Changelog

5.16.2 (2021-10-06)

• Fixed Initials Avatars
• Fixed Pixel Avatars

5.16.1 (2021-10-04)

• Added compatibility fix for Review Themes v1.0.0-beta4

5.16.0 (2021-10-03)

• Added “No category”, “No assigned post”, and “No assigned term” options to the filters on the All Reviews admin page.
• Added a “Fallback Avatar” setting
• Added a locally generated Initials Avatar option in the “Fallback Avatar” setting
• Added a locally generated Pixel Avatar option in the “Fallback Avatar” setting
• Added API and shortcode support for slugs in the assigned_posts parameter; these should be entered in the format of post_type:slug.
• Added API support for usernames in the assigned_users parameter.
• Fixed compatibility with WP Rocket (purges the cache of the page the review was submitted on)
• Added custom ServerSideRender functionality to allow post-render events in Gutenberg blocks
• Fixed Elementor widget icons
• Fixed loading of modal HTML
• Fixed text on the Translations settings page with instructions for the “Loco Translate” plugin.

5.15.0 (2021-09-28)

• Added link for Premium members to download the beta version of the Review Themes add-on
• Fixed compatibility with the beta version of the Review Themes add-on
• Fixed missing translation strings
• Updated star-ratings.js library

5.14.1 (2021-09-24)

• Fixed compatibility error with Gutenberg in WordPress 5.7 and earlier

5.14.0 (2021-09-23)

• Changed permission defaults for admin pages
• Fixed ability to remove plugin hooks
• Fixed add-on settings link on Plugins page
• Fixed API permission check for categories
• Fixed Elementor widgets
• Fixed HTML entities in Console output
• Fixed invalid reviews being created from non-review post types
• Fixed loading indicator on translations search input
• Fixed locked review status indicators
• Fixed permission check for approve/unapprove actions
• Fixed Response column value after a response is given
• Fixed review limit assignment settings
• Fixed widget compatibility with WordPress 5.8
• Fixed widgets in Customizer
• Improved tooltips
• Removed the “Trustalyze Confidence System” add-on (the service has been discontinued).

5.13.2 (2021-08-08)

• Fixed database queries to correctly handle multiple assignment values
• Fixed Terms toggle on RTL websites

5.13.1 (2021-08-02)

• Fixed a possible stored XSS vulnerability which allowed an admin user to add a malicious value when editing a review from the WordPress admin.
• Fixed the terms toggle which broke due to the multi-checkbox fix in a previous update

5.13.0 (2021-08-01)

• Added the $review->author() method on review objects which returns the author name as defined in the settings
• Added the “site-reviews/avatar/attributes” hook which allows you to modify the attributes on the avatar tag
• Fixed Custom field multi-checkboxes
• Internal changes to support the upcoming Review Themes add-on
• Renamed the “site-reviews/review/response” hook to “site-reviews/review/responded” (see the related FAQ section)
• Updated the “Common Problems and Solutions”
• Updated the “FAQ”

5.12.9 (2021-07-21)

• Fixed relative dates to use the GMT date of the review

5.12.8 (2021-07-12)

• Fixed PHP warning introduced in v5.12.7

5.12.7 (2021-07-12)

• Improved the error message when saving add-on licenses to make it more descriptive and helpful.
• Removed the “Discover Premium” button for licensed add-on users

5.12.6 (2021-07-07)

• Fixed invalid schema output on the [site_reviews] shortcode when there are no reviews
• Fixed the Assigned Posts filter on the All Reviews page

5.12.5 (2021-07-01)

• Fixed the plugin migration which sets the custom role capabilities in cases where the default WordPress roles have been renamed or removed

5.12.4 (2021-07-01)

• Fixed the filters on the “All Reviews” admin page

5.12.3 (2021-07-01)

• Added a data-rating attribute to the review ratings

5.12.2 (2021-06-12)

• Fixed the Bulk Edit actions

5.12.1 (2021-06-12)

• Fixed the “respond_to_*” capabilities, users can now respond to reviews if they are the author of one of the assigned posts

5.12.0 (2021-06-07)

• Added the “rating_field” shortcode option which allows you to use a custom rating field with the summary
• Added the “Repair Review Relations” tool
• Fixed “loose assignment” database queries

5.11.1 (2021-06-03)

• Fixed pagination

5.11.0 (2021-06-02)

• Added a REST API (see the provided documentation to learn how to use it)
• Added custom capabilities for responding to reviews (respond_to_site-review and respond_to_others_site-review)
• Added filters for categories, assigned posts, and assigned users on the “All Reviews” admin page (enable them in the “Screen Options” on the top-right of the page)
• Added native Elementor widgets
• Added support for in dropdown fields (this may be useful when using the Review Forms add-on to display a category dropdown with parent/child categories). To learn how to enable this, please see the FAQ Help page.
• Added the glsr_update_review helper function (see the provided documentation to learn how to use it)
• Added the ability to create reviews from the admin
• Added the ability to respond to reviews from the “All Reviews” page
• Added the site-reviews/review/build/tag/response/by hook (see the FAQ to learn how to use it to change the name in the response)
• Fixed inline styles (overriding the star images should now display correctly in the block editor)
• Fixed summary review counts for 0-star ratings
• Fixed the star rating when resetting the submission form where a default rating is set

5.10.4 (2021-05-03)

• Fixed date validation in the “Import Third Party Reviews” tool

5.10.3 (2021-04-28)

• Fixed the assigned_posts meta keys which store the average rating, ranking, and review count

5.10.2 (2021-04-27)

• Fixed the missing “terms” database column error for users who have not run the plugin migration from previous versions

5.10.1 (2021-04-26)

• Fixed the missing “terms” database column error for users who updated a fresh install of Site Reviews v5.9 to v5.10

5.10.0 (2021-04-26)

• Added delimiter and date format options in the “Import third party reviews” tool
• Fixed the missing “terms” database column in a fresh install of Site Reviews

5.9.0 (2021-04-24)

• Added a “Compatibility Issues” section to the Help page to document incompatible plugins along with possible workarounds.
• Added a “terms” option to the shortcodes which allow you to only display reviews where the terms field was accepted in the form. All reviews that were submitted before this update will have their terms set as accepted.
• Fixed database foreign table constraints
• Fixed settings tabs on touch devices
• Improved the Tools page

5.8.5 (2021-04-17)

• Fixed anonymous reviews from inheriting the author ID of the logged in user after being edited

5.8.4 (2021-04-15)

• Fixed a potential problem introduced by the previous widget compatibility fix

5.8.3 (2021-04-12)

• Fixed widget compatibility with page builder plugins

5.8.2 (2021-04-03)

• Fixed javascript event system
• Fixed the FAQ javascript example of hiding the form after a review submission

5.8.1 (2021-03-28)

• Fixed database versioning
• Fixed internal unique array logic

5.8.0 (2021-03-05)

• Added setting tooltips
• Fixed compatibility with the Thrive Architect plugin
• Fixed compatibility with the WP Rocket plugin
• Fixed modal styles
• Optimised settings
• Updated documentation

5.7.4 (2021-03-02)

• Fixed review star CSS

5.7.3 (2021-02-24)

• Fixed compatibility with Elementor Pro popups
• Fixed compatibility with SG Optimiser
• Fixed compatibility with WPForms
• Fixed the toggle alignment in the “Minimal” plugin style
• Fixed validation event listeners

5.7.2 (2021-02-18)

• Fixed support for PHP compiled without a built-in ctype extension (i.e. FreeBSD servers)

5.7.0 (2021-02-16)

• Added a custom Event Emitter which will allow you to manually initialise the Site Reviews javascript after the DOMContentLoaded event has fired or from Popup events (see: EVENTS.md.
• Added documentation on troubleshooting problems with the review form (see the “Common Problems and Solutions” section on the Help page).
• Added the “Optimise Your Database Tables” tool which allows you to convert tables from MyISAM to InnoDB for better performance.
• Improved the excerpt and pagination scripts.

5.6.2 (2021-02-09)

• Added the “Review Themes” add-on, premium members may request early access to try out the beta.
• Fixed the FAQ for hiding the form after submission.

5.6.1 (2021-02-05)

• Fixed the star rating field on touch devices

5.6.0 (2021-02-04)

• Added an option to display excerpted reviews in a modal
• Fixed assigned ranking meta when reviews are manually approved/unapproved
• Fixed imported reviews losing their submission date when approved/unapproved
• Fixed incorrect triggering of the rating validation after a form submission
• Fixed translation bug with htmlentities
• Fixed paragraph word wrapping in reviews

5.5.2 (2021-01-29)

• Fixed browser support for star-ratings.js

5.5.1 (2021-01-26)

• Added the missing “What’s New” sections

5.5.0 (2021-01-26)

• Added “data-field” attribute to form fields; this should make it easier to build custom CSS layouts
• Added “date”, “user__in”, and “user__not_in” parameters to the glsr_get_reviews() function
• Added glsr_trace() helper function
• Added plugin style for the “Twenty Twenty-One” theme
• Added “Restrict Limits To” setting which allows you to choose which assignments are used in the review limits.
• Added sub-sections for add-on settings
• Changed the “site-reviews/review/build/” hooks to “site-reviews/review/build/tag/”
• Fixed CSV importing when header values contain trailing spaces
• Fixed email and IP address review limits to include all reviews (not just approved reviews)
• Upgraded star-ratings.js library to v4 in preparation for the “Review Themes” add-on

5.4.3 (2021-01-16)

• Fixed Add-on support notice
• Fixed Migration support for PHP 8.0 Named Arguments

5.4.2 (2020-12-26)

• Fixed line breaks in excerpts

5.4.1 (2020-12-24)

• Fixed links in review responses to allow the “rel” attribute
• Happy Holidays! 🎄✨🍾

5.4.0 (2020-12-22)

• Added the “schema_identifier” meta key which can be used to set a custom ‘@id’ schema property with the Custom Fields metabox
• Added the “Woocommerce Reviews” add-on
• Fixed a PHP 8 error with the schema
• Fixed setting fields to use escaped HTML attributes

5.3.5 (2020-12-16)

• Fixed template tag substitution in custom review templates

5.3.4 (2020-12-16)

• Fixed pagination to use the saved “hide” options
• Fixed the import tool, it no longer substitutes empty review name/email fields with those of the logged in user

5.3.3 (2020-12-14)

• Fixed add-on updater

5.3.2 (2020-12-13)

• Added “Site Reviews Premium”
• Added “Review Forms” add-on
• Added debug logging for validation errors
• Added error logging for database table creation errors
• Added support for PHP 8
• Added the Category and Review IDs to the action row in the admin tables
• Added the {{ assigned_posts }}, {{ assigned_users }}, and {{ assigned_terms }} template tags
• Fixed block attributes
• Fixed line-breaks in review excerpts
• Fixed pagination URLs for servers that do not use REQUEST_URI
• Fixed support for older custom fields using assign_to/category as names
• Fixed the Backtrace used when logging entries to the Console
• Fixed the Console on sites that have been duplicated but still have the upload dir cached to the old path
• Improved the block options
• Improved the documentation
• Improved the System Info

5.2.3 (2020-11-30)

• Fixed the PHP multibyte fallback when the iconv extension is missing

5.2.2 (2020-11-17)

• Fixed shortcode examples in documentation; Copy/pasting a shortcode example into the classic editor will now paste as plain text instead of as HTML code.
• Fixed System Info details to always be in English

5.2.1 (2020-11-15)

• Fixed MariaDB support (removed subqueries from the SQL)
• Fixed migration of imported settings
• Fixed the “post__in” and “post__not_in” options of the glsr_get_reviews() helper function

5.2.0 (2020-11-06)

• Added Notification Template tags for assigned categories, posts, and users
• Added Review Assignment setting
• Changed review assignment in SQL queries to use strict assignments by default (it was previously using loose assignments, use the new “Review Assignment” setting to change this back)
• Changed the glsr_create_review function to log validation errors to the plugin console
• Fixed Bulk Editing of reviews that are assigned to post types or users
• Fixed Multibyte String support
• Fixed Multisite compatibility
• Fixed pagination URLs when used on the homepage
• Fixed rating validation when using a custom maximum rating value
• Fixed review limits validation for assigned reviews
• Fixed review migration of invalid 3rd-party reviews (reviews that were previously imported incorrectly)
• Fixed review name and email fallback values to use those of the logged-in user
• Fixed the submission date of reviews, it now uses the timezone offset in the WordPress settings

5.1.6 (2020-10-25)

• Fixed compatibility issue with the Elementor Pro Popups
• Fixed the glsr_create_review helper function validation

5.1.4 (2020-10-25)

• Fixed addons notice styling and placement
• Fixed plugin file paths on IIS Windows servers
• Fixed plugin migrations to work better with the W3 Total Cache plugin
• Fixed strict standard notices in PHP 5.6

5.1.0 (2020-10-24)

• Fixed database integration with WordPress tables that still use the old MyISAM engine
• Fixed the submission date of reviews to account for the timezone
• Improved the plugin migration notice

5.0.3 (2020-10-23)

• Added back the deprecated “count” option on the [site_reviews] shortcode so that it will still work for people who have not yet replaced it with the “display” option.
• Fixed a regression which prevented translations from including a link (i.e. the terms toggle)
• Fixed the terms toggle validation
• Fixed the trustalyze add-on link

5.0.0 (2020-10-22)

• Added “Delete data on uninstall” option to selectively delete plugin data when removing the plugin
• Added “Send Emails From” option to send notifications from a custom email address
• Added a loading=”lazy” attribute to avatar images
• Added a new Review Details metabox which allows you to modify review values
• Added a tool to import 3rd-party reviews
• Added a tool to test IP address detection
• Added assigned_posts shortcode option, this replaces the “assign_to” and “assigned_to” options and allows you to assign reviews to multiple Post IDs
• Added assigned_terms shortcode option, this replaces the “category” option and allows you to assign reviews to multiple Categories
• Added assigned_users shortcode option, this allows you to assign reviews to multiple User IDs
• Added suggested privacy policy content
• Added the submitted review to the “site-reviews/after/submission” javascript event
• Added WordPress Personal Data Eraser integration
• Added WordPress Personal Data Exporter integration
• Added WordPress Revision integration
• Changed the assigned_to hide option to assigned_links (i.e. [site_reviews hide=”assigned_links”])
• Changed the minimum PHP version to 5.6.20
• Changed the minimum WordPress version to 5.5
• Changed the review limit validation to perform strict checking for assigned posts, categories and users (AND instead of OR)
• Changed the settings to use the WordPress “Disallowed Comment Keys” option by default
• Changed the “site-reviews/rating/average” filter hook argument order (see the Upgrade Guide on the Site Reviews welcome page)
• Fixed compatibility with the Divi theme and Divi Builder plugin
• Fixed compatibility with the Elementor Pro plugin popups
• Fixed compatibility with the GeneratePress Premium plugin
• Fixed compatibility with the Hummingbird Performance plugin
• Fixed compatibility with the Members plugin
• Fixed compatibility with the WP-Optimize plugin
• Fixed compatibility with the WP Super Cache plugin
• Fixed the review summary bars in IE11
• Fixed Welcome page permissions
• Improved console logging
• Improved documentation
• Improved plugin performance with thousands of reviews
• Improved the blocks to visually match the WordPress 5.5 editor style
• Improved the Terms checkbox in the review form to align correctly with the text
• Improved translation settings
• Refreshed the stars SVG images
• Removed the deprecated “count” option from the [site_reviews] ahortcode (use the “display” option instead).
• Removed the “site-reviews/config/forms/submission-form” filter hook (see the Upgrade Guide on the Welcome page)
• Removed the “site-reviews/reviews/reviews-wrapper” filter hook (see the Upgrade Guide on the Welcome page)
• Removed the “site-reviews/submission-form/order” filter hook (see the Upgrade Guide on the Welcome page)
• Removed the glsr_calculate_ratings() helper function
• Removed the Trustalyze integration, it is now an add-on
• Removed tool to calculate rating counts (no longer needed)
• Renamed the glsr_get_rating() helper function to glsr_get_ratings()
• Replaced the assign_to and assigned_to shortcode options with the assigned_posts option
• Replaced the category shortcode option with “assigned_terms” option
• Site Reviews now uses custom database tables, however you may still use the WordPress Export/Import tools as before
• The Translations Settings search results are now restricted to public text that is actually shown on your website, if you would like to change plugin text shown in the WordPress admin, you should use the Loco Translate plugin instead