Different Uses of WordPress (as Review Site and Portal) - part2

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Posted in » WP Themes - by Ades on November 24th, 2008

In Part-1 we have looked at how WordPress can be used as Job Board site and e-Commerce site. Today, we will be looking at two more themes that can extend your WordPress blog into a Review Site and turn it into a Portal.

WordPress as Review Site

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    WP Review Site combined with the free WordPress platform, allows you to easily create powerful review-driven websites. It comes with its own set of plugins and professionally designed themes. It turns comments section into a review writing form, integrating star rating feature in it. It’s a bit pricey - selling at $97 - but it’s the best of its kind that you can get if you want to setup quality review site in 5 minutes.

    Price: $97 - Single License, $199 - Multi License, and $299 for Developer License

    URL: www.wpreviewsite.com
    Live Demo: www.awardwinninghosts.com/

WordPress as Portal

As you can see from the above examples, WordPress is definitely becoming more comprehensive platform besides just being a blogging system. In the next part, we will be looking on more different uses of WordPress.

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21 Responses to “Different Uses of WordPress (as Review Site and Portal) - part2”

  1. By Thomas Bell on Nov 24, 2008

    This is really very useful theme and the best thing is the plugin.

  2. By xBrain on Nov 24, 2008

    hey Ades,

    long time I do not drop any comments and it’s been sooo long I did not come to your blog.

    it’s been busy keeping up with my new employement.

    btw, I don’t know that we can a lot of website using wordpress.

    the major setbacks is the memory hunger due to the cron jobs that wordpress do.

    cheers

  3. By Gerald SEO Tips Blog on Nov 25, 2008

    I think I actually have a need for the review one for a certain project. Actually I don’t think $97. is bad at all! Thank for the helpful info.

  4. By Bali VIllas on Nov 25, 2008

    Wordpress as review site, wow, I never think about this before. Thanks sharing this. I think I have idea in my lame brain now :D

  5. By Gameinitiator on Nov 25, 2008

    bluehost is the best for wordpress blogs.

  6. By baloot on Nov 25, 2008

    salam ades,
    i already use onyx portal for my blog portal. a mobile content free download.

    check it out when u had time.

  7. By Rice Blogger on Nov 25, 2008

    this is a great plugin…i wished that it was here earlier…i have a website that uses joomlareview….but I would prefer wordpress anytime

  8. By Thomas on Nov 26, 2008

    My vote for bluehost.

  9. By Ades on Nov 27, 2008

    aleikum salam baloot, you may want to go easy on the haram pics. otherwise the theme looks good.

  10. By Ades on Nov 27, 2008

    xBrain, welcome back ;) do drop by if you have time. Good luck with your new employment!

  11. By titan on Nov 27, 2008

    this is dfferent and new to me. Thanks for sharing with us.

  12. By I Found It On The Internet! on Nov 28, 2008

    This script looks really good but I bet you would have to spend a lot of money on advertising to get it going and the internet has been flooded by these types of sites lately :(

  13. By I Found It On The Internet! on Nov 28, 2008

    Strange, my last post didnt appear :(
    I was saying that this script looks pretty cool but I think that it would cost a lot of money to get it going and there has been quite a few being released lately (Comparison Sites)

  14. By Ades on Nov 28, 2008

    IFIOTI, your comments are going for moderation, please check your email or URL. Maybe some other bloggers have reported you as spammer…

  15. By Red on Nov 28, 2008

    That review site is an incredible idea and with all the affiliate tools that come with it, it has the possibility of making back your investment in the them with one affiliate sale. Good stuff.

  16. By Stu on May 28, 2009

    Well the concept of the WP Review Site plugin is very good. However the execution leaves a lot to be desired. One of the biggest drawbacks is that you can only have ONE set of rating criteria. In other words you can’t have seperate rating categories for RESTAURANTS or HOTELS or BARS, they all have to be the same! This is a pretty big limitation unless you want to create a site solely focused on one thing. The other thing is that $97 is a fortune for this! Plus it cost an extra $24 to have add on to add your own ratings. A $121 for a plugin? While its not cheap either, I also suggest checking out WFReview plugin to compare and see which one suits your needs better.

  17. By Ades on May 28, 2009

    @Stu, you are right. That’s a huge drawback of this plugin, not being able to add more ratings makes it very difficult to have sub-categories that might have different rating criteria.

  18. By english on Oct 21, 2009

    Full fledged review site in 5 min.. Wonderful!

  19. By Bali Accommodation on Nov 13, 2009

    Ya…wordpress can be used in any different concept of business. As long we have an ability to developing the plugin and do little bit hacking

  20. By Techadictos.com on Nov 26, 2009

    Definitely wordpress is the best cms but the load and query in the database is great for large sites

  21. By Ruben | OurBlogLog on Jan 6, 2010

    wordpress portal themes always look so elegant


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