Photo & Video Reviews for WooCommerce — PVR Media Reviews

Change Log

1.1.2

• All-media grid: fixed “Show all media” on the reviews hub opening without filters; new photo/video filter, media is now grouped by review in page order, skeleton loading placeholders replace the “Show more” button with seamless infinite scrolling, and thumbnails load lazily
• Details modal: flipping through media reviews now continues infinitely in both directions — additional reviews are loaded in the background (previously limited to the reviews rendered on the page); neighboring full-size photos are preloaded so navigation feels instant
• Media: new default image quality presets (thumbnails 90%, modal preview 80%, lightbox 70%) for lighter pages; generated images are never upscaled beyond the original size; fixed a WebP quality bug where the per-format quality was silently discarded during format conversion
• Review Widgets (Pro): block titles are now configurable per widget — custom text, HTML tag (h2–h5/div) and additional CSS classes for matching your theme styles (“Title Selector” field); the live shortcode preview includes the title attributes
• Review Widgets (Pro): fixed the settings page jumping back to the carousel sub-tab after saving on the grid sub-tab, and the shortcode preview losing its values after save
• Admin: the License tab no longer shows a stray Renew link for lifetime licenses (a CSS rule was overriding the hidden attribute); after a failed renewal the Renew link is now a prominent colored button matching the license state (orange during the grace period, red when Pro is disabled)
• Translations updated (EN, RU, ES)

1.1.1

• Emails & Notifications: admin notification, customer confirmation and reply emails are rebuilt with a shared branded template; new accent color settings (gradient + text color) style the email header, buttons and coupon badge; store logo, name, phone and email are shared across all emails
• Emails & Notifications: the admin now receives a media follow-up email when photos/videos finish uploading to an already-approved review; duplicate admin/author notifications are fixed; the customer confirmation is sent when a review is approved manually, including bulk approve
• Emails & Notifications: the plugin From name/address is now applied only to plugin emails instead of overriding all site emails
• Reviewer avatars: avatar URLs are now versioned by file modification time, so updated avatars appear immediately instead of staying cached in the browser
• Admin: the License tab shows the license type (“Lifetime” or “Expires: date”), adds a Renew row after a failed renewal attempt and a “Re-install” button on the Plugin Updates card; new confirmation dialogs for deleting an issued coupon and restoring reminder templates
• Review Widgets (Pro): new per-breakpoint display settings for the carousel and grid (slides, columns, navigation, pagination, autoplay, inertia, avatar and thumbnail sizes) with a live shortcode builder, previewable in the free version
• Review editor: the bottom of the admin review editor is now extensible via the pvrev_admin_review_edit_bottom hook
• Reviews: approving reviews via bulk actions now sends the customer confirmation email (numeric status was not recognized)
• Landing Pages (Pro): fixed landing pages silently failing to save after a plugin update — the database table is now created automatically on save and any database error is reported in the admin instead of being swallowed
• Translations updated (ES, FR, DE, PL, PT-BR)

1.1.0

• License server migrated to a new domain (admin.pv-reviews.site) — license validation, Pro upgrades and automatic updates now point to the new address; installs must update to 1.1.0 to keep checking licenses after the old domain shutdown
• Coupons (Pro): default texts for the customer email message and the review-form notice are now prefilled in settings as editable examples
• Coupons (Pro): usage restrictions moved to a dedicated sub-tab with searchable multi-select pickers for products and categories (no more manual ID lists) and detailed field descriptions
• Coupons (Pro): the tab is now organized into sub-tabs (General / Usage Restrictions / Email Template / Frontend Display)
• Pros/Cons: new “Min” length limit setting; when set, Pros/Cons fields become required and are validated on the client and server (“Pros/Cons too short (min %d chars)”)
• Review form: media section title and limits are now dynamic (“Photos”, “Videos” or “Photos & Videos” with correct per-type limits); the section is hidden when both limits are 0
• Upload previews now display the file size of each prepared (compressed) file
• Admin: fixed settings assets not loading when the screen hook differs from the menu slug
• Admin: reply auto-approve setting clarified (“Auto-approve comments” with description) and moved up in the Replies tab
• Admin: third-party Sortable.js library updated to 1.15.7; update-check AJAX errors now return a readable message instead of a fatal

1.0.9

• Landing Pages (Pro): the list moved below the form with live search (category/manufacturer/H1), status filter, pagination and inline status toggles; editing highlights the row, and the form stays on the Landing Pages sub-tab after saving
• Landing Pages (Pro): fixed “The link you followed has expired” error when saving or deleting landing pages
• Analytics (Pro): new date-range filter (7/30/90 days / all time), cached aggregates with manual refresh, reviews trend chart, monthly dynamics, “Needs Attention” low-rated products table, and new KPIs: pending moderation, verified buyers, reply rate, helpful ratio
• Widgets (Pro): new “Review scope” option — show reviews of products from the current product category (optionally including child categories) when the shortcode is placed on a category page; shortcode attribute scope=”” added
• Widgets (Pro): [pvr_reviews_carousel] and [pvr_reviews_grid] shortcodes are now built from current settings immediately, not only after changes
• Landing Pages / SEO: fixed %category% and similar placeholders being corrupted on save (WordPress sanitize_text_field strips %XX sequences); templates are now sanitized with a placeholder-safe helper
• Admin: fixed %placeholders% being corrupted when saving SEO template sets and landing page fields
• Pro tab previews (free version) updated to reflect the actual Pro features
• Performance: widget review queries and category product lists are now cached (1 hour, auto-invalidated on review changes)
• Landing Pages (Pro): fixed a stale-nonce “link expired” error caused by the criteria admin handler intercepting landing POST actions

1.0.8

• Reviews Page (Pro): customer media strip between filters and sorting — all media from loaded reviews with a “Show all media” grid; new thumbnails append after “Show more”
• Reviews Page (Pro): filter sections now have headers (Categories / Manufacturers), smaller filter buttons
• Reviews Page (Pro): sorting restyled as text links with direction arrow (like the demo page)
• Reviews Page (Pro): “Show more” is a text block with a refresh icon and remaining-count (“Show 12 more reviews out of 37”); pagination now follows the loaded pages
• Reviews Page (Pro): fixed an invalid wpdb::prepare call notice when no filter was selected
• Reviews Page (Pro): removed a stray closing script tag on the System Info tab; fixed .htaccess block preview detection
• Emails & Notifications: plugin From name/address is now applied only to plugin emails (no longer overrides all site emails)
• Emails & Notifications: fixed duplicate admin/author notifications when reviews have media
• Emails & Notifications: author confirmation is now sent when a review is manually approved
• Coupons (Pro): coupons are now actually issued (hook name mismatch fixed); correct reward type for reviews with media; no coupons for reviews pending moderation
• Reminders (Pro): fixed broken unsubscribe link, unsubscribed customers are skipped
• Reminders (Pro): fixed broken UTF-8 encoding in multipart emails
• System Info: fixed “Change PHP Limits” never working on Apache (invalid IfModule wildcard), added CGI/FastCGI and LiteSpeed support; manual instructions updated
• System Info: added clear notice that .user.ini changes take ~5 minutes (PHP-FPM/CGI cache) so users do not re-click “Apply Changes”

1.0.7

• Reviews Page (Pro): new manufacturer filter based on native WooCommerce Brands
• Reviews Page (Pro): category and manufacturer filter lists are interdependent — only filters with reviews in the current scope are shown
• Reviews Page (Pro): SEO template sets for Category, Manufacturer and combined filtering; HTML and meta description now honor the active filters
• Reviews Page: overlay spinner moved closer to the top of the loading overlay for better visibility
• Review widgets (Pro): Category filter now actually filters reviews in Grid and Carousel
• Review widgets (Pro): media modal shows the full review text instead of a truncated excerpt
• Review widgets (Pro): “Read more” button is available even when voting is restricted; voting permission is now checked against the reviewed product
• Review Criteria (Pro): fixed criteria not being created/edited/deleted in admin (form field name mismatch), fixed status toggle failing due to nonce mismatch
• Review Criteria (Pro): criteria summary on the product page is now license-gated and rendered via a hook
• Assets are now cache-busted by file modification time so browser caches stay fresh between updates

1.0.6

• Reviews Page: filtering, sorting and pagination now work without page reload (AJAX + pushState URL updates)
• Reviews Page: loading overlay with spinner during AJAX filtering; per-request HTTP isolation improvements
• Reviews Page: fixed pagination broken by canonical redirect (custom rpage param) and Show more AJAX action
• Reviews Page: fixed Date sort direction and category SEO settings not persisting
• License module: network requests are now fully isolated from frontend and admin page rendering (offline key validation only; server calls limited to daily cron and explicit License tab actions)
• License module: fixed invalid regex when license domain uses wildcard notation (*.example.com)
• License module: automatic reactivation attempts are now rate-limited (once per 10 minutes)
• Admin: file size is displayed under each media thumbnail in the review editor

1.0.3

• Added configurable default admin name setting (General Settings tab)
• Fixed auto-approve mode setting not saving (missing from schema and save flow)
• Fixed Pros & Cons toggle not saving (form field name mismatch with option key)
• Fixed video/photo max size display in review form (trailing zeros were stripped incorrectly)

1.0.2

• Added translation support for Spanish, French, German, Polish, and Brazilian Portuguese
• Updated plugin banners and icons

1.0.1

• Minor bug fixes and stability improvements

1.0.0

• Initial release
• Photo and video uploads for WooCommerce reviews
• Client-side video compression using MediaRecorder API
• Automatic video thumbnail generation
• Helpful/unhelpful voting system
• Store reply threads
• Reviewer avatars with crop modal
• Schema markup for rich snippets
• Configurable email notifications
• Custom rating criteria system (Pro)
• Email review reminders (Pro)
• Review coupons (Pro)
• Analytics dashboard (Pro)
• Carousel and grid review layouts (Pro)
• All Reviews page with category/rating/helpfulness filters and SEO templating (Pro)
• Full i18n support (English, Spanish, French, Russian, German, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese)