Chapter 1 WidgetFactory Overview & Installation

The WidgetFactory add-on for JReviews allows you to create remote widgets with listing information that publishers will place on their websites and drive traffic to your site. The add-on can also track widget impressions and clicks on links in the widget.

1.1 Widget Types

There are two types of widgets:

Many listings - displays multiple listings in a widget (i.e. List of top rated listing, listings in a specific category, etc.). Example:

One listing - displays a single listing (i.e. listing information with reviews and photo gallery). Example:

Both types of widgets have many parameters to choose to control the information shown and its layout. Some of the parameters can be customized by publishers as well. Widgets can be further customized by modifying their theme files.

1.2 Widget Statistics

The add-on is capable of tracking widget impressions and clicks (if enabled in the configuration) and on the add-on Summary page you can see impressions and clicks charts:

On the add-on Statistics page you can find detailed statistics of widgets, source sites, referrer page and target pages:

1.3 WidgetFactory Installation

The add-on can be installed via the Install & Update menu in the JReviews administration.

To install or update the addon you must have previously purchased it, your JReviews version needs to match or be greater than the one specified for the addon and you must have a valid "Upgrades & Support" package for your JReviews license.

If you purchased the addon, but it still says "addon not active for this license", go to the JReviews admin license screen, clear the local key text area and re-submit the license number. This will fetch a new local key that includes the addon information.

On the Install & Update page, check the Updates checkbox, and click on the Install button next to the WidgetFactory Add-on like on this image:

Reload the page to see the WidgetFactory link appear under the Add-ons header on the left sidebar: