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Created: 11/14/2017
Lastest update: 01/07/2021
Updated to WooCommerce Photo Reviews ver 1.1.5.1.
By VillaTheme
What is WooCommerce Photo Review?
WooCommerce Photo Review offer you a better review system. The review now will include product image. With photos, the product reviews on your site will be more reliable. By that, the plugin will increase your sale and traffic. You can learn how to use through this video:
System Requires:
System minimum requirements:
Install Plugin:
Go to Plugin/Add New/Upload Plugin/Choose file/select plugin file zip woocommerce-photo-review.zip/Install Now/Active Plugin
After installing and activating the plugin, go to Dashboard/ Photo Reviews to set up the plugin.
When an order is completed, an email will be sent to a customer asking for review with a link to the product page.
In the product page, a customer can post their review about the product include the product pictures.
When you approve the review, a coupon will be sent to the customer email.
Go to Dashboard/ Photo Reviews to configure the plugin settings.
In the General tab
General reviews setting
Image caption
Helpful button
Front-end design
1. Activate the WooCommerce Photo Reviews premium version and WooCommerce Email Template Customizer free or premium version.
2. Choose available coupon templates in the Email template option that are designed in the WooCommerce Email Template Customizer plugin.
The following template is designed for the coupon email of WooCommerce Photo Reviews.
You can build unlimited coupon email templates for WooCommerce Photo Reviews using layouts and elements of WooCommerce Email Template Customizer, you can read how to build email templates here and how to customize available email templates here. After building a coupon template for WooCommerce Photo Reviews, save that email template under WooCommerce Photo Reviews – Coupon for review type.
If you don’t use WooCommerce Email Template Customizer plugin to design the review email, default email will be used.
13. Email subject: Coupon email subject.
14. Email heading: Coupon email heading.
15. Email content: Coupon email content.
16. Set email restriction: Coupons can be used by the received email address only.
17. Select coupon kind: Select to use an existing coupon which was created in WooCommerce Coupons or let the plugin auto-generate coupons.
18. Select an existing coupon: Choose one of created coupons.
Settings For Unique Coupon
1. Review reminder: Enable this option to send an email to customers asking for reviews.
2. Order status trigger: Send reminder when an order status changes to choosen values.
3. Exclude Email addresses: Set the email adresses which will be not recieved review reminder.
4. Excluded products: These products will not appear in review reminder emails.
5. Exclude categories: Products in these categories will not appear in review reminder emails.
6. Exclude non-coupon given products: Products which do not receive coupons, you can select in Coupon tab, will not appear in review reminder emails.
7. Schedule time: Schedule a time to send request email after an order is marked as statuses chosen above. The time should be at least 10 seconds to make the function works.
8. Custom “from” address: This option allows to change the send – from the address with review reminder emails. If you leave this field blank, the plugin will use the default WooCommerce email address.
9. Email template: You can use WooCommerce Email Template Customizer or Email Template Customizer for WooCommerce to create and customize your own email template. If no email template is selected, default email will be used. View all Email templates or Create a new email template
A. How to send a review reminder template for WooCommerce Photo Reviews premium version using the WooCommerce Email Template Customizer.
1. Activate the WooCommerce Photo Reviews premium version and WooCommerce Email Template Customizer free or premium version.
2. Choose available review reminder templates in the Email template option
that are designed in the WooCommerce Email Template Customizer plugin.
The following template is designed for the Review reminder email.
B. How to build and customize review reminder email templates for WooCommerce Photo Reviews in the WooCommerce Email Template Customizer plugin.
You can build unlimited review reminder email templates for WooCommerce Photo Reviews using layouts and elements of WooCommerce Email Template Customizer, you can read how to build email templates here, how to customize available email templates here, look for available photo review shortcodes and element here. After building a review reminder template for WooCommerce Photo Reviews, save that email template under “WooCommerce Photo Reviews – Review reminder” type.
* Note: Drag and drop the Products to Review element to form the purchased products and the Write review button in email template.
If you don’t use WooCommerce Email Template Customizer plugin to design the review email, default email will be used.
10. Button “Review now”: change the text of the review now button in the review reminder email.
11. Button “Review now” text color: Change color of the review now text in the review reminder email.
12. Button “Review now” background color: Change color of the review now button background in the review reminder email.
13. Product image width: Adjust product image width in the review reminder email.
14. Auto-login: Automatically log customers into their accounts when clicking on button “Review Now” in their review reminder emails. The link is onetime-use and will expire after 30 days if not used.
15. Disable auto-login if users have roles: select user roles which you want to disable the auto-login feature.
16. Review page: you can use the review form shortcode to create a review page. Then select that page here. When a customer clicks on the review now button in emails, they will be redirected to this page. Then they can leave reviews without logging in.
17. Button Review on My account/orders: Select order statuses that you want button Review to be shown on My account/orders.
Search and Replace a word or a sentence in review author and review content when importing reviews from AliExpress
Go to Dashboard/Photo Reviews setting/AliExpress Reviews
Apply Phrases Filter
If you want to do search and replace with other reviews which were not imported from AliExpress, go to Dashboard/comments and check on all the comments you want to change then choose Bulk Actions/Apply Phrases Filter/Apply.
Download review images
If you want to download the images of imported reviews from AliExpress to your server, go to Dashboard/Comments and check on all the comments you want to download review images then choose Bulk actions/ Download reviews images/ Apply.
Set review verified
If you want to set many reviews as verified owner, go to Dashboard/Comments and check on all the comments you want to set as verified then choose Buck actions/Set review verified/Apply.
* The guide video on how to import AliExpress reviews with WooCommerce Photo Reviews.
To import reviews from AliExpress, go to Dashboard/ Product and check on all the products you want to import reviews then click on the import reviews button on manage tabs.
To import reviews for a single product, hover in the area next to date column of the product then click on the import button.
A window will open with options for you to start import reviews.
Import/Export reviews using CSV files
To export reviews into a CSV file, go to Dashboard/ Photo Review/ Export Reviews
To import review using CSV files, go to Dashboard/ Photo Reviews/ Import/
Step 1: Upload CSV file
Step 2: Setting & Mapping
Step 3: Import CSV file
Click on Import button and wait.
WooCommerce Photo Reviews from version 1.1.4.8 has updated a new feature to import reviews from AliExpress and Amazon by the plugin’s extension named: The Import AliExpress/ Amazon to WooCommerce. This feature allows you to import unlimited reviews. Moreover, you can select reviews to import individually or all reviews on AliExpress and Amazon.
Step 1: Go to the
Import AliExpress/Amazon reviews to Woo
Step 2: Click Add to Chrome.
The request popup appears to ask for permission, click on Add extension.
You’ll see the extensions in Chrome as buttons on the toolbar.
1. Secret key: Copy this secret key and insert into the extension, see this guide video below.
2. Look up for product ID by: When you import reviews, this plugin looks up for AliExpress and Amazon product ID by SKU of WooCommerce products by default. If you want to use an other post meta field, please change this field.
3. Import review to: If set, reviews imported with chrome extension will be added only to selected product(s). The “Look up for product ID by” option above will not be used.
4. Review status: All imported review will be set this status, you can choose approved or pending.
5. Set review verified: Set reviews imported with chrome extension to verified reviews
6. Review vote: Import vote up/down count of reviews
7. Upload review images: If a review has images, upload them to your server instead of using the original image url
8. Import order info: Import reviewer’ order info(except for logistics info) such as Color, Size… to Optional fields
Go to Dashboard/ Photo Reviews/ Add A Review to add a review manually.
Go to Dashboard/Comments and hover in the comment/review you want to edit then click on the Edit button .
A window will be opened with options for editting a comment/review.
To create Photo Reviews page, Review form page or Rating page with Elementor, go to Dashboard/ Pages/ Add new/ Edit with Elementor/
* Note: This feature is only available in the premium version.
Design Reviews page with Elementor
You can display all the Photo Reviews on one page and design them yourself with Elementor.
Customize Photo Reviews bar on the left to design Reviews page.
General Tab
Go to General Tab on left side bar.
Pagination Tab
Go to Pagination tab on the left side bar.
Filter Tab
Go to Filter tab on the left side bar.
Rating Count Tab
Go to Rating Count tab on the left side bar.
Design Tab
Go to Design Tab on the left side bar.
With WooCommerce Photo Reviews, you can send coupons and reminder emails with multilanguage for your customers because our plugin is compatible with WPML and Polylang.
Follow this guide to get an Auto-Update key. And fill it into this field to enable the auto-update option.
The plugin provides 3 shortcodes.
A. The shortcode to display reviews.
Reviews shortcode is used to display all reviews or specific reviews of some products or categories. Usage with all available arguments:
[wc_photo_reviews_shortcode comments_per_page="12" cols="3" cols_mobile="1" use_single_product="on" cols_gap="" products="" grid_bg_color="" grid_item_bg_color="" grid_item_border_color="" text_color="" star_color="" product_cat="" order="" orderby="comment_date_gmt" show_product="on" filter="on" pagination="on" pagination_ajax="on" pagination_pre="" pagination_next="" loadmore_button="off" filter_default_image="off" filter_default_verified="off" filter_default_rating="" pagination_position="" conditional_tag="" custom_css="" ratings="" mobile="on" style="masonry" masonry_popup="review" enable_box_shadow="on" full_screen_mobile="on" overall_rating="off" rating_count="off" only_images="off" image_popup="below_thumb"]
General
comments_per_page='12'
mobile='on'
use_single_product='on'
products='99,100'
product_cat='16'
order='asc'
orderby='comment_date_gmt'
conditional_tag='is_page(35)'
ratings='4,5'
only_images='on'
Pagination
pagination='on'
review_per_page='12'
pagination_ajax='on'
pagination_position='center'
pagination_pre="Pre"
and
pagination_next="Next"
loadmore_button="on"
Filter
filter='on'
filter_default_image='on'
filter_default_verified='on'
filter_default_rating='5'
Rating count
rating_count='on'
overall_rating='on'
Design
style='masonry
masonry_popup='review'
cols='3'
cols_mobile='1'
cols_gap='30'
grid_bg_color='#000000'
grid_item_bg_color='#3c3c3c'
grid_item_border_color='Gold'
text_color="'#ffffff'
verified_badge_color='#29D50B'
star_color='yellow'
show_product='on'
full_screen_mobile='on'
image_popup='below_thumb'
enable_box_shadow='on'
custom_css='is_page(35)'
B. The shortcode to display the reviews form.
[woocommerce_photo_reviews_form product_id='85' hide_product_details='on' hide_product_price='on' type='popup' button_position='left']
This shortcode helps you to display a review form. There are 3 ways to use it.
[woocommerce_photo_reviews_form]
into product description to display a review form for that product on front-end.
[woocommerce_photo_reviews_form product_id='85']
by adding the product ID you can create a review form for a specific product and display it on any page.
[woocommerce_photo_reviews_form product_id='85' hide_product_details='on']
[woocommerce_photo_reviews_form product_id='85' hide_product_price='on']
[woocommerce_photo_reviews_form product_id='85' type='popup']
[woocommerce_photo_reviews_form product_id='85' button_position='left']
[woocommerce_photo_reviews_form]
to create a review page, then add the review page in the
Review Reminder tab. Customers who click on the Review now button in Review Reminder email will be redirected to this page. And they can review the product without login.
C. The shortcode to display review overall rating.
[wc_photo_reviews_overall_rating_html product_id="" overall_rating_enable="on" rating_count_enable="on"]
The review overall rating shortcode allows to display overall rating of reviews of a product anywhere you want. Usage with all available options:
products='99,100'
overall_rating_enable="on"
rating_count_enable="on"
Plugin | Author | Compatible |
Polylang | Frédéric Demarle | Fully compatible |
WPML | OnTheGoSystems | Fully compatible |
WooCommerce Email Template Customizer | VillaTheme | Full compatible |
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