WordPress Rich Snippets

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WPRichSnippets V 1.4 New Reviews Widget Update

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In this release of WPRichSnippets plugin, version 1.4 includes big enhancements to its Widget, we are introducing a new Reviews Widget, and other enhancements.

New Reviews Widget

WPRichSnippets comes with a WordPress Widget to display recent or top rated reviews, but it was a very light widget with minimal features, it used to work only for Reviews type > Rating, which is made for only Editors reviews. So, this Widget wasn’t able to display user aggregate reviews, this made it very limited.

Reviews list used to have one simple layout, it used to look like this:

WP Rich Snippets Entries Widget

In WPRS version 1.4, we’ve included a new whole Reviews Widget to empower your sidebars with several ways of displaying reviews.

Here is how the Widget settings panel looks like in version 1.4 release:

Reviews Widget

And, you can display with different styles as these examples below:

Reviews Widget Demo

Reviews Widget Demo

You can see a demo of the sidebar widget on our demo site.

Version 1.4 Changelog

Here is a list of changes we’ve made to the plugin in this release.

Bug Fixes:

* Fixed errors on WooCommerce product pages.
* Fixed video thumb is not been used as widget thumb.

Enhancements:

* Enhanced video thumb, now loaded as attachment and save url in post meta.
* Enhanced widget, added support for review types.
* Enhanced widget, added support for video thumbnail.
* Enhanced widget, added new fields for thumbnail width, height, and alignment.
* Enhanced widget, added new fields for excerpt length and a read more link.
* enhanced widget, added two styles for reviews display.
* Enhanced widget styles to avoid conflicts with themes and other plugins.
* Enhanced styles for rating to avoid conflict with themes and other plugins.
* Added new class to resize images when calling it on the widget.

Download this update?

If you are already a member and have a valid plugin license, you will receive a notification in your WordPress Dashboard for the new update soon. Otherwise, you can renew it, or get license to receive this update.

New Free Shortcodes Add-on Has Been Release

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You’ve asked for it, you got it! We are super excited to announce the release of our latest free add-on for WPRichSnippets plugin, the Shortcodes add-on will help you to easily display any of the Box markup elements with layout via a simple WordPress shortcode.

This is long waited for developers and theme designers, it’s your first step of adding awesomeness to your site and be able to customize WPRichSnippets look and feel.

Download & Install the Shortcodes Add-on

Download the WPRS Shortcodes add-on (from wordpress.org)

You can also install it automatically within your WordPress dashboard like any other plugin.

NOTE: Since this is an add-on for WPRichSnippets, you must have WPRichSnippets plugin installed and active on your site. (If you don’t have it, get your license here)

Once you install and activate the Shortcodes add-on, you will be able to use the shortcode anywhere in the:

  • Post editor
  • Sidebar widgets
  • Theme template files
  • Or even to integrate WPRichSnippets within your own plugin/add-on.

Instruction and demo

You can find instruction on shortcode add-on documentation page.

View an example of what you can do with the new add-on on the shortcode demo page.

Rate the add-on

We hope you will like the Shortcodes add-on, please feel free to rate the add-on over at wordpress.org, we appreciate your support.

Requirements

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