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[Wordpress] Review Plugin


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Does anyone know of a 'simple' wordpress plugin.

All I want is the ability to make my own review titles, like (Intro, Summary, etc etc) I still want to be able to use the Visual/html review within wordpress to type my review.

I want a star rating, which goes up to 10.

I've looked around on the wordpress site and tried "Easy Review Builder" but seems a little too rubbish for my liking, in the fact I couldn't use the visual/html view.

Does anyone know of a good proper one?

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Yes that could work.

But i'll explain a bit better.

I have a page called 'Reviews' then within there I have two subpages 'Films' & 'Software', I wanted like a plugin so I can create a review in 'Films' which could would look like a wordpress blog post, so I have a title, quick summary, then you click on the title to read full review.

Unless there's another plugin where I can put a post within subpage of my choice.

Does that make a bit more sense now?

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Yes that could work.

But i'll explain a bit better.

I have a page called 'Reviews' then within there I have two subpages 'Films' & 'Software', I wanted like a plugin so I can create a review in 'Films' which could would look like a wordpress blog post, so I have a title, quick summary, then you click on the title to read full review.

Unless there's another plugin where I can put a post within subpage of my choice.

Does that make a bit more sense now?

You're best off styling your categories then.

Set up Flims and Software as separate categories and create theme files to display them in that fashion.

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Or this may be better, if possible. On my homepage I have recently blog posts, which is great. Then is there a way to say like if category is 'Film' place in 'Film' page as a blog post. I would want this to display on the home page aswell.

I'm no good with php, but surely cant be too hard? :p

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I think your are making this a lot harder than it is.

You describe having a page called reviews, then 2 subpages called films and software.

Replace the pages with categories.

So you would have a category called reviews, then 2 subcategories called films and software.

Setup a permalink as: /%category%/%postname%/

The you should be able to access each 'page' of reviews by going to:

http://yoursite.com/reviews/films.

Write your blog posts as normal by going to post ->new post. then assign it to the correct category.

Install the wp-ratings plugin above. then your pretty much set?

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You should be using WordPress Custom Post Types to handle what you are explaining in your post.

First off, Pages cannot have 'excerpts' nor do they have a functionality to handle as 'posts' (you can't tag or categorize.) This means you should be using a post type for it. A Custom Post Type allows you to create your own 'type' of post with it's 'own' slug (permalink) that you can create for it as well as it's own taxonomies (this can be categories AND tags.)

So let's say you want a custom post type called 'reviews.' This is what we're going to do (fwiw I'm not going to do everything for you, I'll just give you the basics to get you started.)

We are going to go to your WordPress theme and open up functions.php and enter in the following:

 
 add_action( 'init', 'create_reviews' );
function create_reviews() {
  $labels = array(
    'name' => _x('Reviews', 'post type general name'),
    'singular_name' => _x('Review', 'post type singular name'),
    'add_new' => _x('Add New', 'Review'),
    'add_new_item' => __('Add New Review'),
    'edit_item' => __('Edit Review'),
    'new_item' => __('New Review'),
    'view_item' => __('View Review'),
    'search_items' => __('Search Reviews'),
    'not_found' =>  __('No Reviews found'),
    'not_found_in_trash' => __('No Reviews found in Trash'),
    'parent_item_colon' => ''
  );

  $supports = array('title', 'editor', 'custom-fields', 'excerpt');

  register_post_type( 'reviews',
    array(
            'public' => true,
            'supports' => array( 'title', 'editor', 'excerpt', 'thumbnail', 'comments' ),
            'capability_type' => 'post',
            'rewrite' => array("slug" => "reviews"), // Permalinks format
            'menu_icon' => get_bloginfo('stylesheet_directory') . '/images/reviews-icon.gif',  // Icon Path
            'menu_position' => '5'
    )
  );
}

So what I've done there is I created a custom post type that is specifically for /reviews/post-name-here. You will see it from your WordPress Dashboard in a menu position next to your other default 'Posts' type. So all we've done is created the functionality to allow them to be seen/created. The custom post type allows you your title, editor, excerpt, thumbnail and comments. You won't see any categories or tags because we have not created any taxonomies for your custom post type.

To do so you will just need to follow any of the number of links I provided to help you finish your custom post type.. And since you created a 'reviews' post type, here's your chance to create a custom post type for EACH of the review types. So where I typed out create_reviews you can change that to be create_films so that you can have your own separate custom post type for 'Film Reviews.' Just remember to change the aforementioned code accordingly to match your needs!

http://sixrevisions.com/wordpress/wordpress-custom-post-types-guide/

http://wptheming.com/2010/08/how-to-make-an-events-custom-post-type/

http://wpengineer.com/1969/impressions-of-custom-post-type/

http://justintadlock.com/archives/2010/04/29/custom-post-types-in-wordpress

http://wptheming.com/2010/08/custom-metabox-for-post-type/ * taxonomies

http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/wordpress/introducing-wordpress-3-custom-taxonomies/ *taxonomies

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Thanks for all that but I managed to get it working fine, from what uplift said. Cupcakes yours would of been awesome but i'm not as awesome as you, so therefore I got confused quickly haha. But at the moment it's doing exactly what I require

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