Reviews

Features

• A reviews page: the average rating, bars per star, 20 reviews per page and a “Leave a review” form at the end.
• A review has a rating from 1 to 5, a name, optionally a city or company, and text.
• A review from the site waits for approval by default. The admin panel has three lists: “Waiting”, “On the site”, “Rejected”; a review can be approved, rejected, returned to waiting or deleted.
• The owner's reply is shown under the review.
• You can add a review yourself, for example one carried over from Google or from paper. It appears immediately, with a mark.
• Bot protection without CAPTCHA images: a honeypot field, rejection if submitted faster than four seconds, links in the name filtered out, no more than five reviews per 30 minutes.

Configuration

Admin panel → Settings → Reviews, “Reviews from visitors” group:

• Let visitors leave reviews — on by default. When off, the page shows only the reviews added by the owner.
• Read before publishing — on by default. When off, a review appears immediately.

Permissions

• See reviews.
• Approve, answer and delete reviews.

Both permissions are granted on installation to editors and administrators. The “Reviews” section is in the “Community” group.

On the site

• /reviews — the reviews page, a “Reviews” item in the site menu; the address is included in the sitemap.
• The “Client reviews” block on the home page: three recent approved reviews with the average rating. While there are no reviews, the block is not shown.

Installation and removal

Installation creates the reviews table. Removing the module with data deletes it along with all reviews.

Left out on purpose

• Publishing without approval by default: reviews are the first place spam and abuse turn up.
• An empty “no reviews yet” block on the home page: it works against the site.