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SFR Book Review Showcase makes it easy to display book reviews from Amazon on your WordPress site. Perfect for book bloggers, review sites, and authors who want to showcase reader feedback in a professional, customisable format.
Whether you’re building a book recommendation site, adding social proof to product pages, or creating a curated reading library, this plugin gives you complete control over how reviews appear.
This plugin is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Amazon. Amazon is a trademark of Amazon.com, Inc.
<h4>Why Use This Plugin?</h4>
<ul>
<li>Easy import – Capture reviews manually or use the OCR helper to extract text from screenshots</li>
<li>Flexible display – Grid or list layouts with full control over colours, spacing, and typography</li>
<li>Smart organisation – Group reviews by category (Fiction, Non-fiction, Photography, etc.)</li>
<li>Track performance – See which reviews get the most views and clicks</li>
<li>No bloat – Lightweight, namespaced code that won’t conflict with other plugins</li>
</ul>
<h4>Key Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Dedicated admin area with dashboard, paginated <code>WP_List_Table</code>, add/edit form, categories manager, analytics, and settings</li>
<li>Shortcode and dynamic Gutenberg block with grid/list layouts, customisable colours, typography, spacing, and “Load more” pagination</li>
<li>Review categories for quick grouping (e.g. Fiction, Puzzle Books, Photography)</li>
<li>OCR-based importer powered by OCR.space to pull text from screenshots in a guided workflow</li>
<li>Amazon helpers for ASIN storage, associate IDs for affiliate links, and outbound click tracking</li>
<li>Analytics summary (views vs clicks, CTR, top performers) stored locally in custom database tables</li>
<li>Fully namespaced PHP classes (<code>SFRBRS_</code>), functions (<code>sfrbrs_</code>), CSS, and JS handles to prevent conflicts</li>
</ul>
<h4>Shortcode Reference</h4>
<pre><code>[sfr_book_reviews]
</code></pre>
Supported attributes (camelCase or kebab-case):
<ul>
<li><code>layout</code> (grid|list, default grid)</li>
<li><code>limit</code> (1-50, default 6)</li>
<li><code>featured</code> (true|false)</li>
<li><code>asin</code> (single ASIN)</li>
<li><code>category</code> (comma-separated slugs)</li>
<li><code>orderby</code> (review_date, star_rating, reviewer_name, asin, status, created_at)</li>
<li><code>order</code> (ASC|DESC, default DESC)</li>
<li><code>cardBackground</code>, <code>cardTextColor</code>, <code>accentColor</code> (hex colours)</li>
<li><code>shadow</code> (true|false, enables card drop shadow)</li>
<li><code>gap</code>, <code>padding</code> (pixels)</li>
<li><code>titleFontSize</code>, <code>bodyFontSize</code> (pixels)</li>
</ul>
Examples:
<ul>
<li><code>[sfr_book_reviews featured="true" category="fiction"]</code></li>
<li><code>[sfr_book_reviews asin="B09EXAMPLE" layout="list" limit="3"]</code></li>
<li><code>[sfr_book_reviews shadow="false" cardBackground="#f8fafc" accentColor="#F97316"]</code></li>
<li><code>[sfr_book_reviews category="fiction,mystery" featured="true" layout="grid" limit="9" shadow="true" accentColor="#DC2626"]</code></li>
</ul>
<h3>External services</h3>
This plugin connects to external services to provide certain features:
<h4>OCR.space API</h4>
The plugin uses OCR.space’s API (powered by Tesseract OCR) to extract text from review screenshots when using the OCR import feature. This service is only used when you explicitly choose to import a review via the OCR helper workflow.
What data is sent: 
* Base64-encoded image data (screenshots you upload through the WordPress media library) 
* Image metadata (MIME type, language preference)
When data is sent: 
* Only when you use the OCR import feature in the admin area 
* Images are sent immediately when you click “Extract Text” during the OCR import process 
* No data is sent automatically or in the background
Service provider: 
* OCR.space (https://ocr.space/) 
* Terms of Service: https://ocr.space/ocrapi/TermsOfService 
* Privacy Policy: https://ocr.space/ocrapi/PrivacyPolicy
Note: The plugin uses OCR.space’s free API tier by default. You can optionally configure your own API key in the plugin settings if you have an OCR.space account.

SFR Book Review Showcase

Showcase book reviews from Amazon on your WordPress site with customisable layouts, easy imports, and built-in analytics.

cmeeren

This is a “set it and forget it” widget which allows you to display shelves and reading progress from your Goodreads profile. You can add multiple widgets and configure them individually to show multiple shelves.
Some configuration options:
<ul>
<li>Large/small cover images</li>
<li>Message to display if shelf is empty</li>
<li>Sort books by reading progress, date updated, shelf position, author, title, etc.</li>
<li>Number of books to display</li>
<li>Display your rating</li>
<li>Show first line of your Goodreads review (intended for quick notes such as “reading this together with Alice”, “recommended by Bob”, links to reviews, or whatever else strikes you fancy)</li>
<li>Show reading progress bar, progress text (no bar) or don’t show progress at all</li>
<li>Display time since last update (e.g. “2 days ago”)</li>
<li>Custom strings for time since last update (e.g. for quick and easy translating, or to change “2 days ago” to “2 floobargles since last update”)</li>
</ul>
Almost all HTML elements have dedicated CSS classes to allow you to easily override the style. The widget looks OK on the most popular WordPress themes.
Requires PHP 5.4 or later (PHP 7 supported).
The source is hosted on <a href="https://github.com/cmeeren/gr-progress" rel="nofollow ugc">GitHub</a>.

GR Progress Widget

Widget to display shelves and reading progress from Goodreads.

SFR Book Review Showcase vs GR Progress Widget