WordPress Review Plugin - How To - Add Custom Fields to the Review Form


Adding Custom Fields to the Review Form

Back to User Guide

The WordPress Review plugin allows to add custom fields to your Review form (besides the default title, content, user name and e-mail fields).

Custom Fields Position

First thing we need to do is to define, where custom fields will be placed to. Navigate to Admin Dashboard â†’ CM Reviews â†’ Settings. Under the Review Form tab find the option Custom fields position. This option allows to define the position of custom fields in relation to the review title and content. It has 3 options.

Choosing the custom fields position - WordPress Plugin Star Rating for Reviews
Choosing the custom fields position
  • Above review title

    Custom fields above the review title - WordPress Testimonials Manager Plugin
    Custom fields above the review title
  • Below review title

    Custom fields below the review title - Review Plugin for WordPress
    Custom fields below the review title
  • Below review content (default)

    Custom fields below the review content - Customer Review Plugin for WordPress
    Custom fields below the review content

Adding Custom Fields

The plugin allows to create multiple custom fields of different types. To do this, head to the Additional Custom Fields tab in plugin settings. You will see there a form builder.

Additional custom fields settings tab - Product Review WordPress Plugin
Additional custom fields settings tab

The editor provides the drag-and-drop area and the default fields next to the area. These fields are:

  • Text Input
  • Text Area
  • Number
  • Select
  • Radio Group
  • Checkbox Group
  • Date Field
Adding custom fields - WordPress Testimonials Plugin
Adding custom fields

The admin can make each field required or not, add tooltips per field with more detailed information, edit CSS class, default values and more.

Edit, Copy, Remove

Edit, copy and remove buttons - WordPress Rating Plugin
Edit, copy and remove buttons

Apply the actions to each chosen field:

  1. Edit - click on the Edit icon and the field will be open.
  2. Copy - click on the Copy icon to add the same options.
  3. Remove - click on the Delete icon to remove a whole field.

Example on the Front-end:

Review Form:

Example of the review form with custom fields - WordPress Rating Widget
Example of the review form with custom fields

Posted review with additional custom fields:

Example of the published review with custom fields - WordPress Rating System
Example of the published review with custom fields

You can also find stored additional custom fields info by navigating to Admin Dashboard â†’ CM Reviews â†’ All Reviews. Click on the Show/Hide Custom Fields in the Review Content column.

Custom fields in the back-end dashboard for managing reviews - Customer Reviews Plugin
Custom fields in the back-end dashboard for managing reviews

More information about the WordPress Review Plugin

Other WordPress products can be found at CreativeMinds WordPress Store

Let us know how we can Improve this Product Documentation Page

To open a Support Ticket visit our support center
Did this answer your question? Thanks for the feedback There was a problem submitting your feedback. Please try again later.