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WPRichSnippets V 1.4 New Reviews Widget Update

Published: July 15, 2016 Hesham Zebida

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:

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:

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

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.

Getting Ready to Release WooCommerce Integration Add-on

Published: May 14, 2016 Hesham Zebida

Great news for all WooCommerce plugin users, we are working hard to integrate our WPRichSnippets (WPRS) plugin with the WooCommerce to provide better experience and help you even sell more.

Due to the way how WooCommerce and our WPRS plugin works, some conflict happen and leads to a broken Product pages layout, so using our plugin wasn’t a good option for Woo users.

Well, this has been changed, once we release our new WooCommerce add-on, you will be able to perfectly enable WPRS features to work along with WooCommerce and enjoy advanced reviews and ratings features.

We are on the process of preparing our add-on files to get it ready for release. We don’t have an estimate time, but I can say it’s only a matter of a few days.

Why you should use our WooCommerce add-on?

WooCommerce has a built-in user reviews functionality, it’s simple and clean, you can pretty much use it. However, many of our members were asking us to make WPRS work nicely with Woo so they can have these features enabled of their sites:

User reviews with Criteria fields
User Votes

So, we’ve made this possible, and it take only a couple of clicks.

We’ve tried to make things work out of the box, and with less effort from your side. This because we know that many sites out there are having hundreds and sometimes thousands of products, and no one want to be involved in the process of going across these pages and enable reviews manually.

Demo Site

We’ve got a new WooCommerce demo site to show off the features you can add with WPRS + WooCommerce add-on, here is a couple of links that you can view:

Screenshots

View screenshots of reviews demo:

: WPRS WooCommerce Add-on User Aggregate Reviews

: WPRS WooCommerce Add-on User Votes Reviews

I hope this gives you a clear view on how the WooCommerce add-on will work. We are open for any feedback or questions, so add a comment and don’t be shy!

Schema Markups and Reviews Types Supported by WPRichSnippets Plugin

Published: June 11, 2015 Hesham Zebida

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.

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:

Schema markup types
Reviews markup types

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.