The Product Reviews extension adds a dedicated post type for creating editorial product reviews and affiliate-style content. It includes purpose-built controls for review scores, specifications, pros and cons, galleries, affiliate links and supported review structured data.
Review content can be created with the regular WordPress block editor, while Blocksy’s additional settings handle the information specific to each review.
Extension status
The Product Reviews extension is being deprecated. It remains available for existing websites, but it will not receive further updates or new features and is planned for removal in a future Blocksy release. For new projects where review functionality is an important part of the website, consider using a dedicated review solution instead.
Product Reviews can also output structured review information for supported entity types. This can help search engines understand the content of a review, but the appearance of enhanced or rich search results is ultimately determined by the search engine.
Getting Started
To activate Product Reviews:
- Navigate to WordPress Dashboard → Blocksy → Extensions.
- Locate the Product Reviews extension.
- Enable the extension.
- A new Product Reviews section will become available in the WordPress Dashboard.
Creating a Product Review
Product Reviews use the standard WordPress editor for the main review content. Create the article in the same way as any other post, using blocks for your text, images and other content.
Blocksy then provides additional review-specific controls for the product information displayed alongside the main article.
Granular Controls
Each Product Review includes dedicated General and Ratings settings for configuring the structured information associated with the review.
General Tab
The General tab contains the primary information and presentation options for the reviewed item.
- Review Entity – select the type of item being reviewed, such as a product, book, movie, game or another supported entity. Certain entity types can expose additional information relevant to that type.
- Gallery – add a collection of images representing the item being reviewed.
- Affiliate Link & Button Label – provide an external URL and customise the label of the button that directs visitors to it.
- Sponsored Attribute – add
rel="sponsored"to the external link when appropriate. See Google’s guidance for qualifying outbound links for more information. - Read More – provide visitors with a shortcut that moves directly to the full review content further down the page.
- Short Description – add a concise summary of the reviewed item before the complete review content.
Ratings Tab
The Ratings tab controls the scoring and additional structured information shown as part of the review.
- Scores – add individual rating criteria that contribute to the review’s displayed score. Multiple criteria can be added when you want to evaluate different aspects of the item separately.
- Product Specs – create a structured list of specifications or important characteristics of the reviewed item.
- Pros & Cons – highlight the main advantages and disadvantages identified during the review.
These sections are displayed alongside the review content to give readers a quick overview before or while reading the complete article.
Advanced Functionality
Displaying Product Reviews Anywhere
The blocksy_posts shortcode can be used to display Product Reviews in other shortcode-compatible areas of the website.
[ blocksy_posts post_type="blc-product-review" ]This example queries the Product Reviews post type. Additional shortcode arguments can be used to control the resulting query and layout.
For the complete list of options, see the Blocksy Posts shortcode documentation.
Changing the Slug
The default URL slug used by the extension is product-reviews. You can replace it with a different value from the Product Reviews extension configuration.
Open WordPress Dashboard → Blocksy → Extensions, locate Product Reviews and select its configuration options. Enter the preferred slug and save your changes.
Blocksy refreshes the WordPress permalink rules after the setting is saved, allowing the new review URLs to become available immediately.
