- Part 1 – WordPress as Job Board and e-Commerce Site
- Part 2 - WordPress as Review Site and Portal (you are here)
- Part 3 - WordPress as Discussion Forum and Membership Site
- Part 4 - WordPress as Social Network Site & Contact Manager
- Part 5 - WordPress as Newsletter Mailing Script and FAQ Management System
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
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: https://www.wpreviewsite.com
Live Demo: http://www.awardwinninghosts.com/
WordPress as Portal
Want to setup a portal with your favorite WordPress script? Well, look no further than Onyx Portal theme. It comes with comprehensive control panel that has 71 settings, 4 widgetised areas, banner & adsense ready, integrated plugin & social links, built-in promotional blocks and theme alignment options. It’s priced very reasonably at $37.
Price: $37
URL: http://stylewp.com/products/newspaper-magazine-themes/onyx-portal.html
Live Demo: http://stylewp.com/demo-onyxportal
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.
This is really very useful theme and the best thing is the plugin.
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
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.
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
bluehost is the best for wordpress blogs.
salam ades,
i already use onyx portal for my blog portal. a mobile content free download.
check it out when u had time.
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
My vote for bluehost.
aleikum salam baloot, you may want to go easy on the haram pics. otherwise the theme looks good.
xBrain, welcome back ;) do drop by if you have time. Good luck with your new employment!
this is dfferent and new to me. Thanks for sharing with us.
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 :(
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)
IFIOTI, your comments are going for moderation, please check your email or URL. Maybe some other bloggers have reported you as spammer…
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.
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.
@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.
Full fledged review site in 5 min.. Wonderful!
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
Definitely wordpress is the best cms but the load and query in the database is great for large sites
wordpress portal themes always look so elegant