JKL Reviews

As an avid reader myself, I wanted a better way to save the best of the best of
what I read on my blog. I wanted a way to quickly and easily save book information,
my 5-star rating, and external links out to the book and its resources to save for
my own future and personal reference.

The primary functionality of this plugin is to store book (or product) information
in a Custom Meta Box beneath your Post editor (in the back-end) that will then be
displayed in its own “ratings ID card” at the top of your Post (in the front-end).

Best of all: This plugin allows you to quickly input all the relevant information
and links related to your review and have those consistently display in the same
(responsive) format in your Posts without you ever needing to worry about styling
or formatting the review boxes yourself. This allows you to spend more time writing
the review itself and less time worrying about the display of your review.

In short: This plugin makes writing reviews fun and simple as the styling is all
taken care of for you.

Requires WordPress 3.5 and PHP 5.

Special Features

• Multiple Review Types supported
• FontAwesome icons
• 8 color choices for the box header
• Light and Dark display box styles
• Range slider to select your rating
• Uses WordPress’s native Image Chooser to add a Cover Image
• Responsive design (front-end and back-end)
• Affiliate link support
• WordPress Options page
• Ability to enable or disable Affiliate link disclaimer on WP Options page
• Ability to enable or disable Affiliate link disclaimer on individual Posts after enabling that functionality in WP Options

Information Stored by the Plugin

• The Title
• Author name
• Cover image
• Category
• Book Series
• Star-rating
• Summary
• External links
  • Affiliate/Product purchase link
  • The Book’s homepage
  • The author’s homepage
  • The book resources page

Additional Reviews Types supported

• Book
• Audio
• Video
• Course
• Product
• Service
• Other

Planned Upcoming Features

• Custom Post Type
• Custom Taxonomy
• Shortcode
• Ability to link between Categories (like WP Tags)
• Ability to display all of a certain Review Type (like WP Categories)
• Parameters big and small to change the display box features
• Override (optional) the Post Featured Image with the Cover Image you choose
• Overlay Star-ratings over the Featured Image on index pages
• CSS animations
• Dropdown menu to select different icons for external links or Review Type
• Translations
• (More ideas? Let me know!)

Translations

• English (EN) – default
• Korean (KO) – upcoming

If you want to help translate the plugin into your language, please have a look
at the .pot file which contains all definitions and may be used with a [gettext]
editor.

If you have created your own language pack, or have an update of an existing one,
you can send your [gettext .po or .mo file] to me so that I can bundle it in the
plugin.

Contact Me

If you have questions about, problems with, or suggestions for improving this
plugin, please let me know at the WordPress.org support forums

Want updates about my other WordPress plugins, themes, or tutorials? Follow me @jekkilekki

Support

Click here to visit the forum for this plugin

Acknowledgements

This plugin uses:

• jQuery licensed under MIT License or GNU General Public License (GPL) Version 2
• FontAwesome licensed under SIL OFL 1.1;
  Code licensed under MIT License
• Material Connection Disclosures
  as found on Michael Hyatt’s website and in compliance with FTC Guidelines

License

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms
of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY
WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A
PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this
program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth
Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA