Discussions Tab for WooCommerce Products Plugin

Discussions Tab for WooCommerce Products plugin creates a discussions tab for WooCommerce Products.

In other words, this plugin allows to use the default WordPress comment system on a custom product tab.

Create a support tab and let customers ask questions about your WooCommerce products. Make them more satisfied replying their comments and answering their questions.

That will make your brand more credible and your customers more confident. As a result, you’ll have more chances to increase your sales.

Main Features

• Customize links, position and texts (i.e. labels).
• Optionally allow shortcodes to be used inside discussion comments. Shortcodes can improve the way you communicate with your audience. Use videos, galleries, anything a shortcode can provide.
• Optionally convert your native WooCommerce reviews to discussions and vice versa. You can also filter your discussions comments in admin.
• Optionally count replies when counting discussions comments.

Premium Version

With premium plugin version you can:

• Use social networks like Facebook at your favor. Let your customers auto fill their names, e-mail and even get their Facebook profile picture with just one click.
• Decide if comments should be posted by anyone or only the ones who bought the product.
• Notify comment authors via email when they receive replies.
• Label if comments are being replied by product authors and/or verified owners.
• Support – We will be ready to help you in case of any issues or questions you may have.

Feedback

• We are open to your suggestions and feedback.
• Thank you for using or trying out one of our plugins!
• Visit plugin site.

1. Upload the entire plugin folder to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory.
2. Activate the plugin through the “Plugins” menu in WordPress.
3. Start by visiting plugin settings at “WooCommerce > Settings > Discussions”.

1.5.2 – 15/02/2024

• Fix – PHP warnings are being triggered.
• Dev – General – Guest users – Add option to hide discussion comments from guest users.
• Tested up to: 6.4.
• WC tested up to: 8.6.

1.5.1 – 23/10/2023

• Fix – General – AJAX discussions – Fix admin settings.

1.5.0 – 23/10/2023

• Fix – General – AJAX discussions – Improve compatibility with other plugins such as Porto.

1.4.9 – 23/10/2023

• Dev – Add compatibility to HPOS.
• WC tested up to: 8.2.

1.4.8 – 25/09/2023

• WC tested up to: 8.1.
• Tested up to: 6.3.
• Update plugin icon, banner.

1.4.7 – 18/06/2023

• WC tested up to: 7.8.

1.4.6 – 13/06/2023

• Fix – Too few arguments to function Labels::create_comment_icons_html().
• WC tested up to: 7.7.
• Tested up to: 6.2.

1.4.5 – 08/03/2023

• Move to WPFactory.
• Tested up to: 6.1.
• WC tested up to: 7.4.

1.4.4 – 06/09/2022

• Fix – Error – Undefined function get_current_screen().

1.4.3 – 05/09/2022

• Fix – Improve parent comment id fixer.
• Fix – Comment count on admin.

1.4.2 – 15/08/2022

• Fix – Improve parent comment id fixer.
• Fix – Pagination link.
• Fix – Advanced – WooCommerce compatibility – Improve compatibility.
• WC tested up to: 6.8.

1.4.1 – 18/07/2022

• Fix – Advanced – WooCommerce compatibility – Improve compatibility.
• Tested up to: 6.0.

1.4.0 – 18/07/2022

• Fix – AJAX discussions – Spinning position.
• Fix – Advanced – WooCommerce compatibility – Fix product reviews change from WooCommerce 6.7.0.
• WC tested up to: 6.7.

1.3.9 – 10/02/2022

• Dev – Advanced – Comment content – Add option to escape content between code and pre tags using esc_html().
• WC tested up to: 6.1.
• Tested up to: 5.9.
• Fix node packages.

1.3.8 – 11/01/2022

• Dev – Email – Unsubscribing – Add a checkbox above the discussion comments allowing to subscribe/unsubscribe.
• Dev – Email – Unsubscribing – Remove unsubscribe link from “New comment email”.
• Dev – Email – Unsubscribing – Remove dtwp_subscribed comment meta and replace it by dtwp_unsubscribed post meta.
• WC tested up to: 6.0.

1.3.7 – 05/10/2021

• Fix – Uncaught Error: Call to a member function get_id() on bool.
• Fix – Comment authors labels are displayed in the admin.
• Dev – Functions – Add transient functions.
• Dev – Improve is_plugin_active function.
• WC tested up to: 5.7.

1.3.6 – 09/08/2021

• Fix – Comment edit redirect link from frontend.
• Fix – Display comment edit link on frontend only to admins.
• Fix – Remove space below comments.
• Dev – Emails – New comment email – Add new option to replace #comments anchor by discussions tab anchor.
• Dev – General – Comment meta – Add new option allowing admin to edit discussion comment user ID.
• Dev – General – Add new option to Show “edit comment link” only for users with the “moderate_comments” capability.

1.3.5 – 26/07/2021

• Tested up to: 5.8.
• WC tested up to: 5.4.
• Add github deploy setup.

1.3.4 – 26/07/2021

• Fix – Email – Manual email displays incorrect notices on admin.
• Fix – Labels – Some icons are not being displayed when using “Icons positioning” as “Next to comment author”.
• Dev – Email – Add option to show labels next to comment author name.
• Refactor plugin.
• Rearrange admin settings.

1.3.3 – 14/07/2021

• Fix – Free and pro plugins can’t be active at the same time.
• Dev – Use wpf-promoting-notice library to add notice on settings page regarding pro version.
• Dev – Labels – Add option to manage the icons positioning.
• Dev – General – Add option to edit discussion comment parent ID.
• Dev – General – Add option to edit discussion comment post ID.
• Dev – General – Add option to send manual notification to product author.
• Dev – General – Add option to remove undesired texts from notification.
• Dev – General – Add option to unsubscribe from notifications.
• Dev – General – Add option to enable/disable email notification.
• Rearrange admin settings.

1.3.2 – 29/06/2021

• Fix – flush_rewrite_rules doesn’t work after saving the admin discussions page.
• Dev – General – Add option to remove content from comments.
• Tested up to: 5.7.
• WC tested up to: 5.4.

1.3.1 – 01/04/2021

• Fix – General – Rich text editor – Fix line breaks.
• Fix – Possible PHP warning Trying to get property ‘comment_type’ of non-object.
• Dev – General – Create “Custom sanitization” option for discussion comments.
• Improve plugin description on readme.

1.3.0 – 11/03/2021

• Fix – Wrong text domain in some areas.
• Fix – General – Rich text editor – Uncaught TypeError if “Disable the visual editor when writing” is activated.
• Fix – Iconpicker icons on admin scroll to top when selected.
• Dev – Labels – Add “Title” option for product authors and support reps labels.
• Dev – Labels – Add “Text color” option for all the possible labels.
• Dev – Labels – Remove tip checkbox option allowing it to be disabled by leaving the tip text empty.
• Dev – Labels – Allow to disable the icon by leaving the icon empty.

1.2.9 – 05/03/2021

• Fix – Labels – Support Reps – Replace support reps ajax field by a textarea field.
• Dev – My account tab – Save permalinks on settings saving and on plugin update.

1.2.8 – 03/03/2021

• Fix – Scroller doesn’t go to the correct position sometimes.
• Dev – Show blink effect on anchor target comment.

1.2.7 – 02/03/2021

• Dev – Load labels js dynamically.
• Dev – Labels – Add My Account tab option allowing to setup the support reps on My Account page.
• Remove old css.
• Modules with more readable names.

1.2.6 – 01/03/2021

• Fix – Close button from comment doesn’t close the comment and goes to a wrong link.
• Dev – Change free version admin notice regarding Pro version.
• Dev – Refactor javascript using Webpack.
• Dev – General – Add “TinyMCE on discussion comments” option.

1.2.5 – 26/02/2021

• Fix – Possible timeout problem with a high amount of comments.

1.2.4 – 24/02/2021

• Fix – General – Ajax tab – Labels can’t get displayed.
• Dev – Labels – Add “Support Reps” option.
• Dev – General – Add “Comment form position” option.

1.2.3 – 17/02/2021

• Dev – General – Add option to force open comments for product post type.
• Dev – General – Add option to load the discussions tab content via AJAX.
• WC tested up to: 5.0.
• Tested up to: 5.6.
• Improve general settings section.

1.2.2 – 08/10/2020

• Dev – Core – handle_shortcodes() – Third (unused) param removed ($args).
• WC tested up to: 4.5.
• Tested up to: 5.5.

1.2.1 – 03/08/2020

• Dev – General – Extra Options – Notify authors – Removing “In reply to…” and “IP address…” patterns from the email content now.
• Tested up to: 5.4.
• WC tested up to: 4.3.

1.2.0 – 05/01/2020

• Dev – Texts – “Tab title” option added.
• Dev – Texts – “Textarea placeholder” option added.
• Dev – Template – textarea ID set to discussion.
• Dev – Template – id_form set to discussionform.
• Dev – Template – id_submit set to submit_discussion.
• Dev – Template – Unnecessary space symbol removed.

1.1.1 – 03/01/2020

• Fix – Missing CSS file error fixed.
• Dev – Admin settings descriptions updated.
• Dev – Code refactoring.

1.1.0 – 21/11/2019

• Fix – Labels – “Load Font Awesome” option fixed.
• Fix – Labels – “Label color” options fixed.
• Fix – Some translations fixed.
• Dev – General – “Tab position” option added.
• Dev – “Comments > Comment type” column moved to the free plugin version.
• Dev – “General > Tab link” and “General > Comment link” options moved to the free plugin version.
• Dev – “General > Shortcodes” options moved to the free plugin version.
• Dev – “Conversions” moved to the free plugin version (and “Advanced > Conversions” option added).
• Dev – Labels – Loading latest Font Awesome v5.11.2 now.
• Dev – Labels – Authors – “Reviews label” option removed.
• Dev – General – Shortcodes – “Enable in reviews” option removed.
• Dev – Admin settings restyled; descriptions updated.
• Dev – Major code refactoring.
• Tested up to: 5.3.
• WC tested up to: 3.8.

1.0.8 – 12/02/2018

• Make the plugin compatible with WooCommerce 3.3.1.

1.0.7 – 16/08/2017

• Fix metabox about pro version.
• Create option to notify comment authors when they receive replies.

1.0.6 – 07/08/2017

• Create option to add author tag to reviews.
• Create filter alg_dtwp_filter_tab_id to change tab slug.
• Create filter alg_dtwp_filter_comment_link to change comment link.
• Fix tab css.

1.0.5 – 04/08/2017

• Add one more default class (commentlist) to comments lists.
• Make Comment list classes unique.
• Add more callback functions to different themes.
• Create new section on admin (advanced).
• Create new option to get the wp_list_commentscallback argument.
• Fix alg_dtwp_comment_tags filter.
• Create a tip for “verified owners label”.
• Customize label icons using font awesome.
• Create an option to manage authors labels.
• Make labels more customizable.

1.0.4 – 03/08/2017

• Remove comments counting test on template for closed comments.
• Create a new filter alg_dtwp_wp_list_comments_args to filter arguments passed to wp_list_comments.
• Fix bug when posting new discussions or reviews.
• Customize verified owner label color.
• Add a filter to create tags on comments (alg_dtwp_comment_tags).

1.0.3 – 03/08/2017

• Add a new string when there are no discussions yet.
• Fix bug when posting new discussions.
• Add option to change discussions tab link.
• Add option to change discussions comment link.
• Fix facebook app ID.

1.0.2 – 02/08/2017

• Fix discussions and reviews counting.
• Fix discussions tab opening.
• Add option to count replies or not.
• Add new options to handle verified owners.
• Add a new string when there are no discussions yet.

1.0.1 – 27/07/2017

• Fix Hub theme comment type.
• Include info and images about the pro version.
• Fix avatar image on reviews.
• Add option to control shortcodes in comments.

1.0.0 – 18/07/2017

• Initial release.