WordPress Rich Snippets

Add Schema Markup to WordPress for Better SEO

Schema Markups and Reviews Types Supported by WPRichSnippets Plugin

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We plan to make WPRichSnippets the best plugin for adding schema markups to WordPress. Hence, we focus on enhancing and adding new schema markup types in our plugin updates.

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We’ve managed to support these main types at this moment:

  • Article
  • Review
  • Product
  • Organization
  • Restaurant
  • SoftwareApplication

Note that the plugin also supports more specific schema types that are sub types of the main schemas mentioned above.

Supported Schema and Reviews Markups

The WPRichSnippets plugin support several different schema.org markups and reviews markup  types, we’ve updated our documentation pages to include a couple of new pages to list all supported types.

You can view the new documents here:

In the future updates of the plugin, we will introduce new schema markups, and possibly reviews types. We plan to add markups for Food Recipes, Movies, Books, and more.

WPRichSnippets Version 1.2.1 New Schema for Articles and Enhancements

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The WPRichSnippets plugin got a new schema markup in this update, version 1.2.1 introducing schema.org for Articles, including its sub markups and Non-Reviews functionality. Also, several enhancements has been made to the plugin.

So, we’ve got two main additions to the plugin, let me tell you more about it.

Schema for Article

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Schema.org for Article allow you to mark up your post or page content as an Article, there are other more specific markups that you can choose from:

  • General article
  • Blog post
  • News article
  • Scholarly article
  • Tech article

Non-Reviews functionality

One new feature that has been added in version 1.2.1 is the non-reviews functionality, which allows you to markup your content without having to enable the review features. This could be ideal for schema Article type and some other schema types we will introduce in the future.

This feature will be only available on applicable schema types, otherwise the check none check box will be disabled.

List of Plugin Changes

Here is a list of changes made in WPRichSnippets version 1.2.1 update:

Bug Fixes:

* Fixed SoftwareApplication markup and post meta.

Enhancements:

* Enhanced filters above and below Box and content.
* Added a new filter to hook to the Box.
* Hook entry description to the wprs_box_after filter via its own function.
* Hook entry links to the wprs_box_after filter via its own function.
* Added new class wprs_box_links to button links, and gave it a style.
* Added support for schema type Article.
* Added a new radio check button for settings Review Type to “none”.
* Added two new variables to wprs_template() function, datePublished and dateModified.
* Updated description and links in Box template files for all reviews types.

DataTables Add-on Release: Display Data Tables for WPRichSnippets Plugin

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We are so excited to announce the releases of our latest add-on, the DataTables add-on for WPRichSnippets plugin.

Thanks to the DataTables jQuery plugin’s advanced controls, the new add-on allow you to list big data in sortable and searchable tables.

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You can display a table like the one above via a shortcode, there is several parameters you can use to control what entries to show.

The DataTables add-on settings is pretty simple, it give you control over what functionality to enable on the data table (example: search, pagination or sorting).

This add-on is available for free to all members who has the Professional and Ultimate licenses. If you have bought one of those licenses, then you can go ahead and download the add-on within your account.

WPRichSnippets Version 1.2 New Functions and Enhancements

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A new update for the WPRichSnippets plugin, this update introduces a couple of new functions for displaying the link and demo link buttons, along with updates for Bootstrap styles and introducing German translation in the plugin core.

Here is a list of changes that we’ve made to enhance WPRichSnippets plugin performance in version 1.2:

Bug Fixes:

* Fixed a couple of notices.

Enhancements:

* Added Bootstrap form styles.
* Added Bootstrap table styles.
* Added a new function wprs_getReviewLink($id) to get single link button.
* Added a new function wprs_getReviewLinkDemo($id) to get single demo link button.
* Added “link” to template array to store link button.
* Added “link_demo” to template array to store demo link button.
* Added German translation, thanks to Andreas Paul.

If you are an active member and have activated your website with a valid License, then you will probably see the WPRichSnippets updating notice in your WordPress dashboard soon and you can get this upgrade automatically within your dashboard.

Sneak Peek of the New DataTables Add-on

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Since WPRichSnippets is used to serve different types of websites, our members always asking for better and different ways to display their review entries. Fortunately, we can make this possible by extending the plugin functionality via add-ons.

We had a Ranking Table add-on for a while, which has been used by several members. But it’s not supporting display of big data, so we thought to come up with a new add-on to allow displaying big data with pagination and search functionality. We’ve found DataTables jQuery to be the best for our add-on.

DataTables Add-on

The new coming DataTables add-on will allow you to:

  • Display entries in a sortable table.
  • Have pagenation.
  • Have a search functionality.
  • Have control over what elements to show.

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The DataTables add-on has a shortcode to display the table with many useful parameter to give you control over what type of data to display, it will work great on the front or home page of your website, also you can dedicate special pages to list entries of different types on different data tables.

See it in action

View a live DataTable demo.

We’ve working on finalizing the new DataTables add-on to be released this week, so stay tuned.

New Update for the Front-End Entry Submit Add-on Version 1.0b5

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We’ve just released a new update for the Front-End Entry Submit add-on, which allow you to accept entries on your website.

A couple of our members reported broken layout, so we had to investigate the issue and track it down, we found out some broken styles, which has been fixed.

The new version 1.0b5 is ready to downloads in the member area, so if you have an outdated version of the add-on, please go a head and downloaded within your account.

Updating the add-on on your website is easy, simply deactivate and delete the older version, then upload and activate the new one.

Enjoy!

WPRichSnippets Version 1.1 Released!

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We are thrilled to announce that WPRichSnippets version 1.1 has been released. In this specific release, we are going to test our our new plugin automatic updates feature, so stay tuned and watch the update notice in your WordPress dashboard.

Here is a list of changes that we’ve made to fix bugs and improve plugin performance:

Bug Fixes:

* Fixed an error in Google Structure Data Tool on aggregate user reviews.
* Fixed organization template filter names.
* Fixed style for the .row lass.
* Fixed slow admin pages, plugin was checking for updates on each page load.

Enhancements:

* Upgraded to Bootstrap v3.3.4 and reduced file size, for better compatibility.
* Tweaked styles for WPRS Compare add-on.
* Modified the front end styles file header comment.
* Added style fix for user_range class.

If you are an active member and have an active License, then you will probably see the updating notice in your WordPress dashboard soon.

WPRichSnippets Goes Out of Beta

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Finally, we’ve got WPRichSnippets plugin out of beta after more than 10 months of development and testing.

Here is a list of changes we’ve made to the plugin in this update version 1.0:

Bug Fixes:

* Fixed range input label style.
* Fixed .row override in some themes.
* Fixed Documentation and Support admin menu links to open in a new window.
* Fixed check minimum required version of WordPress.

Enhancements:

* Modified the WP Rich Snippets plugin description.
* Prefixed the get_IP function to wprs_get_ip to avoid conflicts.
* Updated FontAwesome to the latest version 4.3.0
* Updated Raty stars to match cold changes.
* Added new class item_range_label to fix label display with some themes.
* Added new Schema type SoftwareApplication.
* Added CSS classes and styles for the new Software Specs add-on.
* Added CSS for the User Reviews Image add-on.
* Added new license key activation method for automatic plugins updates.
* Added new filter wprs_user_review_content_before.
* Added new filter wprs_user_review_content_after.
* Added new function wprs_get_option to check for an option.
* Added new functionality for tracking the plugin usage.
* Added new function to show published entries count on At a Glance dashboard widget.
* Pumped minimum required version of WordPress to 3.9
* Cleaned some code in the admin side files.

We are working on releasing WPRichSnippets plugin version 1.1 pretty soon. So, in that coming version we will be testing out new automatic plugin updates feature.

Stay tuned!

Welcome to WPRichSnippets

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Welcome to WPRichSnippets. This is our first post, which published by default when we first installed WordPress on our website, we usually leave it to remember when we’ve launched our website the first time.

Requirements

WPRichSnippets plugin requires a minimum of WordPress version 4.0+, MySQL 5+ and PHP 5.4+ in order to function properly.