Review Stream vs Starfish Review Generation & Marketing for WordPress

To use this plugin, you must: have a Grade.us account with review monitoring enabled be approved for API access and know your API token add the [reviewstream] shortcode to your WordPress site have your server’s SSL certificate file up to date (cacert.pem) (see https://stackoverflow.com/a/21114601 for a possible solution) Release Notes 1.6.8 (2025-04-30) Security update 1.6.7 (2023-08-30) Bugfixes 1.6.6 (2023-06-27) Security update Update WP compatibility version 1.6.5 (2022-10-19) Update WP compatibility version 1.6.4 (2020-12-01) Fix pagination issues 1.6.3 (2020-06-22) Drop RDFa and Micro Data schema formats JSON-LD is the default schema option (Rich Results) HTTPS on all URLs Reduce cache validity to 3 hours 1.6.2 (2019-09-20) Removed the option to see reviews randomly. 1.6.1 (2019-09-12) style improvements 1.6.0 (2019-06-14) Added json-ld schema type 1.5.3 (2017-09-26) Updates for PHP 7 compatibility. 1.5.2 (2017-04-30) Minor markup changes for accessibility. 1.5.1 (2017-02-27) Schema logic changes to keep up with the Google. 1.5 (2017-01-22) Added image to LocalBusiness schema wrapper. 1.4 (2016-12-21) Added pagination option to list view. 1.3 (2016-11-15) Modifying dates to a universal format. 1.2 (2016-10-04) Added missing templates into WordPress.org version control. 1.1 (2016-09-11) Added additional config option to reviewstream default and shortcode: stream_only 1.0 (2016-08-30) Added support for selective use of schema. 0.171 (2016-08-12) Added new admin messaging and put readme in reverse chronological! 0.17 (2016-08-10) Moved config file to reviewstream-settings directory in uploads. Added config option last_initial to show only the last initial of reviewer’s name. 0.16 (2016-06-28) Added config option include_empty to allow filtering of empty reviews. 0.15 (2016-04-28) Updated review limit and modified templates to show links only when present. 0.14 (2016-02-25) Updated aggregate star display logic to better handle decimal ratings. 0.13 (2016-01-22) Added namespace to plugin_settings_link declaration to avoid conflicts. 0.12 (2016-01-14) Added additional config options to reviewstream shortcode: display, randomize 0.11 (2015-07-24) Adding additional config options to reviewstream shortcode: show_aggregate_rating, show_reviews, show_powered_by 0.1 (2015-04-01) No fooling! This is an alpha release for select users.

Now Available! Capture Testimonials directly from your website and into your own site’s database, then display these testimonials using a simple but feature-rich shortcodes anywhere on your site! Review Marketing & Generation for Everyone! Does your business need more reviews? Or are you an online marketer who’s client’s would benefit from more reviews? If so, Starfish Reviews is the plugin for you! Starfish Reviews allows you to create and run review generation marketing campaigns right on your (or your client’s) WordPress website. Easily encourage positive, 5-star ratings and reviews on almost any online review platform. How Review Generation Works Create a “funnel” with the familiar, friendly interface. Send the Funnel URL to your customers, users, followers, audience, etc and ask for feedback. The Starfish Reviews “funnel” asks users how they feel about your business, product, or service. If they like it, they’ll be sent to whatever URL you set in the Funnel settings. This should be a link to the reviews section of wherever you want to generate 5-star reviews. It could be your Google My Business Reviews, Facebook Recommendations, Yelp listing, TripAdvisor page, podcast on iTunes, an Amazon product, or TrustPilot review page, or any other online review platform. Get 5-star reviews at any of those locations and many more! Now you can import the reviews received from the different funnel destinations (Facebook, Google, Trustpilot, etc.) and display on your website using our custom Collections Builder (Premium Only) If people are not so happy with your product, service, media, etc., they’ll be asked to provide feedback directly to you. This helps offset people’s natural tendency to only post reviews when they’re upset, or when they’ve totally misunderstood the purpose of the review. You’ll still learn what you can do to improve, but it won’t be published permanently for the whole world to see. [//]: # fs_premium_only_begin In order to comply with the policy of Google, Trustpilot and other online review platforms, you can also disable this “review gating” feature, so that people can submit feedback directly to you, and still leave an online review, if they wish. [//]: # fs_premium_only_end [//]: # fs_free_only_begin Want More Features, Funnels, & Control? If you like this plugin but want to do more with it, check out Starfish Reviews premium plans. You’ll get all these awesome features: * Priority support * Import and Display Reviews from sites like Facebook, Google, and many more! * Multiple methods for displaying funnels and collections of reviews (shortcode, embed html) * Include Testimonials in collections of reviews from social media * Disable “review gating” to comply with Google’s (and other review platforms’) policy * Multiple review destinations so people can select where they want to leave the review * Multiple funnels for different campaigns or locations * Auto-forward to review destination * See your overall rating based on analytics * Destination analytics * Customize wording of all prompts and buttons * Insert via shortcode into any page or post * Different Funnel layouts (Vertical and Horizontal) * Open destinations in their own browser window * Customize the funnel’s URL * Manage feedback; including exporting to a CSV file * Vote on new features [//]: # fs_free_only_end