Very nice design and very fast set up…

  • Edit: Thank you for your immediate response. Your plugin has a beautiful design. I also liked that star ratings can be brought up on the side menu for a quick evaluation.
    I have not re-tested it due to limited time and I have submitted my project yesterday to the client. However, seeing your work, I believe you will correct the few glitches.

    I always feel bad when I have to deduct a star knowing how much work there is behind all of your work. The less one star should not discourage anyone for giving your plugin a fear trial.

    Best wishes!

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    As of this review, I have the Star Review Manager Version: 1.2.2
    First install, I had difficulty figuring the shortcode as the given one didn’t pick up anything. Current shortcode is
    [srm_review_form container_id=2 srm_review id=2 option_type="stars"]

    Everything seemed just so fantastic. The rating system was quickly setup. Now I wanted to publish.

    First problem:
    Since I am a developer and preparing this for a client, I added my email for testing purposes. Later wanted to change, but there is no ‘Edit’ option to change notification email.

    Just confirmed inside database: uninstall does not remove the srm_..tables. They are still there. I will go ahead and remove them manually.

    Second problem:
    Although plugin looked like it was uninstalled. I installed it again, but there must have been traces somewhere in WordPress database, because it started giving me the following error message

    Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /…/…/public_html/blog/wp-content/plugins/star-review-manager/views/view.reviewform.php on line 55

    .

    I repeated the install/ uninstall but this time the ‘Manage review instances’ navigation item would not uninstall from WP admin menu.
    Unfortunately, I had not taken any database backup for the past 3 days, but I went through the whole recovery of a 3 day old backup. Everything is messed up and I have to install WordPress all over again.

    What I don’t get is that plugins are posted on WP and they are nowhere near beta testing. As developer, you should have tested install/uninstall processes ahead of time.

    If we can resolve the above issues, I am willing to give this plugin another try because the first time it was setup, it seemed to do the magic and would change it to 5 star.

    *Update: after uninstall of plugin, its (srm_tables) are still in the database.

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  • Plugin Author Bram Dekker

    (@bramdnl)

    Hello Muge,

    I am sorry to hear that you had problems using this plugin but I will try to clarify some things. Up front I would like to note that there are still some improvements to be made.

    Unfortunately I did not have the time in the last couple of months to make the necessary and unnecesary improvements. Like I said to others who emailed me, I will try to pick it up as soon as I can.

    Current shortcode is
    [srm_review_form container_id=2 srm_review id=2 option_type=”stars”]

    The two shortcodes that should work are:
    [srm_review_form container_id=1] > review form
    [srm_review id=1 option_type=”stars”] > reviews

    Whereby the id relates to the id of the review instance.

    Since I am a developer and preparing this for a client, I added my email for testing purposes. Later wanted to change, but there is no ‘Edit’ option to change notification email.

    You are right that there is still no edit option for the review containers. It is on the ‘to-do’ list. It is very easy to re-create one and enter another email address though.

    Although plugin looked like it was uninstalled. I installed it again, but there must have been traces somewhere in WordPress database, because it started giving me the following error message

    Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /…/…/public_html/blog/wp-content/plugins/star-review-manager/views/view.reviewform.php on line 55

    I did never experience this issue. Although I had someone email me with the same problem. I am going to address it in the next update. I am not sure if it is caused by the unistall but I need to further assess that. I re-installed the plugin on a website that I am using it on which didn’t give me the same error.

    All data is saved in the srm_… tables. If you uninstall the plugin and remove those tables, there should not be any further problems. I do not put plugin-specific data in any of the wordpress tables.

    I will add logic to the next version that will remove the srm_.. tables when ninstalling the plugin.

    Hopefully I addressed some of your concerns. I will keep you updated on the progress of the plugin!

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