Manually Approved Reviews for WooCommerce

Description

With this plugin, newly written WooCommerce product reviews will be in a pending (hold) status until manually approved.

Product reviews in WooCommerce are immediately available for everyone to see (this can’t be changed without this plugin). WooCommerce ignores the WordPress “comment must be manually approved” discussion setting. With this plugin, new product reviews must be manually reviewed and approved before being visible on the front-end.

Screenshots

Installation

For an automatic installation through WordPress:

1. Select Add New from the WordPress Plugins menu in the admin area.
2. Search for Manually Approved Reviews for WooCommerce.
3. Click Install Now, then Activate Plugin.

For manual installation via FTP:

1. Upload the woo-reviews-manually-approved folder to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory.
2. Activate the plugin from the Plugins screen in your WordPress admin area.

To upload the plugin through WordPress, instead of FTP:

1. From the Add New plugins page in your WordPress admin area, select the Upload Plugin button.
2. Select the woo-reviews-manually-approved.zip file, click Install Now and Activate Plugin.

FAQ

Are there any settings for Manually Approved Reviews for WooCommerce?

No. All you need to do is install and activate the plugin and new product reviews will require approval. To turn it off, simply deactivate the plugin.

How does it work?

The plugin creates a hook that is triggered whenever someone writes a product review. It then changes the review to a pending (hold) status which requires the review to be manually reviewed and approved (or deleted).

Wait, WooCommerce doesn’t do this?

Nope. New product reviews are immediately available for anyone to read, which is why this plugin exists.

How do I approve the review?

In the WordPress admin area under Comments.

Reviews

Still works!

stanikub February 25, 2022

Even though it’s been not tested with the latest 3 WP updates, the plugin works like a charm. New user reviews need to be approved like regular comments.

Simple but effective

robertgeux February 17, 2022

Implemented succesfully on my ‘work in progress’ site/shop. Thanks!!

Muito bom.

casjunior93 March 9, 2021

Atendeu ao que eu precisava.

Still works great

thelyall August 18, 2020

Wordpress 5.5 WooCommerce 4.3 this still works perfectly, exactly what I needed.

Works fine

florentindragan February 10, 2019

The plugin works fine.

Works as advertised!

rogueeasyweb January 26, 2018

So far, does exactly what it says. Easy install and nothing to configure. A note to others, if you install the plugin, then leave a test review and are LOGGED IN, you will see the stars and most of the review on the site, along with a note “Your review is awaiting approval”. But now log out, and reload the page, and you will see the review is NOT there, pending approval. This took me a second to figure out, and I wonder if the other plugin review here that said it doesn’t work are from people who didn’t figure this out? Anyway, thanks developers, very helpful plugin! Please keep it updated! One last thing, I can’t believe woocommerce doesn’t do this by default. Unbelievable!

Contributors & Developers

Changelog

v1.3.0 – 2/24/2023

• Verified working with WordPress v6.2

v1.2 – 2/1/2021

• Updated contact email address, verified working with WordPress v5.6

v1.1 – 3/23/2016

• Added check to verify WooCommerce was installed and activated

v1.0 – 3/22/2016

• Initial release