If you review courses on your website, you might need to display summary boxes of your review giving your readers a quick overview of the course.
You can do this by adding a review box to your post which will not only improve the user experience but also help you perform better on search engines.
In this article, I’ll show you how to add course reviews in WordPress in just a matter of a few clicks. By the end of this tutorial, you’ll be able to display beautiful review boxes for courses and also optimize them to improve your Google rankings.
Let’s get started.
How to Add Course Reviews in WordPress
You can add course reviews in WordPress in many different ways. However, the method I recommend is using the Ultimate Blocks WordPress plugin.
Ultimate Blocks is a Gutenberg blocks plugin and it comes with a Review block that lets you add beautiful review boxes to your content. The block also supports schema which can help you perform better on search engines as well.
Here are the step-by-step instructions on how to add course reviews in WordPress using the Ultimate Blocks plugin.
Step 1. Install Ultimate Blocks WordPress Plugin
The first step is to install the Ultimate Blocks plugin. Since it’s a free plugin, you can directly install it from your WordPress dashboard.
Open your WordPress dashboard and go to Plugins > Add New. On this page, search for ‘Ultimate Blocks’ and install the first plugin that comes up as shown in the screenshot below. Once installed, activate the plugin on your website.
Step 2. Insert Review Block
Now, go to the post where you want to add your course review. Edit this post and click on the (+) icon to add a new block. Search for the ‘Review’’ block and insert it into your post.
Step 3. Insert Course Review Information into the Block
After you’ve added the Review block, fill it up by adding the information about the course. You can add the course title, description, features, image, rating, and more.
Here’s an example of how the review block could look like when all the information is added:
Step 4. Set Course Schema
Once you’ve added the course information to the review block, it’s time to set up the schema. By setting up the proper schema for the review block, you’re essentially telling search engines that your post is a course review.
By doing that, search engines like Google would display additional information on your post listing such as star ratings, reviewer’s name, and more.
To add schema to the block, select the Review block and click on the Block tab in the right sidebar. This opens the review block’s settings. Click on the Review schema tab which opens the schema settings for the block. Here, set the ‘Item Type’ to Course from the options available in the dropdown.
Once you’ve set the schema type to Course, you’ll be able to add additional information such as course reviewer, course provider, review date, and more.
Step 5. Customize The Review Block (Optional)
Finally, you can optionally customize your review block to make it more appealing and coherent with your website’s design and branding.
You can change the rating type from a star rating to a percentage rating for the course review.
Moreover, you can add multiple CTA buttons or customize the existing CTA button with your affiliate links.
Another feature in the Review block is the ability to add Pros and Cons. This can be very helpful for course reviews as you can display both the good and bad aspects of the course you’re reviewing.
Finally, click on the Style tab in the review block and you’ll find many customization options such as text size, colors, spacing, and more.
Overall, you can customize the review block a lot from the various customization options available in the plugin.
Conclusion
So, that’s how you can add course reviews in WordPress using the Ultimate Blocks plugin and display beautiful review boxes for your readers.
With the Review block in the Ultimate Blocks plugin, you can finally ditch all the other options such as using custom HTML code or relying on shortcodes for adding review boxes. This method of using a review block is simple, fast, and gives you a lot of customizability.
If you have any questions about this tutorial or need help with using the Ultimate Blocks plugin, feel free to ask your questions in the comments section below.
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