Hi there fellow forum people,
Does anybody know if there is a particular plugin this Newspaper site is using for its reviews? https://www.mrbuzz.com/
We’d like to do something similar, but haven’t yet seen a plugin that looks like this one. We have tried a couple of sites that tell you which themes and plugins a site is using, but it doesn’t show up.
It could be custom code, of course…
Hi,
Please check this similar topic -> -> https://forum.tagdiv.com/topic/display-review-in-post-featured-image/
Thank you!
Thanks Calin. I did see that thread yesterday and tried it on our sandbox site, but it doesn’t give the sort of results we’re looking for (score is still based on a total of 5, rather than a score out of 10 or a percentage, and doesn’t style very nicely).
I appreciate that this is beyond the capabilities of the theme’s review functions at present, so I’m happy to work with a plugin to try and achieve the desired result for our needs. Was just hoping that either someone from tagDiv or someone else on the forum knew what that particular site was doing to achieve its review scores.
Thanks,
stuart
Hi,
Unfortunately this is all I can do for you, maybe you’ll find some plugins to achieve what you need.
Top 14 Review Plugins for WordPress with Schema Markup 2019 -> https://colorlib.com/wp/review-plugins-wordpress/
Thank you!
And about the part at the end of the post, how can you leave it that way? https://imgur.com/a/xgZYyV3
Hi,
You can try this custom css
.entry-review-stars{
text-align: center;
color: #fee400!important;
font-size: 20px;
font-weight: 600;
position: absolute;
margin-top: 10px!important;
margin-left: 10px!important;
background: #222222;
border: solid 4px white;
border-radius: 100px;
padding: 0px;
padding-top: 9px;
height: 50px;
width: 50px;
z-index: 2;
}
If there is still a problem, please provide me a link were I can the problem.
Thank you!
Hi Calin,
That CSS looks fantastic, but it still leaves the scores in a star format rather than points or percentages. Please see here:
http://compareallvans.co.uk/reviews/
Is there a way to have this set so that it follows the scoring format used by the post? This would also be helpful across the theme’s post blocks and schema markup, so hopefully it’s something that can be included in a future update.
Many thanks for your time, as always.
stuart
Hello.
Try to do this that was said in another post regarding this problem. If it works out, please let me know.
“Hi,
In order to have the number review instead of stars reviews you need to make some changes in theme files.
Please go in wp-content\themes\Newspaper\includes\wp_booster\td_review.php
https://www.screencast.com/t/1DNuz8yBLEQ
Please add this code
return self::calculate_total_stars($td_review);
https://www.screencast.com/t/xPWeJpZrWp
Resultants: https://www.screencast.com/t/jowv4EF9
Thank you for your understanding.”
Hi decovca, thanks for your help.
I have added that code, and it now displays numbers from 0-5 instead of stars. See here: http://compareallvans.co.uk/reviews/
However, what I would like is for the original scoring system in the review to be used (we use either points out of 10 or a percentage) rather than converting it to a five-star rating (or a number out of 5, which is basically the same thing).
We score our own reviews out of 10 and we use a percentage score for aggregated reviews, and I would like the blocks to reflect the original format used instead of converting them to a format we don’t use.
Good to know. I would also like to know how to show the score from 0 to 10. Let’s wait for a response from someone on the tagdiv staff.
btw, Could you tell me what plugin you use to create this database for cars? Follow the link: http://compareallvans.co.uk/mercedes-benz-e-class/
We created a post template using TD composer. The Euro NCAP rating, Green NCAP rating and review sections all use a custom plugin we commissioned, which pull their data from a custom database.
That is our development site; this is where we have the aggregated reviews on our public site: https://www.thecarexpert.co.uk/new-car-ratings/
Nicelly done! I want to do something similar but for games.
@Calin We still have the same problem, we can not leave the score of 0-10. And in the part of the summary where it appears the conclusion of the review continues with the same layout. I’d like to leave it that way. https://imgur.com/a/xgZYyV3
Hi @decovca,
Please check this similar topic for displaying the review stars in number -> https://forum.tagdiv.com/topic/display-review-in-post-featured-image/
Thank you!
@Calin, We have already done this and still continue the maximum value of 0-5, we want to leave 0-10. Since your review is scheduled to be only 5 stars, that’s the reason for the problem. Please visit Mr. Buzz’s website and see how we want it. At the end of the post, I would also like to leave that format as it is displayed on their site (with the featured image, the conclusion alongside the author’s considerations and the review score). As shown at the end of this post, here’s the image to show you what I’m talking about for the third time https://imgur.com/a/xgZYyV3. How can we do that?
About how to leave in the format in circle, appears next to the image with the punctuation we already know how to do. Inspecting the element is pretty easy to figure out the css. The problem is and I REPEAT, the score does not go beyond 5, and the question of how to leave the conclusion of the review as I have specified above (here the image again:). I hope it was clear this time. Thank you for your attention and I await your response. Hugs.
Hi,
If you want to display the review value from 0-19 all you need to do is to remove in from the // converts the rating to 0-5 to be used with stars -> https://www.screencast.com/t/nqHhrEtet -> https://www.screencast.com/t/RXYzJMYPmW2 and from converts the rating to 0-5 to be used with stars -> https://www.screencast.com/t/Q6tyXA9EkkO5 -> https://www.screencast.com/t/zOBEfg49uR
Unfortunately this -> https://imgur.com/a/xgZYyV3 can be achieve only with custom work, you need to do it yourself through the code and if you are not aware of the steps which are needed to take, in this case, please consider hiring a freelancer/developer to help you because we cannot provide custom work at the moment, sorry!
Thank you for your understanding!
Thanks for your help @Calin, that’s working really nicely and looks really good.
One last question, and it may not be possible, but if I am using a percentage score for reviews, how can I display % after the score?
Currently it just shows the number (eg – 90), and I’d ideally like it to show 90%.
Many thanks,
stuart
Hi,
You can do this by simply add a custom css as this one -> https://www.screencast.com/t/pScHyNTyG8Yc
.entry-review-stars:after{
content:"%";
}
Thank you!
Thanks Calin. That would be perfect, except we use both percentage and points for different types of reviews, and I only want it for percentages.
No worries, I appreciate that this is all beyond the theme’s feature set, so I can leave it as it is now. I do hope that some of these solutions can be incorporated into future versions of Newspaper as it considerably improves the review capabilities.
Many thanks,
stuart
Hi,
I’ll note this as a suggestion for the coming updates.
Thank you!
