Text widget for latest customer reviews

You’ve got it almost right. Use this shortcode:

[WPCR_SHOW POSTID="ALL" NUM="3" SNIPPET="120" MORE="Continue Reading" HIDECUSTOM="0" HIDERESPONSE="0"]

Place this on a post or a page using the Text Editor (not the Visual Editor) and you should be good to go.

If it doesn’t work for some reason, please post a link to the page on your site where you’ve placed the shortcode so we can see what’s going on.

Thank you for your help, unfortunately, it is still not working.
I can not leave it on my page, because I don’t want my page to look odd to my visitors. I set it as a ‘Text’ widget so that it would show on every page.

However, here is what is shows up:

Latest Reviews

[WPCR_SHOW POSTID=”ALL” NUM=”3″ SNIPPET=”120″ MORE=”Continue Reading” HIDECUSTOM=”0″ HIDERESPONSE=”0″]

Perhaps there is another widget I should use?
I can not see in this code, where the ‘Continue Reading’ link is to send the visitor, is this relevant to this code?

Any help will be much appreciated.

If you’re using it in a widget, then the problem is probably not in the plugin. We’re betting that you just need to enable shortcodes on your site. You can do so by adding this to your theme’s functions.php file:

add_filter('widget_text', 'do_shortcode');

This can go anywhere in the file; I typically put custom code at the end. If you’ve never edited functions.php before, then please be VERY careful about this step as you can bring down your entire site with a single typo. Take a backup of functions.php first, and make sure you have the instructions to FTP to your server on hand, so you can restore the file if something goes wrong.

If you don’t want to edit functions.php then the way to use the shortcode is by inserting it in a page or post using the Text Editor. You can test it out to make sure that it’s working that way.

For your second question, the “Continue Reading” string is what you’re specifying for the text of the link that the plugin will generate to go to the full product review. You could put any text in there and the plugin will use that to display to the user.