Display reviews in slider

@mick69145 Thanks for the suggestion and the positive review!

With sliders/carousels: this is a feature that I’ve held back on because I really wanted an extensive and well-designed static presentation of the reviews before introducing movement and it seems to be widely offered by similar review plugins. I will be introducing this functionality at some point in the future, along with a separate premium extension to improve the handling of multiple locations.

I will have a look at the example later today.

@mick69145 I’ve checked the slider on your development website and this is a similar design to what will be created for this plugin in the future – using a new “view” parameter to show X out of Y reviews in a given view and support for keyboard/swipe navigation, and much more.

If the slider supports shortcodes within its content, you can use this with an offset to replicate the same effect in your website.

[review_rating theme=center summary=false date=false review_text_order="text first" limit=1 offset=0]

You’ll need some additional CSS to change the position of the author’s avatar and name. The job description (e.g. “CEO”) is not data offered by the Google Places API.

If you want something that looks similar but without the carousel effect, please set the parameter summary to false and check the review_text_order parameter (see the example I’ve included as a starting point).

I am always very keen to see everyone’s application of this plugin and your approach will help inform future developments.

• This reply was modified 4 years, 1 month ago by Design Extreme. Reason: text in brackets

@designextreme I’m creating the website with Elementor. Here is a screencast where I display how I achieved the slider: https://www.loom.com/share/f9849450b4c243248a1d93f677f6650d

This isn’t 100% future proof since I need to enter an ID for the review to be shown. What I want is that the reviews are random and the star rate is min 5. Shortcode sort=shuffle doensn’t work. Then I get a random review but al items in the slide show the same review. I think this is because all the slider items are loaded at once and so the same random review is loaded for all the slider items.

Most ideal situation is what you mention above. Just a slider theme where I can show random reviews with min. 5 stars. Do you have any indication when you are adding this feature?

Again, thanks for the great plugin! Keep up the good work!

@mick69145 Thanks so much for the additional information and the video – this does change the issue and will help me to resolve it for you. It relates to a known problem with the current shuffle functionality – it’s highlighted when multiple instances of the plugin exist in one page.

Please can you send me your current shortcode with parameters (just one of the three)? I’ll use this as a basis to find a fix for the display issue in your instance.

@designextreme: shortcode I use in each item where I change the ID: [reviews_rating theme=center summary=false date=false review_text_order="text first" limit=1 offset=2 min=5 avatar=no sort=shuffle id=1]

It should be [reviews_rating theme=center summary=false date=false review_text_order="text first" limit=1 offset=2 min=5 avatar=no sort=shuffle] for all slides so the reviews are random in each item.

Thank you very much for the premium support you deliver!

• This reply was modified 4 years, 1 month ago by busybees.

@mick69145 Thanks for the compliment!

I’ll fix the shuffle in the next version of the plugin.

@designextreme Do you have any estimation when you’re going to release the update?

Thanks!

@mick69145 Probably in the next day or so. I’ll post a reply on here to alert you (this is what I normally do in such circumstances).

Please use the specific ID in the meantime.

You rock! Thanks for the fast fix.

@mick69145 Just some advanced warning – this fix will involve a new type of sorting. Simply using “shuffle” will never deliver a consistent result when multiple instances are visible. Each instance will have its own random shuffle ordering that is likely to have the same review listed as first place in one instance and second place in another. This will appear to invalidate your offset.

Something that I have been considering for some time is a less erratic version of shuffle – something that will be fixed for a period of time (say an hour) and will seed the randomness once over this period. This consistent shuffle can then be used throughout the page and website as a basis during this time.

I’ll post details and tag you once the new functionality is in place.

@designextreme I think the most easy way is when you develop a theme style for a slider. The reviews shown in the slider should be random or fixed by id (already have the shortcodes for this).

If the theme is devolped it just inserting the shortcode on the page and the slider is a fact!

@mick69145 I have improved the handling of the random shuffle. The existing option will cache the review order for an hour. The new option of “shuffle variable” will only cache within the page to avoid each instance of the shortcode doing its own random ordering.

Simply update to version 3.19 to implement the changes. The specific ID parameter is no longer required.

The slider/carousel feature will be coming in the future. First, I want to introduce my extension to handle multiple locations.

• This reply was modified 4 years, 1 month ago by Design Extreme. Reason: Second paragraph