OGCB Likes

About

Like counters tell you how many people liked something. On a community site the more interesting question is usually who.

OGCB Likes provides a block that renders the users who liked the node you are looking at as a compact, readable line — "Liked by Anna, Max and 3 others". Every name links to the user profile, and the "3 others" link opens a dialog with the complete list, rendered in whichever user view mode you configure. When someone likes or unlikes the content, the line updates immediately without a page reload.

The likes themselves are stored by the Flag module. The module ships a like_node flag as optional configuration; which content types it applies to and who may use it stay under your control on the regular Flag screens. OGCB Likes only handles the display side.

Features

• Names instead of numbers — a summary line of linked
  usernames rather than an anonymous counter.
• Full list in a dialog — the overflow link opens a native
  HTML dialog element with every liker, rendered in a configurable user view mode, so profile pictures and fields come along.
• Live updates — liking and unliking updates the summary and the dialog client-side, with no page reload.
• Configurable per block instance — how many names appear before they collapse into "and X others", sorting by date liked or by username, ascending or descending, and the user view mode.
• Permission aware — the block is only rendered for roles that hold the flag like_node permission.
• Themeable — a single Twig template with named blocks and a documented ogcb-likes-* class namespace.

Requirements

• Drupal 11
• PHP 8.3 or newer
• Flag 5.x

Getting started

Install with composer require drupal/ogcb_likes and enable the module. The like_node flag is created for you; open Structure → Flags to pick the content types it applies to, and grant the Flag Like (Node) permission to the roles that should be able to like content. Then place the Likes block — it sits in the Social category — on your node display via Block Layout or Layout Builder, and set the summary limit, sorting and user view mode in the block settings.

About the name

The module grew out of the Open Government Community Builder (OGCB) site template, which is where the ogcb_ prefix comes from. It has no dependency on OGCB and works on any Drupal site that uses Flag.

Supporting organizations

Development sponsored by erdfisch.