Viral Spread Visualization & Social Experiment Plugin

About the plugin – top

You will be able to illustrate to your web site’s visitors how a single infected can contaminate other 3 of his close contacts, and each of these contacts will contaminate other 3 of their close contacts, and like this, the infected people’s count can rise to 88,573 infected, with only 10 rounds of spread.

Your website’s visitors will also be able to experience the spread of a pandemic as an exercise (or a social experiment), by inputing on your website 3 email addresses of their closes contacts. The plugin will send an invitation email to these 3 email addresses, with a link where these invited people can also input other 3 email addresses, and so on, until the simulated pandemic reaches critical mass!

The number of email addresses that each user must input can be changed from the plugin’s settings (the default is 3). This is the same as the R0 value of a real pandemic.

Pandemic Spread Simulation – Social Experiment adds a front end form using a simple shortcode that enables your visitors to input their close contacts’ email addresses. They will be also provided a page where they can follow the spread of the virtual pandemic they were enrolled in.

Plugin features

• Create a form that allows website users to input their close contacts’ email addresses
• The plugin will create campaigns and provide a list of gathered email addresses
• Optimized for speed – no speed impact
• Lifetime updates, great support

To start using the plugin, please include in a page this shortcode: [pandemic-spread-social-experiment]. It will create the form that will generate the ‘social experiment user interface form’

WordPress installation – top

YouTube video tutorial:

To make this plugin work, first, you’ll need to install the plugin. The easiest method is to take the .zip file you’ve downloaded and upload it via Plugins > Add New > Upload Plugin in the WordPress Dashboard. Once the plugin is installed, be sure to Activate it.

Now that you’ve installed and activated the plugin, you’ll see a new menu item created inside WordPress called ‘Pandemic Spread Simulation – Social Experiment’. First thing first, let’s head over to Settings > Pandemic Spread Simulation – Social Experiment and take a look at what options are available.

Also, this plugin requires WordPress Multisite to be enabled. Please check here how to  enable Multisite.

Plugin Settings – top

Refreshingly, Pandemic Spread Simulation – Social Experiment plugin has a super-simple settings screen.

Here you can find the steps needed in configuring your plugin even if you have no HTML knowledge at all. You can find options for:

HINT! Don’t forget to click the Save button every time you modified your settings, otherwise the modifications will be lost!

Main Settings:

• Pandemic Spread Simulation – Social Experiment Plugin Main Switch: Enable or disable the Pandemic Spread Simulation – Social Experiment Plugin. This acts like a main switch.
• Enable Logging for Rules: Do you want to enable logging for rules?
• Maximum Number of Active Campaigns: Select the maximum number of campaigns to have active at any give moment in time.
• Number Of Email Addresses to Input: Select the number of email addresses each visitor will be required to input.
• Enable Captcha: Do you want to enable the captcha field when creating the demo form?
• Email Subject Template: Set the template of the title email that will be sent to users who register in the plugin. You can use the following shortcodes when settings this content: %%campaign_id%%, %%results_link%%, %%results_url%%, %%submit_link%%, %%submit_url%%, %%root_email%%. If you leave this field blank, the default value is: ‘Help us simulate the spread of a virtual pandemic’
• Email Content Template: Set the template of the content email that will be sent to users who register in the plugin. You can use the following shortcodes when settings this content: %%campaign_id%%, %%results_link%%, %%results_url%%, %%submit_link%%, %%submit_url%%, %%root_email%%. If you leave this field blank, the default value is: ‘Hello, you are invited to help grow awareness about pandemic spreading and help us simulate a virtual pandemic. Please check details here: %%submit_link%%’
• Send an Email Also to The Form Submitter: Do you want to send an email also to who submitted the form and provided the email addresses?
• Submitter Email Subject Template: Set the template of the title for the email that will be sent to the submitter of the email addresses. You can use the following shortcodes when settings this content: %%campaign_id%%, %%results_link%%, %%results_url%%, %%submit_link%%, %%submit_url%%, %%root_email%%. If you leave this field blank, the default value is: ‘Thank you for taking part in the virtual pandemic simulation’
• Submitter Email Content Template: Set the template of the content for the email that will be sent to the submitter of the email addresses. You can use the following shortcodes when settings this content: %%campaign_id%%, %%results_link%%, %%results_url%%, %%submit_link%%, %%submit_url%%, %%root_email%%. If you leave this field blank, the default value is: ‘Thank you for helping us simulate a virtual pandemic. Please You can check the results of the simulation, here: %%results_link%%’

What are WordPress shortcodes?

Shortcodes in WordPress are little bits of code that allow you to do various things with little effort. They were introduced in WordPress 2.5, and the reason to introduce them was to allow people to execute code inside WordPress posts, pages, and widgets without writing any code directly. This allows you to embed files or create objects that would normally require a lot of code in just one single line. For example, a shortcode for embedding information about the user’s browser looks like this:

[pandemic-spread-social-experiment]

Sometimes you may want to use the text of a shortcode in a post. To do this you have to escape it using double brackets. For example, if you want to add the user submission form to a page, you can use pandemic-spread-social-experiment shortcode to add the form, by using the following shortcode:

[[pandemic-spread-social-experiment]]

Shortcodes simplify the addition of features to a WordPress site. By using shortcodes the HTML and other markup is added dynamically directly into the post or page where the user wants them to appear.

Results: If everything is configures well, you can go to plugin WordPress multisite ‘Sites’ page, and you can wait to see it’s results (new demo pages will appear).

[pandemic-spread-social-experiment] – To start using the plugin, please include in a page this shortcode: [pandemic-spread-social-experiment]. It will create the form that will generate the form where the visitors will be able to submit their email addresses. You can also use these parameters for it: disable_new, campaign_id and style. disable_new – is used to disable new submissions in the form (after you already submitted a campaign). campaign_id – is used to select a campaign (by id), and to display it’s results in the page. style – is used to select the style how results are displayed. Possible values are: person, box, tree, bullet

Summary – top

Pandemic Spread Simulation – Social Experiment plugin is a simple, yet powerful tool you can use to manage WordPress demo website generation. The setup and settings of the plugin couldn’t have been easier. Now, let’s go and enjoy the results of this great plugin! Have fun using it!

Sources and Credits – top

This component was made by Szabi CodeRevolution, for more information and support contact us at support@coderevolution.ro

Once again, thank you so much for purchasing this item. As I said at the beginning, I’d be glad to help you if you have any questions regarding this plugin and I’ll do my best to assist.

CodeRevolution