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WordPress Plugin Questions

by verneir
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I'm looking for something that will help with creating review sites. Specifically I'm looking for things like:

1) Easy to build custom comparison charts.

2) Easy to create/add various arrows, stars, or other icons such as what are frequently used to indicate a value or score rating of a product.

3) Easy to use and effective link cloaker.

Although I just checked out OptimizePress and have previously seen things like XSitePro, I'm not presently looking to churn out squeeze pages, static pages, build multiple email lists or anything of that nature so these types of products aren't really delivering what I need.

I have stumbled upon products like MyReviewPlugin and WPReviewEngine which do seem to basically offer what I'm looking for. At this point I'm just looking for any suggestions, alternatives, etc. I've already searched around a bit to try to find free solutions but haven't had much luck yet.

I'm interested in hearing about anything that may assist with an affiliate review style site for digital product, although I do already have various templates and even a header creation program.

Oh and I almost forgot to mention, I'm not a programmer. So any suggestions that go the route of me writing code is pretty much out the window, unless it takes very (VERY!) little coding and is pretty straight forward. I have an IT background and I've made really, really short batch files and have edited existing VBS scripts to change printer names in GPOs and stuff of that nature.. but, I'm really mainly looking for things that are sort of a boxed solution that I can just click around to get something setup.
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  • Profile picture of the author spesialis
    WordPress › Search for review « WordPress Plugins

    link cloaker: WordPress › Pretty Link Lite « WordPress Plugins
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  • Profile picture of the author verneir
    Searching wordpress for reviews generally just brings up reviews of plugins. Some of them are reviews of review plugins. Many of them are duplicates. Probably the first place I checked was wordpress.com. I will probably bring up my wordpress control panel and search from there this afternoon as I often prefer the results from that side.


    Pretty link lite is not and has not been a link cloaker for a while now, unless you pay for the upgrade.. the main points behind a link cloaker is to make links appear internal and to help lock in a visitor to your tracking ID/prevent hijacking, not just simple obfuscation. If someone looks to see where a link is going to take them and all they see is a bunch of nonsensical garbage, then it kind of takes a lot away from the your efforts of cloaking the link in the first place.

    I may end up buying pretty link pro though as I believe it does what I want as far as a link cloaker. Just looking around for the best pricing and features. Some of these review plugins come with link cloakers as well, although I haven't found any built in link cloakers that were highly feature rich.

    I've also found some information on how to create the stars and review/comparison tables for free at this point, but the former was information that is now four years old. The later may be viable, for myself, but I am still leaning towards just throwing down $100 for a good product. Still searching for "the one" though.


    Thanks,
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  • Profile picture of the author seopress
    Originally Posted by verneir View Post


    3) Easy to use and effective link cloaker.
    Unless you're super adverse to writing any code, it's really simple to make your own cloaking mechanism.

    Assume your affiliate link is
    http://www.myaffiliatelink.com/cmd.php?aff=12345

    Just make a tiny little php file with following contents

    <?php
    header("Location:http://www.myaffiliatelink.com/cmd.php?aff=12345 "); exit; ?>

    Pick a name for the new php file, and save it, for example mygreatoffer.php (then you would link internally to http://yourownsite.com/mygreatoffer.php).

    Alternatively, you could create a folder named MyGreatOffer and save the php file as index.php, place the folder and index.php file on your server at root, then you would link to http://yourownsite.com/MyGreatOffer

    In the event you don't want SE's from indexing these links, you just enter following in robots.txt;
    User-agent: *
    Disallow: /WhateverFileNameYouUsed.php

    Hope this helps.
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  • Profile picture of the author Istvan Horvath
    Probably the first place I checked was wordpress.com.
    That's the problem.

    You should look for plugins and solutions at wordpress.ORG
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  • Profile picture of the author interestingindeed
    Wordpress, Themeforest & Pretty Link Lite, that's all you need.
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  • Profile picture of the author haymanpl
    Maybe you need to look at the top 50 Best WordPress plugins
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  • Profile picture of the author msafi
    MyReviewPlugin fits the bill perfectly for your requirements. It allows you to make comparison charts, star ratings, and has link cloaking capabilities. Check out this tutorial to see how that's done.

    You said you don't want to be fiddling with a lot of code. That's why I recommended MyReviewPlugin. It's the only all-in-one solution for a review site.

    Alternatively, you'll have to use a "mix and match" solution, like combine:
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  • Profile picture of the author seopress
    Originally Posted by verneir View Post

    I'm looking for something that will help with creating review sites.
    Since you are looking to create multiple review sites and don't want to mess with much coding, I must say that msafi's MyReviewPlugin looks very nice indeed. Should save you lots of time if you're developing multiple review sites.
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