Description
Reviso turns WordPress into a true client-collaboration tool. Reviewers (clients, teammates, stakeholders) leave pinned feedback directly on your live pages, no logins, no email chains, no PDF round-trips. It’s native to the Bricks and Elementor builders and the Gutenberg block editor, and works on any WordPress theme or site.
Reviso is a visual feedback and website proofing tool for WordPress: clients annotate any element with a pinned comment, you action it inside your builder, and you close each round with a recorded sign-off, which cuts revision rounds.
For wording changes, reviewers can go further than commenting. Suggest mode is tracked changes for websites: they propose the new wording in place on the live page, and you accept or reject it in one click, so you never have to work out what «can we reword this?» actually meant.
Because every pin captures an automatic screenshot plus the page, browser, operating system and screen size, the same review link doubles as a lightweight bug report and QA channel for launch snags, without sending anything to a third-party service.
What’s in the free version
- Pinned comments on any element: desktop, tablet, or mobile
- Threaded replies so a back-and-forth doesn’t sprawl across messages
- Status tracking: open, in progress, resolved, with filters
- Single-page review links: share one page at a time with anyone, no login required
- Works in maintenance & coming-soon mode: review links open the real page for invited clients even while Bricks or Elementor maintenance mode is on, so you can collect feedback before launch without taking the site public
- Admin-bar quick-review: spin up a review for the current page (or whole site, Pro) from the Reviso icon on the front-end admin bar
- Client approvals: reviewers can mark a page as approved (own admin tab, Reviso Approvals)
- Email notifications when someone leaves a comment, replies, or approves a page, with optional burst-coalescing so a flurry of comments arrives as a single email
- Builder-native UI: the comment overlay adopts the look of Bricks, Elementor or the block editor so it never feels bolted on
- Element-anchored pins that survive page edits (three fallback strategies: DOM, content, position)
- Suggest mode: reviewers propose replacement wording directly on the page, like a tracked change, and you accept or reject each one (applying an accepted edit inside Bricks is Pro)
- Internal comments: pin private team-only notes on any page, including archives, listings and search results, and share a thread with the client only when you choose
- Emoji reactions on any comment, so «yes, agreed» doesn’t need a whole reply
- Optional reviewer email: clients can leave feedback with just a name
- Feedback dashboard: every pinned comment across the whole site in one list
- Automatic screenshots with page, browser, OS and viewport context attached to each pin
- Cache-proof review links: reviewer sessions bypass W3 Total Cache, WP Rocket, LiteSpeed, WP Super Cache, Cache Enabler and SiteGround Optimizer, so a share link never shows a stale page
- Review drafts and unpublished pages through a private link before anything goes live
- Close on finish: a review can stop taking new comments once the client marks it done, with one-click reopen
Available with the Pro addon
Reviso Pro extends the free plugin with:
- Multi-page Reviews: bundle a whole site (or any subset of items) into one shareable Review, covering any post type and templates
- Email-restricted Reviews: each invitee gets a private magic link, with four roles (Viewer / Reviewer / Approver / Lead)
- Apply suggested edits in Bricks: accept a reviewer’s proposed wording and Reviso writes it to the page, taking a revertable snapshot first and purging common page caches so it shows immediately
- AI: automatic comment triage (bug / design / copy / content) and AI-summarised feedback rollups
- Reviso Cloud (Beta): manage feedback and approvals across all your sites from one dashboard, and optionally connect your own AI assistant to help action it
- White-label: your agency branding on the review portal, with light + dark logos that auto-pick the right variant for each surface (portal, builder splash, email header)
- Integrations: Slack, Discord, and generic webhooks (Zapier/Make ClickUp, Trello, Jira, …)
- Email digests: optional weekly summaries
- Advanced notifications: multi-recipient delivery, From/Reply-To control, printable approval certificates
- Audit log + per-reviewer revoke
- Concurrent reviews with configurable expiry, including a no-end-date option
The Pro addon requires this free plugin to be installed.
Privacy & data
Reviso stores comment data on your own WordPress site. We don’t see your reviewers‘ feedback unless you opt in to Reviso Cloud’s AI features (Beta), which relay the items the assistant acts on to getreviso.io (see External services below). Optional anonymous telemetry (off by default) is opt-in. Full details in our privacy policy.
External services
This plugin can connect to external services run by us (Reviso, getreviso.io). Each is opt-in and described below.
Anonymous usage telemetry (opt-in). When, and only when, you switch telemetry on in Settings Reviso, the plugin sends a small weekly ping to https://getreviso.io. It contains version numbers, which features are enabled, and a random install ID, and never contains your pages, your reviewers‘ comments, email addresses, or any personal data. If you installed Reviso by searching inside your WordPress admin, it also includes the search phrase you used (for example «client feedback»), so we can see how people find the plugin; it is recorded once at activation, capped at 60 characters, and is blank if you activated Reviso from your plugins list. It is used to prioritise fixes and features. You can turn it off again at any time, which stops all pings. Terms: https://getreviso.io/terms-of-service/ , Privacy policy: https://getreviso.io/privacy-policy/
Reviso Cloud (opt-in, Beta). An optional hosted service that connects your site to a Reviso Cloud account so you can manage feedback across all your sites from one dashboard and, in Beta, let an AI assistant you authorise help action that feedback. It does nothing unless an administrator connects the site under Settings Reviso Reviso Cloud, and you can disconnect at any time.
- Baseline sync. While connected, the site sends usage metadata to
https://getreviso.io: your site name and address, the account email, your licence tier, and review titles and counts. This alone never sends your feedback content, screenshots, or reviewer details. - AI assistant (Beta). If you use the Reviso Cloud AI tools on a connected site, the specific comments, screenshots, page structure, and reviewer names for the items the assistant reads are sent to
https://getreviso.ioand relayed to the AI agent you connect; with your permission the agent can also write changes back (post replies, resolve comments, edit page content). Only what the assistant acts on is transmitted, and only while you use it.
Terms: https://getreviso.io/terms-of-service/ , Privacy policy: https://getreviso.io/privacy-policy/
Screenshots
Installation
- Upload the plugin or install from the WordPress.org repository.
- Activate Reviso – Client Feedback & Approvals.
- Open any page in Bricks, Elementor or the block editor, and the Reviso comment overlay appears (bottom-right in the builder).
- (Optional) Install Reviso Pro to unlock multi-page Reviews and the rest of the paid feature set.
FAQ
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Does this require a license key?
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No, the free plugin is fully functional. A license key is only needed if you also install the Pro addon.
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Do my reviewers need a WordPress account?
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No. Share a review link and your reviewer comments as themselves. Reviso captures their name and email when they leave their first comment.
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Which page builders does Reviso work with?
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Reviso is native to the Bricks and Elementor builders and the Gutenberg block editor, and it works on any WordPress theme or site. Pins anchor to each builder’s elements (Bricks
brxe-*IDs, Elementor element IDs, Gutenberg block IDs), with content and position fallbacks so they survive page edits. -
Yes. A valid review link opens the page for your invited client even while Bricks or Elementor maintenance mode is on, with no login. The site stays hidden from everyone else, and revoked, expired or out-of-scope links still see the maintenance screen.
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Can clients suggest wording changes instead of just commenting?
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Yes. Suggest mode is tracked changes for websites: a reviewer selects the text on the live page and types what it should say instead, and you accept or reject the suggestion in one click. Suggesting is free on unlimited sites; with Pro, accepting an edit applies it to the page in Bricks and takes a revertable snapshot first.
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Can I use Reviso for bug reports and launch QA?
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Yes. Every pinned comment automatically captures a screenshot plus the page URL, browser, operating system and screen size, so a client or tester reporting a broken layout gives you the context you need without a separate bug tracker. Reviews can be set to close once the round is finished, and everything stays in your own database.
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Is Reviso a website proofing tool?
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Yes, for live web pages. Reviewers proof the real page in the browser rather than a PDF or a flattened screenshot, on desktop, tablet or mobile, then approve it with a timestamped record (a PDF sign-off certificate is included in Pro). Reviso proofs live web pages, not static images or print artwork.
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Where is my data stored?
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In your own WordPress database (
wp_reviso_*tables). Reviso doesn’t transmit your feedback anywhere unless you opt in to Reviso Cloud’s AI features (Beta), which relay the items the assistant acts on to getreviso.io (see External services). The optional anonymous telemetry ping never contains comment content or PII (only version numbers + feature-enabled flags).
Reviews
Contributors & Developers
“Reviso – Client Feedback & Approvals” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.
Contributors
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Changelog
1.6.1
- Heads up: white-label is now part of Agency. If you are already using it on a Pro licence, nothing changes for you, your site keeps it. New Pro sites will see the «Powered by Reviso» credit; Agency removes it.
- New: Choose who sees a comment before you post it. Every comment now says whether it is internal or visible to the client, and you can switch it as you type, so generating a review link no longer takes your team out of internal mode.
- New: Outstanding feedback is grouped by page, and each page shows who has reviewed it, so you can see at a glance where a review has got to.
- New: Local access (Agency). Point your own AI agent at your site with a WordPress application password, and read feedback or apply edits without anything passing through Reviso Cloud. Off by default. For agencies whose clients cannot have feedback leave their own server.
- Improved: Screenshots now show what the reviewer was actually looking at. The image is the frame on their screen rather than a window centred on the click, sticky headers and floating bars appear where they saw them, and a paused hero video no longer comes out as a black rectangle.
- Improved: Errors tell you what to do next. A comment that fails to save says your text is safe, a screenshot that fails says the comment still saved, and paywalled features explain the plan that includes them instead of only refusing.
- Improved: Comment screenshots and attachments can no longer be listed by anyone if your host has directory browsing switched on, and approval certificates now use an unguessable address and clean up after themselves.
- Improved: The diagnostics request waits until Reviso has actually done something for you, appears only on the plugins screen, and leads with why it helps you.
- Fixed: Share links could expire early. On some servers a link with hours left already read as expired, and any link set to expire sooner than your server’s UTC offset never worked at all.
- Fixed: Review pages showed the wrong closing date, and could show yesterday’s date to a client whose link was perfectly valid.
- Fixed: Reviso Cloud confirmation links reported «Link expired» for anyone whose email passes through a security scanner, because the scanner opened the link before they could.
- Fixed: Reviso Cloud sent a confirmation email only for the first site on an account, and the dashboard could error when re-checking a site’s readiness.
- Fixed: Archive links in the floating panel kept their review session, and archives now appear on the reviewer overview alongside pages.
- Fixed: your Feedback button could disappear from every page for up to two weeks after you opened one of your own review links, with nothing to explain it. Reviso now checks the review is still open rather than assuming, and clears the stale session itself.
- Fixed: Pins reported the wrong device, unread comments no longer carry a stray border, opening a comment clears its unread dot, and the accent colour keeps readable contrast inside Bricks and Elementor.
- Fixed: Sharing a review link now produces a proper preview card, instead of picking up whichever page title it happened to find.
1.6.0
- New: Unread markers. Comments you haven’t seen carry a dot and bold name, clear when you open them, and can be marked unread again from the comment menu. Read state is per person, so your teammate’s reading doesn’t clear yours.
- New: Manage settings across every site from Reviso Cloud (Pro). Set your branding, notification recipients, coalescing and integrations once and connected sites follow; anything you leave unmanaged stays under each site’s own control.
- New: Filter the review picker by status, and load more items per type, so building a review on a large site no longer means scrolling a wall of checkboxes.
- New: Reviewer dashboard shows outstanding feedback beside your pages, so you can reply to and resolve comments without opening each page.
- Improved: Colour coding is now consistent everywhere. Open is amber, in review is blue, and resolved, approved and reviewed are green, including the comment status menu that previously showed Resolved in grey.
- Improved: Tested with WordPress 7.1, including the always-iframed block editor.
- Fixed: The «Reviewed» status now updates in the page switcher and after you mark a page reviewed, instead of only on the dashboard.
- Fixed: Replies could be filed against the wrong review and disappear from the reviewer’s view. A reply now always follows its parent comment.
- Fixed: The prompt asking you to rate Reviso never appeared, because it listened for an event the plugin never sent.
- Fixed: Long approver emails no longer squash the item title in the admin table, and the audit log wraps properly again.
For older releases, see the full changelog: https://getreviso.io/changelog/?utm_source=wporg&utm_medium=readme&utm_campaign=plugin_listing