With Google Places, Google Plus and Google Local emphasizing the importance of Testimonials. Reviews are becoming integral for the success of any product or service online.
Rich Reviews empowers you to easily capture user reviews and display them on your wordpress page or post and in Google Search Results as a Google Rich Snippet.
Rich Snippet Features:
- Moderated submissions, allowing you to choose which reviews are added to your site.
- Built completely around shortcodes, allowing you to include any of the three key features on any page, post, sidebar, footer, or widget on your site.
- Simple design allows compatibility across themes.
- Includes external stylesheet for ease of customization.
- Shows aggregate reviews microformat (hReview-aggregate) so that site ratings are viewed in Google results with Google Rich Snippets.
- Minimalist, lightweight, and efficient code means that your users won’t notice any hiccups.
Yes, Rich Snippets are enabled and active via Rich Reviews. If you don’t believe us, install the plugin, write a review, approve it, and plug in your url.
How can I remove a review once it is approved? I was testing the system to see how they looked and now need to remove them since I wrote them both from my IP and computer.
As of right now (v1.0), you would need to actually go into the MySQL database and delete reviews manually. However, we know that this is a very necessary feature and we will be implementing it very soon!
Is there any way to include categories (such as restaurants, books, etc.) in the reviews?
This has been implemented as of version 1.3… check it out and tell us if it works out for you!
Ok, I installed the plug-in here:
http://www.qualityprotectionproducts.com/blog/product-reviews
When I post a review to test it is not showing up under pending reviews for approval. Any ideas what I might have done wrong.
This is an issue that was introduced in version 1.1, and fixed in version 1.2!
Yep, updated with the new version, works great. Thanks!
Great stuff and am using it right now. It would be awesome if we could choose the number of columns and how wide they are.
I want to eliminate some fields that are currently required. I do not want to collect review titles, or star ratings. How can I disable these? Also, it would be a really cool feature to have the reviews display with the users Gravatar. Implementing that should be pretty easy.
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This isn’t, at the moment, possible. However we will definitely put these two things on our to-do list! Let us know if there’s anything else that you need – maybe you can implement it with the titles and ratings for now, and just allow reviews to come in that way until we push a new release?
Is there any captcha and against bot spam for this “Submit Review” form?
Thank you!
Not as of this moment – this is a relatively difficult thing to implement, and I wasn’t sure if it would be necessary. There is a review approval process in the backend, which will let you combat any spam reviews you might get. Is this something you’re encountering? If so, I’d love to see an example of some of the spam comments you’ve received.
I review different things on my website. When I added the code on a different review post, it had the other review from something else show up. Which I don’t want. Does your plugin work for multiple product reviews or only one product review? Please let me know. Thank you!
This is a new feature, just implemented in version 1.3 – so everything you want should be in there! Let us know how it works out for you