Plugin info

Total downloads: 22,792
Active installs: 1,000
Total reviews: 5
Average rating: 3.8
Support threads opened: 0
Support threads resolved: 0 (0%)
Available in: 2 language(s)
Contributors: 4
Last updated: 7/18/2024 (531 days ago)
Added to WordPress: 4/6/2017 (8 years old)
Minimum WordPress version: 6.0.0
Tested up to WordPress version: 6.5.7
Minimum PHP version: 8.0

Maintenance & Compatibility

Maintenance score

Possibly abandoned • Last updated 531 days ago • 5 reviews

28/100

Is SV Proven Expert abandoned?

Possibly abandoned (last update 531 days ago).

Compatibility

Requires WordPress: 6.0.0
Tested up to: 6.5.7
Requires PHP: 8.0

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Description

Requires:

  • CuRL PHP extension
  • Proven Expert PLUS plan or higher

Service Description

ProvenExpert is a service for company reviews. A key feature (“PLUS” plan required) is showing the company review stars on your website. These will be retrieved from different review-providers like Google, Facebook etc.

Plugin Description

This plugin is build to show review stars retrieved via ProvenExpert on your site – additionally this enables review stars of your website’s entries in Google’s search engine result pages.

Team

Missing a feature?

Please use the plugin support forum here on WordPress.org. We will add your wish – if achievable – on our todo list. Please note that we can not give any time estimate for that list or any feature request.

Paid Services

Nevertheless, feel free to contact our WordPress Agency if you have any of the following needs:

  • get a customization
  • get a feature rapidly / on time
  • get a custom WordPress plugin or theme developed to exactly fit your needs.

Installation

This plugin is build to work out-of-the-box. Installation is quite simple.

  1. Upload sv-provenexpert-directory to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory
  2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
  3. Register a free account on ProvenExpert.com – you can try out this feature 30 days for free.
  4. Insert Api Keys in plugin settings – see menu entry “straightvisions” in WP-Admin
  5. Add the block, widget or shortcode [sv_proven_expert] somewhere in your wordpress.
  6. You are using a caching plugin? Don’t forget to flush caches now.

ProvenExpert WordPress Plugin Docs are available in English and German.

Frequently Asked Questions

Is this plugin for free?

This plugin is for free and licensed to GPL.
It’s open source following the GPL policy.

How can I revert all changes or reset the plugin?

This plugin brings an uninstall routine. Just deactivate plugin on plugin listing page in WP-Admin and after that, click on “delete” will completely remove all database entries and files generated through this plugin.

Does this plugin calls to another server?

Yes. As ProvenExpert is a service in the cloud, it is absolutely required to call the ProvenExpert.com API server to get the required data. The plugin will refresh it’s cached data once a day.

Can I change style of review stars on website?

You can change the style via CSS, e.g. in your theme’s style.css.

Review feed

No reviews available

Screenshots

  1. Result: Review Stars in Google SERP entries

    Result: Review Stars in Google SERP entries

  2. Result: Review Stars on your Website

    Result: Review Stars on your Website

  3. Settings in WordPress

    Settings in WordPress

  4. Result: Review Stars in machine readable format for Google

    Result: Review Stars in machine readable format for Google

Changelog

2.0.06

  • Core Update

2.0.05

  • Core Update

2.0.04

  • Core Update

2.0.03

  • Core Update

2.0.02

  • fix W3C-HTML-Compatibility

2.0.01

  • error fix

2.0.00

  • Core Update
  • Block Support added

1.9.00

  • Core Update

1.8.03

  • Core Update

1.8.02

  • fix widget css loading

1.8.01

Security Fix

  • Third Party Vendor Library

Various

  • Core Update

1.8.00

Various

  • Core Update

1.7.00

Various

  • SV Core improvements

1.6.00

  • core update

1.5.14

  • core update

1.5.13

  • core update

1.5.12

  • core update

1.5.11

  • FIX Settings not retrieved

1.5.10

  • update core

1.5.00

  • core update

1.4.08

  • core update

1.4.07

  • core update

1.4.06

  • core update
  • stars display fix

1.4.05

  • core update

1.4.04

  • core update

1.4.03

  • fix error notice
  • core update

1.3.14

  • core update

1.3.1

  • core update
  • Bugfix: Remove obsolete Settings from Widgets

1.3.0

  • core update
  • Bugfix: Widget Loading

1.0.9

  • core update

1.0.8

  • core update

1.0.7

  • support added for legacy shortcode

1.0.6

  • PHP 7.1 and higher Support: Bugfix for Fatal error: Cannot use lexical variable $widget_class as a parameter name in /wp-content/plugins/sv-provenexpert/lib/core/widgets/widgets.php on line 127
  • Decrease Admin Menu priority
  • highlight shortcode in settings

1.0.5

Major Refactoring

1.0.4

Preview and Error Output added on settings screen. Usability in settings field styles improved.

1.0.3

Fixed a W3C HTML Validation Markup Error generated through HTML Snippet retrieved from Proven Expert

1.0.2

Curl Decoding Error fixed

1.0.1

Improved Caching

1.0

Initial Release