Comments on: myReviewsPage WordPress Plugin

By: Myke

Myke — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 06:55:36 +0000

To Patrick O’Keeffe or anyone else having issues running a site with this plugin locally. Your issue may be similar to mine. This may be updated by now, but my issue was in the myReviewsPage.php file on line 77.

The opening php tag was a short tag. Depending on your server setup this may not be supported. So try changing this – to this-

By: Internet Marketing

Internet Marketing — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 18:35:40 +0000

Seems like Google is a huge bottleneck for you. I have dealt with similar issues when grabbing content via parsing over http.

Why not just disable Google from the plugin???? not everyone cares if google places reviews are included! It’s still a great plugin and especially for directories its perfect. I am interested in this for one of my projects. And I don’t care about Google. If they don’t offer an API, there’s probably a reason for it. I’d rather not publish something if it’s against TOS…

By: Dave

Dave — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 12:43:43 +0000

Sure opens up a lot of possibilities, doesn’t it?

By: don

don — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 04:56:03 +0000

@Dave, sweeeet – thanks for the tip!

By: Dave

Dave — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 02:35:38 +0000

@Rebecca and don:

Yes, you can run shortcodes in widgets. Just add this code to your functions.php file:

add_filter(‘widget_text’, ‘do_shortcode’);

By: don

don — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 00:50:19 +0000

Hi Eric, we did produce a white label version of the tool but it is not free because we have to maintain a server and email infrastructure. You can find it here: http://expand2web.refmobworks.com/

By: don

don — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 00:49:01 +0000

@Stevie, we don’t have a style sheet exposed for the display of the plugin. I know, that seems obvious in hindsight :) It would be cool to add this but I don’t see this happening in the near future. If you download the plugin you do have the source code, but I know that’s a lot to wade through.

By: don

don — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 00:47:13 +0000

Hi Cindy, Yes it does work with Yelp and Bing, and CitySearch because they actually have APIs that we can query to get the results.

By: don

don — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 00:46:22 +0000

@Rebecca, unfortunately shortcodes do not work in WordPress Widgets. I’d like to do a widget but we’re having too many problems pulling the Google Places reviews right now to invest in creating the widget. Sorry!

By: don

don — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 00:44:59 +0000

@solo, Jason, Soccer Field, Dave, Elise,
I did get a lot of requests for the multiple badge capability for directory sites and I can see the need for it.

We ran into so many problems pulling the Google reviews because of the lack of an API that all my engineering time and effort has been going into that. At this point, it is changing so often that we can’t sustain it.

So we’re holding off on this until they come up with a better way of pulling reviews from Google Places. If and when we get past that, we will look at handling multiple businesses for directories.