### “WP Facebook Review Showcase ” Documentation by “AccessPress Themes” v1.0.0

# “WP Facebook Review Showcase - FB Page Review Plugin for WordPress ”

Created: 21st/September/2017
By: AccessPress Themes
Email: support@accesspressthemes.com

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## Table of Contents

1. Installing Instructions
2. Plugin Introduction
3. Facebook API Settings
4. Cache Settings
5. All Facebook Page Reviews
6. General Reviews Settings
7. Badge Settings
8. Reviews Display Settings
9. Shortcode Settings
10. Widget Integration

### A) Installing Instructions - top

1. Unzip wp-fb-review-showcaseS.zip
2. Upload all the files to the /wp-content/plugins/wp-fb-review-showcase
3. Activate the plugin through the 'Plugins' menu in WordPress.
4. Firstly, setup default plugin's settings, click on Facebook Reviews option menu in Wordpress left admin menu.
5. To select the required page from your facebook account, first fill the api App Id and App Secret key in plugin main settings > Facebook API Settings tab section.

### B) Plugin Introduction - top

Once the plugin is installed and activated you will find a menu named "Facebook Reviews" in the left menu bar of the admin menu. Once you click on that menu , you will go to the Facebook Reviews setting listing page. To create new settings click on "Add New Reviews" button. If you go to "Configuration Settings" from plugin's submenu you can see "How to Use" and "About Us" where our plugin's features details have been described. There are basically 2 Main Plugin Settings which are described below more briefly.

### C) All Facebook Page Reviews - top

Create multiple Facebook Page reviews from different account and set its specific data separately. Settings Steps to create Facebook Page Reviews: There is mainly 6 main settings to create Facebook Review.

### D) Facebook API Settings - top

Here, after installation of our plugin, first of all you have to create API Key to display google map to create business reviews locations. Please fill API key on this API Settings input field. To get API key simply follow details steps: View All Steps or simply follow below steps to get Facebook Review API Key. Alternatively, follow these steps to get an API key:

- Go to the Facebook App
- Add new app.
- Type your app name and click on create app id.Then you will be taken to your App Dashboard.
- Click on submenu 'basic' under 'settings' menu on your dashboard. In this page you can see your app id and app secret.
- Input your app id and app secret in the Facebook API Settings of our plugin. Then Click Login.
- After logging in your account's pages will be displayed.
- Now choose the page from which you want to retrieve the reviews from.

### E)Facebook Reviews Settings - top

This is the main configuration settings for reviews display.

- Total Number of Reviews: Set total number of user reviews options. Upto 5 google places user reviews can be displayed.
- Hide Reviewer Image: In order to hide all user reviewer's image, enable this button.
- Hide User Rating: In order to hide all user reviewer's image, enable this button.
- Show 5 Star Rating Only: Enable this checkbox to show only 5 star rating on list of user reviews.
- Hide Description: Enable this checkbox to hide reviewer's description.
- Description Character Limit: Set description limit to display at first and show read more and read less button.
- Read More Text: Display text such as Read More , View More after set limit for user rating description.
- Read Less Text: Display text such as Read More , View More after set limit for user rating description.
- Display Order: Select the order in which you want the reviews to be displayed.

### F) Badge Settings - top

This is configuration settings for badge display.

- Enable Badge: Enable this button in order to display badge as header with page information.
- Hide Average Rating: In order to hide average rating on badge, enable this button.
- Choose Badge Template: Choose any one template among 10 pre available badge templates. Below shown with template preview images.
- Show Header: Enable this button in order to display badge's ribbon.
- Choose Header Template: Choose any one template among 10 pre available ribbon templates. Below shown with template preview images.
- Enable Badge Animation: Enable this button to choose the animation type for badge.

### G) Display Settings - top

This is configuration settings for all user reviews display according to total number of reviews display.

- Show Reviews: Enable this button in order to display user reviews with its details.
- Choose Template: Choose any one template among 10 pre available reviews templates. Below shown with template preview images.
- Pagination Type: Choose among Pagination/LoadMore.
- Review Per Page: Input the number of review to be shown per page(for pagination type) or number of review to be shown(for LoadMore).
- Layout Type: Choose layout type as slider, list, grid and slider type. On choosing slider type, set options mode display as horizontal, vertical or fade type, review slider speed, pause in ms, show pager as dot or pagination type, autoplay and show controls as arrow or text type with custom design options.

### H) Shortcode Settings - top

Similary, in order to add shortcode on any section of your site, you can get shortcode of specific Facebook Pages from its edit page "Facebook Review Shortcode Usage" metabox shown on right section or else you can get shortcode on All Facebook Reviews lists page for specific google places.

You can get shortcode of specific facebook page from its edit page > Facebook Review Shortcode Usage metabox shown on right section or else you can get shortcode on main review lists for specific Facebook reviews. You can use shortcode for the display of the specific page reviews in the contents. Optionally You can enter the id of specific page from our plugin "WP Facebook Reviews Showcase" post type. The reviews will be displayed in the order with specified id parameter and its layout options. Example 1: [wpfrs_reviews id=’4’]

Available shortcode parameters:

- id : This parameter is specific attribute for specific page reviews.

  [wpfrs_reviews id="79"]

- review_template : Our plugin contains altogether 10 pre designed template layouts. You can pass reviews template layout using shortcode by using review_template='template-1' or review_template='template-4' and so on as parameter on shortcode.

  e.g., [wpfrs_reviews id="79" review_template="template-2"]

- badge_template : You can even change template of badge parameter as badge_template="badge-template-2" to display different badge template beside specified default template for specific locations using shortcode.

  e.g.,[wpfrs_reviews id="79" badge_template="badge-template-3"]

- show_badge : You can even change enable or disable badge display on frontend by passing parameter as show_badge="1" to display badge and show_badge="0" to hide badge as business information using shortcode.

  e.g.,[wpfrs_reviews id="79" review_template="template-2" badge_template="badge-template-3" show_badge="0"] to hide badge.

- show_reviews : You can even change enable or disable to show or hide reviews parameter as show_reviews="1" to display reviews and show_reviews="0" to hide it using shortcode.

  e.g.,[wpfrs_reviews id="79" show_reviews="0"] to hide reviews.

- number_reviews : You can display number of reviews as per you wish by adding number_reviews on shortcode parameter but upto 5 reviews only.

  e.g.,[wpfrs_reviews id="79" number_reviews="4"] to show upto 4 reviews.

#### Slider/List/Grid/Carousel Layout

- layout_type : You can change layout as slider/list/grid/carousel replace of default setup for specific shortcode using parameter as layout_type="slide_type" to display slider type reviews layout or layout_type="list_type" to display reviews as list layout or layout_type="carousel" to display carousel type reviews layout or layout_type="grid_type" to display grid type reviews layout.

  e.g.,[wpfrs_reviews id="79" layout_type="list_type"].

- pager_type : You can change slider's pager layout as dot or pagination to replace of default setup for specific shortcode using parameter as pager_type="dot" to display dot pager type reviews layout and pager_type="pagination" to display slider reviews with pagination type.

  e.g.,[wpfrs_reviews id="79" pager_type="pagination"].

- controls_type : You can change control for slider as arrow or text type to replace of default setup for specific shortcode using parameter as controls_type="arrow" to display arrow control type and controls_type="text" to display slider reviews with text control type.

  e.g.,[wpfrs_reviews id="79" controls_type="text"].

##### Example 1.1: Show Reviews with template 2 and show badge with badge template 3 ,hide rate us button and display 3 number of reviews:

[wpfrs_reviews id="79" review_template="template-2" badge_template="badge-template-3" number_reviews="3"]

##### Example 1.2: Show Reviews with template 4 and show badge with template 3:

[wpfrs_reviews id="79" review_template="template-4" badge_template="badge-template-3"]

### I) Cache Settings - top

The plugin has inbuilt caching method to prevent the frequent API calls due to which site won’t get slow.So in this tab you can set up the cache period on how often the latest reviews should be fetched from API. Fill the time in hours in which the facebook reviews should be updated. Default is 24 hours. The minimum cache period you can setup is 1 hour.

### J) Widget Integration - top

Also, our plugin provides features to display your facebook page reviews on widget area. You simply have to go to widget page on backend > Appearances > Widget and then you can simply drag our plugin widget "Facebook Review Showcase" to specific sidebar. In "Facebook Review Showcase" widget, you can simply choose which Facebook reviews you want to show on widget section from dropdown lists of facebook pages that you have created with specific templates and configuration.

Once again, thank you so much for purchasing this plugin. As we said at the beginning, we'd be glad to help you if you have any questions relating to this plugin. No guarantees, but we'll do our best to assist. If you have a more general question relating to the plugin on CodeCanyon, you might consider visiting our site for forum and chat support.

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