Post Badges
The Templatic Badge plugins add the ability to add badges and it's respective colour you wants to show in front end.
The facts
- Rating
- 3.5★ from 6
- Active installs
- 400+
- Price
- Free
- Last updated
- 27 Oct 2018
- Added
- Jun 2016
- Requires WP
- 3.5
- Tested up to
- WP 5.0.27
- Downloads
- 8,623
Our analysis
AI-assistedPost Badges is a WordPress plugin that allows you to add badges to your posts or custom post types. Once installed and activated, it provides a meta box where you can specify badge text and colour for each post. The badges appear next to the post title on the front end, helping to highlight specific posts such as those that are new, popular, or recommended.
This plugin is suitable for users who want to draw attention to certain posts on their site. It can be particularly useful for blogs or content-heavy sites looking to increase traffic to specific articles by using visually distinct badges.
Best for: This plugin suits bloggers or content creators looking to enhance post visibility with badges.
What it does well
- ✓Free to download from the WordPress.org directory
- ✓Allows customisation of badge text and colour
- ✓Easy to install and activate
- ✓Displays badges next to post titles on the front end
- ✓Can be used for various tagging purposes
Where it falls short
- •Limited information on advanced features
- •Last updated in October 2018
- •Directory score of 47/100 indicates potential issues
Verdict
Post Badges offers a straightforward way to add visual tags to posts, but its outdated status and low directory score may raise concerns for some users.
From the developer
templatic1's own description of Post Badges, lightly tidied.
The Templatic Badge plugins add the ability to add badges and it’s respective colour you wants to show in front end.
After installing and activating the plugin, edit or create a post or any other custom post type create you will see a meta box of Templatic Badge, where you can add the badge text and colour if you want.
See screenshot-1 for what this might look like in your add/edit post screen
After you have added badges and colour you will see it after post title wherever you have used the the_title, to show title for a particular post in the front end. See the Post Badges for further Information.
See screenshot-2 image for what this might look like in your post detail page.
Post Badges is yet another free plugin our team created last week for you. This little WordPress plugin helps you show a little post badge after your WordPress post title.
For example, in our Free Directory Theme Resources list, we are showing new tag beside some of the recent posts. Also, there are different use cases for this plugin. For example, you might want to show popular or recommended or trending or any other such relevant tag beside a post title which would help you get the attention of the user and as a result, increase traffic to those particular posts.
How to use this plugin?
- Download this Free Post Badges Plugin from above link.
- Connect to your WordPress dashboard (wp-admin) and navigate to Plugins >> Add New Plugin >> Upload Plugin >> Now upload the downloaded (Templatic-Badge.zip) file >> Click on Install Now
- Once you install this plugin successfully, click on Activate Plugin.
- To set the badges to the post type navigate to wp-admin >> Post >> Add New >> In sidebar area it will show you the Templatic Badges section
- Here you can set the title and color of the Badges and update the post.