Planning your review site

Before you set up your review site, I'd advise you to take some time to plan how it will work and what you want people to be able to review.

Here are some questions you might ask yourself:

• Will people be allowed to post reviews or just give ratings?

• Do users have to subscribe to the site and log in to leave reviews?

• Do you want to create your own in-depth reviews and maybe let users add their own too?

• What kind of product or service will people be reviewing?

• If you're including multiple types of products or services, how do you need to structure your site to accommodate these? Think about whether you need custom post types or taxonomies (for more on custom post types and taxonomies, see later in this chapter).

These are just a few questions that will help you plan your site. The main thing you need to consider is whether your site is for reviews or just ratings. Let me explain the difference:

• A reviews site lets people post text-based reviews, as well as (optionally) gives...