Product reviews display and filtering issues and empty spaces in description

regarding the empty space it’s not feasible to do it by hand because there are hundreds of products like these as it is a weird phenomenon when they are imported from external vendor, also don’t know any way to filter out all of them from the backend

regarding the first issue with review display on the backend for editing, ive found that I can access them via sql database, it allows for up to 500 per page display and sorting according to comment density or something as I can display entire long list of empty comment reviews, but because many reviews have photos with it, the sql database doesn’t display when reviews are photo attached or not, anyway around this?

Hello @ckwang,

Thank you for reaching out!

hi apparently product reviews section within woocommerce does not have any option to adjust the amount of reviews displayed per page under screen options?

WooCommerce reviews essentially function as post comments. If you’d like to split them into several pages, you can achieve this by navigating to Dashboard → Settings → Discussion and configuring the option to break the comments into 2, 3, or however many per page you prefer.

Link to image: https://d.pr/i/FhzkqA

As for bulk deleting, simply filter the product, and use the bulk editor in Product → Reviews.

Link to image: https://d.pr/i/h2cqxu

thirdly would kindly appreciate any short code php snippet that can delete /disable/minimize etc any unwanted empty spaces within the product description area by bulk, image attached below for reference thx

This is more related to your theme behavior, not WooCommerce. I suggest contact your theme author about it. :?)

Hope this helps!

Hi Saif thanks for getting back appreciate it. I followed your instructions going to settings discussions to change default per page listing from 50 to 1000 and it’s still the same. Pls advise. Thx

https://jjrsliving.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Screenshot_20231025-183603.png

is there perhaps a system limit of 50?

anybody around?

Hi @ckwang

Thank you for getting back to us on the WooCommerce forum.

is there perhaps a system limit of 50?

There’s no limit, all reviews will appear on the product page by default. This is more related to WordPress than WooCommerce though. The default value is set to ‘all‘ and here’s the link to the WordPress source code:

https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress-develop/blob/caf48856d2a881eb15aeea5675cf9db472c2193f/src/wp-admin/includes/class-wp-comments-list-table.php#L199

I also made a video while testing this feature:

woocommerce does not have any option to adjust the amount of reviews displayed per page under screen options?

If the number of reviews is not being split into pages when you change settings under WP Dashboard > Settings > Discussion, I’d recommend performing a conflict test.

For additional features, at the moment there’s no default option to change those in WooCommerce, and customizing that would require a bit of additional coding. Custom coding goes beyond the scope of support we are able to provide in this forum.

If you require more help with the actual coding, we’d recommend hiring a developer or one of the customization experts listed at https://woo.com/customizations/

I can also recommend the following places for more development-oriented questions:

• WooCommerce Slack Community: https://woocommerce.com/community-slack/
• WooCommerce Community on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/advanced.woocommerce/

Let us know if you have any other questions.

Cheers.

hello Mirko. Actually there is a misinterpretation of my original message. I was actually referring to the backend instead of the frontend that visitors see. In the backend where you can edit reviews or comments there is only a set limit of 50 displayed entries per page without any option to change this. Normally for other database sections such as products you can click the screen options and adjust the number of entries displayed per page. But such an option isn’t available for the comments and reviews section.

pls advise thx

previously Saif mentioned “If you’d like to split them into several pages, you can achieve this by navigating to Dashboard → Settings → Discussion and configuring the option to break the comments into 2, 3, or however many per page you prefer.”

i did this and the backend is still same, so I assume this only changes the display on the frontend visitor view but not the backend which is really what I’m referring to

Hi @ckwang

Unfortunately, WooCommerce does not currently offer a built-in feature to adjust the number of comments or reviews displayed per page in the backend. This limit is set to ensure optimal performance of your site.

However, you may consider using a custom code snippet or a third-party plugin to achieve this. Please note that modifications of this nature should be done with caution and ideally by a developer, as they could potentially impact the performance of your site.

Additionally, it would be great to have you add your ideas as a feature request, which is where developers go to look for future plugin features and improvements.

I hope this information is helpful. Please let us know if you have any further questions or if there’s anything else we can assist you with.