=== Recomendo === Contributors: recomendo Tags: artificial intelligence, machine learning, related posts, recommendations, personalisation Requires at least: 4.7 Tested up to: 4.9 Requires PHP: 5.2.4 Stable tag: trunk License: GPLv2 or later License URI: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html Make your website smart with Artificial Intelligence and engage your users with personalized recommendations. == Description == [Recomendo](https://www.recomendo.ai "Recomendo") helps you increase the engagement of your website visitors by showing them the content they like. We do this by using State-of-the-art machine learning algorithms that run in *our* secure cloud infrastructure, so Recomendo will never slow down your site. Plus, Recomendo works with any post, page or custom post type, and is also WooCommerce and WPML multilingual compatible. Recomendo is a very easy to use plugin, and requires almost no setup. You simply activate the plugin with the authorization code you receive via email. To request beta access, go to the [Recomendo](https://www.recomendo.ai "Recomendo") website. After the plugin has been activated, drag a widget into your theme to start recommending content. Recomendo does the rest! You can also write a shortcode in a any page where you want to show the recommendations. And if you have WooCommerce activated, Recomendo can also show its recommendations in the related products area of Product pages, and items "usually bought together" in the Cart page. If you want more control, you can modify the the looks via CSS or call the PHP code directly. Recomendo is currently in free Beta, but will operate as a paid subscription service. You can learn more about us and keep updated on the official release launch on the [Recomendo](https://www.recomendo.ai "Recomendo") website. = Features = * Easy to use - Recomendo is very easy to use just drag the widget to a sidebar and start getting personalised recommendations in your website. * Personalized Recommendations - Show the right content to your visitors using State-of-the-art Machine Learning algorithms to significantly boost sales and average order value. * Similar Item Recommendations - Recomendo can also show “people who liked this also like these” recommendations looking at the pages your visitors have been browsing and recommending similar ones to the ones they have already shown an interest in. * Complementary Purchase Recommendations - Recomendo helps you increase average order value by displaying “items frequently bought together” in your WooCommerce cart. Recomendo makes buying multiple items at once easy by automatically recommending a product together with its accessories or products that are used for a similar purpose. * Custom Post Types - If you use custom post types, you can choose which one to show recommendations on. * Sidebar widget - Drag the recomendo widget into your theme start showing personalized content * Shortcodes - Easy integrates into any page with shortcodes. * Javascript Carousel - Displays the recommendations in a Slick javascript carousel * Developer friendly - Customize the looks via CSS and for ultimate control directly call a function to get the relevant post ids to show to the users. == Installation == 1. Upload 'recomendo' to the '/wp-content/plugins/' directory 2. Activate the plugin through the 'Plugins' menu in WordPress 3. Navigate to Settings > Recomendo and authorize the plugin with authorization code you received via email. 4. Select the Post type you want to recommend. 5. (Optional) If WooCommerce is activated - Select where to show Recomendo. 6. Go to the Copy data to Recomendo tab - click on the Copy WordPress data to Recomendo button. 7. Go to the Train Recomendo tab - click on the Train Recomendo Button 8. Navigate to Appearance > Widgets - and drag the Recomendo widget into your theme to start getting recommendations. == Frequently Asked Questions == = Does it work with any Custom Post Type? = Yes, it does. From the Recomendo settings page, you can select the type of post you want to recommend. = Does it work with WooCommerce? = Yes, Recomendo is compatible with WooCommerce. Recomendo displays its up-sale recommendations on Product pages and cross-sale recommendations on the cart page. = Does it work with WPML? = Yes, Recomendo is compatible with WMPL and works great! = Can I use shortcodes? = Yes, you can include recomendo into any page by using any of the two included shortcodes: [recomendo] - Will display display the recommendations in a grid style. [recomendo-carousel] - Displays the recommendations inside a Slick Javascript Carousel For example: [recomendo size="thumbnail" number=5 class="recomendo-widget-vertical"] Displays 5 recommendations with an image size "thumbnail" and a CSS class "recomendo-widget-vertical". [recomendo-carousel size="medium_large" number=16] Displays 16 recommendations with an image size "medium_large" inside a [Slick](http://kenwheeler.github.io/slick/ "Slick") javascript carousel = How can I further customize the look? = Styles can always be customized via CSS, but if you have WooCommerce there is no need. Recomendo will directly get the look from your WooCommerce compatible theme and integrate seamlessly into your webstore. = Is Recomendo Free? = Recomendo is currently in free Beta, but will operate as a paid subscription service. You can learn more about us and keep updated on the official release launch on the [Recomendo](https://www.recomendo.ai "Recomendo") website. = Why will Recomendo Charge? = Recomendo is a premium service that uses state-of-the-art Artificial Intelligence technology and high performance computing servers to deliver the best recommendations. Unlike other plugins, we don’t sell any of your information or show ads. = What data does Recomendo collect? = Recomendo needs to know how your visitors browse your site. We collect only the user ID for registered users, and identify unregistered users via Cookies. No other personal information is gathered from your visitors. Recommendo also needs to know the IDs of the posts to recommend and other metadata like categories and tags. For more information please read our privacy policy [here](https://www.recomendo.ai/privacy-policy "here") == Screenshots == 1. Here's how the Recomendo sidebar widget looks. 2. Here's how Recomendo integrates into WooCommerce related products area. 3. Recomendo showing complementary purchase recommendations in the Cart. 4. Here's what the interface for configuring Recomendo looks like. 5. Here's how you drop Recomendo the widget to the sidebar. == Changelog == = 0.9.2 = * Fixed curl error timeouts * Rerouted communications to Recomendo servers so that required tcp ports are present in all WP hosting providers * Added screen output to the Copy data process * Removed the Delete data tab to prevent silly mistakes = 0.9.1 = * Added WPML multilingual support. * Fixed bug when re-activating the plugin with WooCommerce. * Shortcodes now display user-based or item-based recommendations depending on what page it's being shown. * Widget also displays user-based or item-based recommendations automatically depending where it is shown. = 0.9 = * Initial Version.