Mark's Overall Rating
WP Review Plugin for WordPress is quite a diamond in the rough of commercial plugins. While none of us prefer to pay for WordPress plugins, this one is well worth the cost and has many of the features you expect in order to give your visitors the ability to rate a post or product, using the 5-star rating system. The real benefit of using a review or rating system on your website, is that you will always have a steady flow of user generated content, ie; the reviews, that make your site pages very useful to visitors and unique from all others on the web.
WP Review Plugin Features
The WordPress Review Site plugin allows your visitors to apply a rating to several user defined metrics as they comment on your post or product review. This site actually uses the WP Review plugin, although it is somewhat customized for our own display purposes, it is the quickest and easiest way we found to get true feedback from our readers and hear their own opinions on the scripts, services and plugins that allow all of us to succeed online.
- Quick and Easy to Setup
Like all WordPress plugins, this review plugin installs in less than 5 minutes! If you are going to use one of the templates provided, you can have a review site up and running in less than 15 minutes! Keep in mind, you must generate your content as well, but if you have a site already loaded with your own content… you can easily allow the option to start accepting reviews and ratings on those posts. - Flexible Display Options for any Template
If you are like me and prefer to use your own templates, the code is well documented and can be incorporated into any theme or template with a bit of template editing. - Posts can be Sorted by Ratings
Showing the highest rated posts or products can be beneficial to visitors who want to ski[p through the chaff and get right to the best content. With WP Review, you can automatically sort your posts by the highest rated reviews! - Use on Entire Website or Just Specific Categories
A bit trickier on the code side, but with just a few extra added lines of code, you can use the review site plugin on ONLY specific categories, versus the entire website. This can come in handy if you have an information based site, but provide reviews in one or two categories. - Widget for Sidebars
Plug and Play! That is what everyone loves and this plugin allows you to do just that if you have a template with widgetized sidebars (Most themes since WordPress 2.0 use widgetized sidebars) - Affiliate link Management in your Posts
Paste your affiliate link into a separate box as you write your post and it will automatically display on your posts! Couldn’t be easier! In addition to the post affiliate link, WP Review includes a powerful affiliate link manager that lets you supply ANY word, and automatically link that specific word any time it appears in a post on your site! - Lifetime Upgrades at no Additional Charge
WP Review Plugin is perfect as is, but if the developers do decide to add more features, you don’t have to worry about buying them again! Upgrades are included at no charge… forever!
Pros and Cons of WP Review Plugin
Pros of WP Review Site
- Very Easy to Get Started
- Great Support by Developer
- Well Documented Code for Customization
- 2 Templates included with WP Review Plugin
Cons of WP Review Site
- The cost for unlimited use is a bit high in the Plugin world.
- Need a bit of Coding knowledge to use a custom theme.
About the Developers
Dan Grossman, the WP Review Site Plugin developer provides stellar support in the way of either email, or the forum he maintains on the plugin website.
Cost and Licensing of WP Review Site Plugin
- $97 Single Website / $199 Unlimited Websites / $299 For a Developers License
- Cost includes the WordPress Review Plugin and Two Unique templates.
- Additional features and theme packs available at a minimal cost.
- Free Forum Access and email technical support!
- Free Lifetime Upgrades at no additional Cost!
Jamie on Tue, 6th Jan 2009 10:31 am
I have this review plugin on 1 site that used to have a niche store, it only took like 3 weeks to get better indexing in serps and two fold traffic! Definitely worth the cost!
Jeff on Wed, 7th Jan 2009 2:16 pm
I’ve seen this plugin before and wondered if it would work for me. I have a bit of a technical background so I could probably make it work.
It helps that it’s easy to get off the ground with.
HVAC Equipment Reviews on Tue, 13th Jan 2009 6:13 pm
I use this on an HVAC Reviews site and LOVE it! Plugin your product descriptions, rewrite the content to make it your own, and you have a great platform for a user review site!
Mark
Bill on Fri, 16th Jan 2009 3:41 pm
I use this site on Bicycle Seat Reviews and it works great. The beauty of a plugin in like this is that it allows you to create user generated content for years to come.
Once you write the base review, you can continue to not only generate keyword rich content that is related to that post, but it also allows you to create Most Popular Lists and adds functionality to your Review website.
It is very easy to get up and running, just like any WordPress plugin. It is not so easy for a beginner to format the output exactly the way you would like as it requires getting into the code somewhat but once you see how to work the code, it’s simple after that.
I’m php retarded and even I have figured out most of it after someone set it up for me one time. I highly recommend it….it’s a bit pricey for a multi site license but once you have it, the possibilities are endless.
Al on Fri, 22nd Jan 2010 11:27 am
I’m having trouble with mine. The area where users are suppose to vote is not working. You can make your choices but they don’t appear in on the review stars
Al on Fri, 22nd Jan 2010 11:28 am
Forgot to give it a rating.
idiotcode on Sat, 20th Mar 2010 5:47 am
i just like the design.. if you would, can you teach me how to develop the theme, confuse at all..