This plugin marks a change in how and what I do. Firstly, it’s one of a new range of plugins that I’m going to be releasing in the near future. It’s not BuddyPress related, and is actually pretty specialist, as it is a shortcode that allows a webpage to pick up the reviews for a plugin in the WordPress repository. As such, it is only going to appeal to developers, in the main. But, it’s a plugin I use on this website, and is a fork of Plugin Reviews, which has stopped working, and really, never got completed. So I’ve fixed it up, and I am making it available here, for free.
What does it do?
Well, it provides a shortcode (wr_reviews), which will display a carrousel of the latest reviews for any plugin help in the WordPress Repository. Here is a review of BuddyPress First Letter Avatar, for example:
As you can see, it allows for a nice carousel of reviews, which will help future users make wise choices of the plugin they wish to use.
The shortcode has a number of options, as follows:
‘plugin_slug‘ – the slug of the plugin to be reviewed
‘rating‘ – you can choose the star rating of the reviews, default is ‘all’
‘limit‘ – the maximum number of reviews, default is 10
‘sortby‘ – the column the results are sorted by, default is ‘date’
‘sort‘ – you can choose the order of the reviews, the default is ‘DESC’
‘truncate‘ – this will keep the review text within the parameter set here, default is ‘300’ characters
‘gravatar_size‘ – sets the pixel size of the group gravatar, default is ’80’
‘container‘ – this allows for the type of container that holds the HTML for the review to be changed, default is ‘div’
‘container_id‘ – allows the id for the container to be set
‘container_class‘ – allows the class of the container to be set
‘link_all‘ – this option chooses to add a link to see all the reviews for the plugin, default is ‘no’
‘link_add‘ – this option chooses to add a link to add a new review for the plugin, default is ‘no’
‘layout‘ – this selects the output type. The default is ‘grid’, ‘carousel’ is also supported
‘exclude‘ – to exclude specific reviews, not recommended as it may have large performance issues, depending on the number of reviews the plugin has.
I've been setting up and managing BuddyPress social networks for a few years. I moved from Ning and other platforms and have come to BuddyPress looking to make sites with similar features to them.
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