Reviews Page Type Addition
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Gary Simon
Our POA offers members a "Directories" folder which contains pages dedicated to recommended builders and realtors (among others). We would like our members to be able to post reviews of their experience with these firms. None of the available page types enable that to be done easily. Please consider adding this Page Type to your toolkit.
Here are some specific suggestions for page features:
- Should be designed to be used multiple times (for Realtors, Builders, etc.).
- The Heading area should provide an administrator buttons to “Edit Text” and “Manage Reviews” [to Order or Delete posted reviews). In addition, a non-admin member would be offered “+Add Review” choice
- The Body Area, upon clicking on +Add Review, should offer a Stars Rating box , a box for entering the company name being reviewed, and a box for optional narrative comments
- Finally, a “Save” button would save the review and an “Edit” and “Delete” buttons could be active if the member were the originator of a particular review.
Website administrators could then choose to create a single page (presenting all reviews), or one for each category (e.g., Reviews-Realtors, etc.), or one for each entity being reviewed (e.g., Reviews-ABC Realty). Personally, I would create a folder labeled “Reviews”, with a sub-folder for each category, then within the sub-folder, an individual page for each of our approved realtors and builders.
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Meredith Owens
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I'm afraid that we don't have plans to implement this page type. We previously offered a "Reviews" page type similar to this. However, we found it inherently wasn’t as effective or useful as dedicated review websites like Google Maps, HomeAdvisor, etc. Those have a substantially larger audience and practices in place to vet reviews.
Instead, we recommend using the “Forum” page type as a place for members to share their recommendations and experiences with vendors/contractors, realtors, or builders.
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Gary Simon
Meredith Owens: The general review sites are WAY too broad for us. Our focus is on realtors and builders that transact business, specifically in our subdivision. Where we list a directory of Recommended Realtors/Builders, we would love to have available Reviews at our members fingertips on our website as well. If you do not want to offer this, then fine but your suggestion of telling members to check Google Maps, HomeAdvisor, etc. is pretty much worthless for our purposes, Merideth.