Sudar Muthu

<p>Displays the latest reviews of a WordPress Plugin in the sidebar.</p>
<h3>Features</h3>
<h4>Sidebar Widget</h4>
<p>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.</p>
<h4>Template function</h4>
<p>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.</p>
<pre><code>get_plugin_reviews($plugin, $count);
</code></pre>
<p>The following options can be passed in the $options array</p>
<ul>
<li>$plugin (string) – WordPress Plugin name. </li>
<li>count (int) – defualt 5 –  Number of recent reviews to show</li>
</ul>
<h4>Caching</h4>
<p>The Plugin caches the reviews that are retrieved for about 12 hours.</p>
<h4>Styling using CSS</h4>
<p>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.</p>
<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>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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>.</p>
<p>If you are looking for ideas, then you can start with one of the following TODO items 🙂</p>
<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>
<p>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.</p>
<p>You can use the code from <a href="https://gist.github.com/sudar/4945588" rel="nofollow ugc">this gist</a> to increase the timeout.</p>
<h3>Stay updated</h3>
<p>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>.</p>
<p>Also checkout the <a href="http://sudarmuthu.com/wordpress" rel="nofollow ugc">other WordPress Plugins</a> that I have created.</p>
<h3>Translation</h3>
<p>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.</p>
<h3>Readme Generator</h3>
<p>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.</p>


WP Plugin Reviews

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

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.

WP Plugin Reviews vs Multi Rating