• Resolved tarheel83169

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    I realize this plugin is named “Author” hReview but the default function of adding the authors name and then also adding the same name for “reviewed by” just didn’t work for me. So I found the fix in case you also want to display a different name for author and reviewer.

    Go to your plugins editor. Navigate to Author hReview files and click on the file named author-hreview/include/review_template.php

    Search for the following code:

    $box .= '<div class="clear_space"></div><div class="hr"><hr /></div>';
                		$box .= '<div>Reviewed by: <span class="reviewer author byline vcard hcard">';
    					$box .= '<span class="author me fn" itemprop="author">' . $review_author .'</span></span></div>';

    Modify that code to this:

    $box .= '<div class="clear_space"></div><div class="hr"><hr /></div>';
                		$box .= '<div>Reviewed by: NAME</div>';

    …. replacing NAME with the actual name you wish to appear site wide as your reviewer.

    I know this doesn’t work for everyone, but if you are publishing standard articles the last thing your readers want to see is a 1,000 word article written by john doe and then an additional review written by john doe. The review process should be left to the editor, etc. This fix allows you to designate who the site reviewer is.

    You can see this in action on my scientific conspiracy blog.

    As a note, I’m not sure how this will effect the way the info displays in google search results. Typically search engines display the stars and “reviewed by NAME” just beside the stars. Hopefully this fix will also show the same “reviewed by” in search results.

    https://wordpress.org/plugins/author-hreview/

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  • Thread Starter tarheel83169

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    update: I checked the search results in google after this fix and the “review by” name displayed beside the stars in search results reverts to the authors name – not the name of the actual reviewer, so the fix is limited to what readers see on the actual article page – not in search results.

    Thread Starter tarheel83169

    (@tarheel83169)

    UPDATE: don’t to this if your intention is getting the stars into google search results. After some time I checked and it definitely did break the hentry markup for author resulting in no stars in search results. It also caused errors in my webmaster tools reporting.

    If your only concern is the way it appears on your site then this fix is fine.

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