Easily display Yelp business reviews and ratings with a simple and intuitive WordPress, block, widget, and shortcode.
Home Page: https://wpbusinessreviews.com/
As of April 1st, 2017, you can no longer sign up for Yelp API 2.0.
This causes issues with both the free and premium plugins:
Broken Links:
There are several paragraphs about providing a backup key on the settings screen, but it's no longer possible to create that backup key.
Broken Links:
https://wordpress.org/support/topic/needs-work-24/
https://secure.helpscout.net/conversation/350739695/7042/?folderId=672189
Users upgrading from API v2 to API v3 in 1.9.6 may not realize they should create their own Yelp Fusion app. To prevent existing widgets from breaking, Devin created a Yelp Fusion API key that will be used as the default value of the key if the user does not provide one.
We should still encourage users to create their own app, especially those who have reached out in the past regarding exhausted API limits. By embedding an API key, it is possible that key's limit could be reached. The most reliable option is still to create your own app and use that API key.
Note in API v3, we can now see the requests per day in the Yelp dashboard and know if that's happening.
Changing the map location on the yelp.com site yields very different results. If we could add a map position attribute to our search it would enhance the search results nicely.
Relevant ticket:
https://wordimpress.com/support/topic/show-listings-from-region-ie-eastern-suburbs/#post-34131
In the plugin settings there's no link to the Yelp website for creating an API key. This should be the correct link here: https://www.yelp.com/developers/v2/manage_api_keys
We need to review the free plugin settings page to see if it has the link as well. And make sure it is correct. Somewhere there is an incorrect link to create the API.
When the Yelp API is exhausted it throws the error "The default Yelp API has exhausted its daily limit. Please enable your own API Key in your Yelp Widget Pro settings."
This is not appropriate with the current version of the plugin, where the option to add "own API key" is removed.
Add an appropriate error message.
https://secure.helpscout.net/conversation/434492171/10443/?folderId=672191
This shortcode is intended to display the most popular results for a certain search term on a Google Map. This is a sample shortcode:
[yelp-widget-pro-map location="Tucson, Arizona" search_term="coffee"]
Here's a live demo:
http://yelpwidgetpro.wordimpress.com/yelp-search/
The problem is this isn't working for NEW customers. So create a NEW dev site, install the current plugin, try to use that shortcode and you'll get several errors:
This would make menu titles consistent across other Business Reviews plugins.
Yelp Fusion API Key.https://secure.helpscout.net/conversation/480415647/12209/?folderId=672191
A customer reported an issue with their shortcode: [yelp-widget-pro id="dragons-den-san-diego" reviews="true" reviews_filter="4" avatar="40x40" profile_image_size="40x40"]
profile_image_size not re-sizing the image.
http://www.yelp.com/biz/dragons-den-san-diego
https://secure.helpscout.net/conversation/175639686/905/?folderId=753630
Yelp Fusion (v3) requires a new authentication scheme—oAuth 2.0 instead of 1.0. A walkthrough is available under the heading “Authorization” in their Getting Started guide. While it makes the vast majority of things easier, there are one or two things we’ll have to do differently.
POST request to the Yelp servers (not a big deal). We then just store this access token in our database (also not a big deal).Finding a way to deal with renewing these access tokens is key. We can create a WP Cron task that’s scheduled to get a new one before the timeout. WP Cron isn’t always reliable, though. We could also just always check the expiration time of the access token on each use, and request a new one if the one currently stored has expired. I don’t have a super clear idea of which is best for this, but it’s really the only aspect that’s somewhat difficult with this implementation.
Overall, this change should allow us to simplify a fair bit of the API code.
When a business ID has a special character the plugin returns an error.
Example:
Using business ID: café-poland-columbia the plugin returns an error.
If replaced with cafe-poland-columbia the reviews will display properly.
Can we build in a check to replace those characters or to allow them somehow?
Embedding a Google map in our Yelp widget/shortcode now requires a Maps API key.
We need to add a setting for this and admin alerts so users KNOW clearly that this is required now.
Currently this feature works is the site owner sets it up in the back end to display places near a location. Like all sushi bars near San Diego for example.
A pre-sale support ticket asked if this could be done by site visitors on the front end. Could be a cool feature. I've only seen one person ask for it though.
Business reviews are not working.
If the option is checked in the widget, it shows nothing and if you have WP_DEBUG enabled, you can see a notice and a warning.
Notice: Undefined property: stdClass::$reviews in /app/public/wp-content/plugins/Yelp-Widget-Premium-master/includes/template-parts/business.php on line 44 Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /app/public/wp-content/plugins/Yelp-Widget-Premium-master/includes/template-parts/business.php on line 44
A customer reported an issue with their shortcode: [yelp-widget-pro id="dragons-den-san-diego" reviews="true" reviews_filter="4" avatar="40x40" profile_image_size="40x40"]
On the Yelp page for their business, with Yelp Sort, the top three reviews are 4 star, 3 star, and 1 star. With the reviews_filter set to 4 the widget is outputting the 3 and 1 star reviews still.
http://www.yelp.com/biz/dragons-den-san-diego
https://secure.helpscout.net/conversation/175639686/905/?folderId=753630
We need to notify users that this plugin will no longer be supported or developed by end of 2018.
Proposed text:
On August 1st, 2018, Yelp Widget Premium became part of our brand new WordPress reviews plugin called WP Business Reviews. The Yelp Widget Premium plugin currently installed will be supported until December 31st, 2018. We are offering 1 year for free as a way to show you our appreciation for being a valued customer.
Upgrade now to WP Business Reviews
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This is our original review plugin and there's no shortcode builder - sad panda.
The version "compatible up to" is listed as 4.3.3. Should this be updated to 4.4.2?
AS seen here:
https://wordimpress.com/support/topic/reducing-the-number-of-reviews-from-3-to-2-2/
Review count is currently all or nothing. Allowing to choose 1, 2, or 3 reviews seems like an obvious need.
The link with "Read about why we did this here" anchor text goes to a link that redirects to https://wordimpress.com/support/
Needs to go to an explanation of the API key supporting 3 reviews. I'd link to that, but I don't know where it is. :-)
User submitted feature request.
Add a carousel for reviews similar to this screenshot.
Some themes use the same class causing Fatal error: Cannot redeclare class OAuthConsumer
Reported here: https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-error-71?replies=2#post-8451951
There are several issues with the Google Map Search widget. This is the second widget that is part of the premium plugin only.
Default state of the widget when added:
This isn't necessarily an issue but a user asked about it and I'm curious too why it shows a different review when cache is set to None versus anything else like 1 Day.
With cache set to "None"
With cache set to "1 Day"
Google Maps Geocoding API must be enabled in addition to the Google Maps JavaScript API for the map to work using the Business Method. The Search Method only requires the Google Maps JavaScript API.
Therefore Google Maps API key docs will need updated to ensure the following APIs are enabled:
It seems like we took the Yelp SDK straight into our plugin. If other plugins/themes do that as well, then the whole site gets white screened.
Case in point, Elegant Theme's "Extra" ( @DevinWalker you have access to it via your Elegant Themes account).
I believe namespacing will avoid this. Otherwise we'd have to prefix all the conflicting classes which would be like 20 different classes.
Search Widget does not work due to Google Maps Geocoder API requiring an API key.
https://soapbox.wistia.com/videos/yGqZKN5xRc
It's bad practice and leads to less readable and DRY code... we're already doing this in Google & Facebook.
Yelp just released "Yelp Fusion" a whole new API and developer program.
https://www.yelp.com/developers
We need to research what it does and how it can benefit our plugin. Here's how I see it happening:
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