Displays the latest reviews of a WordPress Plugin in the sidebar.
The Plugin provides a sidebar widget which can be configured to display the latest reviews of a WordPress Plugin in the sidebar. You can have multiple widgets for different WordPress Plugins.
In addition to using the widget, you can also use the following template function to display the reviews of the WordPress Plugin, anywhere in the theme.
get_plugin_reviews($plugin, $count);
The following options can be passed in the $options array
The Plugin caches the reviews that are retrieved for about 12 hours.
The Plugin adds the following CSS classes. If you want to customize the look of the widget then can change it by adding custom styles to these CSS classes.
div
tag has the class plugin-review
blockquote
tag with class plugin-review-text
span
tag with class plugin-review-author
The development of the Plugin happens over at github. If you want to contribute to the Plugin, fork the project at github and send me a pull request.
If you are not familiar with either git or Github then refer to this guide to see how fork and send pull request.
If you are looking for ideas, then you can start with one of the following TODO items 🙂
If you get timeouts or the error “WP HTTP Error: name lookup timed out” then it means that your server is not timing out before github can respond.
You can use the code from this gist to increase the timeout.
I would be posting updates about this Plugin in my blog and in Twitter. If you want to be informed when new version of this Plugin is released, then you can either subscribe to this blog’s RSS feed or follow me in Twitter.
Also checkout the other WordPress Plugins that I have created.
The pot file is available with the Plugin. If you are willing to do translation for the Plugin, use the pot file to create the .po files for your language and let me know. I will add it to the Plugin after giving credit to you.
This Readme file was generated using wp-readme, which generates readme files for WordPress Plugins.