The Site Health section in our site is reporting 3 critical issues, after a lot of research i determined it is caused by your plugin.

The 3 issues are:
A PHP session was created by a session_start() function call. This interferes with REST API and loopback requests. The session should be closed by session_write_close() before making any HTTP requests.

The REST API request failed due to an error.
Error: cURL error 28: Operation timed out after 10001 milliseconds with 0 bytes received (http_request_failed)

and

The loopback request to your site failed

I don’t know enough about these to determine how critical they really are, i mean the site seems to be running just fine, but it’s marked as a critical error so i’m reporting it.

I installed the String Locator plugin to search “session_start()” for the likely culprit, this found 3 plugins and then i began deactivating plugins to see if the issue went away and it went away when i deactivated Review Wave and came back after reactivating, i checked the other 2 plugins first, they had no effect.

This is just a wild guess but i think this is caused by the fact that our site uses the latest PHP (7.4) and this plugin isn’t coded for it, i mean it’s been 3 years since the last update.

I’m probably just wasting my time writing this.

HI, nice plugin… bec of EU-GDPR coming, I wonder if this plugin transmits any data off my server (ie. IP adresses?). Does the Google API make google somehow see who visits my sites?

Thx a million

Dan

In file rw_gplaces.php about line 794+, replace this code

                if (isset($item['author_url'])) {
                    $request_url = add_query_arg(array('alt'=>'json'), 'https://picasaweb.google.com/data/entry/api/user/
                    $response = wp_remote_get($request_url);
                    $body = json_decode(wp_remote_retrieve_body($response), true);
                    $avatar_url = preg_replace( "/^http:/i", "https:", $body['entry']['gphoto$thumbnail']['$t']);
                } else {
                    $avatar_url = false;
                }

with

$avatar_url = isset($item['profile_photo_url']) ? $item['profile_photo_url'] : null;

Hello,

I’m going through the steps to set up Review Wave onto my site and am having trouble finding my business name in the Place Lookup field. Other businesses will auto-populate in the Place Lookup field when I type but my business does not appear. I linked my Google Business page above and that can be found by searching for ‘Handyman in Mansfield’ in a regular Google search. Stumped as to why it won’t populate in the Place Lookup field. Any help would be great!
Thanks,
Steven

Hi,

the plugin is performing really good, but the reviewers profile pictures are not displayed at all, only a placeholder picture. The link of the picture is showing to the plugins directory (/wp-content/plugins/review-wave-google-places-reviews/css/person.png)

Maybe a bug …or intended by design ?

Best regards

J?rg

Very strange but when trying to find my business in the settings it can not find anything. I can search google.co.uk and I can be found. https://www.cycle-fast.co.uk
not sure why, any help appreciated.

Dave

Hi,

I have a new review on google maps yet the plugin doesn’t show it yet, are the reviews updated every so often, if so how often? and if not how do I pull in the latest reviews.

Thanks

Hi,
I’ve just installed this plugin and its working well – thanks!
I just want to know how I can embed the code in a template rather than using a shortcode. Is this possible?
I think it would be a nice addition to the plugin.
Please let me know as I have a good use case to apply this with now and don’t want to switch plugins just yet because of this…

Thanks
Anthony

With the latest Goog updates – can you please add the ability for site users to add a review while on the site?

Hi there,

Can this plugin be used to show only the average star rating? (not the reviews) To take up minimum space in header or footer.

Regards,

Dennis