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<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p><em>This plugin is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Amazon. Amazon is a trademark of Amazon.com, Inc.</em></p>
<h4>Why Use This Plugin?</h4>
<ul>
<li><strong>Easy import</strong> – Capture reviews manually or use the OCR helper to extract text from screenshots</li>
<li><strong>Flexible display</strong> – Grid or list layouts with full control over colours, spacing, and typography</li>
<li><strong>Smart organisation</strong> – Group reviews by category (Fiction, Non-fiction, Photography, etc.)</li>
<li><strong>Track performance</strong> – See which reviews get the most views and clicks</li>
<li><strong>No bloat</strong> – 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>
<p>Supported attributes (camelCase or kebab-case):</p>
<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>
<p>Examples:</p>
<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>
<p>This plugin connects to external services to provide certain features:</p>
<h4>OCR.space API</h4>
<p>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.</p>
<p><strong>What data is sent:</strong><br />
* Base64-encoded image data (screenshots you upload through the WordPress media library)<br />
* Image metadata (MIME type, language preference)</p>
<p><strong>When data is sent:</strong><br />
* Only when you use the OCR import feature in the admin area<br />
* Images are sent immediately when you click “Extract Text” during the OCR import process<br />
* No data is sent automatically or in the background</p>
<p><strong>Service provider:</strong><br />
* OCR.space (https://ocr.space/)<br />
* Terms of Service: https://ocr.space/ocrapi/TermsOfService<br />
* Privacy Policy: https://ocr.space/ocrapi/PrivacyPolicy</p>
<p><strong>Note:</strong> 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.</p>


SFR Book Review Showcase

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

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<p>Ultimate Amazon turns your written work into a beautifully rendered Amazon shop. It also allows robust cataloguing and export of all Amazon products — books, music, films, and everything else — to which your authors have linked.</p>
<p>We’ll deftly scan each newly created post for Amazon links, fetching the properly formed ASIN URL using modern Amazon-preferred methods from the Amazon Advertising API. We’ll also fetch the main product image for you and insert that into WordPress’s Media database. Then we’ll create an XML file and will save it into the database so that you can reference all of the Amazon products your writers are writing about.</p>
<p>The products can then be displayed using the included carousel, which is a beautifully functional, light-payload, HTML5, touch-compatible, Retina-capable way of building your authors’ recommended items into your WordPress site in any location you choose.</p>
<p>Note: Ultimate Amazon does not automatically add Affiliate tags to your posts’ Amazon links. To do that, try Paul Stuttard’s Amazon Link. https://wordpress.org/plugins/amazon-link/. Amazon Link and Ultimate Amazon have been tested up to the specifications noted to work properly together.</p>
<h4>Key features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Automatic indexing of new WordPress posts for links to Amazon</li>
<li>Local indexing of Amazon products in new ‘Items’ tab</li>
<li>Automated fetching of current Amazon product image</li>
<li>All product images added as Media items</li>
<li>HTML5 Retina and touch compliant carousel to display latest Amazon products via shortcode [all-items]</li>
<li>Fully customizable carousel</li>
</ul>
<h4>Quick Start</h4>
<p>To quickly start, simply install the plugin and add [all-items] as a shortcode in your widget, post, or page.</p>
<p>The shortcode output will automatically update when new posts containing Amazon links are saved to WordPress.</p>


Ultimate Amazon

This plugin scans each new post to create a beautiful catalogue of all Amazon products linked to by your WordPress authors.

SFR Book Review Showcase vs Ultimate Amazon