Comparison to Book Review Library plugin

So I’ve spent some time trying out the plugin you mentioned and here is my take on the differences:

• The Book Review plugin is primarily tailored for book bloggers and other reviewers who want to write their reviews as individual blog posts. The Book Review Library plugin seems to be geared more towards librarians and others who want to maintain a catalogue of their books.
• The Book Review plugin will add details about a book at the top of every post where that information has been provided. The Book Review Library plugin provides a shortcode which you will likely add to a page that will list all of the books in your catalogue.

Ultimately, it comes down to how you plan to show your book reviews. Are you a book blogger or reviewer who wants to add information about a book to all of the reviews that you post on your blog? If so, then the Book Review plugin is probably the one you want. Or are you a librarian who wants to catalogue and organize books and make them available on a separate page of your web site, independent of your blog? In that case, you probably want the Book Review Library plugin.

Of course, if you’re still unsure you can always try out both to see which makes more sense for you.

Cheers!

Thanks for the response.

I am planning a community book review site where site users can add reviews to a book, thus a one-to-many relationship between book and review.

You mentioned that your plugin displays book data at the TOP of the page, which in my case could be useful. I’m envisioning a review “view” of sorts with the book and book data positioned at the top, with however many related reviews, displayed beneath the book/book data. Can this be accomplished with your plugin in?

Also, does your plugin support a parent-child post relationship with the book post being the parent, and subsequent reviews of the book, being the child? Also, can these book and reviews posts be created via the front end (not via the dashboard)?

Thanks again

Hey WomperScomper,

The Book Review plugin is meant to be used by book bloggers and reviewers to write single reviews for different books. It’s not meant to be used on a crowd-sourced review site, and so there is no way for users to post their own reviews (although that sounds exactly like what Goodreads does). I don’t have any intention of adding that in either as it would drastically change the intended purpose of the plugin.

Yes, the plugin does display the book data at the top, but it only does so at the top of a post, not at the top of a page. I’d imagine that you would likely want to show those details at the page-level.

Good luck with your project!