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Reviews Changelog

Version 2.1 — July 24, 2017

  • Introduced review reports
  • Introduced an email template tag that display links to review downloads
  • New shortcode to display average rating for a product
  • Added support for guest reviews
  • Introduced a new notification email which is sent to site admins when a new review is posted
  • New feature added to allow the posting of a review to be delayed by a certain amount of days after purchasing
  • Allow site owners to request a review from customers after making a purchase
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    shortcode can now be sorted by average rating
  • Refactor metabox to allow status of reviews to be changed via AJAX and to allow replies to be directly from the metabox
  • Allow all emails to be customizable and introduce of custom template tags
  • Only load CSS on single downloads and remove fixed width of labels
  • Introduced an option to prevent authors from leaving reviews on their own products
  • Use edd_get_option() instead of $edd_options global to ensure the correct filters are applied.
  • Fix: Shortcode now works for multiple reviews
  • Fix: All the review counter bars are now responsive
  • Fix: “Insert Review” media button wasn’t displaying anything when modal was opened
  • Fix: Rating stars now display correct on the “Vendor Feedback page”
  • Fix: Dashboard widget now links to the correct URLs

Version 2.0.6 — May 25, 2017

  • Fix: Vendor feedback headings now use the settings from FES when option is not set
  • Fix: Undefined index notices when creating new products
  • Fix: Vendor Feedback link shown even when no feedback page is setup

Version 2.0.5 — March 7, 2017

  • Fix: Fatal error if Easy Digital Downloads core is not active
  • Fix: Undefined variable $args in review shortcode

Version 2.0.4 — October 26, 2016

  • Fix: Function incorrectly returning array instead of object.

Version 2.0.3 — October 10, 2016

  • Fix: Some strings could not be translated
  • Tweak: Updated translation files

Version 2.0.2 — August 24, 2016

  • Fix: All reviews being displayed regardless of status
  • Fix: Review pagination links weren’t being displayed
  • Fix: Review and rating counts for the review breakdown were incorrect

Version 2.0.1 — August 8, 2016

  • Fix: PHP notice when voting on reviews
  • Fix: Incorrect query arg after submitting review

Version 2.0 — July 27, 2016

  • Introduce a reviewer discount
  • Introduce integration with Frontend Submissions allowing customers to submit vendor feedback
  • Introduce new Vendor Feedback page which allows customers to submit vendor feedback and FES vendors to see feedback given
  • Introduce minimum and maximum word limits that can be set for reviews
  • Show a badge next to the reviewer if they have purchased the download being reviewed
  • Migrated all reviews to their own custom comment type and create a separation between reviews and comments
  • New Reviews download (Downloads > Reviews) page where all reviews are displayed
  • Move settings to Downloads > Settings > Extensions > Reviews
  • Move away from the WordPress comment form and use a custom form for reviews
  • Setting has been introduced to allow voting of reviews to be disabled
  • New TinyMCE widget introduced to make embedding reviews into posts/pages easier
  • Added new ‘parent’ and ‘type’ key to API output to distinguish between reviews and replies
  • Change API output to null if certain keys don’t apply
  • Allow reviews to be enabled and disabled per download
  • New meta box added to the “Edit Download” page to show reviews
  • Fix HTML 5 microdata and schema issues
  • Fix AJAX error that caused some votes not to be recorded
  • Fix memory leak that was occurring when querying user purchases

Version 1.3.8 — October 7, 2014

  • Fix: PHP Notices when adding a new Download

Version 1.3.10 — April 20, 2014

  • FIX: XSS vulnerability in query args

Version 1.3.6 — February 11, 2014

  • Fix: incorrect average rating calculation due to author replies
  • Fix: improved some spacing issues

Version 1.3.5 — January 11, 2014

  • Fix: Ensure that comments that do not have proper review metadata are not considered reviews

Version 1.3.4 — January 3, 2014

  • Fix: Reviews form didn’t display on Shop Front theme

Version 1.3.3 — December 22, 2013

  • Fix: Bug which didn’t allow comments to be posted for different post types
  • Fix: Bug which prevented editing standard comments from the WordPress Admin

Version 1.3.2 — November 23, 2013

  • Fix: problem with must login message showing erroneously

Version 1.3.1 — November 20, 2013

  • Fix: problem with setting for requiring reviewers be customers
  • Fix: location of review breakdown
  • Fix: compatibility issues with Twenty Thirteen theme

Version 1.3 — November 1, 2013

  • Make the templating system a lot more efficient
  • Reduce redundant code

Version 1.2 — September 4, 2013

  • Add the ability to limit buyers to review downloads
  • Add the ability to disable multiple reviews by one person
  • Move Settings to the Extensions tab
  • Reformat the template code to improve readability
  • Make sure admin stylesheet isn’t loaded on the frontend

Version 1.1.1 — August 30, 2013

  • Fix a bug which caused rendering issues with the shortcode

Version 1.1 — August 27, 2013

  • Use the new license handler for updates
  • Add new option to disable multiple reviews by the same author
  • Reviews are now sent through a filter and verified if the option to disable multiple reviews by the same author is enabled
  • Added new filter: edd_reviews_review_not_found_msg
  • The [review] shortcode has been updated to allow for multiple reviews to be displayed.
  • Increase the security of votes sent via AJAX
  • Introduce EDD_Reviews_Shortcode_Review::render_multiple_reviews() to render the shortcode when multiple reviews are requested for display
  • Updated documentation