Posts Reviews to All Product Pages

First, here is a quick primer on how shortcodes work in WordPress.

Every shortcode is wrapped in two square brackets [ ].

For example, the Site Reviews shortcode to display the review form is:

[site_reviews_form]

Shortcode options change the output of the shortcode.

For example, to hide the name and email fields in the review form, you add the “hide” option in the shortcode like this:

[site_reviews_form hide="name,email"]

You can add multiple options to a shortcode.

For example, to hide the name and email fields in the review form AND assign submitted reviews to the current page, you add the “hide” and “assigned_posts” options to the shortcode like this:

[site_reviews_form hide="name,email" assigned_posts="post_id"]

Now that I have explained how shortcodes work, I will try to answer your questions. Please read my answers carefully.

I am using short code in WordPress classic editor. Site Reviews says to use this: <code>[site_reviews_form assigned_posts=”post_id”]</code>

So I tried it using “post_id”.
Then I tried it using the actual product/post id. It doesn’t matter. It publishes to all pages that I’ve added the Site Reviews code to. What am I doing wrong? Thank you.

Here is what to do step by step.

Step 1: To make this easier for you to understand, first go to the “Site Reviews > Settings > Reviews” page and enable the “Enable Assigned Links” option.

Step 2: Now go to your product pages and add this shortcode: [site_reviews]. Note that I have not added any options to the shortcode at the moment! I haven’t added options because I want you to understand how review assignment works.

If you correctly did steps 1 and 2, then you should see ALL of your reviews on both of your product pages. You should also notice that some of the reviews have a link to their assigned product page.

When you submitted a review in the review form, it was assigned to the current page. It did this because you added the assigned_posts="post_id" option to the review form shortcode.

Step 3: Now that you have confirmed that review assignment is working, here is how to only display reviews that have been assigned to the current page.

In step 2 you added the [site_reviews] shortcode and this this displayed ALL of the reviews. Now we are going to add the assigned_posts=”post_id” option to the shortcode. This will tell Site Reviews to only display reviews that have been assigned to the current page.

Like this:

[site_reviews assigned_posts="post_id"]

And that is how review assignment works!

This is the code I am using to have the reviews appear: [site_review class=”single-review full-width”]

This seemed to be the only code that worked.

Finally, let me explain this:

[site_review] This shortcode displays a single review.
[site_reviews] This shortcode displays multiple reviews.

Do you see the difference in the shortcodes?

Now, it seems to me that I could therefore do that original code so that I could have a page that showed all reviews–they’d appear on the original page and on a page I created for all reviews. Is that correct?

Yes, that is correct.

If DO you use the “assigned_posts” option on the shortcode, Site Reviews will ONLY display reviews that have already been assigned to the current page. For example:

[site_reviews assigned_posts="post_id"]

If you DO NOT use the “assigned_posts” option on the shortcode, then Site Review will display all of the reviews because you are not limiting it to only those assigned to the current page. For example:

[site_reviews]

Review of Satic International Super Duty Filter for 240-Volt (220/230-Volt) Power

Site Reviews will add this to the review if you have enabled the “Enable Assigned Links” option in the settings (see step 1 my previous reply).

Displaying a link to the product in your review is useful when you are displaying all reviews for all products on a single page.

If you want to display a link to the product in each review on your main reviews page, BUT don’t want to display this link in reviews displayed on your product pages, this is what to do:

Step 1: Edit your product pages.

Step 2: Add the “hide” option to your existing [site_reviews] shortcodes like this:

[site_reviews assigned_posts="post_id" hide="assigned_links"]

And one last thing before I mark this as resolved:

I noticed that you are using WooCommerce. Did you know that WooCommerce has reviews built in for your products? If you go to the WooCommerce Settings and click on the Products tab, you can enable WooCommerce reviews for your products.

I mention this because Site Reviews provides an integration with WooCommerce. Everything that you have been trying to do can be done automatically!

1. Enable product reviews in the WooCommerce settings.
2. Enable the Woocommerce integration in the “Site Reviews > Settings > Integrations”

Normally that’s all you have to do to add Site Reviews to product pages in WooCommerce.

Thanks @websitende, I appreciate it!