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myReviewsPage WordPress Plugin
Have you ever wanted to display your online reviews on your website? This is a best practice for small businesses who want to show potential customers that you are transparent about your reviews and inviting customers to leave you more.
The myReviewsPage WordPress plugin will create a badge for you to display on your website. It calls the APIs for Yelp, Yahoo, Bing, Citysearch and FourSquare and displays the number of reviews for each on your website.
Example of myReviewsPage online reviews badge on WordPress Blog
You can choose which ones you would like to display. For example, if you don’t have any FourSquare checkins, you can just check a box and omit that one.
Installing the Plugin
Install the plugin just like any WordPress plugin. Simply upload the ZIP file using the Plugins screen.
WordPress plugin install screen
Setting up the Plugin
Once you’ve installed and activated the plugin, you will see a new menu item under the Plugins section in your WordPress Admin. Just click on this link to go to the setup screen.
MyReviewsPage WordPress Plugin Settings
On the setup screen, all you need to enter is your business phone number, business name, and click the “Create Badge” button. You will see a preview of the badge show up on the right.
To use the Plugin
Now that you have everything configured, adding the badge to your website is easy. The myReviewsPage Plugin uses WordPress “shortcode”. Simply add this shortcode to any page or post using HTML mode in the editor, and your reviews page will appear there.
Adding the shortcode to a WordPress Page
Download
You can download the plugin here: myReviewsPage WordPress Plugin.
(This plugin has been tested with WordPress 2.9.2 and WordPress 3.0.)
Contact
The myReviewsPage WordPress Plugin is free. If you like it and want to donate a few bucks to the cause, it will help us make more plugins.
Let me know if you have any questions or feedback – I’d love to hear them!
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I tried to implement the plugin for a client’s website using Wordpress 3.0 and Woo Themes Delegate 1.3.1 However the plugin seems to cause the page formatting to change and the page copy spans the entire page including the widgetized area. When I deactivate your plugin, the formatting goes back to normal. I love the my reviews plugin and would really like to use it but can’t figure out why it’s causing the issue. Any ideas? The site affected is http://www.speceye.com. I’ve deactivated the myreviews plugin for now, but if you need me to reaactivate for troubleshooting, let me know.
Thanks!
Tela
Hi Tela,
We found a CSS conflict that shows up with some themes and fixed it. Try re-downloading the plugin. This new versions should fix what you are seeing.
Thanks,
-Don
the video is perfect.I am trying this plugin
hey ur plugins are really nice
i installed the plugin it installed correctly bt when i goto the the myreviewpage from plugins on the rigth side i get this error
Warning: file_get_contents() [function.file-get-contents]: Filename cannot be empty in DrivePath\plugins\myReviewsPage-v1.2c\myReviewsPage.php on line 89
i want dis plugin bt getting dis error
is der ne solution for dis?
Hi Niraj,
We’re looking into this – what version of WordPress are you using?
@Niraj – we updated the plugin to fix a bug that happens with WordPress pre-2.7 versions. Please re-download using the download button above and try this version – it should fix the problem you are seeing.
Hey i found the solution
im using the lastest version3.0 nd the problem was in the the php.ini file
my “extension=php_curl.dll” was disabled i enabled it
nd evrythg was fine
thnks ne way
Please excuse my ignorance, this is probably a very basic question… the plugin above downloads a folder. Which of the files within the folder do I need to compress into a zip file to then upload as a plugin from my site?
@Edinburgh – link here allows you to download a ZIP file. After downloading the ZIP file, all you need to do is go into Plugins in your WordPress Admin and upload this ZIP file, then activate the plugin. See this screenshot.
Hey i have a question don
your plugin is too good
bt it gives reviews for pages not for posts
is it possible to give reviews for post through your plugin or by ne other way
and one more thg how can i get star reviews on google for eg
chk dis link
http://picpimp.in/ABR1lLZFNqI6agR2AN99/capture.jpg
plzz get back to me
regards,
Niraj
hey plzzz reply Don to my above problem
Hi Niraj,
I’d like to help but I don’t understand your question. The reviews are from the major online reviews services only (via their APIs) – Google, Yahoo, Bing, Yelp, CitySearch, and Foursquare. With the shortcode you can put them in any page or post. Can you please clarify your question?
The image link in your comment doesn’t work for me, can you please repost it?
Thanks,
-Don
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