Title: Deals
Author: KestutisIT
Published: July 29, 2019
Last modified: August 12, 2019
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# Deals
By [KestutisIT](https://profiles.wordpress.org/kestutisit/)
[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/deals.zip)
* [Details](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/deals/#description)
* [Reviews](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/deals/#reviews)
* [Installation](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/deals/#installation)
* [Development](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/deals/#developers)
[Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/deals/)
## Description
**First** – differently than any other similar plugin, this plugin is based on MIT
license, which is a holly-grail for premium theme authors on i.e. ThemeForest or
similar marketplaces.
Differently to standard GPLv2 license you are not required
to open-source your theme and you **CAN** include this plugin into your premium
websites bundle packs. I do say here **bundle packs**, because you should never
have an deals section to be a part of your theme, because that would be a bad idea–
you need to leave your customers a flexibility for the future scale: What if your
customers will decide later go with some kind of fancy **e-commerce marketplace**
system like in Amazon.com – if your customer will grow that big, he won’t need to
have deals plugin anymore on their website, he will want to replace it with that
fancy **e-commerce marketplace** system. So my advise is to include this plugin
in your bundle pack’s `/Optional Plugins/` folder, so that you can tell about in
the installation instructions, but make it fully independent from your theme.
**Second** – this plugin is fully **MVC + Templates** based. This means that it’s
code is not related at all to it’s UI, and that allows you easily to override it’s
UI templates and Assets (CSS, JS, Images) by your theme very easily (and there is
detailed step-by-step instructions given how to do that).
This means that you making
a theme to be what the theme has to be – a UI part of your website, nothing more.
**Third** – it is much more secure than any other plugin’s on the market. It is
based on top-end S.O.L.I.D. coding principle with input data validation with data-
patterns, output escaping.
**Fourth** – this plugin is scalable – it’s source code is fully object-oriented,
clean & logical, based on MVC architectural pattern with templates engine, compliant
with strict PSR-2 coding standard and PSR-4 autoloaders, and easy to understand
how to add new features on your own.
**Fifth** – this plugin works well with big databases & high-traffic websites –
it is created on optimal BCNF database structure and was tested on live website
with 1M customers database and 500,000 active daily views.
**Sixth** – it does support official WordPress multisite as network-enabled plugin,
as well as it does have support WPML string translation.
At this point, if you
need more than one language, I’d strongly advise to go with official WordPress multisite
setup, because it is free, it is official (so you will never need to worry about
the future support), and, most important – WordPress multisite is much more suitable
for websites that needs to scale. You don’t want to have that additional translation
bottle-neck code layer to be processed via database.
**Seventh** – it has nice user experience – it’s has a default design, it does allow
you to have more than 3 deals via different slider’s slides, as well as fading in
and out description on mouse hover – so it is not static like what you usually get
with Gutenberg.
**But the most important** is that this plugin is and always be **ads-free**. I
personally really hate these **freemium**, **ads-full** or **tracking** plugins
which makes majority of the plugins on w.org plugins directory (and, actually, many
of premium marketplaces). So this is the key features we always maintain:
1. Never
track your data (nor even by putting some kind of GDPR-compliance agreement checkbox,
like `Error Log Monitor` plugin), 2. Never make it pseudo-ads-full (even such a
big plugins like `WooCommerce` or `Contact Form 7` has nearly 80% of their home
screen or 20% of their main buttons about `how to install \ buy other plugins` –
this is a really ugly behavior of pushing-more and going to Facebook-like business,
where you get like drug-addicted to company products).
The goal of this plugin is to full-fill the needs of website-starter, that needs
a great tool which can last him for many years until it will grow that big so he
would grow-out current plugins and would need some kind of different plugins.
And, I believe, that many other developers had the same issue when tried to create
their first premium theme or set-up a website for their client. Starting with the
issues with license type to the moment when deals section is `hardcoded` into theme
code.
So I wanted to help all these developers to save their time, and I’m releasing this
plugin for you to simplify your work. And I’m releasing it under MIT license, which
allows you to use this plugin your website bundle without any restrictions for both–
free and commercial use.
Plus – I’m giving a promise to you, that this plugin is and will always be 100%
free, without any ads, ‘Subscribe’, ‘Follow us’, ‘Check our page’, ‘Get Pro Version’
or similar links.
Finally – the code is poetry – **the better is the web, the happier is the world**.
### Live Demo
[Deals (Live Demo)](https://nativerental.com/cars/)
### GitHub Repository (for those, who want to contribute via “Pull Requests”)
[https://github.com/SolidMVC/Deals](https://github.com/SolidMVC/Deals)
## Screenshots
* [[
* Deals – Front-End Deals Slider
* [[
* Deals – Front-End Deal Hover with Description
* [[
* Deals – Responsive View of Deals Slider
* [[
* Deals – Admin Deal Manager
* [[
* Deals – Admin Global Settings
* [[
* Deals – Admin Import Demo
* [[
* Deals – Admin Plugin Updating
* [[
* Deals – Admin Plugin Status
* [[
* Deals – Admin User Manual
## Installation
This section describes how to install the plugin and get it working.
1. Upload `Deals` (or `deals`) to the `/wp-content/plugins/` directory.
2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress.
2.1. If your theme**
does not\* support FontAwesome icons, please \*\*enable** FontAwesome in Deals -
> Settings -> “Global” tab.
3. Go to admin menu item `Deals` -> `Deal Manager` and add deals.
4. Now create a page by clicking the [Add New] button under the page menu.
5. Add `[deals display="deals" layout="slider"]` shortcode to page content and click
on `[Publish]` button.
6. In WordPress front-end page, where you added deals slider shortcode, you will see
slider-based deals.
7. Congratulations, you’re done! We wish you to have a pleasant work with our Deals
Plugin for WordPress.
## FAQ
Does it supports multiple slides of deals?
Yes, this plugin does have support for `Slick Slider` that is seen it you have more
than 3 deals.
Does it allows to assign a deal a custom / external target URL?
Yes, you can assign any target URL to any deal you want to.
Does it support URL parameters?
Yes, if your DEAL ID is i.e. `4` (you can get your DEAL ID from `Deals` -> `Deal
Manager`), then you can go
to your website’s deal page and show only desired deal
by following this URL structure:
```
.com//?deal=4
```
## Reviews
### [Greatest slider for deals](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/greatest-slider-for-deals/)
[KestutisIT](https://profiles.wordpress.org/kestutisit/) July 30, 2019
And the link feature is very appreciated.
[ Read all 1 review ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/deals/reviews/)
## Contributors & Developers
“Deals” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.
Contributors
* [ KestutisIT ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/kestutisit/)
* [ Marius ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/mariusslo/)
[Translate “Deals” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/deals)
### Interested in development?
[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/deals/), check out
the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/deals/), or subscribe to
the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/deals/) by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/deals/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).
## Changelog
#### 6.1.10
* Semver alignment with other SolidMVC models.
#### 6.1.9
* Fixed compatibility style routing bug
* Refactored time(UTC)
* HTTP changed to HTTPS
* Refactored CSSFile to CSS_File
* Improved CSS
#### 6.1.8
* Fixed minor bug with demoDealImageURL.
* Gallery folder routing improved.
* Added CSS improvements.
* Description is now shown when hovering on deal‘s thumbnail.
* Added URL button to description when in tablet/mobile view.
* Improved JavaScript selectors.
* Fixed bug when slide only has one deal and is not pre-selected.
* Added white background when no image is on deal.
* Fixed bug when hover effect only happens on title of deal.
* Fixed positioning when JavaScript is not available.
* Fixed overflowing issues.
* Improved language file.
* Deal title required PHP check added.
* Minor HTML improvements.
* Previous slide arrow is now visible on white background on last slide with 1
deal.
* Added segregated core and plugin language files.
* Global plugin lang path issue fixed.
* Improved language.
* License line text patched.
* Duplicating demo UID check added to demos observer.
* CSS class naming improved.
#### 6.1.7
* Initial public release! Based on S.O.L.I.D. MVC Engine, Version 6 (without extensions).
## Meta
* Version **6.1.10-1**
* Last updated **7 years ago**
* Active installations **10+**
* WordPress version ** 4.6 or higher **
* Tested up to **5.2.24**
* PHP version ** 5.6 or higher **
* Language
* [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/deals/)
* Tags
* [deal](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/deal/)[deals](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/deals/)
[offer](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/offer/)[offers](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/offers/)
[slider](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/slider/)
* [Advanced View](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/deals/advanced/)
## Ratings
5 out of 5 stars.
* [ 1 5-star review ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/deals/reviews/?filter=5)
* [ 0 4-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/deals/reviews/?filter=4)
* [ 0 3-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/deals/reviews/?filter=3)
* [ 0 2-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/deals/reviews/?filter=2)
* [ 0 1-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/deals/reviews/?filter=1)
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## Contributors
* [ KestutisIT ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/kestutisit/)
* [ Marius ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/mariusslo/)
## Support
Got something to say? Need help?
[View support forum](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/deals/)
## Donate
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