Plugin reviews
Published August 3rd, 2015 under Plugins
To encourage WordPress plugin users to review my plugins on WordPress.org, I decided I should prompt users to review them. Thankfully Rhys Wynne created a handy set of code which I adapted and turned into a class for just that.
Please check it out if you think it might be useful in your own plugins.
This is what the plugin review notice looks like in the admin panel.
Robert Abela says:
Hello Ryan,
Good idea to show such a message but there are a few issues I think with such approach:
1. 1 week is a bit short. It all depends on the type of plugin but for some, one needs more time to analyze. Having said that you do not want to leave a lot of time as people forget what they installed.
2. Nowadays there are too many plugins showing such notifications so users are starting to ignore them.
The thing I found worked best for my plugin is to ask the user each time I solve a support case. So user had a problem, I solve it, user happy, ask for review. It works quite well 🙂
August 12, 2015 at 1:58 pm # //
Ryan says:
My best plugins never generate support requests, so that wouldn’t work 😉
If not one week, what sort of time frame would you suggest?
I agree with the issue of users just clicking to get rid of messages in the admin panel, but I think some people will still read them, particularly if it’s for a plugin that’s normally normally bothering them. Or at least, that’s the theory 😉
August 12, 2015 at 2:04 pm # //
David says:
How about a bribe? Free upgrade or something else of value.
November 11, 2016 at 9:36 pm # //
Ryan says:
That could work, but you’d need something of value to offer first. I don’t have that.
November 12, 2016 at 9:36 am # //