Title: Reviso for Bricks
Author: Ben Elwood
Published: June 9, 2026
Last modified: June 9, 2026
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# Reviso for Bricks
By [Ben Elwood](https://profiles.wordpress.org/benelwoods/)
[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/reviso-for-bricks.1.0.6.zip)
* [Details](https://wordpress.org/plugins/reviso-for-bricks/#description)
* [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/plugins/reviso-for-bricks/#reviews)
* [Installation](https://wordpress.org/plugins/reviso-for-bricks/#installation)
* [Development](https://wordpress.org/plugins/reviso-for-bricks/#developers)
[Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/reviso-for-bricks/)
## Description
**Reviso for Bricks** turns Bricks Builder into a true collaboration tool. Reviewers(
clients, teammates, stakeholders) leave pinned feedback directly on your pages —
no logins, no email chains, no PDF round-trips.
#### What’s in the free version
* **Pinned comments** on any Bricks element — desktop, tablet, or mobile
* **Threaded replies** so a back-and-forth doesn’t sprawl across messages
* **Status tracking** — open, in progress, resolved — with filters
* **Single-page review links** — share one page at a time with anyone, no login
required
* **Admin-bar quick-review** — spin up a review for the current page (or whole
site, Pro) from the Reviso icon on the front-end admin bar
* **Client approvals** — reviewers can mark a page as approved (own admin tab —
Reviso Approvals)
* **Email notifications** when someone leaves a comment, replies, or approves a
page — with optional burst-coalescing so a flurry of comments arrives as a single
email
* **Bricks-native UI** — the comment overlay matches the builder so it doesn’t
feel bolted on
* **Element-anchored pins** that survive page edits (three fallback strategies —
DOM, content, position)
#### Available with the Pro addon
[Reviso for Bricks — Pro](https://getreviso.io/pricing/) extends the free plugin
with:
* **Multi-page Reviews** — bundle a whole site (or any subset of items) into one
shareable Review, covering any post type and Bricks templates
* **Email-restricted Reviews** — each invitee gets a private magic link, with four
roles (Viewer / Reviewer / Approver / Lead)
* **AI** — automatic comment triage (bug / design / copy / content) and AI-summarised
feedback rollups
* **White-label** — your agency branding on the review portal, with light + dark
logos that auto-pick the right variant for each surface (portal, builder splash,
email header)
* **Integrations** — Slack, Discord, and generic webhooks (Zapier/Make ClickUp,
Trello, Jira, …)
* **Email digests** — optional weekly summaries
* **Advanced notifications** — multi-recipient delivery, From/Reply-To control,
printable approval certificates
* **Audit log** + per-reviewer revoke
* **Concurrent reviews** with configurable expiry — including a no-end-date option
The Pro addon requires this free plugin to be installed.
#### Privacy & data
Reviso stores comment data **on your own WordPress site**. We don’t see your reviewers’
feedback. Optional anonymous telemetry (off by default) is opt-in. Full details
in our [privacy policy](https://getreviso.io/privacy-policy/).
## Installation
1. Upload the plugin or install from the WordPress.org repository.
2. Activate **Reviso for Bricks**.
3. Open Bricks Builder on any page — the comment overlay appears in the bottom-right.
4. (Optional) Install [Reviso Pro](https://getreviso.io/pricing/) to unlock multi-
page Reviews and the rest of the paid feature set.
## FAQ
### Does this require a license key?
No — the free plugin is fully functional. A license key is only needed if you also
install the [Pro addon](https://getreviso.io/pricing/).
### Do my reviewers need a WordPress account?
No. Share a review link and your reviewer comments as themselves — Reviso captures
their name and email when they leave their first comment.
### Is this only for Bricks Builder?
The pin-on-element UX is designed around Bricks. We use Bricks’s element IDs (`brxe-*`)
for anchoring. Support for other builders is not currently on the roadmap.
### Where is my data stored?
In your own WordPress database (`wp_reviso_*` tables). Reviso doesn’t transmit comment
content anywhere unless you opt in to the optional telemetry ping (which only sends
version numbers + feature-enabled flags — never comment content or PII).
## Reviews
There are no reviews for this plugin.
## Contributors & Developers
“Reviso for Bricks” is open source software. The following people have contributed
to this plugin.
Contributors
* [ Ben Elwood ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/benelwoods/)
[Translate “Reviso for Bricks” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/reviso-for-bricks)
### Interested in development?
[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/reviso-for-bricks/),
check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/reviso-for-bricks/),
or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/reviso-for-bricks/)
by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/reviso-for-bricks/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).
## Changelog
#### 1.0.6
* WordPress.org Plugin Directory compliance: the free plugin now contains only
its own fully-functional features — single-page public-link reviews, pinned comments,
threaded replies, client approvals, and email notifications. Multi-page / entire-
site Reviews, email-restricted Reviews, advanced notification delivery, printable
approval certificates, and white-label branding are provided solely by the separate
Reviso for Bricks — Pro add-on and are no longer present (even inactively) in
the free plugin.
* Removed all licence-tied wording from the free plugin’s review flow: a review
can be “read-only” as a neutral state (an add-on decides when), with no upgrade/
renew messaging in the free plugin.
* The free plugin now contains no white-label code, no licence checks, and no licence-
activation code of any kind — every paid-feature concern, including licence activation,
lives entirely in the separate Pro add-on, which the free plugin only ever points
to.
* New free control: “Coalesce bursts” under Settings Notifications batches a flurry
of comments into a single email (configurable, on by default) so reviewers leaving
several comments in a row don’t trigger an email each.
#### 1.0.2
* Comment status (open / in progress / resolved) can now be set right from the
Bricks builder by any editor.
* The client review portal and the printable approval certificate now load their
styles and scripts the standard WordPress way.
* Internal housekeeping and WordPress.org plugin directory compliance improvements.
#### 1.0.1
* The Reviso Pro page and upgrade prompts now offer a 14-day free trial (no card)
alongside the paid plans.
#### 1.0.0
* First public release. The free plugin covers pinned comments, threaded replies,
single-page client review links, client approvals, and email notifications; the
optional Reviso for Bricks — Pro add-on adds multi-page Reviews, AI, white-label,
integrations, digests, and more.
#### 0.21.7
* Fixed: client approvals work again on single-page review links — the “mark approved”
button had been hidden for public links by a recent change.
#### 0.21.6
* The Reviso Pro page buttons now link straight to checkout for the chosen plan,
with monthly/annual options.
* Admin prompts are tidier — the anonymous-diagnostics opt-in and the bug/feedback
prompt no longer appear at the same time.
#### 0.21.5
* Fixed: client review links no longer 404 on sites using “Plain” permalinks —
the link now falls back to a query-string URL when pretty permalinks aren’t enabled.
#### 0.21.4
* Approval certificates are now emailed as a proper PDF instead of an HTML file.
* The “New review” wizard now shows the Pro scope/reviewer options (Selected pages,
Entire website, email-restricted) as upgrade hints, and a dismissible upgrade
notice appears on Reviso’s own admin screens.
#### 0.21.3
* Updated the Reviso Pro overview page with current plans and pricing.
#### 0.21.2
* Cleaner Settings: the free plugin now shows just the settings it actually provides(
General, Comments) plus a single “Reviso Pro” overview page. The License, White
Label, AI and Integrations tabs now appear only when the Reviso for Bricks —
Pro add-on is installed.
#### 0.21.1
* Fixed: client review comments are now scoped to the review they belong to — reviewers
no longer see comments from other reviews on a page shared by more than one review.
* Housekeeping: the optional paid extras (team assignment, advanced email delivery)
now live entirely in the separate Reviso for Bricks — Pro add-on.
#### 0.21.0
* New: Reviewer links for Pro reviews (multi-page or email-restricted) now degrade
gracefully to **read-only** if the site’s Pro plan lapses — clients keep reading
the feedback and a banner explains new comments are paused, instead of the link
breaking. Enforced server-side.
* New: Opt-in anonymous telemetry now includes a `trial_state` field, so we can
understand how the Pro trial is working without collecting anything identifying.
* Internal: added `Reviso_Comments::count_all()` and `Reviso_Review::is_pro_locked()`
read APIs used by the Pro add-on.
#### 0.20.11
* Internal: Plugin Check cleanups — translators comment now sits directly above
the `__()` call inside `sprintf()` (the rule treats the comment as belonging
only to the line immediately following it), and the raw `$_POST['author_email']`
read in the comment-submit handler is now routed through `sanitize_text_field()`
purely to satisfy the input-sanitization scanner (the value is still email-validated
via `sanitize_email()` for storage).
#### 0.20.10
* Dev: New `reviso_review_auto_open_sidebar` filter — site-specific extensions
can suppress the FE’s “open the comment sidebar on page load” behaviour per-review.
Default true (existing behaviour preserved). Receives the boolean and the Review
row; return false to make the reviewer click the FAB themselves.
#### 0.20.9
* Fix: **Reviewer can actually submit with blank email.** 0.20.7 made the email
field optional in the identity gate and the server, but the client-side `identified()`
check still required email to be truthy — so a name-only reviewer would pass
the gate, then the engine’s “are we identified yet?” check would fail on the
next render and re-open the gate in a loop. Fixed: `identified()` now returns
true for any reviewer with a name (or a logged-in WP user).
#### 0.20.8
* Fix: **Reviewer page-handoff is cache-safe.** The redirect from the dashboard’s
page card to the target page now carries a per-session cache-buster query arg,
so page-cache plugins (WP Rocket, W3 Total Cache, LiteSpeed Cache, Cloudflare
APO, server-level fastcgi_cache, etc.) can’t return a stale overlay-less response
on the first hit after starting a session.
* Fix: **Pages-nav navigation routes through the handoff.** Clicking a different
page in the floating pages-nav now goes through `/reviso-review//item/<
id>/` instead of the bare permalink, so the session re-bootstraps on every navigation
and the overlay appears reliably even when the destination page is cached.
* Improvement: Removed the “Only the site owner sees this — we won’t email you.”
line from the identity gate (was added in 0.20.7; cluttered the form). The email
field stays labelled “(optional)”.
* Dev: New `reviso_review_exclude_name_prefixes` filter on `Reviso_Review::find()`
and `count()` — site-specific extensions can hide ephemeral Reviews (e.g. an
auto-generated demo) from the admin list without patching core. Pass an array
of name prefixes; rows whose `name` LIKE prefix% are excluded.
#### 0.20.7
* Improvement: **Reviewer email is now optional** on “anyone with link” reviews.
The plugin never emails reviewers in link mode — their address is only shown
alongside their name in the site owner’s notification emails — so requiring it
was friction without benefit. The identity gate now labels the email field “(
optional)” and explicitly notes “Only the site owner sees this — we won’t email
you.” Name is still required. Email-restricted reviews continue to pre-fill the
invitee’s email from their magic link (unchanged).
#### 0.20.6
* New: **Exit review mode** button on the off-scope banner. Reviewers who wandered
onto a page outside the review’s scope can now drop the session in one click
without manually clearing cookies or closing the browser.
* Tweak: Admin-bar quick-review panel — removed the forced full-width on the CTA
pill and locked the “New Review” link to inline-flex so its arrow can’t be displaced
by inherited styles.
#### 0.20.5
* Fix: **Admin-bar quick-review panel** — “Pro feature” upgrade pill now has proper
horizontal padding, and the “New Review ” link no longer wraps the arrow onto
a new line.
* Fix: **Quick-review panel skipped on the reviewer dashboard URL.** It was sticking
on “Loading quick review…” there because the dashboard has no post context. The
Reviso admin-bar root remains clickable so logged-in admins can still navigate
to Settings.
#### 0.20.4
* Fix: **Reviewer page-handoff URL renamed `/page//` `/item//`.** The `/
page/N/` segment collides with WordPress’s built-in pagination, so canonical-
redirect handlers (core’s `redirect_canonical`, Rank Math, etc.) were stripping
it and bouncing reviewers back to the dashboard URL. Rewrites flush automatically
on first admin load after upgrade.
#### 0.20.3
* Fix: **Reviewer page click is now hardened against theme/SPA click interception.**
The dashboard renders inside the active theme so any `wp_head`-enqueued click
handler (smooth page transitions, AJAX nav, etc.) was eating the navigation.
Page cards now use a capture-phase listener that forces a hard browser navigation,
plus inline onclick + target=”_top” as belt-and-braces.
* Internal: Server-side debug logging (gated on `WP_DEBUG`) added to the review
page-handoff path so the redirect chain is traceable from the PHP error log when
something does go wrong.
#### 0.20.2
* Fix: **Reviewer page click reliably enters review mode.** The page-handoff endpoint
now sets the per-page session cookies on its own response instead of relying
on a second-hop bridge — robust against caching plugins, security plugins, and
CDN edge rules that strip query args before the bridge can run.
* Improvement: **Free wizard: “Create as Draft” when an active review exists.**
The submit button label adapts so it’s clear the new review won’t go live immediately;
a warning panel on step 3 explains why and what to do next.
* Improvement: **Activate buttons disabled with explanatory tooltip** on the Reviews
table and the per-review screen when another review is already active on Free—
no more click-then-error.
* Improvement: **Reviews table column overflow fix** — dropped the fixed table
layout so the action column has room for both the Activate/Deactivate button
and the Manage link.
#### 0.20.1
* Fix: **Anyone-with-link reviews now open per-page review mode reliably.** Clicking
a page card on the reviewer dashboard could silently bounce back to the dashboard
when the target page was the front page set to “Latest posts” (or any other queryless
URL) — the handoff now passes the page ID explicitly so the legacy session bridge
no longer has to infer it from `get_queried_object_id()`.
* Improvement: **Free tier — stage multiple reviews as Draft.** Free still caps
you at one _active_ review at a time, but you can now create additional reviews
and keep them as Drafts. Activating one auto-blocks the others; the Reviews table
has inline Activate/Deactivate buttons so switching between them is one click.
* Fix: **AI and Integrations tabs no longer show an orphaned Save button** when
Pro/Agency isn’t installed. The AI tab now also shows the “Upgrade to Pro” card
that the other Pro-gated tabs use, instead of an empty form.
#### 0.20.0
* New: **Comments link to the Review they were left under.** A new `review_id`
column on `wp_reviso_comments` lets the all-comments admin filter by Review,
so you can see exactly which round of feedback belongs to which engagement. Legacy
review-mode and builder-direct comments stay accessible (stored with NULL review_id).
* Improvement: Polish across the builder overlay, admin quick-review panel, and
front-end reviewer surfaces.
* DB: Migration 0.6.0 adds the `review_id` column + index. Safe upgrade — no existing
rows are altered (NULL is the documented legacy/builder-direct case).
#### 0.19.0
* New: **Always-on bottom-left page nav for reviewers.** Floating mini-panel lists
every page in the review with status badges (To do / In review / Approved), highlights
the current page, and links back to the dashboard. Collapsible — preference persists
across navigation.
* New: **Off-scope banner.** When a reviewer wanders to a URL outside the review’s
bundled pages, a slim warning banner appears at the top of the page with a one-
click “Back to review dashboard”. Page stays interactive — they can hop back
without losing context.
* New: **Auto-bridge for in-scope navigation.** When a reviewer clicks an internal
link to another page in the review’s scope, Reviso seamlessly mints a fresh per-
page token and drops them into review mode — no more “this page isn’t being reviewed”
gotcha for pages that are.
* New: **Lead reviewers can invite others from the dashboard.** Lead role finally
has a usable affordance — invite form sits below the page list, sends magic-link
invitations to new reviewers with the Reviewer role (no privilege chain), all
audit-logged.
* New: **Email-restricted reviewers get a pre-filled identity gate.** Email is
shown read-only (it’s the address they were invited at), and the name is suggested
from the email’s local-part (“alice.smith” “Alice Smith”). One-keystroke confirm,
no retyping their own email.
* New: **Reviewer-side role enforcement.** Approve button is gated to Approver
+ Lead roles (Viewer + Reviewer can see the site and post comments but can’t
sign off). Server-side re-checked so a crafted POST can’t bypass.
* New: **Approval propagates to page status.** Marking a page approved now flips
its status in the reviewer dashboard + bottom-left nav from “In review” to “Approved”—
was previously only recorded in the Approvals tab.
* New: **Comment form is draggable** by its header bar, with viewport clamping.
Resize the textarea and the form auto-nudges upward so the action buttons stay
reachable.
* Fix: **Comment-mode pin no longer “disappears”** between click and form submit.
The pulsing pending-pin now persists until the form closes or the comment saves,
so reviewers see continuous visual feedback.
* Fix: **Comment overlay no longer shows in the Bricks Builder editor canvas.**
Now restricted to Preview Mode only — switching out of preview hides the sidebar,
FAB, comment form, pins, and popovers. Body-class mirror tracks `#bricks-toolbar.
is-previewing`.
* Fix: **Front-end review-mode cursor** now matches the in-builder custom comment-
bubble glyph instead of a plain crosshair. Same SVG, hardcoded brand colour (
data-URL cursors can’t reference CSS variables).
* Fix: **Light/dark theme switcher icon** missing in the front-end sidebar — added
the SVG-sizing rule that exists in builder.css but was missing from review.css.
* Fix: **Device + Round filters** in the reviewer sidebar were unclickable — root
cause was popover z-index 99999 sitting behind the front-end sidebar’s 2147483610.
Bumped popover to 2147483630 (just below the lightbox slot).
* Fix: **Bricks Templates dropped from reviewable post types.** They’re page parts,
not standalone pages — `get_permalink()` redirected to home, which is what reviewers
were seeing. Site-specific CPTs can be added back via the `reviso_reviewable_post_types`
filter.
* Fix: **Portal landing template** now actually reads white-label settings — was
previously reading non-existent option keys (`reviso_whitelabel_logo`, `reviso_whitelabel_accent`)
so agency branding never reached the dashboard. Portal background mode (light/
dark/custom) properly applied to CSS variables.
* Fix: **Dashboard chrome cleanup.** The bottom-left nav panel + off-scope banner
no longer pile onto the `/reviso-review//` dashboard URL — the Reviews
module owns that template and renders its own page list.
#### 0.18.0
* New: **Admin-bar quick-review panel.** Hover the Reviso icon on the front-end
admin bar to generate a review for the current page (or, on Pro, the whole site)
without leaving the page. The per-page link controls and the current-round indicator
now live here too, replacing the old separate dropdowns.
* New: **Create Review supports every reviewable post type + Bricks templates**—
not just pages and posts. The selector groups items by post type with collapsible
sections, a live title filter, and a 500-per-type cap to stay fast on large sites.
* New: **No-end-date option** on the create-review wizard for engagements that
don’t have a fixed end date. Existing default (30 days) unchanged.
* New: **Approvals is now its own top-level admin section** (Reviso Approvals),
peer to Reviews — promoted out of Settings Approvals because managed records
belong next to Reviews. Old `?tab=approvals` deep-links auto-redirect.
* New: **White-label light + dark logos with auto-pick.** Upload both variants
and Reviso chooses the one that contrasts against each surface (portal, builder
splash, email header — all driven by a single `Reviso_Settings::pick_logo()`
resolver). Added an optional email-header override + portal-background mode selector.
Existing single-logo uploads keep working as a fallback.
* New: **Portal landing page now respects white-label brand and background mode.**
Previously the reviewer landing read from non-existent option keys, so agency
branding never reached it — fixed. Portal background can now be light (default),
dark, or a custom hex; logo variant + companion colours adapt automatically.
* New: **Email-restricted reviews no longer expose a meaningless public share URL**
on the review detail screen — they show invitee management instead.
* Improvement: Defaults on the Create Review wizard now lean toward the common
case — Entire Website + Include future pages both checked for Pro users.
* Improvement: Viewer role label clarified — Viewers see the site only (the comment
overlay never mounts for them), useful for read-only stakeholders.
* Fix: **404 on review URLs after upgrading.** Installs that picked up the Reviews
module via an update (rather than activating fresh) had unflushed rewrite rules,
so `/reviso-review//` landings and emailed activation links 404’d. Added
a version-keyed one-shot flush on `init` so this self-heals.
* Removed: Legacy “Review link expiry” row in Settings General — superseded by
per-review expiry on the Reviews tab. The underlying option keeps applying to
legacy per-page tokens for back-compat.
#### 0.17.0
* Architecture: split into a free plugin (this) plus an optional Pro addon. AI,
white-label, integrations, and digests now live in the Pro plugin.
* Free continues to ship comments, pins, threads, basic notifications, telemetry(
opt-in), and single-page Reviews with the free-tier limit (one active review
at a time).
#### 0.16.0
* New: Reviews — bundle multiple pages under a single shareable link, with optional
email-restricted access and magic-link auth (Pro).
* Free tier supports one active single-page review at a time.
* New: per-page checklist landing for reviewers; per-review expiry; audit log.
#### 0.15.0
* Opt-in anonymous product telemetry (off by default).
* Self-hosted update server endpoint sample for the Pro addon.
#### 0.14.1
* Screenshot capture rewrite — captures the area you actually clicked on.
* Review-link hardening — noindex headers, no-referrer policy, rate-limit on token
validation.
#### 0.14.0
* Email notifications overhaul: per-event toggles, multi-recipient, From/Reply-
To, throttling, per-user opt-out, certificate attachment, SMTP nudge.
## Meta
* Version **1.0.6**
* Last updated **11 hours ago**
* Active installations **Fewer than 10**
* WordPress version ** 6.4 or higher **
* Tested up to **7.0**
* PHP version ** 8.1 or higher **
* Tags
* [bricks](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/bricks/)[bricks builder](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/bricks-builder/)
[client review](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/client-review/)[comments](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/comments/)
[feedback](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/feedback/)
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## Contributors
* [ Ben Elwood ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/benelwoods/)
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