New SkaDate Plugins and Themes: Driving Engagement, Retention, Monetization, and Fresh Design
Boost Your Dating Site Conversions with 5 New Premium Plugins
April 6, 2025
At SkaDate, our mission is to help you grow and scale your dating business with powerful, ready-to-use features. Over the past months, we’ve released several new plugins and themes designed to boost engagement, improve retention, enhance monetization, and elevate the visual appeal of your platform. What’s more, we’re already working on exciting new plugins that will be available soon.
Newly Released Plugins
In addition to publishing our product roadmap with upcoming features at Planned Plugins, we also share all newly launched plugins at Launched Plugins.
Below you’ll find a detailed overview of the latest plugins we’ve already released, available to SkaDate customers today.
Liked Me
The Liked Me plugin is engineered to spark curiosity and drive subscription conversions. Users see a blurred list of people who have liked them—and unlocking the full profiles requires a subscription. Email notifications are automatically sent when someone likes a user, including a blurred admirer photo to entice click-throughs. This feature works seamlessly across desktop, PWA, and native apps, ensuring consistency and engagement across platforms.
Viewed Me
Viewed Me brings similar mechanics to profile visits. Users see who viewed their profile—but only in a blurred form unless they subscribe. The plugin sends email notifications with blurred viewer photos, encouraging re-engagement and subscriptions. Supported across all platforms, it’s a key tool for driving retention and monetization.
Events for PWA and Native Apps
Previously available only on desktop, the Events plugin now extends to PWA and native apps. Users can create and attend real-world meetups directly within the app. Events can be viewed via list or map, and include photo, description, location, time, and duration. They are moderated for safety. Organizers choose between public and invite-only modes and manage invitation rights. Joining users access a comment thread for pre-event interaction. Event creation and RSVPs can be gated for subscribers, creating both engagement and revenue opportunities.
Likes Limit
The Likes Limit plugin introduces a daily cap on likes for non-subscribers, encouraging more thoughtful engagement. Subscribers enjoy increased or unlimited likes, providing a strong incentive to upgrade. This creates a more intentional user experience while boosting subscription potential.
Tinder Mode for Desktop
Now available on desktop, Tinder Mode brings swipe left/right functionality and “It’s a Match!” popups to the desktop environment—mirroring the familiar PWA experience and ensuring visual and functional consistency.
My Interests for PWA and Native Apps
Following its 2024 desktop release, My Interests is now on PWA and native apps. This plugin consolidates key interactions in one tab: profiles liked by the user, profiles that liked them, visitors, bookmarks, mutual matches, and suggested partners. It simplifies management of matches, stimulates conversations, enhances user experience, and boosts retention.
New Themes
In addition to plugins, we’ve released two new modern landing page themes for homepages: 20 Years Light and 20 Years Dark. These themes offer stylish, contemporary layouts that enhance brand presentation and user trust. You can preview them in action via our demo:
• 20 Years Light
• 20 Years Dark
Coming Soon Plugins
We are preparing to launch several new plugins aimed at tackling the dating industry’s most pressing challenges: retention, organic growth, and community safety.
Community Hub
Retention is particularly challenging for platforms with smaller user bases—users typically return only when they receive a new like or message. The Community Hub will introduce activity feeds, groups, forums, and blogs—bringing the powerful social features from SkaDate desktop into PWA and native apps. These tools create ongoing engagement loops: when a user posts content, others receive push and email notifications and are drawn back into the app.
This strategy has proven effective—Match Group’s apps BLK and Chispa replaced group chats with activity feeds, resulting in a sharp increase in retention and revenue. Together, they now generate around $10 million per month. Competing solutions, like social.plus, offer similar community features but at a steep cost—around $2,000 per month for up to 50K MAU. SkaDate’s Community Hub will deliver comparable functionality through an affordable subscription model.
In-App Review on Match Screen
Improving app store ratings and organic installs starts with strategic timing. With this upcoming plugin, any click inside the “It’s a Match!” overlay will trigger the native in-app review dialog—capitalizing on a user’s moment of satisfaction to secure higher ratings and boost credibility.
Text Moderation
Text Moderation addresses safety and compliance concerns by routing all free-text fields—profiles, posts, descriptions—into a moderation queue in the admin panel. Administrators must approve content before it’s published, preventing external contact details (like phone numbers or Telegram handles) from slipping through. This reduces spam, protects revenue, and promotes a safer community environment.
Conclusion
With these newly released plugins and themes, SkaDate customers can immediately benefit from stronger engagement, improved retention, additional monetization streams, and contemporary design aesthetics. At the same time, upcoming features like Community Hub, In-App Review, and Text Moderation are poised to elevate your platform even further.
Premium plugins are available exclusively to customers with a Managed Support subscription. To get access, please contact SkaDate support.
