Reviews – Easy Digital Downloads

Version 2.2.6 — January 28, 2025

Dev: Improves compatibility with EDD 3.x.
Emails: Improves scheduling “request a review” emails.
i18n: Improves translatable strings.
Integrations: FES vendors can now receive a notification when a customer reviews their product.

Version 2.2.5 — August 20, 2024

Integrations: updates the Frontend Submissions vendor feedback form and email handling.
Review Requests: adds back a missing period for the review requests.

Version 2.2.4.1 — June 14, 2024

Updates the block assets and dependencies.

Version 2.2.4 — June 13, 2024

New: Updated to integrate with EDD email management.
Admin: Settings have been updated for EDD 3.x compatibility.
Shortcodes: When Frontend Submissions and Software Licensing are both active, the columns in the legacy purchase history shortcode could be out of order.
Privacy: A variable could be undefined when processing a user privacy request.
Emails: Users who are renewing a licensed product will no longer receive review notifications.
Dev: Updated for PHP 8 compatibility.
Dev: The minimum requirements for Reviews are now PHP 7.1, WordPress 5.4, and Easy Digital Downloads 3.1.5.

Version 2.2.3 — April 25, 2023

Fix: The review request email has been updated for EDD 3.0 compatibility.
Fix: The review widget markup was incomplete.
Fix: Missing schema data has been added.
Fix: The microdata is not output in EDD 3.0 since it has been deprecated.
Fix: The display_aggregate_rating method did not have the expected output.
Fix: Sites with pagination enabled for comments could have incorrect links to individual reviews.
Dev: The payments query has been updated for EDD 3.0 compatibility.
Dev: The minimum WordPress version is now 5.4.

Version 2.2.2 — February 8, 2022

Fix: Voting on a review now shows the updated vote information.
Fix: Votes increment as expected.
Fix: Votes on a review are now being stored correctly in the database.
Fix: Front end input fields no longer set an explicit size attribute.
Refactor: Voting, API, asset loading, and settings functions have been moved to individual classes.
Dev: Class properties are now explicitly, rather than dynamically, declared.

Version 2.2.1 — December 14, 2021

Refactor: The settings page has been moved to the “Marketing” tab on EDD 2.11.4 and higher.
Fix: Sorting on admin “Reviews” page not working.
Fix: Reviews order not working as expected.
Fix: Activation not running on new installs.
Dev: Refactor how plugin licensing is instantiated.

Version 2.2 — October 26, 2021

Notice: Minimum PHP version set to 5.6.
New: Added a block for embedding a review in the block editor.
New: Added an option to customize the order reviews appear. (Newest first or oldest first.)
New: Added an option to change the number of reviews shown per page on the admin table.
New: Added new options to the “When to send?” setting (“2 weeks” and “1 month”).
New: You can now customize the subject for the “Request a Review” email.
Improvement: Review row actions have been updated to provide better clarity and contextual actions.
Improvement: Updated the email tag label formatting.
Improvement: Reviews Widget – Review titles now link to the review.
Improvement: Added better support for disabling the JSON-LD markup via custom code. (We now check if the data is empty, and if so, do not output the script tags.)
Fix: Google schema warning due to missing “Review” field.
Fix: Database upgrade notice shows on new installs.
Fix: Admin “Approved Reviews” list displaying reviews that haven’t been approved.
Fix: Fatal error on certain admin pages when using PHP 8.
Fix: Undefined variable $number.
Fix: All reviews showing up on admin “Recent Reviews” dashboard widget.
Fix: Stray closing div tag on reviews admin table.
Dev: Use edd_has_user_purchased() function when on EDD 3.0+.

Version 2.1.14 — September 29, 2021

Fix: Undefined index error when replying to a comment via the admin page.
Fix: Prevent unnecessary queries from running on every page.
Fix: Star ratings not displaying on front-end if CSS is disabled.

Version 2.1.13 — August 18, 2021

Fix: Undefined index error when replying to a comment via the admin page.
Fix: Prevent unnecessary queries from running on every page.
Fix: Star ratings not displaying on front-end if CSS is disabled.

Version 2.1.12 — November 16, 2020

Improvement: Prevent guests from submitting replies to reviews to help cut down on spam.
Improvement: Refactor code to better follow WordPress coding standards.
Fix: EDD Reviews widget showing unapproved reviews.
Fix: Duplicate edd_reviews_average_rating post meta keys per download.
Fix: Possible error when bulk marking reviews as spam due to excessively large URL.
Fix: Remove invalid insert_review function hooking into init. This fixes an error with some WP-CLI commands.

Version 2.1.11 — April 9, 2020

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Fix: Enable review request emails to be sent when now is the selected time period.
Fix: Compare version and only show admin notification for upgrade with outdated versions.
Fix: Verify that orders are complete or published before request review emails sent.
Fix: Remove unused variable $post_id in class review widget.
Fix: Use timestamp $now to ensure review request emails are being sent at correct time relative to store timezone.