Folders for Site Reviews
Reviews arrive every day from forms on many pages. Soon the list mixes products, services, imported reviews and test entries from the setup.
Plathix PRO adds a private folder panel to the reviews list in wp-admin. Group reviews by product, branch or task and open one folder at a time. Approval, ratings, categories and assigned pages stay as they are.
A thousand reviews and one list to scroll
All Reviews shows every review at once: new and old, approved and unapproved, for every product, page and person they belong to.
Site Reviews has filters for rating, type and assigned page. Its categories have a job too: shortcodes and blocks use them to choose which reviews a page shows. So a category is not a good place for notes like ‘to answer’ or ‘imported’.
Thousands of ratings, one list to work through
Site owners with a lot of customer feedback describe the work behind the stars, not the stars themselves.
More than 160,000 entries. Approving and deleting them is starting to get tedious.
To show which service each one is about, the plan was to type [VIDEO] by hand at the start of every entry.
A client has four locations, and each location page should show only its own ratings.
Years of older feedback arrive in one import, from an old database or from another plugin.
Folders sort that feedback for your team: by product, branch or task. Categories and assigned pages still decide what each page shows.
Folders for the work behind your reviews
By product or service
Keep the reviews of each product together, so you can read them before you update its page.
To answer
Reviews that need a public reply or a call from your team wait in one folder until someone takes them.
By branch
Each branch or shop gets a folder. Managers read their reviews without scrolling past the others.
Imported and old
Reviews moved in from another platform or from years ago get their own folder. They stay published if you want them to.
Test entries
Test reviews from setting up the forms go in one folder, ready to delete when the site goes live.
A folder panel for All Reviews
A folder tree next to the list
The panel sits beside All Reviews. Click a folder and the list shows only its reviews.
Status tabs inside a folder
Approved and Unapproved work inside the open folder, so you see what still waits for a decision.
Counts per folder
Folder counts include approved and unapproved reviews. Trash is not counted.
A link for each folder
The address changes when you open a folder, so you can bookmark it or send it to a teammate.
Your review pages never see your folders
| What you do | What changes | What stays as it is |
|---|---|---|
| Put a review in a folder | Its Plathix folder | The review, its rating and its status |
| Rename or move a folder | The folder tree in wp-admin | Every shortcode and block that shows reviews |
| Approve or unapprove a review | Its status | Its folder |
| Trash a review, then restore it | Its Trash state | Its folder: it comes back to the same place |
| Turn Plathix PRO off | The list looks like plain WordPress | Your folders wait in the database and come back |
Folders have no URLs and never appear on the site.
How we test Site Reviews
We run each check on a live site with Plathix PRO and the current Site Reviews version, on the real All Reviews screen.
Status Planned
Results go to Plathix Lab. Each row turns into a link once it has run.
| Check | What we verify | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Enable reviews | Turn on Reviews in Enabled Sections; the panel appears on All Reviews. | Planned |
| Folder column | Check whether a Folder column shows next to the Site Reviews columns. | Planned |
| Plugin filters | Folder filter together with the rating, category and assigned page filters. | Planned |
| Approve and respond | Approve, unapprove and respond to a review from a folder view. | Planned |
| Trash and restore | A trashed review comes back to its folder. | Planned |
Review folders FAQ
Do folders change which reviews my pages show?
Can I use a folder instead of a category?
Will I see a Folder column?
Where do new reviews go?
Is this in Plathix Free?
Related pages
Keep the reviews coming. Keep the list under control.
Reviews in folders you choose. Your review pages stay as they are.