Review
Full Reviews plugin that will add Games, Movie and Music reviews to your website.
Description
Review plug-in allows writers and members with the right permissions to submit reviews to articles. The reviews are added to articles in three flavors: Games, Movie and Music reviews.
You may start creating new articles with reviews, but also can add reviews to existing articles. Every review is displayed in a box you put on desired place within the article page.
For general install and uninstall instructions, please refer to Manage plug-ins section of user guide.
Access
The path to the Reviews plug-in:
Click on Articles link (which is located under Content section at the top of your administrator panel).
Choose to add or edit an article so tab(s) for adding reviews will be included.
User level
This plug-in can be accessed only by users belonging to groups that are allowed to manage Review plug-in.
Actions
Choose Articles section from your Vivvo administration and click on the 'Add new article' link if you want to add a new article with review, or choose to edit an article from the list if you want to add a review to existing article. Additional tab(s) should appear next to 'Edit article' tab (depending on what you have chosen during the installation).
Games review tab
- Show games review - this option is set to 'No' by default, so you will need to change it to 'Yes' for some particular review article in order that review box appears on the article page
- Publisher, Developer, Platform, Genre - add optional information about the game
- Editor rating - rate the game (depending on your rating, 1 - 5 stars will be displayed in the box)
- Release date - enter the release date manually or simply use the built-in calendar
- Buy now - enter the link to the online store the game can be purchased from
Music review tab
- Show music review - this option is set to 'No' by default, so you will need to change it to 'Yes' for some particular review article in order that review box appears on the article page
- Performer, Album/Single, Publisher, Genre - add optional information about the album/single
- Release date - enter the release date manually or simply use the built-in calendar
- Editor rating - rate the album/single (depending on your rating, 1 - 5 stars will be displayed in the box)
- Buy now - enter the link to the online store the album/single can be purchased from
Movie review tab
- Show movie review - this option is set to 'No' by default, so you will need to change it to 'Yes' for some particular review article in order that review box appears on the article page
- Release date - enter the release date manually or simply use the built-in calendar
- Starring, Director, Genre, Runtime - add optional information about the movie
- MPAA rating - refer to this page for further information and ratings: http://www.mpaa.org/FilmRatings.asp
- Editor rating - rate the movie (depending on your rating, 1 - 5 stars will be displayed in the box)
- Trailer (url) - enter the link for the trailer preview
- Buy now - enter the link to the online store the movie can be purchased from
Include reviews boxes in templates
To have review box visible in the article page, you will need to add the following code on desired place in article template file (VIVVO_ROOT/templates/CURRENT_TEMPLATE/article/default.tpl):
For games review box:
<vte:include file="{VIVVO_TEMPLATE_DIR}box/plugin_review_games.tpl" />
For music review box:
<vte:include file="{VIVVO_TEMPLATE_DIR}box/plugin_review_music.tpl" />
For movie review box:
<vte:include file="{VIVVO_TEMPLATE_DIR}box/plugin_review_movie.tpl" />
