Feature Update: Adding Single Reviews to Existing Collections

Feature Update: Adding a single review to an existing collection

New features are available in WP Business Reviews now. This month we’re announcing the ability to add single reviews to existing Collections.

Collections are a powerful tool for collecting your reviews and displaying them. One limitation of social platforms — specifically Google and Yelp — is that they only provide a limited number of reviews over their API. If you have a really great and relevant review that isn’t served over the API, what can you do with that?

Previously, with WP Business Reviews, you could add custom single reviews manually no problem. But adding those single reviews to an existing Collection was not possible, except as a Tagged Collection.

Introducing Review Sources

We recently introduced the ability to assign a single review to a specific “Review Source.” When it comes to Facebook, Google, and Yelp, a “review source” is a business. Every time you create a new Collection, you pull the reviews in based on the business.

Now, with the ability to assign a single review to a review source, your single reviews are added to any Collection that pulls reviews from that review source automatically.

An animation showing the process of choosing a Review Source in the Single Reviews edit screen.

Check out our detailed documentation to learn more about this.

What’s Coming Next in WP Business Reviews?

We determine our development roadmap based on two main things:

  1. Customer Feedback
  2. Developments in platforms and their features

With that in mind we are working on several exciting things for our next couple releases of WP Business Reviews:

  1. Support for Facebook Recommendations
    Watch our blog and social channels for more information about what this is and how it impacts your business on Facebook.
  2. Automatically adding new reviews to existing Collections
    This feature was planned from the beginning, but based on user feedback we’re making it an immediate priority.

Thanks for communicating with us via our live chat and contact forms — keep it coming!

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