Description

Did you know that 63% of customers are more likely to make an online purchase from a site that displays user reviews? The Rich Reviews plugin empowers you to easily gather user reviews for your business, website, or individual products/pages and display them anywhere on your WordPress site. These rating reviews, called rich snippets, have become a main focus to Google in ranking individual pages in SERPs, and Rich Reviews makes sure they are readable visible.

Rich Reviews in a nutshell:

Share your company’s value through positive customer reviews.
Attain the top rankings in SERPs by overshadowing your competition with rich snippets.
Attract the most qualified customers to your site, and gain their trust.

What’s the big deal about rich snippets?

The Rich Reviews plugin does the work for you to make it possible for your ratings/reviews to be showcased as rich snippets in SERPs. In case you were wondering what rich snippets look like, look at the example in the screenshots tab.

Here are some benefits of using Rich Reviews to show off your rich snippets:

They are a visual way to show your business’ value and worth by displaying products, prices, reviews/rankings, contact information, and important links.
Current businesses with rich snippets have seen a 10%-30% CTR increase.
Users have correct expectations before browsing your site, which also means a decrease in bounce rates.
You will stand out amongst your competition.
Higher rankings in SERPs.
An increase in website traffic, as well as more qualified traffic.

Rich Reviews Plugin Features:

Gives you the control to use and customize three types of reviews: per-page/per-post, category, or global reviews – whether you want users to review products, categories, or your entire website.
Moderated submissions – allows you to choose which reviews are added to your site.
Built completely around shortcodes, allowing you to include any of the three key features on any page, post, sidebar, footer, or widget on your site.
Simple design means compatibility across themes and flexible CSS
Endless color options for star and numerical rating systems.
Includes external stylesheet for ease of customization.
Minimalist, lightweight, and efficient code so your users won’t notice any hiccups.
Integrates with user accounts and gravatar images.
Displayed in microdata format following Schema.org (Google Rich Snippets) protocol so that site ratings are shown in SERPs with Google Rich Snippets (which increases overall rankings).
Plugin doesn’t slow down website.
Available for translation.
Support for any questions.

Bonus Feature:

Rich Reviews has teamed up with Shopper Approved a Google Affiliate. If you become a Shopper Approved user as well, the combination of this platform being an approved Google partner and having the largest syndication network online, will give your reviews maximum exposure. This means reviews in both organic search as well as PPC. Rich Reviews gives you easy access to manage your Shopper Approved account. Here is an exclusive free trial offer from Nuanced Media which also saves you 20%!

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Screenshots

This is an example of what a rich snippet returned in both organically and by paid advertising will look like in an SERP.
Show any number of reviews for your whole site, for a specific page or post, or for any custom category. Display these reviews in any post, page, sidebar, or widget!
A simple shortcode allows you to post an aggregate review score on any page.
A simple and clean review submission form can be placed anywhere on your site, and will not bog down your site.
Admin menus allow you to approve the submitted reviews, so YOU control what reviews are real, and which reviews are unwarranted (or even spam). You can also view every review you have already approved, and choose to push it back to a "pending" status, or even delete it.
Added options allow for you to customize the star color to match your site.
One user shows the versatility of Rich Reviews by placing our shortcodes into various tabs on one of his pages.

Installation

You can download and install the Rich Reviews plugin through the built-in WordPress plugin installer. Alternately, download the zip file and upload the ‘/rich-reviews/’ folder to your ‘../wp-content/plugins/’ folder.
Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
View the instructions page in your the WordPress backend to see detailed explanations and examples of how and where to use the shortcodes which enable reviews to be shown, submitted, or averaged.
Periodically check the Rich Reviews menu in the WordPress control panel to see if there are any pending reviews which need to be approved (or deleted).

FAQ

Installation Instructions

You can download and install the Rich Reviews plugin through the built-in WordPress plugin installer. Alternately, download the zip file and upload the ‘/rich-reviews/’ folder to your ‘../wp-content/plugins/’ folder.
Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
View the instructions page in your the WordPress backend to see detailed explanations and examples of how and where to use the shortcodes which enable reviews to be shown, submitted, or averaged.
Periodically check the Rich Reviews menu in the WordPress control panel to see if there are any pending reviews which need to be approved (or deleted).

Reviews

Excellent (+ tips)

cvl01

Hi!

First of all, this plugin is one of the best that I have used so far. Excellent!

I would like to suggest to add:
Category selection dropdown. I have multiple categories, but would like to use only one form.

Great … translation?

theodore77

This plugin is really efficient. Nice, easy and practical.

I use it on a french speaking website.
When the form is submitted, all the answer message is not translated.

It appears;
“NAME”, votre avis à été enregistré and submitted for approval. Merci !

The complete translation would be:
“NAME”, votre avis à été enregistré and envoyé pour approbation. Merci !

Nice work – good documentation

dkurth

Nice work. Went in smoothly and easily. Follows the fonts, color, size of my theme and row settings. Excellent.

The only reason it is not a 5 star, is a few more features are necessary. Such as, how many columns to display and the ability to send the reviews to Facebook, google or similar.

Otherwise great work.

find an error

jyclcnnn

This a great plugin but I find a bug, after i submit a review and then refresh the page it will duplicate the review.

Excellent plugin

Sander Langendoen

Like the simplicity and the options.

AWESOME

themigraineguy

This plugin is clean, simple, and easy to setup. You want reviews for only one item / company? You got it. You want reviews for many products / services? You got it. You want to post a few of those reviews in visually pleasing ways in particular places? You got it. You want to do ALL OF THAT FOR FREE. You got it.

Amazing plug-in.

Read all 102 reviews

Contributors & Developers

“Rich Reviews” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.

Nuanced Media

Translate “Rich Reviews” into your language.

Interested in development?

Browse the code, check out the SVN repository, or subscribe to the development log by RSS.

Changelog

1.7.4

Fixed several vulnerabilities reported to us by the awesome people at https://www.pluginvulnerabilities.com/ — Thanks!
Hi, did you miss us? We’re discussing returning to this plugin and furthering development on it, but a lot of the WP and rich snippet landscape has changed since we first created this plugin. Stay tuned 🙂

1.7.3

DB update for ipv6 strings
Integration for Shopper Approved Widget
CSS override for Shopper Approved Header Text on review form
Javascript accessible elements to translate
Brought more i18n to overlooked elements
namespaced css classes
stars only snippet attribute (stars_only=”true”)
Redirect form submission option
Schema type option “Product” or “Service”
Options for setting text values for “Read More” and “Less”
Option for Excerpt Length on Review display

1.7.2

HOTFIX: Custom Style Output
HOTFIX: Media Disruption from js script
Rolled back solution for multiple form submition until media plugin conflicts could be resolved.

1.7.1

HOTFIX: db update for new field
Updates .pot file

1.7.0

Further Refactor of i18n formatting for translation
Added support for displaying reviews by parent page id
Added option to scroll automatically back to form
(solution under construction as of 1.7.2 due to js conflicts with other plugins, contact us for the patch) Fixed bug issues when multiple forms are displayed one the same page, by adding unique_key param to form shortcode
Added basic user integrations
Added avatar support, and alternatively user image upload to form
Added login gate option
Added optional Shopper Approved integration and support.

1.6.5

hotfix: removed obsolete support for 1.0 – 1.2 version updates
Added Rich Markup options for author and subject fallbacks
Fixed minor overlooked bugs

1.6.4

hotfix: global post for snippet query
hotfix: Fixed non-categorized item reviewed schema, and itemreviewed and author defaults
hotfix: Widget dependency on deprecated code.
Added “all” value for both snippet and show shortcodes
Altered and fixed aggregate category query
Uppdated Rich Snippet output for Schema.org markup
Fixed random order bug
Added dynamic response message for name field dependency and approval requirement.
Refactored file structure and option handling
Refactored i18n string formatting

1.6.3

hotfix: fixing longstanding global reviews show issue
added option for email notifications, and accompanying field for admin emaail
added option for scroll back to form after submission

1.6.2

hotfix: scroll after submission
updated rich formatting

1.6.1

Updated layout of user opttions
Made form fields editable
Added Rounding for Aggregate Rating

1.6.0

Updated rich snippet format to microdata
Added option to display reviews at full width
Added option to display date along with reviews

1.5.12

Correcting star display issue.

1.5.11

Fixing issue with stars not displaying.

1.5.10

Fixing issue with extra div creation.
Adding link to new plugins website on dashboard.

1.5.9

Hot fix: Correcting the correspondence with Google Rich Snippets.

1.5.8

Hotfix

1.5.7

Added options admin page.
Option to edit the color of stars.
Option to edit form input title of previous “Review Title” input.
Option to allow various user roles to manage reviews.
Option to display stars in snippet instead of numerical value.
Option controlling the order in which reviews are displayed.
Option to skip the pending process for reviews.
Adding the ability to add and edit reviews from the WordPress dashboard.
Fixed minor css issues.

1.5.6

Removing a debug dump function that was accidentally left it.

1.5.5

Correcting admin page errors.

1.5.4

Removing foxytech links

1.5.3

Bug fix: correcting popular display issue

1.5.2

Introducing new dashboard styles

1.5.1

Database bug fix correcting possible site crashes
Added option for credit line

1.5.0

Big update! Complete rewrite of plugin to make it easier to update in the future, and to add more features
We are now branching to add Nuanced Media as a developer of this plugin
Everything about the plugin should function better, and with the rewrite and addition of Nuanced Media as a contributer, the updates should come much faster

1.4.2

Hotfix: vertical-align: top on the review submission form

1.4.1

Changed display order so that reviews are displayed newest-first
Changed version numbering, and changed version checking function to compensate

1.4

Some much needed tweaks, such as better displaying data from the database (no more “rnrn”!)
VASTLY improved admin menus – now the tried and true WordPress menus you know and love are in Rich Reviews! This means that now you can approve/delete bulk items with much greater ease!
Added scss files for easier css maintenance
Much better css! I am no longer providing the majority of the styles – instead I will allow whatever theme you currently have installed to do the leg work (as it should be!)
Much better javascript!

1.3

Added the much-requested feature of per-page/per-product reviews, as well as adding optional review categories to go along with it
Revamped the backend instructions page to be more pretty and to be much more informative, and to give detailed examples and explanations for each shortcode
Cleaned up the CSS pretty much everywhere
The stars in ratings are now orange/yellow when reviews are displayed

1.2

Fixed a large bug where the MySQL database was not created properly if plugin was installed fresh, and hence no reviews could be sent, stored, approved, nor displayed! (Thanks, Mik!)

1.1

Altered CSS to make the reviews and the review form more pretty (Thanks, Andrew!)
New, altered CSS allows reviews to properly be displayed and stacked vertically (for example, in a sidebar)
Integrated/fixed support for non-English characters (Thanks, IvicaD!)
Split menu up into three parts: instructions, pending reviews, and approved reviews
New “Approved Reviews” admin menu allows you to view every review you have ever previously approved, and change its status (to pending, or mark it for deletion) at will

1.0

Initial release

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