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<p>EffortLess Simple Reviews Editor lets visitors submit reviews (pending admin approval) and displays published reviews in a responsive card grid with infinite scroll.</p>
<p><strong>Features:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Front-end review submission form with star rating, name, title, and review text fields</li>
<li>Admin approval workflow — all submissions are set to “Pending”</li>
<li>Responsive card grid with configurable columns</li>
<li>Infinite scroll (IntersectionObserver) for seamless loading</li>
<li>Spam protection: honeypot field + rate limiting (1 submission per 60 s)</li>
<li>Accessible star rating with keyboard navigation</li>
<li>One-time-use review links — send unique links to clients</li>
<li>Programmatic link generation via <code>elsre_create_review_link()</code></li>
<li>No external dependencies — pure CSS stars, vanilla JavaScript</li>
<li>i18n ready — <code>.pot</code> translation template included</li>
</ul>
<h3>Shortcodes</h3>
<h4>[elsre_reviews] — Display Reviews Grid</h4>
<p>Place this shortcode on any page or post to display published reviews.</p>
<p>Attributes:</p>
<ul>
<li><code>per_page</code> (default: <code>6</code>) — Reviews per load batch</li>
<li><code>columns</code> (default: <code>3</code>) — Grid columns on desktop (1–6)</li>
<li><code>ids</code> (default: empty) — Comma-separated review IDs; disables pagination</li>
<li><code>order</code> (default: <code>desc</code>) — Sort order: <code>desc</code> for newest first, <code>asc</code> for oldest first</li>
<li><code>star_size</code> (default: <code>18px</code>) — Star icon size (any CSS unit)</li>
<li><code>text_size</code> (default: <code>15px</code>) — Review text font size</li>
<li><code>name_size</code> (default: <code>14px</code>) — Reviewer name font size</li>
</ul>
<p>Examples:</p>
<pre><code>[elsre_reviews]
[elsre_reviews per_page="9" columns="3"]
[elsre_reviews ids="12,45,78" columns="2"]
[elsre_reviews star_size="28px" text_size="18px" name_size="16px"]
</code></pre>
<h4>[elsre_form] — Review Submission Form</h4>
<p>Place this shortcode on any page or post to display the submission form.</p>
<p>Attributes:</p>
<ul>
<li><code>require_token</code> (default: <code>no</code>) — Set to <code>yes</code> to require a one-time-use link token</li>
<li><code>star_size</code> (default: <code>32px</code>) — Star icon size in the rating picker</li>
</ul>
<p>Examples:</p>
<pre><code>[elsre_form]
[elsre_form require_token="yes"]
[elsre_form star_size="48px"]<h3>One-Time Review Links</h3>
</code></pre>
<p>1. Create a page with <code>[elsre_form require_token="yes"]</code>.<br />
2. Go to <strong>Reviews <span aria-hidden="true" class="wp-exclude-emoji">→</span> Review Links</strong> in the admin.<br />
3. Click <strong>Generate Link</strong> (optionally add a label for your reference).<br />
4. Copy the link and send it to your client.</p>
<p>Each link works only once. After the client submits their review, the link is marked as used.</p>
<h3>Developer Integration</h3>
<p>Generate review links programmatically from your own plugin or theme:</p>
<pre><code>$link = elsre_create_review_link( 'client@example.com' );
$link = elsre_create_review_link( 'client@example.com', 'John Doe', 42 );
</code></pre>
<ul>
<li>First parameter: client email (unique identifier — reuses existing unused token if found)</li>
<li>Second parameter: optional label for admin reference</li>
<li>Third parameter: optional page ID containing <code>[elsre_form]</code> (auto-detected if omitted)</li>
<li>Returns the full URL with token, or empty string if no form page found</li>
</ul>
<p>Check availability before calling: <code>function_exists( 'elsre_create_review_link' )</code></p>
<h3>Admin Pages</h3>
<h4>Reviews List (Dashboard <span aria-hidden="true" class="wp-exclude-emoji">→</span> Reviews)</h4>
<p>All submitted reviews are listed here as a standard WordPress post list.<br />
Extra columns show the key review data at a glance:</p>
<pre><code>┌──────────────┬────────┬──────────────┬─────────────┬────────────┐
│ Title        │ Rating │ Reviewer     │ Date        │ Status     │
├──────────────┼────────┼──────────────┼─────────────┼────────────┤
│ Great hotel! │ ★★★★★  │ Jane Doe     │ 2026-03-01  │ Pending    │
│ Good service │ ★★★★☆  │ John Smith   │ 2026-02-28  │ Published  │
└──────────────┴────────┴──────────────┴─────────────┴────────────┘
</code></pre>
<p>Publish a review to make it appear on the front end. Leave it as Pending to<br />
keep it hidden until you have reviewed it.</p>
<h4>Review Edit Screen</h4>
<p>Each review has a <strong>Review Details</strong> meta box below the title field:</p>
<pre><code>┌─────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ REVIEW DETAILS                          │
├──────────────┬──────────────────────────┤
│ Reviewer Name│ Jane Doe                 │
│ Review Title │ Perfect weekend getaway! │
│ Rating       │ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★               │
│ Review Text  │ Fantastic experience...  │
│ Review Date  │ 2026-03-01               │
└──────────────┴──────────────────────────┘
</code></pre>
<p>The star picker is fully keyboard-accessible (arrow keys, Enter, Space).</p>
<h4>Review Links Page (Dashboard <span aria-hidden="true" class="wp-exclude-emoji">→</span> Reviews <span aria-hidden="true" class="wp-exclude-emoji">→</span> Review Links)</h4>
<p>Generate one-time-use links to send to specific clients:</p>
<pre><code>┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ GENERATE NEW LINK                                            │
│  Client Email  [client@example.com          ]               │
│  Label         [e.g. John's booking         ]  (optional)   │
│  Form Page     [Leave a Review ▾            ]               │
│                [ Generate Link ]                            │
└──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ ALL LINKS                                                            │
├──────────────┬───────────┬────────┬────────────┬────────┬───────────┤
│ Email        │ Label     │ Status │ Created    │ Used   │ Actions   │
├──────────────┼───────────┼────────┼────────────┼────────┼───────────┤
│ jane@...     │ Jane Doe  │ Active │ 2026-03-01 │ —      │ Copy Link │
│ john@...     │ John Smith│ Used   │ 2026-02-28 │ Mar 01 │ Expired   │
└──────────────┴───────────┴────────┴────────────┴────────┴───────────┘
</code></pre>
<p>After generating, a success banner shows the link ready to copy:</p>
<pre><code>┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ ✓  Link generated! Send this link to your client:           │
│   https://example.com/review/?elsre_token=abc123  [ Copy ] │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
</code></pre>


EffortLess Simple Reviews Editor

A simple reviews system with front-end submission, admin approval, and responsive card grid display with infinite scroll.

dpowney

<p>A powerful post rating / review system plugin for WordPress with a niche of doing multi ratings better than anyone else. Easily add 5 star ratings to your posts.</p>
<p>Check out <a href="https://multiratingpro.com/demo-page-free?utm_source=view-demo&utm_medium=free-plugin&utm_campaign=readme" rel="nofollow ugc">the demo</a>.</p>
<h4>Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Rate posts based on different criteria with <strong>star ratings</strong>, select and radio buttons</li>
<li>Compatible with both the Classic editor and new <strong>Gutenberg</strong> editor</li>
<li>Adds <strong>Google review snippets</strong> to improve SEO (JSON-LD)</li>
<li>Integrates JSON-LD structured data with WordPress SEO (Yoast) and WooCommerce plugins</li>
<li>Use <strong>Font Awesome</strong> icons or upload custom images intead</li>
<li>Several <strong>Gutenberg blocks</strong>, shortcodes and widgets available</li>
<li>Can apply different <strong>weights</strong> to rating items to adjust results</li>
<li>Can <strong>automatically add</strong> the rating form and rating result to post content</li>
<li><strong>i18n translation ready</strong> for multilingual sites</li>
<li>In-built <strong>template system</strong> to customize the HTML presentation</li>
<li>Access ratings through the WordPress <strong>REST API</strong></li>
<li>Can export rating entries to CSV</li>
<li>Can edit rating details from WP-admin</li>
<li>Style options for stars icon colors</li>
</ul>
<h4>Shortcodes</h4>
<ul>
<li>[mr_rating_form] – displays the rating form.</li>
<li>[mr_rating_result] – displays the overall rating result.</li>
<li>[mr_rating_results_list] – displays a list of post ratings.</li>
</ul>
<p>Shortcode examples:</p>
<ul>
<li>[mr_rating_form title=”Please rate this” submit_button_text=”Submit”]</li>
<li>[mr_rating_result post_id=”100″ no_rating_results_text=”No rating result yet”]</li>
<li>[mr_rating_results_list title=”Top Ratings” sort_by=”highest_rated” limit=”10″]</li>
<li>[mr_rating_results_list title=”Ratings” sort_by=”most_entries” limit=”5″]</li>
</ul>
<h4>Premium Version</h4>
<p>Looking for some more advanced functionality? The <a href="https://multiratingpro.com?utm_source=pro-version&utm_medium=free-plugin&utm_campaign=readme&utm_content=top" rel="nofollow ugc">Multi Rating Pro</a> version provides a significant additional feature set, including:</p>
<ul>
<li>Create multiple rating forms</li>
<li>Ratings moderation (approve or unapprove rating entries)</li>
<li>WordPress comment ratings</li>
<li>E-mail notifications for new rating entries</li>
<li>Show text labels for rating item options instead of numbers</li>
<li>Bayesian average ratings</li>
<li>Add common review fields (title, name, e-mail and comments)</li>
<li>Add custom fields to collect additional information</li>
<li>Display rating entry details in a review layout</li>
<li>Display rating item results in a poll / bar chart layout</li>
<li>Extra shortcodes, widgets & Gutenerg blocks (i.e. reviews, dashboard of user ratings and detailed rating item results)</li>
<li>Logged in users can update or delete their existing ratings</li>
<li>Override the rating form to be used on specific posts, URLs, post types, post ids, taxonomies, terms etc…</li>
<li>Options to exclude the home page, search page and archive pages (e.g. category)</li>
<li>Includes a thumbs up / thumbs down rating item type (e.g. like or dislike)</li>
<li>Option to only allow ratings from logged in users</li>
<li>Google reCAPTCHA validation (add-on)</li>
<li>Gravity Forms integration (add-on)</li>
<li>And much much more…</li>
</ul>


Multi Rating

A powerful post rating / review system plugin for WordPress. Easily add 5 star ratings to your posts.

EffortLess Simple Reviews Editor vs Multi Rating