Good plug-in but missing some important features

I use this plug-in with the Bookrev Lite and I am quite positive about it. However, I did not stick to the last version, because 1. I don’t appreciate the style but 2. and way more important: some part of the design fell away, parts of the plug-in showed up where they shouldn’t be and the total grade was only shown as half a circle, with only a quarter or even nothing of the grade showing. My review is mostly based on the version before this one.

So why did I delete it, then reinstalled and then set my settings on manually so I could keep the old one, instead of asking for support here? Well, I keep having problems like that with this Bookrev template and only -except for one – with their own products. But I have asked for support for two times already and then they tell me they do not help with customization and to basically hire a designer. But this has nothing to do with customization, but with actual problems within their own products that even some external designers could not fix. Like widgets running over each other, widgets that don’t do what they’re supposed to do.

And I really appreciate designers offering such great products for free, especially if they work, but I think it is also strange that you don’t offer support when something is actually wrong. Now I either had to stop using part of the template, except that some things just don’t work and pay for a designer that created an emergency solution in the css and forced the widgets ‘straight’. Again, that is not customization but an issue. And I think that is a waste because I could have given both the template and this plug-in easily five stars and recommendations all over the Internet (Plus I would have bought the Pro), if only they would have been a little more helpful in looking at the template problems I had. I still want to keep using it, because it is one of the better looking templates I have ever seen and one of the better working I have ever used. That doesn’t change. But, I don’t feel comfortable updating the plug-in because I’m afraid it won’t work again and my whole site is screwed up again shouldn’t be the case of course.

So back to the plug-in, why are you missing one star?
Well, it would be very nice to offer readers more than one button that they can click on on to go to a webshop for the buy button. So that admins cannot only use Amazon but also other bookshops. But what is more important, is that currently there is no option for no follow. That means that if I use affiliate links my site will be punished by Google in page ranking for using this part of the plugin. They (google) might have said otherwise but people who specialize in SEO say this is still an issue. It will also be great if the affiliate link could not only have the no follow option but also opens in a new window. Those would be my suggestions to improve on this plug-in I’m currently using.

I would welcome any suggestions the designers have to solve this problem for now. If these two features could be added and the issue with showing only half of the grades and other mess up design I might update the whole plug-in review and give it a five-star. I rarely give negative reviews and I really didn’t enjoy giving the critique I did in this one.