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Book Review Block

by Donna Peplinskie (a11n)

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Description

Book Review Block enables you to add details such as title, author, cover image, star rating and more to all of your book reviews.

Save Time

Book Review Block saves you valuable time when writing your reviews. No more copy and paste or manually entering the details of a book. Instead, you provide the ISBN, and the block automatically fills in information like title, author, and even the cover image.

Increase Traffic

Book Review Block adds Schema markup to the HTML. This can help increase site traffic by ensuring your Google search results stand out from the rest.

  1. In the editor, open the block inserter and search for Book Review Block.
  2. Click the Add Block button.
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Nice Book review

By capbussat on February 2, 2023

<p>Gives a nice simple book review with a simple image.<br />Also, I find it is a very useful example to learn to code blocks for WordPress. <br />I am testing in Worpress 6.1.1, as far as I know it works correctly.<br />Thanks a lot!</p>

Goede plugin

By Hans (vlie) on April 5, 2021

Werk al vier jaar met Book review

Great plugin

By Alan Petersen (webzu2) on December 23, 2020

I tried other plugins and this one is the best for creating book review posts. Makes it easy to leave a nice looking book review. The latest version has some new features that make it even better.

Major Downgrade

By marcie84 on November 3, 2020

I couldn't get this one to work. It was glitchy and most of the options I wanted were in the previous version. I thought I would see an improvement on this one but turned out to be a major disappointment.

Downgrade from Book Review plugin

By kpossibles on October 17, 2020

There's no option for custom fields or an option to show the headings of the section like Title: ABC or Author: ABC, it just shows the name. I just want the Book Review plugin to not show after the Read More section in Gutenberg, which is why I tried this one. It seriously is a major downgrade from the previous plugin by this creator with only like 10% of the original options.

This block has encountered an error and cannot be previewed.

By (Krastev) on May 2, 2018

I get an error: This block has encountered an error and cannot be previewed.

2.2.1

  • Fix: “Creation of dynamic property” deprecation notice in PHP 8.2+

2.2.0

  • Tweak: Hide label if associated field is empty
  • Fix: Hide ISBN and API Key settings if user doesn’t have manage_options capability

2.1.2

  • Fix: Book cover alignment on block themes

2.1.1

  • Fix: Broken description in editor
  • Fix: Add whitespace around book cover

2.1.0

  • New: Add block preview
  • Tweak: Add description to parent block
  • Tweak: Add more block keywords
  • Tweak: Register scripts and styles instead of enqueueing them
  • Tweak: Use block.json for block configuration
  • Fix: Update block category of inner blocks

2.0.0

  • New: Refactored to use inner blocks
  • New: Added the ability to show labels for book metadata

1.5.1

  • Tweak: Add help text to ISBN setting
  • Fix: API Key not saving in some cases
  • Fix: Broken rating on Twenty Twenty theme
  • Fix: Add missing translation strings

1.5.0

  • New: Get book details from Google Books API

1.4.0

  • New: Add support for half-star ratings. Click once for full star or twice for half-star.
  • Fix: Misalignment of block toolbar items

1.3.1

  • New: Add book author, datePublished and numberOfPages to structured data
  • Fix: Structured data error

1.3.0

  • New: Create a separate “Book Review” block category
  • New: Update icons for block and block category
  • New: Deprecate version of block that previously stored attributes in post content
  • Tweak: Simplify placeholder text displayed in editor

1.2.4

  • Fix: HTML displaying in reviews

1.2.3

  • Fix: Review not showing on front end

1.2.2

  • Fix: style.css not loading in editor
  • Fix: Error when editing summary
  • Fix: Release Date not saving

1.2.1

  • Fix: Gutenberg 4.5.0 compatibility

1.2.0

  • New: Add support for rich snippets
  • New: Provide upgrade path for migrating from the Book Review plugin

1.1.3

  • Fix: Replace deprecated Gutenberg properties and component

1.1.2

  • Fix: Gutenberg 4.0 compatibility

1.1.1

  • Fix: Incorrect text saving when backspace key used
  • Fix: Book cover extending outside parent element

1.1.0

  • Fix: Address compatibility issues with Gutenberg
  • New: Add drag and drop book cover uploads

1.0.0

  • Initial release
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