Description
Beplus Advanced Reviews for WooCommerce replaces or enhances the default WooCommerce product reviews with a modern, AJAX-driven interface built as a Gutenberg block.
Key Features:
- Average rating score and total review count per product
- Star distribution bar chart — visual breakdown of reviews per star rating (1★–5★)
- Rich review cards — avatar, reviewer name, star rating, written content, date, and attached media
- Image uploads — customers attach JPEG, PNG, or WebP images to their reviews
- Video uploads — customers attach MP4, WebM, or OGG videos to their reviews
- Clipboard paste — paste images directly from the clipboard into the review form
- Lightbox — full-size image and video preview in an accessible overlay
- Smart filter bar — filter by star rating (multi-select) or show only reviews with images, no page reload
- Sort controls — sort by date (newest/oldest) or rating (highest/lowest)
- Load More (AJAX) — paginated review list with a Load More button powered by the REST API
- Gutenberg block — drag-and-drop
Advanced Reviewsblock, automatically applied to all Single Product pages on activation - Display modes — Keep default (manual block placement) or Replace default (auto-override WooCommerce reviews)
- Accessible — WCAG 2.1 AA compliant: keyboard navigable, focus management,
aria-liveregions,prefers-reduced-motionsupport - Theme-aware styling — automatically inherits colors from the active theme’s
theme.jsonglobal styles, with graceful fallback for classic themes
For Developers:
- Container-based architecture with PSR-4 autoloading
- Extensible via WordPress filters and actions
- REST API for reviews, star distribution, and settings
- Swappable media storage backend (default: WordPress Media Library)
- PHPStan static analysis and TypeScript type checking
Blocks
This plugin provides 1 block.
- Advanced Reviews Modern WooCommerce product reviews with images, star distribution, filtering, and load more.
Installation
- Upload the plugin files to
/wp-content/plugins/beplus-advanced-reviews-for-woocommerce/, or install the plugin through the WordPress plugins screen directly. - Activate the plugin through the Plugins screen in WordPress.
- The Advanced Reviews block is automatically applied to all Single Product pages upon activation.
- Optionally configure display mode and media settings under WooCommerce Advanced Reviews.
Building from source:
If you cloned the repository, run the following from the plugin directory:
npm install && npm run composer:install && npm run build
FAQ
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Does this work with any theme?
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Yes. The plugin uses a Gutenberg block that works with any block-based (FSE) theme. It also supports classic themes via WooCommerce hooks when using the “Replace default” display mode.
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Can I keep the default WooCommerce reviews?
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Yes. In the plugin settings (WooCommerce Advanced Reviews General), choose “Keep default” to leave WooCommerce’s built-in reviews untouched. You can then place the Advanced Reviews block manually wherever you like.
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What image formats are supported?
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JPEG, PNG, and WebP. Images can be uploaded via file input (multi-select) or pasted directly from the clipboard.
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What video formats are supported?
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MP4, WebM, and OGG. Video uploads can be enabled in the Media tab of the plugin settings.
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Can I control the maximum upload size?
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Yes. The Media tab in plugin settings lets you set the maximum file size (in MB) for both images and videos independently.
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Is this plugin accessible?
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Yes. The plugin targets WCAG 2.1 AA compliance. All interactive elements are keyboard navigable, modals trap focus, live regions announce dynamic content updates, and animations respect
prefers-reduced-motion. -
Does it support REST API?
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Yes. The plugin exposes a full REST API under the
beplus-advanced-reviews-for-woocommerce/v1namespace for listing reviews, fetching star distribution, submitting reviews, and managing settings. -
What are the requirements?
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WordPress 6.0+, WooCommerce 7.0+, and PHP 7.4+ (8.0+ recommended).
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Does it match my theme’s colors?
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Yes. The plugin automatically inherits colors from your active theme’s
theme.jsonglobal styles (primary, text, background). All colors are defined as--bpar-*CSS custom properties and can be overridden in custom CSS. Classic themes withouttheme.jsonwill see the default color scheme.
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Contributors & Developers
“Beplus Advanced Reviews for WooCommerce” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.
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Changelog
1.0.0
- Initial release. No upgrade steps required.
- Average rating score and total review count
- Star distribution bar chart (1★–5★)
- Review cards with avatar, rating, content, date, and media
- Image uploads (JPEG, PNG, WebP) with clipboard paste support
- Video uploads (MP4, WebM, OGG)
- Image and video lightbox preview
- Smart filter bar — filter by star rating, images-only toggle
- Sort controls — newest, oldest, highest rated, lowest rated
- Load More button with AJAX pagination
- Gutenberg block with configurable attributes
- Display mode: keep default or replace default WooCommerce reviews
- REST API for reviews, distribution, and settings
- Plugin settings page under WooCommerce menu
- WCAG 2.1 AA accessibility
- Theme-aware color system — inherits from active theme’s
theme.jsonglobal styles - i18n ready with
beplus-advanced-reviews-for-woocommercetext domain