CritiquePlus Comparator

CritiquePlus Comparator helps publishers and businesses create, organize and
publish structured comparisons without requiring an external account.

Features include:

• Product and comparison libraries.
• Reusable public comparison layouts.
• Manual comparison criteria, scores, advantages, disadvantages and FAQs.
• Affiliate-link attributes, transparency notices and optional link checking.
• CSV, JSON and XML import tools.
• CSV and JSON exports plus complete backups.
• Optional local, anonymous views and affiliate-click statistics.
• Product, Review, ItemList, FAQPage and BreadcrumbList structured data.
• Compatibility foundations for Rank Math, Yoast SEO and All in One SEO.

The free plugin is fully functional without an account, licence key, paid
subscription or connection to CritiquePlus. CritiquePlus Comparator Pro is a
separate optional add-on. No premium executable code is included in this
WordPress.org package.

The plugin does not install sample products or publish demonstration content
when it is activated.

CritiquePlus Comparator Pro

CritiquePlus Comparator Pro is a separate, optional add-on for publishers who
need more advanced comparison workflows. It requires the free plugin and is
distributed outside WordPress.org.

The Pro add-on provides:

• Personalized product recommendation calculators.
• Dedicated side-by-side Versus pages.
• An integrated AI assistant for supported editorial workflows.
• Guided setup and publishing workflows.
• Additional advanced tools for managing comparison projects.

The free edition remains fully functional without a CritiquePlus account,
licence key or paid subscription. No Pro executable code is included in the
WordPress.org package.

Learn more about the optional Pro add-on at
https://app.critiqueplus.com/plugins/critiqueplus-comparator

Privacy

Anonymous statistics and affiliate-click tracking are disabled by default.
When an administrator explicitly enables them, event information is stored
locally in WordPress. The plugin does not store visitor IP addresses, raw user
agents or visitor cookies in its statistics tables.

No analytics information is transmitted to CritiquePlus.

External services

CritiquePlus Comparator does not contact CritiquePlus servers automatically
and does not require a CritiquePlus account. Help and Upgrade links open only
after an administrator chooses them.

The plugin can contact another website in the following administrator-initiated
or administrator-enabled situations:

• Remote import: the plugin requests a CSV, JSON, XML or API URL entered by an
  administrator. An optional API key is sent only to that configured URL.
• Affiliate-link verification: the plugin requests a saved destination to read
  its HTTP availability status. The destination can receive the WordPress
  server IP address and link-checker user agent as part of the normal request.
• Affiliate navigation: a visitor who chooses an affiliate button is sent to
  the destination configured by the site administrator.

No personal visitor information is sent to CritiquePlus by these operations.