Glow Reviews – Smart Feedback & Testimonials

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.

Watch a video tutorial: https://youtu.be/-x1Lrh0HIPQ

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)