Areviews - Import Photo & Video Reviews for WooCommerce

Areviews is the connector between your store and Areviews, a hosted product-reviews service at areviewsapp.com. The plugin does not store or render reviews on its own — it links your store to your Areviews account, sends the product and order data the service needs, and places the review widgets the service returns on your storefront. Reviews, including photo and video reviews, can be imported into your Areviews account from AliExpress, Amazon, Shein, Temu, Shopee, Etsy and TikTok, and this plugin puts them on your WooCommerce product pages. You can also collect fresh reviews from your own customers: the plugin sends paid and completed orders to Areviews, which emails each buyer a review request and can reward them with a WooCommerce coupon. An Areviews account is required. Without one the plugin has nothing to connect to and no widget will appear. See External services below for exactly what data leaves your site, and when. What the plugin does

• Connects your store to your Areviews account with a single connection key.
• Displays the photo and video reviews you imported into Areviews on your product pages, alongside the reviews your own customers leave.
• Keeps products in sync (add / update / delete).
• Sends paid and completed orders so Areviews can send review-request emails; past orders can be imported from the Areviews dashboard.
• Places the storefront widgets, all controlled from the Areviews dashboard — nothing to edit in your theme: product reviews widget (placement of your choice or the [areviews] shortcode), star ratings near the product title and on shop / category pages, recent-purchases popup, floating badge, reviews slider ([areviews_slider]), mini slider ([areviews_mini_slider]), floating slider, side widget, home page reviews ([areviews_home_reviews]), cart reviews ([areviews_cart_reviews]), Review Bubbles, Review Reels, World Map and the all-reviews / testimonials page ([areviews_reviews_page], with one-click page creation from WooCommerce > Areviews).
• Adds the Areviews rating to the WooCommerce (and Yoast SEO) product structured data for Google rich snippets.
• Creates review-reward coupons as normal WooCommerce coupons.

Privacy Order and customer data (including customer email addresses) is sent to Areviews so that review-request emails can be delivered. Connecting your store is an explicit, manual action — nothing is transmitted until you enter a connection key and click Connect Store, and disconnecting stops it. If your store serves visitors in the EU/UK, mention Areviews as a processor in your own privacy policy.

1.3.2

• Font Awesome is now bundled with the plugin and enqueued from it. The star ratings on shop and category pages no longer pull a stylesheet from a third-party CDN, which the plugin guidelines do not allow.
• Plugin styles and the widget fallback scripts now go out through wp_add_inline_style() / wp_add_inline_script() instead of being printed into the page.
• Theme compatibility support is off by default and has to be switched on in WooCommerce > Areviews, with the exact scope shown next to the setting. It is now limited to WooCommerce and theme layout templates - functions.php is no longer included - it reads through the WordPress filesystem API, and anything that looks like a key or password is masked before it leaves the site.
• Full disclosure of the Areviews service and the data exchanged with it added to this readme.
• Text domain set to areviews (the WordPress.org plugin slug); escaping, translator comments and uninstall cleanup tidied up.

1.3.1

• Cart reviews widget: now shown on block-theme carts too (the Cart block never runs the classic woocommerce_after_cart hook, so the widget is appended to the cart page content as well), and it renders the same section as the Happy Customers page — restricted to the products in the cart. Products in the cart that have no reviews are skipped, and nothing at all is rendered when none of the cart's products has a review.

1.3.0

• New support endpoint /areviews/v1/theme-export (signed, called from the Areviews admin panel): exports the theme template files behind the home, product, shop/category and cart pages — child + parent theme, block-theme templates and Site-Editor customizations — each with its server location, origin and an explanation, so support can diagnose "widget not showing" reports and add support for new themes without needing access to the store.

1.2.3

• Mini slider and Review Reels entry widget now mount inside the product form, right above or below the Add to Cart button — the side is chosen per widget in the Areviews dashboard (Widgets > Mini Slider design / Review Reels > Style).

1.2.2

• Home page reviews and happy customers page containers are now full-width (alignfull) like the slider, so block themes no longer cap them at the content width; the app centres them at 1200px.
• Collection / shop page star ratings: products loaded later by AJAX (infinite scroll, load more, AJAX filters, quick view) now get their stars too (MutationObserver + per-id cache).
• Star alignment (left / center / right) and the "Hide WooCommerce's built-in star rating on product grids" option from Widgets > Collection Rating.
• No more console error when the collection rating is disabled in the dashboard.

1.2.1

• Reviews slider container is now full-width (alignfull) so block themes no longer cap it at the content width; the slider width is controlled by Slider design > Max width in the app.

1.2.0

• New storefront widgets: mini slider, floating slider, side widget, home page reviews, cart reviews (automatic placement + shortcodes).
• Google rich snippets JSON-LD via WooCommerce / Yoast SEO structured data.
• REST endpoint /areviews/v1/orders for the dashboard's past-orders import.
• Order payloads now include the order number, currency and country.
• Site title sent on connect (used as the store name in emails).

1.1.4

• Review Bubbles, Review Reels and World Map widgets on product pages.