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.

[Killhunter]

How can I remove the Giftery.me social link? Is there a german translation (If not: I would do one if you explain me how). Will you create a "gold" edition or will you keep it free?

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by Killhunter

How can I remove the Giftery.me social link?

To change the social sharing links, edit the product template and you can remove any you don't want or add attributes to others.

Originally Posted by Killhunter

Is there a german translation (If not: I would do one if you explain me how).

None that I have seen. To translate a mod you just edit everything you want adjusted through the Phrase Manager and type in your translations.

Originally Posted by Killhunter

Will you create a "gold" edition or will you keep it free?

I don't do paid mods. This will always be free.

[bigtree]

How cool it this.
Ted, how far away are we from stable?

[bigtree]

Ted, is there any way to make the text box capable of drag and drop so we don't have to enter raw html or is there a setting I need to activate?

[Killhunter]

Ted, could you make the box for the review bigger in the next release?

And I have another question: When i add a product, in my sidebar (last posts) is the following text: This is an empty post.

Could you fix that, so that the product description is there?

I also think that it would be greater, if you could write a little program which makes the pictures as big as I want to have them. And the product description should stand next to the picture and not under it.

I really love your work!

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by bigtree

Ted, is there any way to make the text box capable of drag and drop so we don't have to enter raw html or is there a setting I need to activate?

Not sure what you mean

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by bigtree

How cool it this.
Ted, how far away are we from stable?

Given the comments it seems like we're there. Probably push out a few more tweaks this weekend to make it official.

[Killhunter]

Originally Posted by Ted S

To change the social sharing links, edit the product template and you can remove any you don't want or add attributes to others.

And where can I do that?

[bigtree]

Adding content.

With vbulletin 4, Forums or CMS editor, I can copy and paste "manufacturers" web content perfectly without having to code it ( add raw code). Example: I can simply highlight text from a website and drag it to the vb editor (drag and drop) save writes it perfect. No need to put the <b> <u> <br>

I understand tables are a problem for this layout but how about just text so we don't have to do all the line breaks, bolding etc adding content for Product Review. Does this make more sense?

To my testing, we can't do that here unless I add the html . If we could do this with the Product Review , that would be awesome making, adding content very fast!

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by Killhunter

Ted, could you make the box for the review bigger in the next release?

Sure thing. That will move to the WYSIWYG editor anyways.

Originally Posted by Killhunter

And I have another question: When i add a product, in my sidebar (last posts) is the following text: This is an empty post.

What mod or feature is pulling that in?

I also think that it would be greater, if you could write a little program which makes the pictures as big as I want to have them. And the product description should stand next to the picture and not under it.

Assuming the mod grows in installs we'll be writing an image uploader to resize the photos and do a thumbnail / medium / large version.