DEPRECATION NOTICE: Given the imminent release of the Gutenberg editor in WordPress 5.0, the Book Review plugin is no longer being maintained. It has been replaced by Book Review Block, which is intended to be used together with Gutenberg.
One of the most powerful features of Book Review is the ability to add custom fields to each of your reviews. Custom fields enable you to review movies, music, TV shows and so much more!
Book Review saves you time when writing your reviews. No more copying and pasting or manually entering the details of a book. Instead, you provide the ISBN, and Book Review will automatically populate information like title, author, and even the cover photo for you.
Book Review can help increase traffic to your site by making your Google search result stand out from the rest. And that means more users clicking through to visit your site.
See the Screenshots below for an example of what your Google search result might look like.
If you’re interested in throwing monetization into the mix, Book Review can help with its custom links feature. Just enter the affiliate URLs for Amazon, Barnes & Noble, or any other online store, and Book Review will take care of adding the links to each of your reviews.
Although Amazon can be a great way to monetize your reviews, there’s a problem – being a member of the Amazon Associates Program in a particular country does not mean that you will automatically earn a commission on purchases made by users residing in other countries. And that can add up to a lot of lost revenue!
Affiliate Linkalizer for Amazon is a premium extension for Book Review that ensures you maximize your earnings by regaining that lost income.
Learn more about Affiliate Linkalizer for Amazon
This plugin supports the following translations (with credit to the translators):
- Arabic (منهل العدّاي)
- Chinese (Vahi Chen)
- Czech (Radek Volf)
- Dutch (Petran Liket)
- French (Guillaume Andreux)
- German (Linguasoft)
- Indonesian (Ardhi Sulaeman)
- Italian (James Garofalo)
- Norwegian (Harald Indgul)
- Portuguese (Wilson Rocha)
- Russian (Alexander Wolf)
- Serbian (Ogi Djuraskovic)
- Spanish (Jose Luis Parra)
- Swedish (Harald Indgul)
- Turkish (Atilla Öntaş)
If you would like to translate Book Review into another language, please see the instructions in the documentation.
- In WordPress, go to Plugins > Add New.
- In the Search Plugins field, enter "Book Review".
- Click Install Now to install the plugin.
- Click Activate Plugin to activate the plugin.
- Configure the settings by going to Settings > Book Review.
OR
- Download the plugin and extract it.
- Upload the
book-reviewfolder to the/wp-content/plugins/directory on your server. - Activate the plugin through the Plugins menu in WordPress.
- Configure the settings by going to Settings > Book Review.
Anyone is welcome to contribute to the WordPress Book Review Plugin, but please read the contribution guidelines first.
There are various ways to get involved:
- Raise an issue on GitHub.
- Create a pull request with your bug fixes and/or new features.
- Translate the plugin into different languages.
- Official documentation for Book Review can be found at WP Review Plugins.
- If you have problems, questions or suggestions, please post them to the Book Review Support forum.
- For a comprehensive list of feature requests, or to vote for your favorites, please see the Book Review Roadmap.
- You can submit your own requests in the Feature Requests forum.
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- I’m the founder of WP Review Plugins, a company specializing in creating review plugins for WordPress.
- I blog about web and professional development at donnapeplinskie.com.
- I'm an avid reader and a fan of young adult fiction.