We now have hReview plug-ins available for Wordpress.org v2.0.x/v2.1.x and Wordpress MU v1.2.1
These plug-ins allow you to write correctly formatted reviews directly on your blog that our site and several others can collect and interpret properly. You no longer have to visit the LouderVoice site to write your reviews!
Once you write a review using the plug-in (simply by clicking “Insert Review” when writing any blog post) we will collect it and make it searchable on LouderVoice.
You can grab them over at our extras page our just use these links:
Many thanks to John Blackbourn for developing these plug-ins for us.
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Hi, I was just testing LouderVoice in Wordpress with the plugin. I edited an old post of me to have a hReview format included. How does it eventually appear in LouderVoice?
The review is at http://fourstarters.com/2007/05/03/nokia-n95-review-full/
Hey Cristiano,
If you have a LouderVoice account and pointed it to your blog (in “My Settings”) then we’ll pick it up on our regular aggregation. It should usually get picked up in less than an hour.
You have two options when letting us know about your blog:
[a] Setup a full “publish” relationship between LouderVoice and your blog where you can use our “Write a Review” page to send reviews to your blog.
[b] Setup “aggregation only” where you point us to your RSS feed and we monitor it for any hReview-compatible reviews. In this scenario you must either use our Wordpress plug-in to write the reviews or a third-party tool (like the hReview Creator on microformats.org)
In both cases go to “My Settings” and select “Start Publishing to a Blog”. The only difference is the “Blog Type” you pick on the following screen.
If you have any other questions, just let me know. Since several people have asked this question I need to update the help page!
Hmmm, I did the RSS feed thing but somehow the Reviews arent cought. Does the hReview format have to be present in the RSS feed or does it actually check the site?
Hmm, I’ll investigate this for you.
hReview has to be in the feed and it should always there be with Wordpress unless you are not publishing full-article feeds.
Just found out about the site, awesome! I use a different platform (serendipity) and I have a technical question or two re: how LV handles the hReview in RSS…
does it look for the div class=”hreview” inside the rss ‘description’ field? and if not what is the rss element required?
does it care if a div or other hreview elements are “multiclassed” i.e. class=”hreview article” or class=”summary title” where it’d be possible to keep my existing formatting and just add the hReview classes? New to this! Sorry if this is answered elsewhere!
Hey WMB,
I’ll get back to you on your questions shortly!
Conor
Hi WMB,
To answer your questions:
“does it look for the div class=”hreview” inside the rss ‘description’ field? and if not what is the rss element required?”
Yes. If you’re using a standard RSS or Atom feed that includes the entire body of your post then, assuming your post is correctly marked up as hReview, our aggregator will be able to read your review.
“does it care if a div or other hreview elements are “multiclassed” i.e. class=”hreview article” or class=”summary title” where it’d be possible to keep my existing formatting and just add the hReview classes?”
Nope, you can have as many classes on your elements as you wish, as long as the hreview/summary/etc classes are there too.
Hope this helps
Can hReview data be hidden behind the scenes as with other microformats? Also, I have already written many reviews and going back to each one and filling out this information is a pain to say the least. Why not have a line of JS or something that can be loaded through a PHP conditional within WordPress based on the post category, ex reviews, that notifies LouderVoice of the review.
Hi Paul,
I’m not sure what you mean by “hidden”. All of the classes are obviously hidden. Do you mean things like ratings?
Some of the markup we publish from our site (like having both graphical and numeric ratings) is to work around some blog platform limitations. Wordpress in particular strips a lot of markup e.g. having a class in an abbr.
If any third party markup is hreview compliant then we should be able to aggregate the reviews.
The problem with your idea for JS is that we need more than just a hreview container for your review. The minimum that we accept is item + rating + summary + description.
However we do want to build tools over the summer to assist with bulk transfer of existing reviews. Keep an eye on this blog for updates on that.
We’re more than happy to work with bloggers to get the output they want.
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