Book Review Block

March 31, 2024

Book Review Block Plugin

A block to add book details and a star rating to a book review.

Book Review Block enables you to add details such as title, author, cover image, star rating and more to all of your book reviews.

Save Time

Book Review Block saves you valuable time when writing your reviews. No more copy and paste or manually entering the details of a book. Instead, you provide the ISBN, and the block automatically fills in information like title, author, and even the cover image.

Increase Traffic

Book Review Block adds Schema markup to the HTML. This can help increase site traffic by ensuring your Google search results stand out from the rest.

Installation

  1. In the editor, open the block inserter and search for Book Review Block.
  2. Click the Add Block button.

Screenshots

  1. Empty State

    Empty State

  2. Selected State

    Selected State

Changelog

2.2.0

  • Tweak: Hide label if associated field is empty
  • Fix: Hide ISBN and API Key settings if user doesn’t have manage_options capability

2.1.2

  • Fix: Book cover alignment on block themes

2.1.1

  • Fix: Broken description in editor
  • Fix: Add whitespace around book cover

2.1.0

  • New: Add block preview
  • Tweak: Add description to parent block
  • Tweak: Add more block keywords
  • Tweak: Register scripts and styles instead of enqueueing them
  • Tweak: Use block.json for block configuration
  • Fix: Update block category of inner blocks

2.0.0

  • New: Refactored to use inner blocks
  • New: Added the ability to show labels for book metadata

1.5.1

  • Tweak: Add help text to ISBN setting
  • Fix: API Key not saving in some cases
  • Fix: Broken rating on Twenty Twenty theme
  • Fix: Add missing translation strings

1.5.0

  • New: Get book details from Google Books API

1.4.0

  • New: Add support for half-star ratings. Click once for full star or twice for half-star.
  • Fix: Misalignment of block toolbar items

1.3.1

  • New: Add book author, datePublished and numberOfPages to structured data
  • Fix: Structured data error

1.3.0

  • New: Create a separate “Book Review” block category
  • New: Update icons for block and block category
  • New: Deprecate version of block that previously stored attributes in post content
  • Tweak: Simplify placeholder text displayed in editor

1.2.4

  • Fix: HTML displaying in reviews

1.2.3

  • Fix: Review not showing on front end

1.2.2

  • Fix: style.css not loading in editor
  • Fix: Error when editing summary
  • Fix: Release Date not saving

1.2.1

  • Fix: Gutenberg 4.5.0 compatibility

1.2.0

  • New: Add support for rich snippets
  • New: Provide upgrade path for migrating from the Book Review plugin

1.1.3

  • Fix: Replace deprecated Gutenberg properties and component

1.1.2

  • Fix: Gutenberg 4.0 compatibility

1.1.1

  • Fix: Incorrect text saving when backspace key used
  • Fix: Book cover extending outside parent element

1.1.0

  • Fix: Address compatibility issues with Gutenberg
  • New: Add drag and drop book cover uploads

1.0.0

  • Initial release

Details

  • Version: 2.2.0
  • Active installations: 800
  • WordPress Version: 5.7
  • Tested up to: 6.5.5
  • PHP Version: 7.4

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