Reactions ![rw-book-cover](https://s.w.org/images/backgrounds/wordpress-bg-medblue.png) ## Metadata - Author: [[Make WordPress Core]] - Full Title: Reactions - Category: #articles - Summary: What are Reactions? If you’ve used Slack or Thefacebook recently, you’ll have noticed a new way of interacting and providing feedback – emoji reactions. - URL: https://make.wordpress.org/core/2016/03/07/reactions/ ##### What are Reactions? If you’ve used Slack or Thefacebook recently, you’ll have noticed a new way of interacting and providing feedback – emoji reactions. It works much the same way as a Like button, but provides a wider range of reactions, so readers can give more nuanced feedback, without needing to go to the effort of leaving a comment. This also allows for readers to provide the same level of interaction in situations where a “Like” is an inappropriate message to send, as Eric Meyer describes in his post about [Inadvertent Algorithmic Cruelty](http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2014/12/24/inadvertent-algorithmic-cruelty/). ##### What does it do? The reactions plugin currently has the following features: * Allows for reactions to posts * REST API endpoints for storing and retrieving reactions * An exceedingly ugly emoji selector ##### What is still being worked on? Pretty much everything! In its current state, the plugin is mostly a proof of concept, in need of significant work improving edge cases, design and User Experience. Your first step is to install [the plugin](https://wordpress.org/plugins/react/), as well as [the WP-API plugin](https://wordpress.org/plugins/rest-api/) (the WP-API plugin is currently a requirement to avoid code duplication, that will likely be re-evaluated based on when each plugin might be merged into Core). Please report any issues on the [Github repository](https://github.com/pento/react), or drop in the [#feature-reactions](https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/feature-reactions) channel in Slack to ask questions or give feedback. It’s also where we have our weekly chats, on [Wednesday, December 21, 2022, 11:00 PM UTC](https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20221221T2300). Thank you!, Reactions, Make WordPress Core, 01gnmcy8w0y5x3xyptr9gvzrna.