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Glow Reviews – Smart Feedback & Testimonials

Collect feedback with ratings, moderation, image uploads, and flexible testimonial layouts. Includes drag-and-drop layout builder.

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Tested up to WordPress 7.0
Current version1.2.0
WordPress coverageTested up to WordPress 7.0
Minimum stackWP 5.2 · PHP 7.4
Directory statusactive
Last directory update2 Oct 20261mo ago
Active installations20Adoption metric — not a quality score
WordPress.org ratingNo WordPress.org ratings yet
Official packageDirect from WordPress.org

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WP PlugIndex currently records Glow Reviews – Smart Feedback & Testimonials version 1.2.0 as active, updated 1mo ago and tested up to WordPress 7.0.

Overview

About this plugin

Glow Reviews helps you collect customer feedback and publish approved testimonials with native WordPress tools. Feedback submissions are stored as a custom post type, reviewed in the admin area, and displayed with shortcode-driven layouts.

The plugin includes a frontend feedback form, duplicate-email update flow, testimonial moderation tools, image upload support, avatar fallbacks, and shortcode-based display controls. Longer testimonial content can be collapsed with a Read More toggle, while built-in validation, nonce checks, honeypot fields, form timing checks, and rate limiting help keep submissions clean and secure.

A powerful drag-and-drop layout builder allows you to create custom testimonial designs with preset templates, live preview, and modern styling options without coding.

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Key Features

  • Collect feedback with 1-5 star ratings
  • Frontend feedback form shortcode with AJAX and standard submission support
  • Detect duplicate submissions by email and allow customers to update an existing review
  • Display approved testimonials in grid, slider, list, masonry, stacked, timeline, marquee, or custom layouts
  • Advanced drag-and-drop layout builder with preset designs and live preview
  • Preset layout templates for professional testimonial displays
  • Custom layout builder accessible from Tools > Layout Builder
  • Gallery view for browsing and selecting preset layouts
  • Show Read More / Read Less for testimonial text longer than 120 characters
  • Upload customer images with validation for JPG, PNG, and GIF files up to 2MB
  • Fall back to WordPress user avatars or inline SVG avatars for logged-in users when no custom image is uploaded
  • Review submissions from a dedicated Pending Feedback admin screen
  • Approve, reject, edit, or manually add testimonials from the WordPress dashboard
  • Display settings page and built-in documentation page in wp-admin
  • Flexible shortcode attributes for layout, visibility, ordering, limits, and categories using the glowrev- shortcode prefix
  • Spam protection with honeypot fields, nonce checks, form timing validation, and IP-based rate limiting
  • Migration helpers for older CLVO-based plugin data and admin URLs
  • Uses WordPress caching APIs to reduce repeated testimonial queries
  • Improved WordPress coding standards compliance, escaping, nonce validation, caching, and readme consistency
  • Scroll reveal animations for enhanced user experience
  • Device-responsive preview in layout builder (desktop, tablet, mobile)
WordPress.org metadata

Plugin tags

Topics listed for this plugin in the WordPress.org directory.

  • customer
  • feedback
  • ratings
  • reviews
  • testimonials
Compatibility & maintenance

Compatibility & maintenance

Tested up to WordPress 7.0

Not yet marked as tested with WordPress 7.1. WordPress.org currently lists Tested up to 7.0.

Current WordPress releaseWordPress 7.1
WordPress.org Tested up to7.0
Minimum requirementsWordPress 5.2 · PHP 7.4
Update activity2 Oct 20261mo ago

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WordPress compatibility7.0.47.0.6
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