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DD Last Viewed
Shows the users recently viewed/visited posts, filtered on types or terms, in a widget.
The facts
- Rating
- 4.9★ from 26
- Active installs
- 400+
- Price
- Free
- Last updated
- 17 Nov 2020
- Added
- Jun 2013
- Requires WP
- 3.3
- Tested up to
- WP 5.5.20
- Downloads
- 25,182
Our analysis
AI-assistedDD Last Viewed is a WordPress plugin that provides a widget to display users' recently viewed posts, pages, custom types, and terms. It is designed to enhance user experience by showing relevant content based on their browsing history. This plugin is particularly useful for websites that want to keep visitors engaged by reminding them of previously viewed items.
The widget is fully customisable, allowing you to filter content types, set maximum items displayed, and choose whether to show thumbnails or excerpts. It can also be integrated with caching plugins, ensuring optimal performance without compromising functionality. This plugin is suitable for anyone looking to improve site interactivity, especially those running WooCommerce stores.
Best for: This plugin is best for e-commerce sites and content-heavy websites looking to enhance user engagement.
What it does well
- ✓Displays recently viewed content
- ✓Customisable widget settings
- ✓Compatible with caching plugins
- ✓Supports various content types
- ✓Easy integration with WooCommerce
Where it falls short
- •Limited information on support and updates
- •Last updated in November 2020
Verdict
DD Last Viewed offers a straightforward solution for displaying recent user activity, but its last update may raise concerns about ongoing support.
From the developer
Mosterd3d's own description of DD Last Viewed, lightly tidied.
This plugin contains the lastViewed widget. This widget shows the users recently viewed/visited Posts, Pages, Custom Types and even Terms in a widget. Very nice to use in combination with Woo-commerce!
Using caching plugins? No problem! By 2 easy clicks you can bypass the caching and still get the best performance out of this widget.
The widget is fully customisable:
- Filter on Types and Terms
- Set the maximum
- Set thumbnail on/off
- Show Content(rich or plain) or Excerpt
- Set the excerpt length
- Add links to elements
- Set cookie lifetime
- Set cookie same site
- Set cookie secure
- Set cookie by PHP or JS
- load widget with PHP or AJAX
customise the widget template by copy the file “dd-templates/lastviewed-widget.php” from the plugin directory into your theme directory. You can now start customising the widgets template.
If one of the posts with the filtered types or terms gets visited in the front, a cookie sets/updates with an array of visited ids. Each widget has his own cookie, so you can set as many widgets as you want.
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