GoodReviews Plugin for WordPress
The GoodReviews Plugin for WordPress displays information about a specific title from the social networking site Goodreads.com, including reader reviews. This plugin was developed mainly for authors or booksellers who want to showcase Goodreads information about specific titles on their WordPress sites.
You must obtain a Goodreads API developer key in order to use this plugin. You can obain an API key by following the instructions at goodreads.com/api. This plugin is not affiliated with Goodreads.
The GoodReviews Plugin for WordPress is free software that is being released WITHOUT WARRANTY under the Free Software Foundation’s GPL 3.0 license.
GoodReviews Features
- Allows use of a shortcode to display Goodreads reviews and book information for a specific ISBN in any page or post.
- Returns book information in divs and reviews in an iframe that can be custom styled or use the default styles.
- Includes three separate widgets that can be used in place of the shortcode.
- Supports WordPress localization (i18n)
- Uses WordPress 3.8 and later Dashicons to display average ratings.
Donations
If you would like to make a donation in support of this plugin, you can do so by purchasing a single copy of any book from this publisher or this author.
See It in Action
The following information about my time travel novelette Timecast is retrieved and displayed by the GoodReviews Plugin for WordPress:
4.0 rating based on 5 ratings (all editions)
ISBN-10: 0983761086
ISBN-13: 9780983761082
Goodreads: 13368313
Author(s):
Published: 1/2/2012
Haunted by guilt and loneliness after a car accident that left the love of his life indefinitely comatose, an aging high school physical science teacher schemes to restore his wife to health and vitality by using the advanced space-time theories of quantum physics to change history.
Based in part on the speculations and published conjectures of theoretical physicists past and present, Timecast explores the nature of humanity, companionship, and the individual’s relationship to the universe through one man’s desperate need to set his life on a different path.
An ornery lawn-mowing neighbor and a confused, but concerned, English teacher become the old man’s first experiment and sounding board as he struggles to regain that which he believes his own youthful foolishness robbed him of twenty years before.
Can he set things right? Time will tell.
Can you please show me a link to this in action. I have seen the star ratings being displayed on http://www.bookdepository.com but not reviews. Can reviews be displayed with my WooCommerce product reviews?
Hello, Denver.
You can see the results on this same page. I’m not sure BookDepository uses GoodReviews. They might. If you scroll up above these comments, you should see GoodReviews in action.