Boone Gorges

Joan Fragaszy Troyano

lmrhody

Amanda Regan

Jeremy Boggs

Aram Zucker-Scharff

PressForward

PressForward is a free plugin that provides an editorial workflow for content aggregation and curation within the WordPress dashboard. It is designed for bloggers and editorial teams who wish to collect, discuss, and share content from a variety of sources on the open web.
PressForward helps you:
<ul>
<li>Collect content from the web via a feed reader and a bookmarklet</li>
<li>Discuss content through a collaborative editing interface</li>
<li>Share content using best practices for attribution and citation</li>
</ul>
Collect
<ul>
<li>Aggregate content using RSS/Atom feeds</li>
<li>Capture any web content with a bookmarklet</li>
<li>Import full text, image, video content, and post metadata</li>
<li>Batch add feeds using OPML files</li>
<li>Integrate standardized content with <a href="https://www.readability.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Readability</a></li>
</ul>
Discuss
<ul>
<li>Discuss content internally with private commenting</li>
<li>Count nominations from teams of contributors and editors</li>
<li>Expose item metadata, including the name of the source and method of nomination</li>
</ul>
Share
<ul>
<li>Allow contributors to send items directly to their own Twitter account</li>
<li>Attach full content, attribution link, canonical URL, and metadata to WordPress Posts as Draft</li>
<li>Republish any content type supported by your theme (text, image, quote, snippet, etc.)</li>
<li>Optional auto-redirect back to original source</li>
<li>Export an RSS feed that combines all content from site’s feed list</li>
</ul>
Instructions for use are found in our <a href="https://github.com/PressForward/pressforward/wiki" rel="nofollow ugc">User Manual</a>.
<a href="https://github.com/PressForward/pressforward/wiki/FAQ#how-does-pressforward-compare-to-other-plugins" rel="nofollow ugc">See how we compare to other WordPress plugins</a>.
The PressForward Plugin has been developed and maintained by <a href="https://digitalscholar.org" rel="nofollow ugc">Digital Scholar</a> since 2019. <a href="https://boone.gorg.es" rel="nofollow ugc">Boone B. Gorges</a> is the lead developer. The plugin was originally developed by the <a href="https://chnm.gmu.edu" rel="nofollow ugc">Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media</a> at <a href="https://gmu.edu" rel="nofollow ugc">George Mason University</a> as part of the <a href="https://pressforward.org" rel="nofollow ugc">PressForward Project</a>, generously funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Previous developers include <a href="http://aramzs.me/" rel="nofollow ugc">Aram Zucker-Scharff</a>, and Jeremy Boggs. PressForward is free to use and modify under a <a href="https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.en.html" rel="nofollow ugc">GNU GPL3 license</a>.
<a href="https://github.com/PressForward/pressforward/wiki/Devbook" rel="nofollow ugc">Detailed information about our code</a> can be found on our <a href="https://github.com/PressForward/pressforward/wiki/" rel="nofollow ugc">GitHub Wiki</a>.


This does so much more than PressThis! ever did and it does it well. The developers are also responsive to useful feedback and ideas.


More than just a replacement for Press This!

PressForward provides an integrated workflow for curating content aggregated from the web.

JS Morisset

Includes a 5 Star Rating in Schema markup:
<ol>
<li>If the Schema markup does not have an ‘aggregateRating’ property.</li>
<li>If Google allows an ‘aggregateRating’ property for that Schema type.</li>
</ol>
Google allows an ‘aggregateRating’ property for these Schema types and their sub-types:
<ul>
<li>Book</li>
<li>Course</li>
<li>Event</li>
<li>HowTo (includes Recipe)</li>
<li>LocalBusiness</li>
<li>Movie</li>
<li>Product</li>
<li>SoftwareApplication</li>
</ul>
If the Schema type in the Document SSO metabox is not one of these types (or one of their sub-types), then a 5 star rating cannot be added, as doing so would trigger an error in the Google search console. <a href="https://developers.google.com/search/docs/advanced/structured-data/review-snippet" rel="nofollow ugc">See Google’s Review snippet documentation for additional information.</a>

<h3>WPSSO Add Five Stars is a Fallback Solution</h3>
The Google’s Review Snippet technical guidelines reminds us to:
<blockquote>
<a href="https://developers.google.com/search/docs/advanced/structured-data/review-snippet#technical-guidelines" rel="nofollow ugc">Make sure the reviews and ratings you mark up are readily available to users from the marked-up page. It must be immediately obvious to users that the page has review content.</a>
</blockquote>
The WPSSO Add Five Stars add-on includes a 5 star rating if the document Schema markup does not already have an ‘aggregateRating’ property. It is always preferable to include actual ratings and reviews from your visitors and/or customers in the webpage. The WPSSO Add Five Stars add-on can be used in combination with any of the following third-party plugins and service APIs, or the <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/wpsso-ratings-and-reviews/" rel="ugc">WPSSO Ratings and Reviews</a> add-on.
Suggested Rating and Review Plugins and Services:
The <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/wpsso/" rel="ugc">WPSSO Core plugin</a> supports a selection of plugins that provide ratings and reviews:
<ul>
<li>WP-PostRatings</li>
<li>WP Product Review</li>
<li>Yotpo Social Reviews for WooCommerce</li>
<li>WooCommerce</li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/wpsso-ratings-and-reviews/" rel="ugc">WPSSO Ratings and Reviews</a></li>
</ul>
The <a href="https://wpsso.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">WPSSO Core Premium plugin</a> also supports a selection of remote service APIs that provide ratings and reviews:
<ul>
<li>Judge.me (Ratings and Reviews)</li>
<li>Shopper Approved (Ratings and Reviews)</li>
<li>Stamped.io (Ratings and Reviews)</li>
</ul>
<h3>WPSSO Core Required</h3>
WPSSO Add Five Stars is an add-on for the <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/wpsso/" rel="ugc">WPSSO Core plugin</a>, which creates extensive and complete structured data to present your content at its best for social sites and search results – no matter how URLs are shared, reshared, messaged, posted, embedded, or crawled.

WPSSO Add Five Stars for Google Rich Snippets

Add a 5 star rating and review from the site organization if the Schema markup does not already have an 'aggregateRating' property.

PressForward vs WPSSO Add Five Stars for Google Rich Snippets