Quick Start

This walks a fresh install to a working review flow in a few minutes.

1. Confirm the criteria

Go to WB Plugins, Group Reviews, Criteria. The plugin ships with three criteria: Quality, Relevance, and Engagement. Add, remove, or disable criteria so members rate on what matters to your community. A review can still be submitted when no rating criteria are active (it becomes a text-only review).

2. Choose your moderation model

Go to the General tab.

• Leave Auto approve reviews off to hold every review as a draft until a group admin approves it (default).
• Turn it on to publish reviews immediately.

Set Reviews per page for the Manage Reviews list, and decide whether to allow BuddyPress notifications and activity entries.

3. Visit a group

Open any single group (that is not excluded). A member who belongs to the group, and is not its admin, sees two tabs:

• Reviews - the published reviews and the group’s average rating.
• Add Review - the submission form.

Group admins additionally see a Manage Reviews tab for approving or denying pending reviews.

4. Submit and approve

As a member, open Add Review, rate each criterion, add an optional description, and submit. As the group admin, open Manage Reviews, then Accept or Deny the review. Once accepted, it appears under Reviews and counts toward the group’s average.

Next steps

• Change the tab and button labels and the star colour on the Display tab.
• Turn on emails on the Emails tab.
• Drop the review form or a group leaderboard on any page with Shortcodes.