I’m disappointed. I miss this one. It was so simple. All it needs is a little face-lift and it would live another 10 years. All the other ones are overly complex. This just gets the job done.
All it needs is some modern code here or there and some better star graphics maybe. Or the ability to choose between a bunch of different star options, etc. It would conquer.
Is there any chance of someone taking this over? I’d like to upgrade to a modern (code-wise) version of the plugin that will guarantee the survival of the plugin as new versions of PHP get adopted. This one is old enough (based on last update) to be a concern now. At the same time, I like the simple function of this plugin and would like to keep using it.
If anything, worst case scenario…I’d like to move onto a currently maintained plugin without losing ALL of that data that has already been published thus far. Is there a similar (or semi-similar) plugin out there since this one that uses the same database entries so that uninstalling this one won’t lose all the review scores already there?
This is my last effort of trying to preserve the data before giving up and accepting years of lost information and broken scores which will take…who knows how long to go back and fix.
*fingers crossed*
]]>Despite it being such an old plugin, has anyone attempted to use this within a PHP 7 environment? I wonder since it does have PHP errors (https://plugintests.com/plugins/author-product-review/latest)
There is one website that is looking to change to 7.0 and wondering if it would cause any complications or not.
]]>Does anyone know if there is a newer plugin that can take over the data of this one? That way switching plugins doesn’t result in a loss of the data that is already provided over the years?
Maybe one that can import that data of this one and update all of the previous posts with its own code/design (etc).
Thankfully (for now), despite this plugin not being support for years…it still works. ??
]]>From the developer “It’s old now, there are many alternatives. Please try another plugin. Because of time issues I’ve stopped working on that plugin, sorry for the inconvenience.”
So now that I have 2,500 articles that each created 10-15 custom fields what on earth do I do?
]]>We just ran a bad link checker thru Xevu for our site https://mtnweekly.com and the following came up:
https://mtnweekly.com/wp-content/plugins/author-product-review/empty-stars.png – status not found.
Can you please let me know what is causing this error?
]]>I’ve tried swapping the png images with a custom star and transparent filled star and it resulted in no stars haha. Is there a way in a future update to allows the customization of the stars? I’d like to have slightly larger stars and customize the star however I want.
I don’t know if this is possible, or if any updates are being performed at all as it seems there hasn’t been a chance in awhile ??
]]>Has this been addressed? I dont want 12 schema_price_currency and 12 schema_product_price custom fields for each post? What is going on with this Plugin?
]]>How to change the colour of the stars to red?
]]>How to remove price of product from this plugin and remove text rating near the rating image?
]]>The stars from my reviews are no longer displayed in google search results.
What’s wrong?
]]>I had a problem that the plugin was adding its CSS at the very end of the header, so breaking optimisation recommendations, and also overwriting my own modifications in my site custom css.
The solution to this, and a recommendation for future plugin versions is to comment out line 223:
//echo '<link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" href="' . plugins_url( 'author-product-review.css' , __FILE__ ) . '" />' . "\n";and add this function to author-product-review.php just after the include:
function my_scripts() {
wp_register_style( 'author-product-review', '/wp-content/plugins/author-product-review/author-product-review.css');
wp_enqueue_style( 'author-product-review' );
}
add_action('wp_enqueue_scripts','my_scripts');The css will now be correctly added with other scripts near the beginning of the header, before JS.
]]>I believe this is a bug, although doesn’t affect functionality. Every time you edit and save an article a new set of meta data is added, so filling the meta database unnecessarily.
If you therefore click on “Screen Options” and tick “Custom Fields” when editing a post, you get a long list of duplicates, 4 for every time the article is saved.
The reason for this is that WP function update_post_meta return false if the data already exists (see below), but in the plugin in the case that data already exists the false from update_post_meta is assumed to mean that the data doesn’t exist, and add_post_meta is then called and a duplicate created. This is around line 208 in author-product-reviews.php.
The fix is just to remove the 4 conditional calls to add_post_meta.
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From WP codex, for update_post_meta:
Returns meta_id if the meta doesn’t exist, otherwise returns true on success and false on failure. It also returns false if the value submitted is the same as the value that is already in the database.
]]>How can I add support to the main index page (where it lists all the latest posts in pagination order)? At the moment it simply displays as the text tag “{rating}”.
I need the stars to show there as well….as well as anywhere else really.
Thanks
]]>Hi,
I cannot find documentation on how to use the plugin? Do we need to use short codes? I went through the readme file as well but cannot seem to find the information on using this plugin.
Thanks.
]]>The ratings are not showing in Google. Example: https://mtnweekly.com/bergans-helium-jacket-review
When put in the Google Structure Data Testing tool they show up:
https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/richsnippets?q=http%3A%2F%2Fmtnweekly.com%2Fbergans-helium-jacket-review
This is sad as we took the time to populate the fields for some 290 post with prices, ratings.
]]>on my site the {rating} tag does not work on safari or firefox. On my iPad (safari) it works fine. It also works in Safari and Firefox when I preview but not when published.
https://johanwagner.se/?cat=14
what is wrong?
Regards
Johan
https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/author-product-review/
]]>I want to reduce the space between the bottom of my post and the rating.
Right now, there’s too much space between.
How can I reduce the space between the bottom of my post and the rating?
Thank you.
Example:
https://www.popmythology.com/warm-bodies-review/
https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/author-product-review/
]]>How do I get rid of the text to the left of the stars?
I want it to just show the stars.
For example:
“4/5 stars ****”
Here, I’d want to get rid of the “4/5 stars” part and just show ****
Thank you.
https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/author-product-review/
]]>There seems to be some duplication in my custom fields. Even if I delete the duplicated fields it seems to re-invent them. Why might it be doing this? Thx.
https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/author-product-review/
]]>Is there a way to import data in bulk in order to fill the data boxes for this plugin? e.g. a csv file which has the following columns: Name of Product Reviewed, Price of Product etc etc. Thx.
https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/author-product-review/
]]>Is there a way to collect the rating automatically from, say, a custom field?
https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/author-product-review/
]]>Hi
I like the plugin.
Is there a way to display several recent (or all) reviews from a blog with the star-ratings in a widget area (sidebar or footer)?
Thanks
https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/author-product-review/
]]>I would like to move these to the front of every post – without having to write it in manually. Where can I can I find the code to edit? Thanks.,
https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/author-product-review/
]]>Is it possible to make the rating optional? At the moment, if I don’t give a rating, it doesn’t seem to work at all.
https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/author-product-review/
]]>Is there any way to display the stars anywhere I want in the theme by adding php code to the template files?
Only see a shortcode option..havent seen anything for template files
]]>I am getting a Google error on checking my pages with their rich snippets tool. (using 2011 theme)
“Warning: Missing required field “updated”.”
The suggested fix for this is to add a line of php code – but that did not work for me.
<span class=”date updated”><?php echo get_the_date(); ?> </span>
Do you know how to fix this please. Thanks.
https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/author-product-review/
]]>Why cant I find a place anywhere to upload my photo. This appears to work but my avatar is a mystery man. HELP!
https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/author-product-review/
]]>Hi, i was using this plugin and it was working perfectly but now google just don’t show the stars, i’ve tested a link in the google’s testing tool and it says
Warning: Incomplete microdata with schema.org
this is an example link i tested in the rich snippets testing tool
https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/author-product-review/
]]>Hi there,
First of all, awesome plugin!
Now to the problem…
Can you tell me how I can change the default “Review by” text that appears in the snippets?
I tried searching in the plugin’s php files, but couldn’t find the string anywhere.
I would like the output to be something like this (ignore the > sign):
star rating > Written by admin > date > Price
Thanks and Regards,
Amod
https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/author-product-review/
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