This plugins allows you to bring Review Engine reviews into your WordPress site via a shortcode and review slider widget.
| Author: | RedbrickDigital.net (profile at wordpress.org) |
| WordPress version required: | 3.5.1 |
| WordPress version tested: | 5.8.9 |
| Plugin version: | 1.2.3 |
| Added to WordPress repository: | 07-07-2016 |
| Last updated: | 28-03-2024 |
| Rating, %: | 0 |
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| Total downloads: | 2 820 |
| Active installs: | 30+ |
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This plugins allows you to bring Review Engine reviews into your WordPress site via shortcodes and widget.
You must have a Review Engine account to use this plugin.
Plugin Initialization
To enable the shortcodes and widgets, first go to the RBD Core menu item that’s in the left-hand admin menu. Place the URL of your Review Engine in the Review Engine URL text input, and then hit the Save Changes button.
Configuring the Review Engine Display Shortcode/Widget
Now go into any Page, Post, or Custom Post Type that has a content editor. You’ll now have an Add Review Engine Display button next to Add Media. Click on that to access the shortcode editing popup.
URL: Place the desired Review Engine URL here.
Threshold: Set this to 3, 4, or 5 stars to grab published reviews at and above that threshold.
Service: Choose which service category to grab reviews from, default “All”.
Staff: Query against reviews with this staff member, default “All”.
Location: Query against reviews from this location, default “All”.
Limit Characters: Choose how many characters will show before the Read More link appears (if above the character limit).
Reviews Per Page: Choose how many reviews show before the Show More Reviews button appears (if you have more reviews than are returned).
Max Columns: Determine how many columns of reviews there are.
Hide X: Choose to hide some Meta Data.
Disable 3d: Will disabled the 3d hover effects.
Click the Insert Into {Post Type} button and then click publish or update.
Configuring the Review Slider Widget
In your Appearance > Widgets page, there is a Review Slider widget. Drag that into the widget area you’d like to display the slider on. You may have more than one slider on a page if you wish.
Title: Give the widget an optional title.
Review Engine URL: Your Review Engine’s URL. Note: This is predefined, but can be changed.
Threshold: Set this to 3, 4, or 5 stars to grab published reviews at and above that threshold.
Review Count: Choose how many reviews will be in the slider.
Character Count: Choose how many characters will show before the Read More link appears (if above the character limit).
Service: Choose which service category to grab reviews from, default “All”.
Staff: Query against reviews with this staff member, default “All”.
Location: Query against reviews from this location, default “All”.
Hide X: Hide the relevant meta data
Slider Speed: Will adjust the slider’s speed, showing each slider for the desired amount of seconds.
Screenshots
Creating a Review Engine Shortcode for a page, post, or custom post type.
Using the Review Slider widget in a sidebar widget area.
“I don’t see the shortcode button or widget, where are they?“
Make sure you’ve put a Review Engine URL into the RBD Core admin page!
1.2.1
1.2
- added review source icons to review titles
1.0.2
- Fixed issues with Subdirectory URLs when calling the Review Engine API
1.0.1
- The Review Engine Display shortcode has been radically improved.
- Bootstrap (Cutestrap) has been removed entirely.
- The Columns layout has been updated to CSS Grid. Flex Grid is built in as well (but not currently utilized)
- The Header has been changed to include a Review Breakdown.
- Read More now asynchronously loads the additional review content.
- The “Read More Reviews” button is now a “Load More Reviews” button that asynchronously loads reviews.
- A new widget has been added that utilizes the Review Engine Display shortcode features.
- The Review Slider widget has been radically improved.
- Animation has been smoothed by dropping reliance on jQuery, unslider, and range slider.
- Speed options now have a number in seconds instead of a range slider percent.
- The Social Proof Widget has been radically improved.
- No more themes.
- The Aggregate Score and Review Totals now speak for themselves without being verbose.
- General Improvements.
- We use SVG icons in place of alt-code text based stars.
- There’s no longer dependence on any jQuery plugins, or even jQuery itself.
- Removed dependence on Bootstrap.
- Increase animation smoothness.
- Utilize Ajax/XHR requests to load Review Engine API data asynchronously.
0.9.6.2
- Verification kept failing for some reason. That has been temporarily disabled.
0.9.6.1
- Allow the file
cutestrap.css to be disabled on themes it interferes with.
0.9.6
- Added a new theme to the Widget “Social Proof” called Minimal, for a sleeker look.
- Performs a Verification Check to make sure insallers have access to a Review Engine.
- Performs a check to see if Advanced Review Funnels are enabled.
0.9.4
- Finalized removal of Schema to comply with Google’s standards.
- Enabled Gravatars on reviews by default, if applicable.
- Added the started phase of a HIPAA Compliant mode. This mode forcefully removes Gravatars and replaces names with “Anonymous” and includes a simple pop-up on hover explaining it’s for HIPAA Compliance.
0.9.3.3
- Minor modifications to layouts.
- Removed Schema to comply with Google’s new standards of marking up Third Party Reviews.
0.9.3.2
- Changed Box-Sizing to allow proper column layouts in Cutestrap.
0.9.3.1
- Shrunk Bootstrap 4.0.0-alpha.3 into new Cutestrap.
0.9.3
- Replaced Cutestrap (based on Bootstrap 3) with Bootstrap 4, Alpha 3.
0.9.2
- Replaced file_get_contents() for API calls with custom function that uses cURL. Sites not on our server cluster were freezing on API calls.
0.9.1.1
- Enabled basic debug features via query string. “debug=api / url=[URL HERE], debug=transient url=[URL HERE] delete=true, debug=phpinfo”
0.9.1
- Broke Write a Review and Show More Reviews buttons, now fixed.
0.9.0.1
- Backwards Compatibility for Review Engine Shortcode “Per Page” parameter
0.9.0
- Refactored Widgets into sub-directories
- Wrapped all review based widgets and shortcodes in Schema Markup
- Made Review Engine Display transient salt much less stupid.
0.8.9
- Some under-the-hood changes to plugin layout and commenting have increased standards.
- Added Schema Markup to the Review Engine Display shortcode.
- Increased compatibility with Upper Right widget area.
- Increated compatibility with theme colors.
- Changed display styles of all Review Engine Display and Review Slider buttons.
- Note: This is a temporary release, and is not mandatory. If you’d like Schema on all widgets, please wait for the 0.9.0 update.
0.8.3
- An additional commit, also updated ReadMe.txt’s additional section.
0.8.2.1
- Fixed RBD Core menu item not showing up on non-multisite installations.
0.8.2
- Enabled image assets, included Social Proof widget.
- TODO: Make all Review items (Shortcodes and Widgets) follow Schema.
0.8.1
- Official Beta Release
- Prevented unpublished URLs from being returned in API calls.
- Converted to Review Engine API v2
- Unlocked more options in the Shortcode and Widget
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0.9.4
- Upgrade to latest version is urgent and strongly advised.
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0.9.0
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