Sudar Muthu

Displays the latest reviews of a WordPress Plugin in the sidebar.
<h3>Features</h3>
<h4>Sidebar Widget</h4>
The Plugin provides a sidebar widget which can be configured to display the latest reviews of a WordPress Plugin in the sidebar. You can have multiple widgets for different WordPress Plugins.
<h4>Template function</h4>
In addition to using the widget, you can also use the following template function to display the reviews of the WordPress Plugin, anywhere in the theme.
<pre><code>get_plugin_reviews($plugin, $count);
</code></pre>
The following options can be passed in the $options array
<ul>
<li>$plugin (string) – WordPress Plugin name. </li>
<li>count (int) – defualt 5 – Number of recent reviews to show</li>
</ul>
<h4>Caching</h4>
The Plugin caches the reviews that are retrieved for about 12 hours.
<h4>Styling using CSS</h4>
The Plugin adds the following CSS classes. If you want to customize the look of the widget then can change it by adding custom styles to these CSS classes.
<ul>
<li>The outer <code>div</code> tag has the class <code>plugin-review</code></li>
<li>The actual review text is enclosed in a <code>blockquote</code> tag with class <code>plugin-review-text</code></li>
<li>The author name is enclosed in a <code>span</code> tag with class <code>plugin-review-author</code> </li>
</ul>
<h3>Development</h3>
The development of the Plugin happens over at <a href="https://github.com/sudar/wp-plugin-reviews" rel="nofollow ugc">github</a>. If you want to contribute to the Plugin, fork the <a href="https://github.com/sudar/wp-plugin-reviews" rel="nofollow ugc">project at github</a> and send me a pull request.
If you are not familiar with either git or Github then refer to this <a href="http://sudarmuthu.com/blog/contributing-to-project-hosted-in-github" rel="nofollow ugc">guide to see how fork and send pull request</a>.
If you are looking for ideas, then you can start with one of the following TODO items 🙂
<h3>TODO</h3>
<ul>
<li>Pull Plugin name from custom field</li>
<li>Shortcode support</li>
<li>Added an option to display date</li>
<li>Make the output of widget content plugable</li>
</ul>
<h3>Support</h3>
<ul>
<li>If you have found a bug/issue or have a feature request, then post them in <a href="https://github.com/sudar/wp-plugin-reviews/issues" rel="nofollow ugc">github issues</a></li>
<li>If you have a question about usage or need help to troubleshoot, then post in WordPress forums or leave a comment in <a href="http://sudarmuthu.com/wordpress/wp-plugin-reviews" rel="nofollow ugc">Plugins’s home page</a></li>
<li>If you like the Plugin, then kindly leave a review/feedback at <a href="https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-plugin-reviews/" rel="ugc">WordPress repo page</a>.</li>
<li>If anything else, then contact me in <a href="http://twitter.com/sudarmuthu" rel="nofollow ugc">twitter</a>.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Troubleshooting</h3>
If you get timeouts or the error “WP HTTP Error: name lookup timed out” then it means that your server is not timing out before github can respond.
You can use the code from <a href="https://gist.github.com/sudar/4945588" rel="nofollow ugc">this gist</a> to increase the timeout.
<h3>Stay updated</h3>
I would be posting updates about this Plugin in my <a href="http://sudarmuthu.com/blog" rel="nofollow ugc">blog</a> and in <a href="http://twitter.com/sudarmuthu" rel="nofollow ugc">Twitter</a>. If you want to be informed when new version of this Plugin is released, then you can either subscribe to this <a href="http://sudarmuthu.com/feed" rel="nofollow ugc">blog’s RSS feed</a> or <a href="http://twitter.com/sudarmuthu" rel="nofollow ugc">follow me in Twitter</a>.
Also checkout the <a href="http://sudarmuthu.com/wordpress" rel="nofollow ugc">other WordPress Plugins</a> that I have created.
<h3>Translation</h3>
The pot file is available with the Plugin. If you are willing to do translation for the Plugin, use the pot file to create the .po files for your language and let me know. I will add it to the Plugin after giving credit to you.
<h3>Readme Generator</h3>
This Readme file was generated using <a href='http://sudarmuthu.com/wordpress/wp-readme' rel="nofollow ugc">wp-readme</a>, which generates readme files for WordPress Plugins.

WP Plugin Reviews

Displays the latest reviews of a WordPress Plugin in the sidebar.

Mostafa Shahiri

The Auto Rotator For Woocommerce Reviews is a simple widget to show Woocommerce reviews in a rotational style. You can set the options 
of this plugin to fetch the reviews of the products based on their categories, their tags or their authors. Also, it has different options to set 
the ordering type, length of the reviews, number of the reviews, etc. This plugin shows woocommerce reviews in the ratational style with fade and 
slide transitions. It is very flexible with customizable settings ( See screenshot images ).
Some Features of this plugin:
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Displaying reviews based on selected tags, categories and authors
</li>
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Rotating style with fade and slide transitions
</li>
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Easy to use
</li>
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Customizable settings
</li>
<li>
Limiting the number of reviews
</li>
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Ordering reviews based on post created date, comment created date, post rating, comment rating, reviews count, total sales and product price.
</li>
<li>
Limiting the length of reviews
</li>
<li>
Custom text for readmore links.
</li>
<li>
Using a pretty style for displaying the items.
</li>
<li>
Loading reviews after loading page by using AJAX method. (It has been added to version 2.0)
Settings of the Widget:
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Title: A title for widget.Leave it empty if you don’t like to show the title.
</li>
<li>
Tags: Fetch the reviews of the posts contain selected tags.
</li>
<li>
Categories: Select some categories to fetch reviews of their posts.
</li>
<li>
Authors: If the authors of the posts are selected users, then fetch posts reviews.
</li>
<li>
Count: Number of reviews are shown at first before loading more reviews.
</li>
<li>
Limit Review Length: Number of words for truncating posts descriptions.
</li>
<li>
Order By: Ordering type.
</li>
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Order: Determine to order reviews ascending or descending.
</li>
<li>
Readmore Text: A text for readmore button.
</li>
<li>
Width and height for avatar image.
</li>
<li>
Transition Type: Fade or Slide.
</li>
</ol>
Other options are used for showing or hiding reviews items.
To edit CSS codes:
Important CSS classes:
.arfwr_infoblock: The CSS class for the container of text element.( If you don’t like to show avatars, change it’s width value)
.arfwravatar: The CSS class for container of avatar image.
.arfwrauthor: The CSS class for author span.
.arfwremail: The CSS class for email span.
.arfwrdate: The CSS class for date span.
.star-rating: The CSS class for rating stars.
.arfwrlink: The CSS class container for post link and it’s text.
.simple_display p: You can style the reviews text with this.
.arfwr_readmore: The CSS class for read more link.
.arfwr_load: The CSS class for load more button.
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Auto Rotator For Woocommerce Reviews

The Auto Rotator For Woocommerce Reviews is a simple widget to show Woocommerce reviews in a rotational style.

WP Plugin Reviews vs Auto Rotator For Woocommerce Reviews