Affiliate Marketing blog by James Little

Wordpress is a powerful tool and I use it for quite a few sites that I have built but it’s plugins can be limited and at times I’ve had to look at other solutions.

One of the big things that I wanted to be able to do when building a site is create a review site – none of the plugins that I previously looked at handled this very well so I ended up installing Drupal as it was more powerful for this.

However, a new (paid) plugin has recently been released called WPReviewSite.

It’s currently just under $100 (so about £55) and includes both the plugin and theme to get a review site running pretty quickly out of the box.

Here are some of the features listed on their website:

• Adds Star Ratings To Your Comment Forms
• Sorts Your Posts by Weighted Average
• Integrates With WordPress Administration
• Powers a Whole Website or Just What Parts You Want
• Doesn’t Modify WordPress Database Tables

I’ve given it a quick go and it seems very powerful, although the proof is in the pudding and I’m aiming to get a full site using this within the next week or two and will publish the URL when it’s all up and running so you can give it a test drive

More information about the plugin and theme on their site

Up until today I’ve been running on a desperately old version of wordpress and not only was I missing out on some of the new features but the database was also a little screwed so I was getting a few SQL errors popping up over the place.

Tonight I finally managed to sit down for an hour or so and upgrade - I’m using version 2.7 of wordpress which is still in beta so I’m sure there will still be a few bugs but it’s better than what I had.

I’ve also upgraded the theme - I’m not sure if I’m going to keep this one but it’ll do for now - comments appreciated.