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Affiliate Reviews

by wpchop

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Description

Affiliate Reviews turns the block editor into an affiliate site builder. Add your products, casinos, brokers or services once, then show them anywhere as comparison tables, “top picks” grids, review boxes, pros & cons lists and CTA buttons. Every design is made of blocks you can rearrange and restyle, and none of it needs a page builder.

Version 2.0 rebuilds the plugin around native WordPress blocks. Each piece of a review (logo, rating, bonus, pros & cons, specifications, CTA button) is now its own block. Start from a ready-made pattern or build your own layout, and style it with the same color, typography and spacing controls as core blocks.

Why affiliate marketers use it

  • Enter data once, reuse it everywhere. Each review stores its affiliate link, rating, bonus, pros & cons, specifications and terms. Change a link or a rating once and every table, grid and box on your site updates.
  • Comparison tables and grids in one click. Insert a pattern, choose how to sort (by rating, date or title) and filter by category. Tables are built on the core Query Loop, so they update themselves as you add reviews.
  • Your layout, not ours. Rearrange blocks, drop any core block (headings, images, columns) in between, and save your design as your own pattern.
  • Fast pages. No page builder, and CSS loads only on pages that use it. Check our demos: with a good block theme you can reach perfect Google PageSpeed scores.
  • Built for any niche. Physical products, software, casinos and sportsbooks, forex brokers, hosting and VPNs all work.

Live demos

All three demos use the free UniBlock block theme.

Review blocks

Mix these blocks into any layout. Inside a pattern or a Query Loop they pick up the current review automatically.

  • Affiliate CTA Button: links to the review’s affiliate URL, with full color, gradient, typography, border and spacing controls
  • Review Rating Stars: star rating with an optional numeric score, in two star sizes
  • Review Logo / Thumbnail: brand logo or product image in default, box, circle or frameless styles
  • Review Bonus Badge: highlights the offer, e.g. “100% up to $500” or “20% off”
  • Review Pros & Cons List
  • Review Specifications List: key/value details such as price, license or payout speed
  • Review Tag: a ribbon such as “Best Choice” or “Editor’s Pick”, inline or overlaid on the image
  • Review Description
  • Review Terms & Conditions: the small print, e.g. “18+ | T&Cs apply”
  • Review Link: a “Read Review” link to the full review
  • Review Context Wrapper: shows any single review in any post or page

Ready-made patterns

Insert a finished layout and adjust it to fit your site:

  • Review table and large review table (ranked, sorted by rating)
  • Review grid
  • Review loop, small and large
  • Compact review list for sidebars and narrow columns
  • Review comparison: side-by-side cards for “X vs Y” sections
  • Review summary: an “at a glance” box for the top of a review
  • Single review box, compact and large

Affiliate link management

  • Site-wide link settings: choose once whether affiliate links open in a new tab and which rel values they get (sponsored, nofollow, noopener) to follow Google’s guidelines for paid links.
  • Link cloaking (optional): turn https://partner.com/?ref=a8f3x into yoursite.com/go/brand/. You choose the prefix, and each review gets its own slug.
  • Click stats: the Reviews list shows clicks for the last 30 days and all time for every cloaked link. Stats are counted per review per day, with no IP addresses, cookies or visitor data stored, and known bots are ignored.

Link cloaking is off by default. Turning it on changes nothing until you give a review a link slug.

Easy to work with

  • Edit review fields in the editor sidebar. Rating, links, bonus, pros & cons and specifications sit in a panel next to your content.
  • Try it with demo reviews. Import three sample reviews, with logos and a category, in one click, and remove them just as easily when you add your own.
  • Live previews in the editor. Blocks and patterns preview your latest review, or sample data before you have any.
  • Public or private reviews: publish reviews as their own pages with a custom URL slug, or keep them private and use them only as a data source for tables on your pages.
  • Styles settings with a live preview to match colors, buttons and thumbnails to your brand.
  • A built-in guide on the settings page that lists every block and pattern and shows where the 1.x blocks are still used.
  • Responsive by design: blocks adapt to the width of the column they’re placed in, so layouts hold up in sidebars and narrow columns as well as full-width pages.

Upgrading from 1.x? Nothing breaks.

Your existing Grid, Table, Table Large, Single, Single Large, Pros & Cons and Info List blocks keep working and look exactly the same. When you’re ready, convert any of them to the new block-based layout from the block toolbar, one block at a time, whenever you choose.

  1. Go to Plugins Add New, search for “Affiliate Reviews”, then click Install and Activate.
  2. Go to Reviews Add New and create your first review: add the affiliate link, rating, pros & cons and other details in the sidebar panel. Or, to try the plugin first, import the demo reviews from the notice shown after activation or from Affiliate Reviews Demo content.
  3. Open any page, click +, and insert one of the Affiliate Reviews patterns or blocks.
  4. Optional: open Affiliate Reviews in the admin menu to set link behavior, enable link cloaking and adjust styles.
  1. Comparison cards built from review blocks in a Reviews Query, with the rating block's settings in the sidebar.

    Comparison cards built from review blocks in a Reviews Query, with the rating block's settings in the sidebar.

  2. A single review box built from blocks: rating, bonus, description, pros & cons, key details and a call to action.

    A single review box built from blocks: rating, bonus, description, pros & cons, key details and a call to action.

  3. Plugin settings: review visibility and URL slug, plus link options for new tabs and rel attributes.

    Plugin settings: review visibility and URL slug, plus link options for new tabs and rel attributes.

Will updating to 2.0 change my existing pages?

No. Every block from 1.x keeps its markup, styles and settings. The new blocks and settings are opt-in, and link defaults (rel="nofollow", new tab) match 1.x.

Which themes does it work with?

The new blocks and patterns are designed for block themes (such as Twenty Twenty-Five or UniBlock) and use the colors and fonts from your theme’s global styles. The 1.x blocks work with classic themes too.

Can I use it for casino, forex or other niches?

Yes. Nothing in the plugin is specific to one niche. Reviews have generic fields (rating, bonus/offer, pros & cons, specifications, terms), so you can adapt them to products, services, casinos, brokers and more.

How do I build a comparison table?

Insert the “Review table” pattern. It’s a Query Loop of your reviews, so you can sort it by rating, filter it by category, and restyle or rearrange any block inside it.

Does link cloaking slow down my site or store personal data?

No. The redirect happens before WordPress runs its main query, and clicks are stored as one counter per review per day. No IP addresses, cookies or user agents are saved. The raw affiliate link isn’t exposed through the REST API either.

Can I show my reviews without publishing them as pages?

Yes. Set the Reviews post type to Private in the settings. Reviews then only feed your tables, grids and boxes. They have no public URLs, and visitors can’t read them through the REST API.

What happens to my data if I delete the plugin?

Deleting the plugin removes its settings and click stats. Your reviews, their fields and categories stay in the database, so nothing is lost if you install it again.

Doesn't work

By computel on May 26, 2024

I don't see any thing once I add a reviews

Great Plugin and Free

By garylopez on October 5, 2023

You've made a great plugin for a free plugin. Congratulations. But I would appreciate it if you could make amp compatibility. I had to delete it because the amp was not compatible. Thanks.

I really liked the plugin

By codorco on August 4, 2023

Excuse my english, this text is translated by google.

I really liked the plugin, it was exactly what I needed.
I would like to give you a tip to improve it:

  • Fix bug of stars that are poorly filled.
  • Add option to change stars from 0 to 10, or put support for 10 stars.

With that the plug would be perfect. Hugs!
Good luck.

2.0.0

  • New: 11 composable review blocks: Affiliate CTA Button, Rating Stars, Logo / Thumbnail, Bonus Badge, Pros & Cons List, Specifications List, Review Tag, Description, Terms & Conditions, Review Link and Review Context Wrapper
  • New: 10 ready-made patterns for tables, grids, loops, comparisons, summaries and single review boxes, built on a “Reviews Query” Query Loop variation
  • New: Edit review fields in a block editor sidebar panel
  • New: Site-wide affiliate link settings (new tab, rel sponsored / nofollow / noopener)
  • New: Optional link cloaking (/go/slug/) with privacy-friendly click stats
  • New: Color, typography and spacing controls on the new blocks
  • New: Convert legacy blocks to the new layout, one block at a time; legacy grids and tables become the matching loop pattern
  • New: One-click demo reviews import, and removal
  • New: Block previews show your latest review, or sample data on a new site
  • New: Guide tab on the settings page, with every block and pattern and where 1.x blocks are still used
  • Improved: Reworked settings page with General, Styles, Guide and Demo content tabs
  • Improved: Container-query based responsive layouts
  • Improved: Layout CSS loads only on pages that use it
  • Improved: All blocks use block API version 3, ready for the iframed editor of WordPress 7
  • Improved: Deleting the plugin removes its settings and click stats (reviews are kept)
  • Improved: The text domain is now affiliate-reviews, so translations from translate.wordpress.org load
  • Security: Raw affiliate links are no longer readable through the REST API by visitors, and private reviews are kept out of it
  • Security: Settings and review fields are sanitized on every save, and a review’s /go/ link can’t be taken over by another review
  • Security: 1.x single-review blocks no longer show unpublished reviews to visitors
  • Security: Bundled CMB2 updated to 2.13.2
  • Fix: Empty review Query Loops when reviews are not public
  • Note: Requires WordPress 6.5 and PHP 7.4 or later. All 1.x blocks remain supported and unchanged.

1.0.7

  • Vulnerability fix: unescaped data
  • Bug fix: Table style large description not working

1.0.6

  • Small fixes about ratings and translations

1.0.5

  • New options for affiliate buttons for padding, font weight and font size
  • Small CSS improvements
  • New tags functionality for tables and grid

1.0.4

  • Improved experience when no reviews available and block previews not working
  • Bump @wordpress/scripts to the latest version

1.0.3

  • New option in Affiliate Grid Block to hide pros list
  • Thumbnails now have review link if available
  • Bug fix: Affiliate Grid Block missing background color

1.0.2

  • Bug fix: Issue when the same block was used more than once on the same page

1.0.1

  • README.md updates
  • Blocks category added
  • Updates to blocks titles and descriptions

1.0.0

  • Initial version
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