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Collecting and Displaying Reviews Using WPForms or Formidable Forms with the Reviews Plugin

Manuel Escobar — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 17:06:33 +0000

Step 1: Update the Reviews Plugin 1. Ensure your Reviews plugin is updated to the latest version to access all the features. Step 2: Create a New Collection 1. Navigate to the Reviews Feed section in your WordPress dashboard. 2. Click on Collections and then click the Add New button. 3. Name your collection (e.g., […]

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How to Get The Google Place ID For The Review Feed Plugin

Ahmed Hussein — Thu, 21 Nov 2024 21:23:03 +0000

To get the Google Place ID for a location to use with our Reviews plugin, follow the steps below. 1) Ensure you have a Google Places API key as you can’t add the place ID to the plugin without it. You can follow our article for how to create a Google API key. 2) Next, […]

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How to Use Collections

Louis Spost — Fri, 08 Mar 2024 21:31:51 +0000

With Collections, you can hand-pick reviews from any of your review sources, manually create new reviews, and edit existing reviews to create completely curated collections of reviews and use these as the source for review feeds! This feature was added in version 1.4 of the Reviews Feed Pro plugin, so update now if you don’t […]

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An “Unknown error occurred” while adding Google Place ID

Louis Spost — Wed, 15 Nov 2023 21:49:46 +0000

If you add your Google Place ID to create a new reviews source, but you see the message “Unknown error occurred!”, a common cause for this is the Google listing for your business not having a physical address set. Google’s API requires that your listing has a physical address set in order for the Reviews […]

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How to force CRON jobs to run on my server to update my feeds?

Joel Nilsson — Tue, 14 Nov 2023 17:07:25 +0000

CRON jobs are like scheduled tasks for your website. They automatically perform specific actions at set times, such as updating content or fetching new feeds. If you are not seeing feed updates as expected, it could be due to a CRON job not running correctly or at the right frequency. We describe some issues with […]

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How to display Trustpilot reviews

Louis Spost — Fri, 04 Aug 2023 19:52:53 +0000

You can easily display reviews from Trustpilot using our plugin. This feature is available for the Plus license, Elite license, and All Access Bundle. To set up your feed, follow the steps below: 1) Navigate to Reviews Feed > All Feeds and click the Add New button 2) On the Add Source screen, click the Add […]

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How to display WordPress.org reviews

Manuel Escobar — Mon, 24 Jul 2023 05:12:29 +0000

You can easily display reviews from WordPress.org forums using our plugin; this feature is available for the Elite license and All Access Bundle. To set up your feed, follow the steps below: 1- Navigate to Reviews Feed > All Feed > Click the “Add New” button 2- Click the “Add Source” button 3- Select “Wordpress.org” and […]

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Reviews Feed Pro Plugin Change Log

Joel Nilsson — Tue, 13 Jun 2023 17:43:57 +0000

= 2.2.0 – May 29, 2025 = = 2.1 – March 25, 2025 = = VERSION 2.0 January 14, 2025 = = VERSION 1.5.0 July 25, 2024 = = VERSION 1.4.5 July 24, 2024 = = VERSION 1.4.1 March 29, 2024 = = VERSION 1.4 February 21, 2024 = = VERSION 1.3.1 January 10, 2024 […]

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How to fix a blank or empty plugin interface

Manuel Escobar — Sat, 03 Jun 2023 20:42:53 +0000

This guide will help you if you are facing an issue where the plugin interface or feed preview appears blank or empty, like in the example below. This problem often occurs due to content blocker extensions installed on your browser, such as AdBlock or AdGuard. These blockers can sometimes interfere with the functionality of our […]

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Differences between Reviews feed Free and Pro versions

Manuel Escobar — Mon, 20 Mar 2023 13:44:43 +0000

The main differences between the free version and Pro version of the Reviews Feed plugin are listed below. The extra features available in the Pro version are as follows: Display Reviews from Facebook and TripAdvisor. PRO Templates (Simple Cards, Masonry, Single Review, Showcase Carousel, Carousel, Grid Carousel). Images and Videos are displayed. Author Avatar is […]

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