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4 Best Product Review Plugins for WordPress

People check out product reviews when buying online. It helps them discern easily what products have been vetted by others and is good values for their money.

Reviews mean that people are talking about your brand and that you have built credibility on the online space. In this article, we have selected four of the best product review plugins that you can use on your WordPress site.

What’s the need for a Product Review Plugin?

People check out product reviews when buying something online. A brand that has positive reviews online has higher propensity to attract new customers. Many brands know that having good reviews help to drive sales, and you must also use that platform to help your SEO.

Many WordPress users write product reviews to make money online. Some use affiliate marketing to earn revenue while some get paid directly by the company for the review. You can write your reviews as a blog post.

The problem with this idea is that the blog post doesn’t use the format supported by search engines in product reviews. This means that your article will not be highlighted in search results as a review. For better visibility and traction, your users need to write reviews with Product Review Plugins.

They help your users write search engine friendly reviews that help you rank higher.

Come with me to see 4 of the best product review plugins for WordPress.

WP Product Review Pro

This Plugin has it all, really. There is a detailed settings section that allows you to choose how you want to manage and displays reviews on your website. Select the product review option when writing a blog post and the settings to write your review comes up. Simplify your review into features, add images and more.

You have sidebar widgets to help showcase your reviews, and use it to collect submitted reviews that allow users to add their own rating and reviews in the comments. This plugin also has all reviews displayed in schema.org rich snippet format for maximum SEO benefit.

All in One Schema Rich Snippets

Like the name suggests, this plugin allows users to write different posts using the rich snippet format. This also applies to product reviews. What you have to do is quite easy: Select ‘Item Review’ from a drop-down menu when writing a blog post, and the plugin automatically shows review options like reviewer name, product name, and star rating.

For user experience, this plugin is one of the best. Users don’t have to go through a lot of steps to review products. This software can also be added to articles, products, software and so much more.

WP Review Pro

This is also another excellent alternative when it comes to adding product reviews in WordPress. It is very easy to use and is perfect for beginners. After activation, all the user has to do is write a new post and select the review type. It goes further than the star rating as it supports points and percentages: anyone you feel most comfortable with.

It also supports user ratings that allow users the opportunity to submit their own ratings for a product. For the creative mind, this plugin is perhaps the best as it comes with styling options.

You go to Settings > WP Review page. There, you can choose your own colors for the review box to match theme colors and brand colors.

Rich Reviews

This plugin is free and allows you to add reviews of your own products, services, or website. Your customers can also submit reviews. This plugin uses shortcodes to display reviews, and you can display a review anywhere on your website including posts, pages, and sidebar widgets.

The plugin’s settings panel comes with detailed instructions on how to use the feature of approving each review before publishing it.

We hope this article has been helpful in knowing four of the best product review plugins for WordPress. Do find us on different social media platforms @MactavisDigital to connect with us. Discuss business, make inquiries and ask questions about web development and other digital services that we offer.

June 1, 2018
Step-by-step guide on How to Embed a Facebook Video in WordPress
Many users have wondered if it is possible to embed Facebook videos on WordPress. Yes, it is quite possible and this article will highlight a step-by-step process on how to achieve it. Facebook has introduced auto-play and live video features, of which marketers and stakeholders have been waxing lyrical about.

Facebook is the biggest social media platform in the world, and for your website to gain more traction, I would suggest having the knowledge of embedding videos on it. Research shows that people are more drawn to media rather than text, so you can tap into this.

These features help to increase user engagement and overall reach. Embedding Facebook videos on WordPress has become easier with the ever-increasing popularity of Facebook Live and Facebook videos. I would recommend that you should never upload videos to WordPress, but use a video sharing site such as YouTube to do it.

Having said that, let’s take a look at how to embed Facebook videos on a WordPress site. Let’s dive in.

Embedding Facebook Videos in WordPress
- The first thing you need to do is to locate the video you want to embed on your WordPress site.
- After doing this, you need to right click on the video or date, and then copy link address.
- Copy the Facebook video URL.
- Visit the Facebook embedded video player website. Scroll down to the code generator section.
- Paste the URL you copied earlier in the ‘URL of video’ field.
- Next, you need to click on the get code button which will bring up a popup showing you two boxes of code.
The first part of the code will have to go in your website’s header section. For this, you have a couple of ways you can achieve this. If you are a very good programmer, good. You can add it to your theme or a child theme by editing the header.php file and then pasting it right after the <body> tag.

If you feel coding is a bore, you can install and activate the Insert Headers and Footers plugin from the WordPress plugin repository.

After activating the plugin, go to Settings on the WordPress Dashboard, then click on Insert Headers and Footers. Paste the code into the footer box. After this, click on the save button to update your changes.

It is very important to note that you only need to add the first part of the code just once. The next time you add a Facebook video, you only need to copy and paste the second part of the code.

Return to the Facebook video embedder page and copy the second part of the code. Your WordPress posts, pages, and sidebars can be used to add this code. However, when adding the code, you need to make sure that you switch to the text editor, otherwise, the visual editor will affect the code.

Visit the website to see the Facebook video in action.

How to Embed Facebook Live Video in WordPress

Facebook Live is the new cool. Connect to a lot of people by going live, and the good thing is that you can do this without breaking the bank. Embedding a Facebook Live video is not difficult. It is the same process as embedding the regular Facebook video, only that the method of getting the URL of the Facebook Live Video is different.

You can’t get a URL for a live video before going live. Pretty straightforward, no complications.
- Once you are live, right click on the date and select copy link address to get the live video URL.
- Go to the Facebook embedded video player website and paste the link into the ‘URL of video’ field.
- The code generator will fetch and display a preview of your Facebook live video. Click on the Get code button to continue and follow the instructions described above to add these codes to your website.
- Once you have added the Facebook live video code to your site, your users will be able to view the Facebook live video directly from your website as well as their Facebook feeds.
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May 30, 2018