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How to do E-commerce with Stripe Checkout

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Development

In this practical development blog post I am going to show you how to take advantage of the extensibility features in JReviews to create an e-commerce solution for Joomla and WordPress, so you can sell products and services right from your listings, and without having to use a separate...

Lost your stars in Google search results?

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Last week, Google made a BIG announcement related to the display of stars in search results in a blog post titled Making Review Rich Results More Helpful. This refers to the rating stars that appear along side Google search results for pages that are marked up with the review...

How to increase user engagement and retention

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It is a well known and researched fact that useful, timely and personalized notifications will help improve retention rates. Once you acquire a user, the best way to keep them engaged and coming back is through notifications. According to a mobile push notifications analysis, 95% of new users churn...

How to start using the new beautiful card layouts for listings

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We recently released JReviews 3.6. In this version we've put a lot of work into improving the overall user interface. There are important UI changes throughout, including form elements, dialogs, and a new improved listing comparison widget that also works on mobile. The most notable improvement, though, are the...

Advanced Filtering for Joomla and WordPress

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With the JReviews Advanced Filtering for Joomla and WordPress you can easily add faceted advanced search to your site so users can quickly find what they are looking for. Advanced Filtering in JReviews looks and works like what you see on popular sites like Amazon.com, eBay.com, and TripAdvisor.com. ...

Open source license and new pricing plans

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Today we are releasing JReviews 3.5 to mark the transition to an open source license for all of our Joomla! extensions and WordPress plugins. This update is available to everyone starting today. At the same time, we are also launching new pricing plans to provide options with better value...

How to create your own profanity and spam blocker

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Development

In this tutorial you will learn how to create your own profanity and spam blocker for the various forms in JReviews that allow user generated content submissions. We are going to take advantage of Developer Filters introduced in JReviews 3, which allow you to extend the functionality of your...

How to share new listings on Pinterest using Zapier

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Development

Today I want to share with you a tutorial to show you how easy it is to extend the functionality of JReviews 3 to work with different services. You will learn how to integrate JReviews with Pinterest using Zapier to automatically create a pin when a listing is created....

Build amazing directory and review websites with JReviews 3

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JReviews 3 is the culmination of many months of work to create an even better version of JReviews. It is more modern on the surface with a refreshed theme, but most importantly, it is much better under-the-hood. There is a monumental amount of changes in JReviews 3, which implements...

How to create a classifieds website using Joomla and WordPress

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In this blog post you will learn more about how to create a classifieds website using Joomla and WordPress using our products. JReviews and the PaidListings Add-on work on both Joomla and WordPress and offer the perfect solution for creating a successful classified ads website.

Do you want to double your site's speed?

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I have a lot of great news to cover in this post, but the main highlight is the compatibility with PHP 7 because of the significant performance improvements it offers over PHP 5.6. We also have a new module for Joomla and widget for WordPress, shortcodes functionality, enhanced...

WordPress vs Joomla for Directory and Reviews website

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It is quite often that we get asked the questions below by clients either through the ticket system or the forum: Should I use WordPress or Joomla to build my site? Should I switch my site...

5 Mistakes to avoid when building a review site

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We've been helping people with their review sites for over 10 years now, even before the first version of JReviews was released in 2006. In this blog post I'd like to summarize the five most important mistakes I've seen clients make when starting their own review websites. If you...

Intro #10 - Building Your Very Own Traffic and Reviews Hub

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Introduction to JReviews

It's time to step up your game! Your own efforts can get you so far in terms of attracting new traffic and reviews, but what if you can get other sites to do the work for you? That's the whole idea behind TripAdvisor and Yelp. Businesses reviewed on those...

Intro #9 - Increasing Site Usage and Visitor Retention

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Introduction to JReviews

Are you already attracting some traffic to your site? One important statistic you can check is the new vs. return visits. You want to keep attracting new visitors, while at the same time have the people that already visited your site keep coming back. You can keep people coming...

Intro #8 - Unlocking the full potential of JReviews Search

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Introduction to JReviews

It's not enough for you to have useful and quality content on your site because if someone doesn't land exactly where he can get the information he is looking for, most likely the one thing they'll want to do next is search for it within your site. If they...

Intro #7 - Surfacing Relevant Content Throughout Your Site

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Introduction to JReviews

You are now midway through this series and I hope that you've been able to follow the previous posts and are already taking advantage of all the cool and powerful features we've uncovered. In this post I wan to talk to you about the different ways that you can...

Intro #6 - Taking an in-depth Look at the JReviews integration with Facebook & Twitter

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Introduction to JReviews

In this post I will cover the different integration points available between JReviews and Twitter and Facebook to automatically share your site content on those networks. You will also learn about the JReviews settings that make it possible for you to improve how shared content is displayed in Facebook...

Intro #5 - Understanding and Using the JReviews SEO Features

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Introduction to JReviews

This is such an important topic and we’ve packed so many great SEO features into JReviews that I wanted to make sure that you are taking advantage of all of them. The SEO features in JReviews are all about letting you customize page titles and descriptions, creating optimized landing...

Intro #4 - Exploring the Possibilities for Community Integration

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BuddyBoss, Introduction to JReviews, PeepSo

If you are planning to use, or are already using, a Community or Social Networking solution for your site, then I have some great info for you in this post. We’ve worked very hard on integrations with some of the most popular solutions out there to enable you to...
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