WP Review Site Review Plugin for WordPress

Mark — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 15:27:46 +0000

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!

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