=== Rich Reviews ===
Contributors: foxytechnology, Nuanced Media
Donate link: http://nuancedmedia.com/
Tags: reviews, review, testimonials, testimonial, hreview, rating, ratings, google, rich snippets, review widget, seo, shortcode, plugin, snippet, snippets
Requires at least: 3.4
Tested up to: 4.2.2
Stable tag: 1.6.5
License: GPLv2 or later
License URI: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html

Embed user reviews and Google Rich Snippet ratings anywhere on your site.

== Description ==

Rich Reviews empowers you to easily capture user reviews for your business, website, or individual products/pages and display them on your Wordpress page or post.

With Google Places, Google Plus and Google Local emphasizing the importance of Testimonials.  Reviews are becoming integral for the success of any product or service online.

<h4>Rich Reviews Features:</h4>

* Three types of reviews: per-page/per-post, category, or global reviews allow you to customize to your needs. Whether you want users to review products, categories, or your entire website - Rich Reviews gives you the control.
* Moderated submissions, allowing you to choose which reviews are added to your site.
* Built completely around shortcodes, allowing you to include any of the three key features on any page, post, sidebar, footer, or widget on your site.
* Simple design allows compatibility across themes.
* Includes external stylesheet for ease of customization.
* Shows aggregate reviews microformat (hReview-aggregate) so that site ratings are viewed in Google results with Google Rich Snippets.
* Minimalist, lightweight, and efficient code means that your users won’t notice any hiccups.


<h4>More Information</h4>

Visit <a href="http://plugins.nuancedmedia.com/wordpress-reviews-plugin/">Rich Reviews</a> for more information about Rich Reviews.

== Installation ==

1. You can download and install the Rich Reviews plugin through the built-in Wordpress plugin installer. Alternately, download the zip file and upload the '/rich-reviews/' folder to your '../wp-content/plugins/' folder.
2. Activate the plugin through the 'Plugins' menu in WordPress
3. View the instructions page in your the Wordpress backend to see detailed explanations and examples of how and where to use the shortcodes which enable reviews to be shown, submitted, or averaged.
4. Periodically check the Rich Reviews menu in the Wordpress control panel to see if there are any pending reviews which need to be approved (or deleted).

== Screenshots ==

1. Show any number of reviews for your whole site, for a specific page or post, or for any custom category. Display these reviews in any post, page, sidebar, or widget!
2. A simple shortcode allows you to post an aggregate review score on any page.
3. A simple and clean review submission form can be placed anywhere on your site, and will not bog down your site.
4. Admin menus allow you to approve the submitted reviews, so YOU control what reviews are real, and which reviews are unwarranted (or even spam). You can also view every review you have already approved, and choose to push it back to a "pending" status, or even delete it.
5. Added options allow for you to customize the star color to match our site.
6. One user shows the versatility of Rich Reviews by placing our shortcodes into various tabs on one of his pages.

== Changelog ==

= 1.6.5 =
* hotfix: removed obsolete support for 1.0 - 1.2 version updates
* Added Rich Markup options for author and subject fallbacks
* Fixed minor overlooked bugs
= 1.6.4 =
* hotfix: global post for snippet query
* hotfix: Fixed non-categorized item reviewed schema,  and itemreviewed and author defaults
* hotfix: Widget dependency on deprecated code.
* Added "all" value for both snippet and show shortcodes
* Altered and fixed aggregate category query
* Uppdated Rich Snippet output for Schema.org markup
* Fixed random order bug
* Added dynamic response message for name field dependency and approval requirement.
* Refactored file structure and option handling
* Refactored i18n string formatting
= 1.6.3 =
* hotfix: fixing longstanding global reviews show issue
* added option for email notifications, and accompanying field for admin emaail
* added option for scroll back to form after submission
= 1.6.2 =
* hotfix: scroll after submission
* updated rich formatting
= 1.6.1 =
* Updated layout of user opttions
* Made form fields editable
* Added Rounding for Aggregate Rating
= 1.6.0 =
* Updated rich snippet format to microdata
* Added option to display reviews at full width
* Added option to display date along with reviews

= 1.5.12 =
* Correcting star display issue.

= 1.5.11 =
* Fixing issue with stars not displaying.

= 1.5.10 =
* Fixing issue with extra div creation.
* Adding link to new plugins website on dashboard.

= 1.5.9 =
* Hot fix: Correcting the correspondence with Google Rich Snippets.

= 1.5.8 =
* Hotfix

= 1.5.7 =
* Added options admin page.
* Option to edit the color of stars.
* Option to edit form input title of previous "Review Title" input.
* Option to allow various user roles to manage reviews.
* Option to display stars in snippet instead of numerical value.
* Option controlling the order in which reviews are displayed.
* Option to skip the pending process for reviews.
* Adding the ability to add and edit reviews from the WordPress dashboard.
* Fixed minor css issues.

= 1.5.6 =
* Removing a debug dump function that was accidentally left it.

= 1.5.5 =
* Correcting admin page errors.

= 1.5.4 =
* Removing foxytech links

= 1.5.3 =
* Bug fix: correcting popular display issue

= 1.5.2 =
* Introducing new dashboard styles

= 1.5.1 =
* Database bug fix correcting possible site crashes
* Added option for credit line

= 1.5.0 =
* Big update! Complete rewrite of plugin to make it easier to update in the future, and to add more features
* We are now branching to add Nuanced Media as a developer of this plugin
* Everything about the plugin should function better, and with the rewrite and addition of Nuanced Media as a contributer, the updates should come much faster

= 1.4.2 =
* Hotfix: vertical-align: top on the review submission form

= 1.4.1 =
* Changed display order so that reviews are displayed newest-first
* Changed version numbering, and changed version checking function to compensate

= 1.4 =
* Some much needed tweaks, such as better displaying data from the database (no more "rnrn"!)
* VASTLY improved admin menus - now the tried and true WordPress menus you know and love are in Rich Reviews! This means that now you can approve/delete bulk items with much greater ease!
* Added scss files for easier css maintenance
* Much better css! I am no longer providing the majority of the styles - instead I will allow whatever theme you currently have installed to do the leg work (as it should be!)
* Much better javascript!

= 1.3 =
* Added the much-requested feature of per-page/per-product reviews, as well as adding optional review categories to go along with it
* Revamped the backend instructions page to be more pretty and to be much more informative, and to give detailed examples and explanations for each shortcode
* Cleaned up the CSS pretty much everywhere
* The stars in ratings are now orange/yellow when reviews are displayed

= 1.2 =
* Fixed a large bug where the MySQL database was not created properly if plugin was installed fresh, and hence no reviews could be sent, stored, approved, nor displayed! (Thanks, Mik!)

= 1.1 =
* Altered CSS to make the reviews and the review form more pretty (Thanks, Andrew!)
* New, altered CSS allows reviews to properly be displayed and stacked vertically (for example, in a sidebar)
* Integrated/fixed support for non-English characters (Thanks, IvicaD!)
* Split menu up into three parts: instructions, pending reviews, and approved reviews
* New "Approved Reviews" admin menu allows you to view every review you have ever previously approved, and change its status (to pending, or mark it for deletion) at will

= 1.0 =
* Initial release

== Upgrade Notice ==

= 1.6.0 =
We updated the "rich snippets" of this plugin to use microdata instead of microformat - microdata is the new hotness and works much better with search engines. This is a big change for us, as the way we rendered meta data had remained the same for the last couple years, and slowly started to lose its applicability. We hope that this change will give greater compatibility between the metadata/rich snippet markup and search result summaries.

= 1.3 =
This adds the MUCH requested feature of having per-page/per-product reviews, as well as adding optional categories for further customization! The instructions page has also been overhauled to provide useful, relevant explanations and examples for each of the shortcodes.

= 1.2 =
This version is essential, as it fixes a bug where the MySQL database was not created unless the plugin had been installed at version 1.0

= 1.1 =
This version pretties up the reviews and the form, and fixes the CSS to allow vertical stacking of reviews in, say, a sidebar. Also implements an "approved reviews" menu to view and change the status of previously-approved reviews.

= 1.0 =
Initial release