=== Review - Product Reviews === Plugin Name: Review - Product Reviews and Star Rating Version: 2.0.13 Donate link: https://review-builder.com/ URI: https://review-builder.com/ Tags: review, reviews, review builder, product review, rating, woocommerce review, social review, customer review, post review, star rating Requires at least: 3.9 Tested up to: 4.7.5 Stable tag: trunk License: GPLv2 or later License URI: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html Author: Review Builder By Sygnoos, reviewsupport, Sygnoos Contributors: Review Builder By Sygnoos, Sygnoos, reviewsupport Review plugin allows you to build a review and rating section so customers can leave reviews for your products, posts, pages and WooCommerce products. == Description == #### Review Builder Review Builder allows you to add review and rating section to your page. You will be able to create eye-catching reviews in the fastest possible time without any difficulty! Our review plugin will let you add custom criteria of items, a good title for the review box, choice of colors to match your own website etc. We offer a powerful set of features with an awesome display of reviews. The only star rating and review system you will ever need for your custom products, posts, pages and WooCommerce products! Upgrade to PRO version. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKlvmG04BeM #### Main Features of the Review Builder: * Create as many reviews as you wish * Create and customize reviews to suit your taste and needs * Choose any of 3 templates our review plugin offers * Select and upload images to make the product being reviewed more attractive * Choose the style of your reviews rate skin: star, percent or point * Change the rate skin color of your review * Choose if you want to show the total rate of your reviews or not * Select the total rate color, the text color and the background color of your review * Add as many categories of rating as you wish to your review * You have a choice to approve the comment/rate publication * You can edit your comments Review builder provides you with shortcodes that can be added to any page, post, sidebar, footer, or widget on your site. Besides, our review builder is very responsive and is adjusted for PCs, for mobile and tablet devices. #### PRO Features: * Google SEO integration for showing reviews on the search box * 15 more templates for describing your review item * Ability to create your own review template * Customize existing templates * Design customizations of templates * Create review comment form of your own * Anti-spam captcha * Email notifications according to new reviews or comments * Ability to approve review right from the email * 2 more rate skin types (percent, point) * Post Review without a shortcode (by post category) * WooCommerce review type * Social review (coming soon) Upgrade to PRO version. #### Why should I use Review builder? It's a proven fact that customers prefer to read reviews on company websites rather than magazines, newspapers or on social media; so including reviews on your site is important. Adding reviews section to your site is a super-effective way of getting instant feedback from your readers, on the quality of your site content. Whether it's a blog post, web page, image or whatever piece/element of your website that you want to be rated. Showing average review score helps customers to get an idea of ratings at a glance. It's like a short summary of a long article, made on the product in graphical view. Even the reputation of a company may be depending on the reviews it has on its page. So, it's obvious that reviews are like some kind of indicators of a product or service you're offering. #### Support This review plugin is easy to use even if you are a noob in programming. But our team of review builder is always ready to help you with any technical problems that you happen to have. We are very responsible and always do our best to fit our users' needs. We try to solve all the issues connected with our review builder in the shortest time and provide high-quality help. If you think that you found a bug in our Review Builder plugin or have any questions, please feel free to contact us at support@review-builder.com. #### Review Builder == Installation == Install Review Builder either via the WordPress.org plugin directory or by uploading the files to your server. Activate the Review Builder through the 'Plugins' menu in WordPress. Go to the Review Builder settings and set your desired options. == Frequently Asked Questions == #### 1. Why do I need Review builder plugin? - This plugin will help you make your product or service reviewable! Which means you can build up a reviews' section for your page and customers can leave reviews for your products and services you offer. #### 2. Do I need any programming skills to build a reviews section for my product? - Our Review Builder is so easy to use, that even beginner users can make it out. #### 3. Can I show the total rate of my product reviews? - Sure you can! We have an option that lets you show or hide the total rate. #### 4. Can I customize the total rate colors? - Of course! You can select the color of the rate, color of the rate text and the background color of your rate. #### 5. Do I receive notifications about the new comments left on reviews of my product? - Of course, our plugin provides you with an option to get notified about every comment left. #### 6. Is there a limit on the number of the reviews sections I can build? - There's no limit on the quantity of the reviews sections you can build! Create as many reviews' sections as you wish! #### 7. Do I have an option to add the images of my product in this Review Builder? - Yes, you can add images you want to your product's review page, and design the look and feel of the product yourself. #### 8. Is there a limit on the number of categories I can add? - There's no limit on a number of the categories of the product which should be reviewed. Add as many as you wish! #### 9. Can I block the reviews I don't want to be posted? - Sure you can! You get notifications about every comment and you are able to decide which reviews to post and which to delete. #### 10. Why should I buy the Pro version of Review Builder plugin? - Our plugin gives you many cool options to make an attractive reviews' section for your page. But in the Pro version of our plugin, there are way more ... which will help you create the best Reviews' section of your product you could ever imagine. #### 11. Who can I ask for help if I have some problems concerning the Review Builder? - If you have any problems concerning our Review Builder plugin that you can't figure out yourself, you can write to our Support team and our developers will do their best to help you! support@review-builder.com #### 12. Everything works perfectly! What do I do? - Leave a good review for our plugin! == Screenshots == 1. Add new review 2. Rate types and Template customization 3. SEO preview 4. Product review templates 5. Frontend demo 6. Comments sections with load more button 7. Comments list 8. Add review section to the post == Changelog == = 2.0.13 = * Changed site url * Fixed localization related bug = 2.0.12 = * Tweak: Inside the simple popup you can insert shortcode. * Tweak: Customization of the comments form. * Tweak: Added default values for the review dimensions. * Minor bug fixes. * Code improvements. = 2.0.11 = * Bug fixes and code optimization. = 2.0.8/2.0.9 = * Tweak: Added localization for missing fields. * Bug fixed inside `Simple Review`. * Bug fixed connected to review features and rates. = 2.0.7 = * Tweak: Added localization for reviewer `Commented By` field. * Tweak: If no image selected for review it will not show `No image` image. * Code optimization. * Bug fixing. = 2.0.6 = * Tweak: Added localization option for `load more` button. * Bug fixes. = 2.0.5 = * Tweak: Backend redesign. * Tweak: Wizard integration. * Tweak: Show Rating in front of the rater name. * Tweak: Added size attribute to control the review panel dimensions. * Tweak: Added transparent background option of the review panel. * Bug fixes. = 2.0.4 = * Code optimization and improvements. * Bug fixes. * Network available. = 2.0.3 = * Email validation fixed inside the comment form. * Widget section optimization and styling. * JS improvements and optimization. = 2.0.2 = * Bug fixed connected to customers comments. * Bug fixed connected to load more comments button. * Code optimization and improvements. = 2.0.0 = * Bug fixed. = 1.1.9 = * Comment fields sanitization. * Bug fixes. = 1.1.8 = * Added option to not lose reviews after upgrading to PRO version * Bug fixes. * Code optimization and bug fixes. = 1.1.7 = * Added support for woo commerce product review (PRO). * Code optimization and bug fixes. = 1.1.6 = * Added placeholders for inputs. * Code optimization and cleanup. = 1.1.5 = * New: Availability to add tags to review. * Bug fixes. = 1.1.4 = * New: Every reviewer can re-edit his/her rating and comment. * Bug fixed connected to showing multiple review boxes on the same page. * Localization feature, now admin can localize label texts. * Code optimization and cleanup. = 1.1.3 = * Validation notices UI fixed in frontend. * Bug fixes. = 1.1.2 = * Bug fixed connected to database prefix. = 1.1.1 = * Bug fixed connected to comments section. = 1.1.0 = * Core modifications. * Bug fixed connected to comments. * Bug fixed connected to ratings. * Minor bug fixes. = 1.0.9 = * Bug fixed connected to reviewer comments. = 1.0.8 = * Stability improvements. * Now template image can be removed. * Bug fixed connected to template fields. * Widget added. = 1.0.7 = * Add asterisks for required fields. * Stability improvements. * Show/Hide all comments. = 1.0.6 = * Mobile view bug fixed. * Desktop view bug fixed. = 1.0.5 = * Bug fixed. = 1.0.4 = * Stability improvements. = 1.0.3 = * Bug fixes. = 1.0.2 = * Bug fixes. = 1.0.1 = * Bug fixes. * New templates. = 1.0 = * Initial Commit. == Upgrade Notice == Current version of Review Builder is v2.0.12 == Other Notes == **Reviews** In general, reviews are evaluations of a publication, service, or a company. Nowadays, reviews are a very important piece of software. People want their services, products be evaluated, in other words, they want them to be reviewed. In this way users express their opinion concerning the product or the service they had experienced. Star ratings are very common in online services for review the product. You buy a product, or use a service and then you can easily express your feelings about the product/service just giving them stars/reviews (usually one to five stars). You can even express your thoughts and write a brief evaluating text right under the rating. Reviewing is actually a great thing now, for customers especially. Before making a purchase you can have a look at the product/service reviews and decide on buying it or not. As customer reviews generally form the most fear and true description of a product/service. **Design your own Reviews Section** If you have a website and need to add reviews section to it, you can do that with the help of this Review Builder plugin. You can show your users that you care about their opinion adding a reviews section to your site. You can make up your own reviews section, all by your own! We all know that design is one of the most important components of anything! Reviews section is not an exception. It should be well-organized and you should take in count every single detail to attract the customer and not to be try too hard to make it vulgar. Select the colors to be eye catching and at the same time fitting each other. Actually it's pretty hard not to cross the line when you see so many options of color settings and themes and all the rest. So, be careful and don't miss any detail. Organize the whole design and set up all the little details of your reviews section. Set up the stars color, set how many stars you want to be rated, for instance, you can set up max 3 stars instead of usual 5 stars. You can add images of your products and services to be rated. **Make it organized** Reviews of your product or service that you offer should be organized full of valuable keywords directly related to your business. One more important thing to consider, if a page has one or two reviews a day, it's said to be a fresh one. This is because if a product/service is reviewed often it means people use it much and the developer, from his side, keeps updating and making it better every day. **Control the reviews** Besides, with Review Builder you have full control over your reviews, showing only the reviews you want visitors to read, making sure your website is optimized for an increase in sales. This is a really great feature, as there are often spammers who leave bad reviews just to make your sales worse. That's why it's important to have control over the reviews left for your products/services, which you can have with this plugin. So, if you're confident in your products, go ahead and open your site to ratings from customers! Add a reviews section to your website and give your customers an opportunity to review your products/services, and, why not, they might even leave some notes that you might have not noticed. Make your sales better and your website more customer-friendly!