Release notes / BuddyPress Member Reviews
BuddyPress Add-on Plugin

BuddyPress Member Reviews

Your BuddyPress community has no way for members to evaluate and rate each other, leaving trust signals off the table for freelance, professional, or service-oriented communities. BuddyPress Member Reviews adds a 5-star, multi-criteria review form to every member profile, visible to all but submittable only by logged-in members. A top-reviewed members widget surfaces the most trusted contributors.

8 releases
v3.8.0 latest
July 17, 2026 shipped

v3.8.0 Latest

July 17, 2026
New 2 Improve 7 Fix 5 Security 1

New

  • Added Spanish, Italian and Portuguese (Brazil) translations, and completed the existing German and French ones.
  • Rebuilt the admin settings screen with the Wbcom card-panel UI: sidebar navigation, an overview dashboard, and a Discover tab. Same settings, clearer layout.

Improve

  • Front-end review styles now run on one design-token system in both light and dark, so themes and site owners can recolor any surface from a single variable.
  • Consolidated the review stylesheets into one file and removed the dead legacy modal system, duplicate rules, and unused selectors.
  • Normalized responsive breakpoints and added disabled, active, and keyboard focus states to interactive controls.
  • Star rating input is now a keyboard-operable ARIA radiogroup (arrow keys, Enter/Space) with accessible labels and higher-contrast colors.
  • Dark mode is keyed only off the theme's explicit dark signal (BuddyX/Reign), never the OS setting, and the modal close button now follows the theme color instead of a hardcoded black icon.
  • Converted directional CSS to logical properties for correct right-to-left rendering.
  • Replaced native browser alerts on the review front end with accessible toast notifications.

Fix

  • JavaScript translations could never load in production: the translation file lookup used the minified script path, which never matches the file the build produces.
  • The review count and average-rating tooltip were assembled from separate fragments, which cannot be translated correctly in every language. Each is now a single translatable phrase, and a stray bracket in the zero-review case is gone.
  • Several admin and front-end strings had no translatable source, including the criteria row builder and the reply and report messages.
  • Localized the admin review-approval progress label ("Approving...") so it translates on non-English sites.
  • The review-recalculation cron is scheduled once on a single daily interval (removed a conflicting double registration).

Security

  • The review update endpoint now enforces an ownership/capability check, so members can only edit their own reviews.

v3.7.1

Fix 3

Fix

  • WordPress Coding Standards compliance across all PHP files
  • Removed deprecated load_plugin_textdomain call
  • Plugin Check compatibility improvements

v3.7.0

New 4 Improve 3 Fix 2

New

  • Owner Replies - profile owners can respond to reviews once
  • Report System - users can report inappropriate reviews
  • Auto-hide reviews after configurable report threshold
  • Admin settings for owner replies, reporting, and auto-hide

Improve

  • Changed "Flag" to "Report" terminology
  • Admin UI with clearer labels
  • Security hardening

Fix

  • PHP Warning for undefined array key
  • Template consistency across all modes

v3.6.0

New 2 Improve 2 Fix 4

New

  • UI improvements for member reviews on directory page
  • Filter hook for review tab extensibility

Improve

  • Script optimization
  • BuddyBoss Theme compatibility

Fix

  • Rating stars visibility with BuddyBoss
  • Star rating reset on review edit
  • Email subject and message editing
  • Text domain loading for translations

v3.5.0

New 1 Improve 2 Fix 2

New

  • German (DE) and French (FR) translations

Improve

  • Backend labels and strings
  • Unused files for lighter footprint

Fix

  • Fatal error with BuddyPress Classic
  • PHPCS compliance issues

v3.4.0

New 3 Improve 2 Fix 3

New

  • Pending approval notifications for admins
  • Meta box for member ratings on edit page
  • Conditional script/style loading

Improve

  • Backend settings UI
  • Performance with minified assets

Fix

  • String translation issues
  • BuddyBoss and Youzify compatibility
  • Notification link and mark-as-read

v3.3.1

New 2 Fix 3

New

  • Youzify support
  • Member star rating in activity

Fix

  • Multi-user role issues
  • Review submission with disabled components
  • Average ratings with single criteria

v3.3.0

Improve 3 Fix 3

Improve

  • Mobile responsive UI
  • Security enhancements
  • BuddyPress, BuddyBoss, Youzify integration

Fix

  • Anonymous review avatar and URL
  • Shortcode form in BuddyBoss
  • Pagination for reviews and notifications