Description
Bring holiday joy, celebration, and connection to your WordPress website! RsCards Maker is the complete, self-hosted All-in-One WordPress Digital Greeting & eCard Platform. Unlike third-party SaaS widgets that charge hefty monthly subscription fees, RsCards Maker is 100% self-hosted, privacy-friendly, and completely free!
🌟 Key All-in-One Features:
- 💌 24 Bundled Holiday & Celebration Card Designs + Custom Uploads: High-resolution templates for Christmas, New Year, Birthday, Valentine’s, Thanksgiving, Winter Holidays, Season’s Greetings, Thank You, and Celebrations—plus the ability to upload your own artwork directly from the WordPress Media Library!
- ✉️ 3D Interactive Animated Envelope Reveal: Recipients open an interactive digital envelope that unseals with celebratory confetti and an optional cheerful holiday chime sound.
- 📅 Scheduled Delivery via WP-Cron: Visitors can send cards immediately or schedule them for a future holiday morning (e.g. Dec 25th or Jan 1st).
- 👥 Multi-Recipient Delivery: Send holiday cheer to multiple friends or colleagues simultaneously with comma-separated recipient addresses.
- 💬 Instant WhatsApp & Direct Link Sharing: Generate a shareable 3D envelope link with one click to share directly via WhatsApp, messaging apps, or social media.
- 👁️ Real-Time Interactive Live Preview: Visitors see their personalized message, typography, font size, and text color render live on the card before sending.
- 🎨 Typography & Color Customizer: Choose from elegant festive handwriting fonts (Dancing Script, Pacifico, Caveat, Sacramento, Poppins) and custom text colors.
- 📥 Client-Side High-Res Image Download: Visitors can download their personalized card directly as a high-res PNG image with custom typography to save or share.
- 🛒 WooCommerce Checkout Gift eCard: (Optional) Seamlessly attaches a personalized digital holiday eCard option to WooCommerce checkout.
- 📊 Admin Submissions Log & CSV Export: Track all sent, scheduled, and viewed greeting cards, view interactive cards, and export logs to CSV.
- 🔒 100% Autonomous & Privacy-Safe: All card templates, audio, and scripts run locally on your WordPress site. Zero third-party tracking, zero external SaaS lock-in, and zero monthly fees.
Screenshots
Blocks
This plugin provides 1 block.
- RsCards Greeting Card Maker Insert the interactive holiday greeting card creator and customizer.
Installation
- In your WordPress Admin, go to Plugins > Add New.
- Search for
RsCards Maker. - Click Install Now, then click Activate.
- Use the shortcode
[rs-cards-maker]or add the RsCards Greeting Card Maker block to any page! - Manage templates, upload custom artwork, and view sent cards in RS Cards Maker in the admin sidebar.
FAQ
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How do I display the greeting card maker on a page?
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You can either paste the shortcode
[rs-cards-maker]or add the native RsCards Greeting Card Maker Gutenberg block in the WordPress block editor. -
Can I upload my own card designs?
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Yes! In RS Cards Maker > All Cards, click + Upload Custom Card Artwork to upload any image from your WordPress Media Library with custom title, category, and default message.
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Can visitors schedule cards for Christmas or New Year?
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Yes! Visitors can toggle Schedule for Later and pick their desired delivery date and time. WordPress Cron automatically processes and sends scheduled cards on time.
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Does the recipient experience an animated envelope?
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Yes! Each card email and shareable link opens a private, dedicated 3D interactive envelope with celebratory confetti, holiday bell chimes (with sound toggle), and action buttons.
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Can I export sent card records?
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Yes, simply visit RS Cards Maker > Submissions Log and click Export to CSV.
Reviews
November 21, 2024
RsCards Maker is an absolute game-changer! The ability to create and customize cards with such ease is incredible. From festive Christmas cards to everyday greetings, the customization options for colors, fonts, and subject titles make each card feel truly unique. The shortcode feature integrates perfectly with my website, and being able to send personalized cards directly is a fantastic touch. Highly recommend this plugin for anyone looking to add a personal and professional touch to their greetings!
Contributors & Developers
“RsCards Maker – Greeting Cards, E-Cards, Christmas Cards & Holiday Wishes” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.
Contributors
Interested in development?
Browse the code, check out the SVN repository, or subscribe to the development log by RSS.
Changelog
1.2.0
- Feature: 3D Interactive Animated Envelope Reveal on dedicated recipient view page (
?rscard_view=TOKEN). - Feature: Web Audio holiday chime music and celebratory confetti effect upon opening.
- Feature: Scheduled Delivery option powered by automated WP-Cron.
- Feature: Multi-recipient sending supported with comma-separated email list.
- Feature: Instant WhatsApp and direct shareable link generator with copy-to-clipboard.
- Feature: Custom Card Artwork Uploader directly from WordPress Media Library.
- Feature: Optional WooCommerce checkout eCard gift add-on.
- Feature: Submissions Log search filter and one-click CSV export.
- UI/UX: Redesigned customize header to clean, modern native WordPress card styling.
1.1.0
- Major Overhaul: Eliminated all external server dependencies; bundled 12 high-resolution card templates locally for 100% offline reliability.
- Feature: Added Real-Time Interactive Live Card Preview on frontend and admin customizer.
- Feature: Added direct client-side high-res Card Image Download (HTML5 Canvas).
- Feature: Added native Gutenberg Block (
rscards-maker/card-creator). - Feature: Added Admin Submissions Log dashboard to monitor and manage sent cards.
- Feature: Added Category filtering (Christmas, Winter, New Year, Holiday, Thank You, Celebration).
- Performance: Removed jQuery dependencies — now 100% modern, lightweight Vanilla JavaScript.
- Security: Added CSRF nonce protection and user capability checks to all admin actions.
- Fix: Removed Imagick dependency to eliminate server fatal errors on PHP environments without Imagick.
- Fix: Resolved PHP 8.1–8.4
FILTER_SANITIZE_STRINGdeprecations with modern sanitization routines. - Compatibility: Tested and verified with WordPress 7.1 and PHP 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4.
- i18n: Added translation packages for Spanish, German, French, Italian, and Portuguese.
1.0.0
- Initial release.