We have two bits of news about our LouderVoice plug-in. The first is that it is now WordPress 2.7 compatible and the second is that we have moved the hosting over to WordPress.org. This means that from now on, when we update it, you'll see a notification in your WordPress Admin Panel.
Apart from the 2.7 compatibility change, the only other major feature is that you can opt to have all the contextual information about the review, including the stars, at the end of the text. Full instructions in the readme.
Apologies to anyone who downloaded it over the past two weeks. We have moved its location and name on WordPress.org to be more logical. Please delete the recent version and replace with this new one.Â
If you use WordPress for your blog (not WordPress.com) and you like to write reviews, then we highly recommend you use our plugin. It formats the reviews in an open portable format and makes them easier to index properly. If you don't like any aspect of the plugin, feel free to change it, since it is released under the GPL licence.
Tags: hreview, LouderVoice, microformats, reviews, wordpress
Any ideas on supporting RDFa and Google rich snppets?
http://radar.oreilly.com/2009/05/google-announces-support-for-m.html
We're looking at it Andy. TBH there was no incentive to do so until now due to the low uptake/interest in microformats/RDFa in general.
I think Google's announcement will suddenly make everything we have been doing on LouderVoice for the past two years very interesting to a lot of people.
Our suspicion is that Google has been parsing our hreviews for quite a while based on the results ranking we get for a wide range of terms.