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In reply to: [Rich Reviews by Starfish] Do not workCan you give any more details? Does it give a confirmation message, that the review has been submitted for approval?
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In reply to: [Rich Reviews by Starfish] does it work?That’s correct. I realize that it’s a little strange to need three different shortcodes for a dedicated page – but I wanted to build in variability, because everyone uses it in a slightly different way.
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In reply to: [Rich Reviews by Starfish] does it work?I see the problem, I believe. There are two types of shortcodes, one to display reviews (which you obviously are using) and another to display an overall rating, which will attach the data google looks for to display star ratings. This shortcode is [RICH_REVIEWS_SNIPPET]. The reason they are separated is so that you can, in theory, place this aggregate rating in a footer and potentially have these star-ratings show up for each of your pages.
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In reply to: [Rich Reviews by Starfish] Issue with the non-English charactersYou’re welcome!
This is definitely possible, and I thought about doing it while implementing the “Approved Reviews” menu – it would have added a large amount of complexity for the 1.1 release, however, so I chose to skip it for the time being. It will definitely be implemented in the future!Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Rich Reviews by Starfish] does it work?Can you give a link to a site where the webmaster tool says it’s not working using the Rich Reviews plugin? That would help a lot if I had another site to look at.
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In reply to: [Rich Reviews by Starfish] does it work?http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/richsnippets?url=www.foxytechnology.com&html=
You can use the above link to see that our main site, foxytechnology.com, indeed passes the webmaster tool test and shows a star rating.
It does take a little bit for google to “figure out” that the stars are there, however, so it might take some time for them to display. Also, Google is constantly changing how they interpret and process search results, so we are also having to constantly shift the way in which we code in the “meta data” (figuratively, not literally, as of course google does not use metadata anymore) so that Google can best pick up on it.
Try our plugin out, and let us know if you have any problems with it. It should do everything you want it to, and we are constantly working to improve it, and improve its compatibility and dialogue with search engines!
Also, the star colors are fixed for the moment because they are actually text characters and we didn’t want the color to clash with any themes we might not be aware of! A color customizer is definitely in the works 🙂
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In reply to: [Rich Reviews by Starfish] WP e-CommerceWe are definitely going to have this in an upcoming version! And, it is also fairly easy to change it from a rating out of 5 stars to a rating out of 10, 17, 100, or any number in between (or greater. Except for multiples of Pi.) This should be coming in another version as well!
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In reply to: [Rich Reviews by Starfish] Delete reviewsI just pushed an update (version 1.1) which adds an admin menu to view all previously-approved reviews and to delete them or reset their status to “pending.” This should work perfectly for you (obviously the phpmyadmin route was not ideal and we apologize!), so please let us know if there are any other features that you’d like to see, or any other problems you encounter!
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In reply to: [Rich Reviews by Starfish] Rich Reviews in widget?Yes! This plugin indeed does this. You have the ability to display the first three reviews stored in your database in a narrow widget area. These three reviews will always be the same, however a feature we will be implementing in a future version is the ability to display a random set of any number (1, 2, 3, 5, 10, etc) of reviews which have been stored.
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In reply to: [Rich Reviews by Starfish] How to implement in a narrow space as widget ???Yeah, my message was a reply to your post – I am posting it in the support forum for http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/rich-reviews/
The new update we just pushed, version 1.1, allows a set of three reviews to be placed anywhere within a website, including vertically stacked in a sidebar. It also allows you to place every review on, say, a dedicated page. Let us know if this satisfies your needs, or if any other features could be added!
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In reply to: [Rich Reviews by Starfish] Issue with the non-English charactersI just pushed a new update, version 1.1, which fixes this! Let us know if you have any more issues.
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In reply to: [Rich Reviews by Starfish] Delete reviewsWe know that this is a necessary feature – right now the only way to do it is to manually go in and delete the MySQL records. We hope to get this feature implemented in the next version release, coming in a day or so!
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In reply to: [Rich Reviews by Starfish] How to implement in a narrow space as widget ???This was an error/oversight in the CSS file – the update coming in the next day or two should fix this!
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In reply to: [Rich Reviews by Starfish] No downloadCould it be that your Javascript is disabled?
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In reply to: [Rich Reviews by Starfish] Issue with the non-English charactersThank you very much for the information – as a native English speaker with an English keyboard, it honestly didn’t occur to me to test for this. I imagine I know exactly what and where this is going wrong. I will fix this bug for the next release (due in the next few days). If you know of any characters that frequently have problems being displayed in browsers or in plugins/in WordPress, I would appreciate you passing that along to me.
Also, not that you requested this, but something that would be relatively easy to implement would be customizable form prompts, so that you can ask users for their Name, or Nombre, or anything else. Thanks for the idea!