Added: option for disabling FontAwesome 5 from front-end
• Added: Content style options
• Added: Title style options
• Added: Icon style options
• Added: Close button size option
• Changed: Admin Style
• Optimized: Styles and Scripts (minification and response time reduction)
• Updated: FontAwesome 5
• Fixed: Control on the devices

3.1.3

• Fixed: Insert the shortcode

3.1.2

• Fixed: Rounding the amount

3.1.1

• Fixed: minor bugs
• Fixed: main class

3.1

• Fixed: minor bugs
• Added: Support page
• Added: Discount page

3.0

• Added: function hiding menu on mobile
• Changed: admin style
• Changed: Up to 3 notifications

2.3

• Fixed: minor bugs.
• Change: Admin style.

2.2

• Add: Interval display option.
• Change: Admin style.

2.1

• Fix: Can enter ‘Name’ and ‘City’ in new line.
• Fix: Verifying access to the folder ‘asset’.
• Fix: Optimized code.

2.0

• Fixed code
• Change style

1.0

• Initial release