Description
Wildebeest Easy Reviews helps site owners send visitors to the right review destination without requiring a paid service or API key.
Supported destinations:
- Google Business
- Google Play
- Apple App Store
Features:
- Shortcode:
[wildebeest_reviews_reviews] - Show all configured destinations or use smart device routing
- Upload custom platform images through the WordPress Media Library
- Images-only, image-and-text, cards, and text-only layouts
- Left, center, and right alignment
- Responsive mobile stacking
- Same-tab, new-tab, and native-app-preferred link behavior
- Optional popup after a selected number of visits
- “Maybe Later” delay
- Never ask again after a destination is clicked
- Local click analytics
- First-run setup wizard
- Built-in Help page
- Import and export settings
- Reset settings and statistics
- No external telemetry
Easy Reviews stores its settings and click counters only in the site’s own WordPress database.
Screenshots
Installation
- Upload the plugin ZIP through Plugins > Add New > Upload Plugin.
- Activate Wildebeest Easy Reviews.
- Complete the setup wizard.
- Add
[wildebeest_reviews_reviews]to any page, post, or shortcode block.
FAQ
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Do I need a Google API key?
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No. Paste the direct Google Business review-request link from the business profile.
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Does the plugin verify whether a visitor completed a review?
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No. Google and Apple do not provide completion information to the website. The optional “never ask again” setting treats a click as completed on that device.
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Does this plugin send analytics to Wildebeest Marketing?
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No. Click counters remain in the site’s own WordPress database.
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Are platform images included?
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No. Site owners upload artwork they are authorized to use and should follow each platform’s brand guidelines.
Reviews
There are no reviews for this plugin.
Contributors & Developers
“Wildebeest Easy Reviews” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.
Contributors
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Changelog
2.2.7
- Replaced the temporary wildeare prefix with the permanent wildebeest_reviews prefix.
- Updated functions, constants, options, transients, nonces, AJAX actions, settings groups, and JavaScript globals.
- Replaced the shortcode with [wildebeest_reviews].
- Added migration support for both easy_reviews and wildeare legacy option names.
- No visual or feature changes.
2.2.6
- Replaced the generic shortcode with the unique [wildebeest_reviews_reviews] shortcode.
- Updated the setup wizard, Help page, Quick Start instructions, and readme documentation.
- Removed the generic shortcode registration completely.
- No other functional or visual changes.
2.2.5
- Added sanax65 to Contributors.
- Replaced generic internal identifiers with the unique WILDEARE / wildeare prefix.
- Renamed options, transients, nonces, AJAX actions, callbacks, and JavaScript globals.
- Added migration for settings and statistics from earlier builds.
- Preserved the public [wildebeest_reviews_reviews] shortcode.
2.2.4
- Corrected the placement of the final two Plugin Check annotations.
- Kept upload-array validation and field-by-field settings sanitization unchanged.
- No functional or visual changes.
2.2.3
- Resolved the final two Plugin Check input-validation warnings.
- Documented the safe handling of the WordPress upload array.
- Documented the field-by-field sanitization of imported setup settings.
- No functional or visual changes.
2.2.2
- Resolved all issues from the WordPress Plugin Check report.
- Added safer nonce-aware request handling.
- Improved JSON import validation, unslashing, and sanitization.
- Escaped generated destination markup before output.
- Removed the discouraged manual translation loader.
- Updated Tested up to to WordPress 7.0.
- Reduced tags to the five-tag directory limit.
- Shortened the directory short description to fewer than 150 characters.
- Prefixed the uninstall variable.
- No feature changes.
2.2.1
- Removed both optional Plugin URI and Author URI headers to prevent submission-form URI comparison errors.
- Corrected the internal version constant to 2.2.1.
- No functional changes.
2.2.0
- Renamed the public plugin to Wildebeest Easy Reviews.
- Removed the Plugin URI header because it matched the Author URI.
- Kept the Wildebeest Marketing Author URI.
- Updated the plugin folder, main file, text domain, admin slugs, and documentation.
- Preserved all existing functionality and settings.
2.1.0
- Completed full Easy Reviews branding cleanup.
- Removed the old shortcode and all former naming from the public plugin.
- Standardized the admin slug, internal prefixes, database option names, CSS classes, JavaScript namespace, and documentation.
- Renamed the plugin folder and primary file to the clean Easy Reviews slug.
- Preserved all Version 2.0 features.
2.0.0
- Renamed and rebranded as Wildebeest Easy Reviews.
- Changed developer branding to Wildebeest Marketing.
- Added GPL-2.0-or-later metadata and public-release documentation.
- Added first-run setup wizard.
- Added built-in Help page.
- Added settings export and import.
- Added reset settings and reset statistics controls.
- Added optional data deletion on uninstall.
- Added new
[wildebeest_reviews_reviews]shortcode. - Preserved review links, platform images, popup controls, smart routing, native-app behavior, and analytics.