Major Additions - Product Review Forums ? Research, Review & Compare Items

Version 1.4.0 has been released to remove the giftery / list it integration of the addon now that service has been discontinued. No upgrade is needed though there have been a few other bug changes since 1.3.5.

Finding Feedback Can be Like a Needle in a Haystack

The more your forum grows, the more of a challenge it becomes to sort through the history and get the full story.

Product Review Forums Brings Structure to the Chaos

As a full-featured product management addon, PRF sits on top of your forum allowing you to create defined products which, unlike individual posts, stay relevant over time. Each comment, review and even product updates filter back into this one spot allowing for a quick and comprehensive overview while the individual discussions rage on as always.

Here's just a few of the many features you'll find in PRF:

• Bring structure to products with established pages & reviews
• Reduce the number of repetitive posts from members looking up the same info
• Increase your traffic with content-rich, seo friendly, product listings
• Drive revenue by adding your own affiliate links to product listings
• Increase the activity stream's value with review integration
  
• Engage visitors with integrated wishlists from Giftery.me

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Installation is not upload & go... individualized settings are required. Read the install file.

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Enabling Product Forums: To show product details and ratings, each product-forum must be enabled in the forum manager.

Adding Products: You may upload products one at a time through the admin [includes an image uploader using GD] or you can bulk import through XML. You can also enable users to add moderated products through a global and usergroup option.

Product Review Index: To access your forum's product overview go to www.yoursite.com/productforums.php - You may want to add a link to this to your navbar or as a tab.

Customization: This addon is made to be customized. To change the color schema see clientscript/vbulletin_css or dive right on in to the templates and phrases.

Powered by Giftery.me: This mod is maintained includes two integrations you should know about. Both can be controlled through the mod options.

[bigtree]

Originally Posted by Ted S

Is there a feature or tweak you'd like to see make it into this mod? We'll be doing a feature release this week / weekend and while it won't include everything, chime in and we'll try to sneak it in.

Here's what's planned:

Planned Changes [Week of 1/16]
- Profile link to a search of a user's top posts [admin option]
- Post level link to the number of votes, good votes, or ratio for a user's posts [admin option]
- WYSIWYG editor for writing a review
- Search by manufacturer [dropdown]
- Cleaned up search page & results page
- Bug fixes here and there

Right on!

[zeus_r6]

This seems to work to resize the product image:

[zeus_r6]

Not seeing this, but where does a registered user create a new product?

[zeus_r6]

Any idea what's causing the post content after the actual review to spill over onto the next line? It's only happening in the threads with reviews...

[zeus_r6]

Originally Posted by zeus_r6

Any idea what's causing the post content after the actual review to spill over onto the next line? It's only happening in the threads with reviews...

Happening in IE only as well..

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by Killhunter

I meant my problem: I enabled the option to create a new thread for each review. Why does this addon post the Reviews in the forum for products and not the forum for reviews (id?s are correct, my review forum is under my product-forum)

The mod posts reviews to the review forum already. I'll take another look when we test the updates but right now you seem to be the only one experiencing this.

Originally Posted by Killhunter

In vBulletin 4.0.3 i dont have the WYSIWYG Editor.. will i have it in this addon?

Well since I said it's coming in the next version of the mod I'd suspect not.

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by zeus_r6

Not seeing this, but where does a registered user create a new product?

The link is on the Review Overview / Search Page. You can add it elsewhere as you see fit.

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by zeus_r6

This seems to work to resize the product image:

That doesn't actually resize your imaged but rather it constraints the proportions. If you uploaded a 500x200 image it would still be 500x200 [max width of 200 w.

Furthermore if the image filesize is huge, say a 5000x5000 graphic, the entire thing is still downloaded each time causing your page load to drag.

It's not a terrible solution if your images are already all fairly small and similar sizes but becomes a problem when they're raw which is why the mod doesn't use it. Down the road we'll build a full uploader but as resizing is a quick process, the focus is on new features.

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by zeus_r6

Happening in IE only as well..

Have you modified your postbit_legacy template?

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by bigtree

Right on!

Sorry WYSIWYG didnt come sooner... It's actually much more complex to add than I would have guessed. :down: