Endorsements

The Endorsements module comes in really handy if you wish to create an affiliate marketing type of website. The extension fully follows the necessary Google Schema.org metadata and outputs rich results to search engines.

At the bottom of each edit page of a Endorsements, you will find two tabs that let you control various aspects of the post.

General Tab #

Under the General tab, you will find the most common content creation tools for the Endorsements post type. Here’s what each of them do.

• Review Entity – this lets you set the type of review. Books, Movies, Games are a sample of what you can choose.
• Gallery – lets you show photos of the reviewed product
• Affiliate Link & Button Label – lets you set the product’s URL and button label (this will redirect your users to the linked website)
• Sponsored Attribute – adds rel=sponsored to the link. Useful for SEO purposes – more information here
• Read More – lets your visitors quickly jump to the full review further down the page
• Short Description – just like with Storefront products, reviews have the ability to display a quick summary of the full review, to quickly gather the reader’s attention

Ratings Tab #

The Ratings tab lets you easily display the review score, product specifications and the advantages and disadvantages that come with the product. These fields will be displayed in between the gallery and the full review text.

• Scores – this affects the rating of your review. You can add as many sub categories as you’d like
• Product Specs – lets you easily display the specifications of the product you’re reviewing
• Pros & Cons – lets you easily display the advantages and disadvantages of the product you’re reviewing

Advanced Functionality #

Displaying Product Reviews Anywhere #

The blocksy_posts shortcode can also be used to display a grid of your endorsements throughout your website. Its usage is super simple.

blocksy_posts post_type="blc-product-review"

This shortcode will output all Endorsements on a page. For further customizations, you can read the documentation on shortcodes.

Changing the Slug #

In case the endorsements slug is not useful for your use case, you can easily change this from the Endorsements module screen. Simply click on the Configure button and input the slug that you want. The Permalinks cache gets automatically refreshed upon saving the changes, so the new slugs are available immediately.