Birthdays Plugin - Listing, Wishes, Reminder Emails and Widgets
Category:
Events,
Add a new personal touch to your social community. This plugin shows to users the birthdays of their friends, and allows them to wish easily. Users can browse over months to see birthdays, both on a listing page, as well as in widgets. The layout of Birthdays widget can be chosen from 4 attractive formats, including a birthday calendar. Admin configurable Automatic Birthday Reminder emails inform users of upcoming birthdays. Admin can also configure Automatic Birthday Wish emails to wish users on their birthdays.
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Plugin
Add a new personal touch to your social community. Enable your users to never forget any birthdays of friends, and send birthday wishes to the users of your site.
Plugin Features:
- Birthdays Listing Page:
- This page lists the birthdays of friends for the current date, current month, and for other dates in a month-wise order.
- Users can easily click on links to wish and message friends having birthdays.
- This page also shows the age of the friends. Users can hide their age on birthdays listing page by not mentioning year in their birthdate. Also, if the admin chooses to hide the birthdate from user profiles, the age will not be shown in birthdays listing.
- Admin can enable the link for the Birthdays Listing Page on the Member Homepage in the left-side menu.
- Birthdays widget contains link for this listing page.
- Attractive Birthdays Widget:
- Admin can choose the widget layout from amongst these 4 formats: "Names only", "Profile pictures only", "Profile pictures and names" and "Calendar format".
- Calendar format display makes the widget to be always visible, and shows birthdays in the previous, current and next years. Users can smoothly browse over the various months in the calendar to see the friends' birthdays in them.
- Other formats make the widget to be visible only if there are friends' birthdays in the current date, and show birthdays in the current date with a link to the birthdays listing page.
- All 4 formats have good-looking tooltips allowing users to easily wish or message the persons having their birthdays.
- Automatic Birthday Reminders:
- Sends automatic birthday reminder emails to users for the upcoming birthdays of their friends.
- This ensures that users do not miss a friend's birthday.
- Admin can set the duration before a friend's birthday when users should get its reminder.
- Admin can configure the template/theme and content of the birthday reminder emails.
- Automatic Birthday Wish:
- Enables your site to send automatic birthday wish emails to users on their birthdays.
- The birthday wish email has an attractive theme with birthday wish image.
- Admin can configure the template/theme and content of the birthday wish emails.
- Both the automatic email services can be enabled/disabled by site admin.
- Mobile Compatibility: This plugin is compatible with our "Mobile / Tablet Plugin".
What all formats can I choose from for the Birthdays Widget layout?
The Admin can choose the Birthdays Widget to be one of these types: 'Names only', 'Profile pictures only', 'Profile pictures and names', 'Calendar'. While the Calendar format display makes the widget to be always visible, and shows birthdays in the previous, current and next years, the other formats make the widget to be visible only if there are birthdays in the current date, and show birthdays in the current date with a link to the birthdays listing page. All formats have good-looking tooltips allowing you to easily wish or message the persons having their birthdays.
Where can users find the link for the Birthdays Listing Page?
The Admin can enable the link for the Birthdays Listing Page on the Member Homepage in the left-side menu. Additionally, the Birthdays widgets (other than the Calendar format widget) contain the link for that page. Also, if a particular date has more than 2 birthdays, then the tooltip for it in the Calendar format Birthdays Widget also has a link for that page.
Does this plugin allow my site to send automatic emails?
Yes, this plugin enables you to send Automatic Birthday Wish and Automatic Birthday Reminder emails. You can enable personalized automatic birthday wish emails from your site to your members. Additionally, you can also enable your users to receive automatic email reminders for upcoming birthdays of their friends.
Can I configure the wishes and reminders emails?
Yes, you can completely configure the content and templates of the wishes and reminders emails from the 'Email Settings' and 'Mail Templates' pages. You can also include a birthday wish image in the Automatic Birthday Wish email.
Is this easy to install?
Yes, absolutely! This plugin will install seamlessly on your SocialEngine with the one click Package installation feature.
What will my plugin download contain?
The plugin download will be a zipped file, which upon extraction will give the plugin package tar file, the license file, and the installation instructions file.
I want to customize this plugin according to the offerings and design of my site. Can you help me?
Yes, please contact us with your customization requirements.