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Plugin Description
Recencio Book Reviews is a powerful and very flexible tool for managing your blog’s book review collection. It was designed with the book reviewer in mind and built to be fast, easy and customizable.
The plugin even provides book reviewers the opportunity of earning residual income via adding their own book purchase affiliate links.
This plugin adds a custom post type for book reviews to your site. You can publish book reviews as standalone posts or include them in your normal posts and pages.
Organize your book reviews in any way you like. The plugin comes with some basic predefined taxonomies such as book author, genre, series, and publisher.
Creating new book taxonomies is so easy it’s up to you to decide which and how many taxonomies you want to add.
Use listings embedded in pages to make your book reviews accessible by title or taxonomies such as series or author. Or use one of the custom widgets to create tag clouds or top ten lists.
Of course, you can use all the WordPress goodies you know from posts on book reviews as well: images, videos and comments.
Despite its simplicity, it’s giving book reviewer, administrators, designers and developers all the freedom to adapt the plugin to their needs. Features you don’t need can be deactivated and are hidden from the UI.
You can even create your own book review template files to gain complete control the look and feel of book reviews.
Most importantly, all the above is SEO friendly by way of validated JSON-LD metadata for the ‘Book’ and ‘Review’ schema markup.
Features
- custom post type for book reviews
- 100% WordPress theme compatibility
- automatically fetch book details via its ISBN, or enter manually
- custom backend to enter book reviews fast
- easily convert existing posts to reviews
- your choice of a 5-star rating. or a criteria-based scoring system
- builtin book taxonomies such as, Author, Genre, Series and Publisher come predefined, but you can create whatever taxonomy you like.
- use default post categories and tags on book reviews as well, or disable them if you want to
- access reviews by alphabetical indices of review title or taxonomy entries such as book author or book publisher
- include book reviews in your normal posts or pages using shortcodes
- search engine friendly book review output using schema.org‘s review and book metadata as JSON-LD
- choose between 4 different templates to determine how your book review should look or create your own custom layout
- 5 custom widgets such as a book cover slider and book cover grid
- site visitor rating system via the builtin comment form, or disable it if you want to
- basic support of the new WP REST API system
- extendable 3rd party extension/module system for easy creation of new features
- have you book reviews show up in your site’s RSS feed
- create book purchase links using your own affiliate code
- have your site visitors/reader leave a 5 rating via the comment form
- translation ready
- GDPR compliant
- RTL support
Demo
Recencio.com
Languages
Recencio Book Reviews is currently available in the following languages
For the following languages translations are partly available:
Please help translating the plugin.
This is one of the best ways to contribute to the growth and development of this plugin.
Sponsors
Thanks to JetBrains for providing a copy of their PhpStorm software for developing this plugin.
Screenshots
Example of reviews with correct rich snippet markup on the Google search result page
Choose from a choice of 4 builtin book review templates, or create your own inside your current theme
Remove or add your own list of stores to purchase books from
New book review admin page
Custom WordPress widgets
Book authors index page
Book reviews index page
Book review post using the default template
Book review post showing the criteria-based review score box
