Hi @shaneblay,
Thanks for reaching out! You’re right, the latest update that we made to Create to have the?Review Pop-Up?always enabled is due to an industry-wide shift against the ability to leave one-click, “anonymous” ratings that may not always be an accurate representation and that search engines like Google may issue a correction against in the near future. (Which is why other popular recipe card plugins have also made similar updates recently as well!)
We want to make sure that we’re protecting Create users in the face of any changes or corrections that Google may make, so our updates requiring an associated review at all star-levels will effectively help do that.
There isn’t a way to disable the just the?Review Pop-Up?banner without completely disabling reviews entirely, so we recommend continuing to run that feature so that you’re able to gather genuine and helpful recipe reviews that Google will count as legitimate and rich results worthy.
We are looking at making further updates with regards to how leaving reviews/ratings works, but this would be in upcoming versions of Create, and we don’t yet have a timeline on when that’ll be.
