- Full text reviews for your products
- Option to have ratings with reviews, or just text reviews alone
- Add any number of rating systems (stars, text, yes/no fields etc.)
- Flexible rating scoring systems - why stick with the standard 1-5 stars?
- Have different ratings systems for different categories
- Optionally choose whether to have rating systems inherit to subcategories, or have a completely separate ratings system for subcategories
- Display your Censura reviews and ratings on other sites via Censura API and RSS feeds
Censura features
Typically, listings are of a "product" nature (e.g. book reviews, consumer product reviews - electronics, hardware, etc.), however Censura can easily be used for non-product items, such as restaurant reviews, movie reviews, music reviews, and even people reviews. With Censura's felxibility, the choice is yours!
reviews and ratings features
user features
- Browse using search engine friendly URLs
- Browse products by category, vendor or series
- Sort categories by vendor, product title, date, reviews and average rating
- Browse vendors and see all products belonging to that vendor
- Browse series and see all products within that series
- Review and rate products
- Submit new categories, vendors, products and series to expand your site
- Search by keyword
- Review products within your Censura reviews site
- Rate products on whatever ratings systems the site administrators choose
- Rate items on pre-defined rating scores created by the site administrators
- Edit or delete their own reviews (if allowed to)
- Censura can use the membership details from popular community forum software including vBulletin v3.5+, phpBB (incl phpBB 3), Invision Power Board, and SMF
administrative features
- Web-based installation and upgrade scripts - no SSH access or complex configuration files
- Runs on a shared virtual hosting account and can scale to dedicated servers for high traffic sites
- Template-driven approach - all look & feel aspects of Censura are customizable
- Full control over search engine friendly URLs - simple to update with minimal fuss
- Language and phrases are customisable - Censura is UTF-8 multilingual!
- Unlimited number of product categories and subcategories, all managed hierarchically
- Products can belong to more than one vendor, category or series
- Multiple images per product, vendor, category and series
- Automatic image thumbnail generation with lightbox effect for viewing images
- Easily manage your database via the admin interface.
- Amazon Import Module! You can quickly and easily search/browse items at Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk, and import them directly into your review site!
- Browse user-suggested items, vendors and products - choose whether to approve or reject the suggestions
- Customizable rating fields, on a per product category basis each category of products can have its own unique set of rating fields.
- Confugration options to allow or disallow guests to make suggestions and add new reviews
- Option to moderate new suggestions and reviews before they go live on your site
- Censura API - display Censura data on other parts of your website using simple PHP tags as part of your HTML markup.
- Custom item-level attributes - want to display more data about an item than the standard fields? Not a problem with Censura's attributes fields, customisable on a per-category level
- Content Feeds - RSS syndicated content feeds of your review data.
technical features
- Written in PHP5 with a powerful object-orientated codebase for speed, security and efficiency
- Backed by a registered UK company dedicated to Censura's continued support and development
- 99% visiible source code - only one file is encoded to enforce licensing
- Complete separation of code logic from database logic from display logic allowing non-technical administrators to easily customise the look and feel of Censura without having to understand PHP code
