Reviews Feed Pro Elite

• New: Rich snippets. Your reviews can now appear as star ratings in Google search results — the plugin outputs schema.org markup (review, rating, and product/business) for your feeds. Works with or without an SEO plugin; when All in One SEO is active, the markup merges into its schema instead of adding a second block. On by default, with a toggle under Settings → Advanced. Available on all plans.
• Improvement: Booking.com reviews now show each guest's own score and wording on their review, so you can see how individual guests rated their stay. Your property's overall score keeps its place in the feed header.
• Improvement: Booking scores in the Review Alert editor now match what your visitors see on your site.
• Improvement: Reviewer photos are handled more efficiently. If a stored copy of a photo isn't available, the feed falls back to the reviewer's original photo right away, and stored copies are rebuilt on the next refresh — which also keeps your feed lighter on your server.
• Improvement: Reviewer photos in Review Alert popups stay visible as the popup cycles through your reviews.
• Improvement: Reviewer photos on Google feeds are round on your site, matching the feed editor.
• Improvement: "Read more" reliably expands long reviews.
• Fix: Plugin security hardening.

• New: AliExpress reviews. Add an AliExpress product as a source and show its buyer reviews on your site — including the buyer's country, the product options they bought (like color and size), any follow-up review, and the photos buyers share. Works in both feeds and Review Alert popups. Available on Plus.
• Improvement: Accessibility. Feeds now work properly with keyboards and screen readers — list and heading structure, described source icons, a real "Read more" button, announcements after "Load More", and visible focus outlines.
• Improvement: The review photo viewer is keyboard accessible — focus stays inside while it's open, Escape closes it, and the previous, next and close controls are named and reachable by Tab.

• New: Airbnb reviews. Add your Airbnb listing as a source and show its guest reviews on your site — including the host's reply to a guest (on reviews the host answered) and the listing location. Works in both feeds and Review Alert popups. Available on Elite.
• Improved: Review Alert popups now show the Airbnb host reply in the same clean, readable style as the feed, across the Light, Dark, Minimal and Minimal Dark themes.
• Fix: You can now add a TripAdvisor source without entering an API key. The API key step now has a Skip option — adding your own key is still optional — matching how TripAdvisor feeds already work behind the scenes.

• New: Booking.com reviews. Add your Booking.com property as a source and show its guest reviews on your site — with Booking's own score and wording (like "8.9 Fabulous"), the pros and cons guests mention, and their review titles.
• Improved: Booking feeds now pull more of your review history in the background, so more of your reviews show over time.
• Improved: Review Alert popups got a cleaner, easier-to-read polish across the Light, Dark, Minimal and Minimal Dark themes.

• Improved: On multilingual sites using WPML, your Google reviews now show up fully translated in every language you offer — not just the first few. Whichever language a visitor is browsing in, they'll see all of your reviews in that language, including when they click "Load More".
• Improved: Google and Yelp feeds now pick up new reviews on their own, even when several come in at once — so your feed always shows your latest reviews, no manual refresh needed.
• Fix: WordPress.org reviews now display their source icon correctly.

• Fix: Review Alerts now show your business's real overall rating and total review count — matching your feed — instead of only the handful of recently cached reviews.
• Fix: Review Alert star ratings now display half stars correctly (for example, 4.5), the same way they appear in your feed, in both the editor preview and on your live site.
• Fix: You can now show Review Alerts on landing pages and other custom post types, not just standard pages.
• Fix: Google reviews now translate correctly on WPML sites that use a regional language (for example Spanish — Mexico). The plugin maps the WPML language to a code Google supports (such as es-419 for Latin American Spanish), and adds a filter, sbr_google_api_language, for overriding the language code sent to Google.
• Compatibility: Tested and confirmed compatible with WordPress 7.0.

• Fix: Feeds that combine more than one source now show the correct total review count and a properly weighted average rating — on your published pages, not just in the Feed Builder preview.
• Fix: Resolved a rare PHP error that could stop a feed from displaying.
• Fix: Reviews feeds load faster on Elementor sites — the plugin no longer runs extra background database lookups on every page, which could slow down sites with a lot of feeds.
• Fix: Fixed feeds dropping to only a few reviews after moving a site to a new domain — the plugin now reconnects to your existing account on the new address instead of getting stuck.
• Fix: Removing a review source now works properly — deleting one could previously error out, or leave you unable to add a new source even when none was showing in your list.
• Fix: Clicking Clear All Caches now refreshes your reviews right away, instead of sometimes leaving a feed empty until the next scheduled update.
• Fix: Pro customers (including legacy All Access Bundle licenses) are no longer mistakenly shown a free-plan review limit — your full set of reviews loads as expected.
• Fix: Additional plugin hardening.

• Fix: Improved loading performance for the block editor and Reviews Feed dashboard, keeping these screens fast and responsive on sites with large amounts of content.
• Fix: Corrected a few misspelled labels in several translations.

• New: A modern Reviews Feed block for the WordPress block editor, plus a new Elementor widget — pick one of your feeds and drop it onto any page or post visually, no shortcode needed.
• Fix: Resolved a critical error on PHP 8 sites where an unexpected response from a review source could crash the page instead of being skipped over. Feeds now stay up and quietly ignore malformed review data.
• Fix: Adding or refreshing Google and Yelp sources is more reliable — when the reviews service is slow to respond, the connection no longer hangs or leaves you with an empty feed.
• Fix: Deactivating your license now works reliably, including cases where it previously kept showing a "License cannot be deactivated" error.

• Fix: Improved reliability on PHP 8 — when a review source can't be reached, the plugin now logs the issue quietly in the background instead of interrupting the feed builder.
• Tweak: Refreshed the Easy Digital Downloads source icon to match EDD's current branding.

• New: Help Widget with quick access to documentation and feature suggestions now available in the Reviews Feed. Easily find answers and share your ideas without leaving the plugin.
• Fix: EDD review titles now display above the review body on both the public feed and the customizer preview. Previously the title (filled in via the required "Review Title" field on the product-page review form) was forwarded to the feed but silently dropped by the renderer. Special characters in the title (apostrophes, ampersands, accented letters) render once, no double-encoding.

• New: Easy Digital Downloads is now a first-class review source. Pick any of your EDD downloads, group several into a multi-product source, or build a feed straight from a category or tag — same wizard you already use for Google, Yelp, and the rest.
• New: EDD source icons render in the same provider-icon row as your other sources, so customers can tell at a glance which review came from your store.
• Tweak: Cleaner small-icon notice graphics — admin notification thumbnails now keep their aspect ratio instead of being stretched into a square.
• Tweak: Notification icons load reliably across the admin area; the small "Reviews Feed" thumbnails that occasionally appeared as broken images now resolve to the correct file.
• Tweak: After a Pro downgrade or after deactivating the EDD Reviews extension, your existing feeds keep displaying the reviews they already collected — both on the frontend and in the admin preview. New EDD sources can no longer be created in that state (the picker tile correctly disables itself with a clear "extension required" message). If you need to remove or replace an EDD source after a downgrade, delete it and recreate when the extension is reactivated.

• Fix: Background cron update optimizations — feed processing batches more efficiently, reducing Google Places API requests on sites with multiple feeds.
• Fix: Connection stability under transient server conditions such as cache events, brief deploys, and high-traffic parallel requests.
• Fix: Site URL recognition across proxy formats (Cloudflare, AWS, Nginx), www variations, and trailing-dot domain forms for consistent connectivity behind any hosting setup.
• Fix: License activation and deactivation reliability with automatic authentication token refresh on the first attempt.
• Tweak: Test Connection diagnostic clarity — distinguishes connectivity, network, and authentication states for clearer status reporting.
• Tweak: Update external links.

• Fix: Resolved a registration loop on multilingual sites (WPML, Polylang) where WordPress's home URL emitted different language paths across requests.
• Fix: Hardened the registration retry limiter so it correctly stops repeated requests even when the plugin successfully registers in a loop.

• Fix: Resolved a loop where sites that switched between http and https (for example after enabling SSL via their host) kept re-registering on every page load.
• Tweak: Added a safeguard that limits how often the plugin can retry registration when something goes wrong, so it never floods your site or our servers.

• Fix: Deactivating your license works again — no more "License cannot be deactivated" error.
• Fix: When your site URL changes, the plugin re-registers your license on the new URL automatically.
• Fix: Google reviews from authors with non-Latin names (Japanese, Korean, Arabic, Cyrillic, etc.) no longer disappear.
• Fix: Source address now shows under the business name for Google, Yelp, TripAdvisor, and Facebook.
• Fix: Total ratings no longer dips during a provider outage — falls back to last good count.
• Fix: Plugin self-heals on next admin load if settings get corrupted by a backup/migration tool.
• Fix: Email verification no longer loops when the email was already verified.
• Fix: Clicking an expired email verification link no longer throws an error.
• Fix: Email verification completes even if your WordPress session has expired.
• Tweak: Hardened security on the email verification flow.
• Tweak: License deactivation errors now explain the real cause (e.g. license key mismatch).

• New: Review Alerts - Display eye-catching review notification popups on your website to showcase customer feedback and build social proof.
• New: 4 Review Alert themes including Minimal, Minimal Dark, Light and Dark variants.
• New: Customizable display settings for Review Alerts including position, timing, initial delay, and cycle interval.
• New: Page targeting for Review Alerts - display on all pages, specific pages only, or exclude certain pages.
• New: WooCommerce page detection for intelligent Review Alert targeting.
• New: "See All Reviews" expandable view in Review Alerts loads reviews on click for better performance.
• Tweak: Added security fix with rel="noreferrer" on external links.
• Tweak: Accessibility improvements for interactive elements.
• Fix: Resolved PHP 8.1+ deprecation warning when feed settings were not an array.

• New: Added deactivation feedback survey to help improve the plugin.
• Fix: Improved block editor performance by eliminating unnecessary database queries on page load.

• Fix: Resolved international character encoding issues (æ, ø, å, etc.) in source names causing API errors.
• Fix: Improved HTML entity decoding in review content display.
• Tweak: Enhanced source identification reliability for API communications.

• Fix: Resolved Borlabs Cookie 3.x compatibility issue preventing consent detection.
• Fix: Improved website registration token handling for better reliability.

• Tweak: Improved API key handling for all review providers.
• Tweak: Saved API keys are now used when adding new sources.
• Tweak: Enhanced API communication reliability.

• Tweak: Plugin hardening and miscellaneous fixes.

• Tweak: Add official support for WordPress 6.9.

• New: Display reviews from your WooCommerce store as a first-class source. Select individual products, categories, or tags to showcase product reviews anywhere on your site.
• New: Full PHP 8.4 compatibility with all deprecation warnings resolved.
• New: Feed location tracking to see which pages use each feed before deletion.
• New: Pagination for feeds and sources lists in the admin for better management of large numbers of items.
• New: Weighted average calculation for multi-product WooCommerce sources review score.
• Tweak: Plugin hardening and miscellaneous fixes.
• Fix: Improved SQL query patterns to prevent incorrect product ID matching.
• Fix: Fixed spelling errors in code.
• Fix: Various bug fixes and performance improvements.

New - GDPR integration for Google and Yelp reviews photos. New - Added two row carousel layout. New - Added support for TripAdvisor languages. New - Added support for Google sources addresses. New - Added custom breakpoints for carousel layout. Tweak - Improved caching behavior to ensure correct review data loads. Tweak - Sire tokens and license system enhancements. Fix - Fixed review images not displaying after clearing the cache. Fix - Fixed issue that removed all posts when clearing resized images. Fix - Plugin hardening and miscellaneous fixes.

• New - Display user reviews from your Easy Digital Download customers. Boost your social proof and increase conversions by displaying product reviews from EDD.
• Fix - Fixed an issue with the Google review translations.
• Fix - Fixed the issue that would cause the _load_textdomain_just_in_time deprecation warning.

• New - Added integration with the new Google Places API.

• New - Get Google and Yelp Reviews without an API key. Get weekly feed updates for Google and Yelp reviews without an API key for a limited number of sources. You can still add an API key for more frequent updates and unlimited sources.
• New - Display user reviews from form submissions on your site. Reviews submitted with either WPForms or Formidable Forms can now be displayed with the Reviews Feed plugin.
• Tweak - Added additional logging to troubleshoot certain feed issues.
• Fix - Improved the reliability of the bulk history retrieving when connecting a new source.
• Fix - Additional plugin hardening.

• New: Get up to 100 historical reviews for a Yelp and Google Source. A one time request will be made to grab up to 100 of the most recent reviews for your sources.
• Important: The minimum PHP version is now 7.4.
• Fix: Plugin hardening.
• Fix: Fixed an issue causing the cache to not work properly. Feeds and headers would not update.
• Fix: Miscellaneous fixes and enhancements.

• Fix: Fixed an issue that would cause feed sources to update more frequently than intended when many feeds were created.

• Fix: Fixed an issue causing feeds to update more frequently than expected.

• New: Collections feature.
• Tweak: Added load more button in sources list.
• Fix: Fixed issue with the header stats not being updated.
• Fix: Miscellaneous fixes and enhancements.

• Tweak: Added more functionality that protects your Facebook data.

• New: Added support for showing reviews in different languages based on WPML (WordPress Multi-lingual Plugin https://wpml.org/) features. Configure this on the Language & Translation tab for the Settings page.
• New: Add a minimum and maximum character length setting to hide short or long reviews if needed. In the feed customizer, visit the Settings tab, Filters sub-tab to configure this setting.
• Tweak: A source is automatically selected when it's added in the feed creation process.
• Fix: Fixed an issue that would cause reviews to be shorter than expected.
• Fix: Fixed the text for expanding reviews.
• Fix: Fixed issues and PHP warnings that affected sites using PHP 8.1+.

• New: Added TrustPilot to our list of review providers! If you have a Plus or Elite license, you can now display reviews from any TrustPilot page.
• New: Added WordPress.org as a supported review provider! Elite license holders can show reviews from any plugin or theme in the WordPress.org repository.
• Fix: Fixed an issue causing duplicate reviews to show for Google sources under certain circumstances.
• Fix: Fixed an occasional issue of shortened text showing as a blank review with an asterisk to expand.
• Fix: Fixed the default URL to leave a review not working under some circumstances.

• New: Added support for Google locales to allow fetching reviews in any supported translation. Go to the Settings page -> Lanague & Translation tab to set a global language for your Google reviews.
• Fix: Fixed a bug with local image creating and storing that would cause the images to be recreated every time the feed refreshed.

• Fix: Facebook reviews were not filtering by star rating correctly.
• Fix: Connecting a TripAdvisor source would not work if using the full URL and the ID of the place was greater than 6 digits.
• Fix: Fixed some conflicts with other Smash Balloon products that would cause some visual issues with buttons and icons.
• Fix: Removing a source from the plugin will also remove it from the Reviews API to allow changing sources without an API Key if needed.

• Launched the Reviews Feed Pro plugin