Aplivara Automate & Engage Wordpress Plugin - Rating, Reviews, Demo & Download
Plugin Description
Aplivara Automate & Engage connects your WordPress or WooCommerce site to the PlugFlow service at plugflow.in, the hosted automation and customer-engagement service from Sedulous Web. Use it to collect and show testimonials and reviews, ask WooCommerce customers for a review after they buy, and send WooCommerce order events to your PlugFlow automations.
This plugin requires a PlugFlow account. Collecting, storing, moderating and rendering testimonials, sending review-request emails and running automations all happen in the PlugFlow service at plugflow.in. You can create an account on the Free plan, which includes one site; paid plans raise the service’s limits (testimonials, walls, sites, review-request emails, automations). Nothing in this plugin’s code is locked behind a payment.
Reviews and testimonials
- Testimonial walls – show the testimonials and reviews you approved in your PlugFlow dashboard with the “Testimonial Wall” block, the
[plugflow_wall id="…"]shortcode or the classic “Testimonial Wall” widget. A picker lists your walls by name and the editor shows a preview. - Collection forms – embed a PlugFlow collection form with the “Testimonial Form” block or the
[plugflow_form slug="…"]shortcode so customers can send a testimonial, rating, photo or video. - Moderation – you approve testimonials in the PlugFlow dashboard; only approved testimonials appear on your walls.
- Server-side rendering – a wall’s testimonials are included in the page HTML, so they are visible before the embed script loads and without JavaScript.
Workflows and automation (WooCommerce, optional, off by default)
- Review requests – after an order is paid or completed, PlugFlow emails the customer a link to your collection form, after the delay you choose.
- Order events for automations – when an order is paid, completed, cancelled or refunded, the plugin sends the event to your PlugFlow workspace so the automations you build there can react to it (for example by sending an email or calling a webhook). Automations and their integrations are set up and run in your PlugFlow account, not in WordPress.
How the site connects: in the PlugFlow dashboard, open the “Licences & Plugins” page and create a licence key. Paste it under Settings Automate & Engage. The key identifies your PlugFlow workspace and this site to the PlugFlow service; the number of sites that can be connected at once depends on your PlugFlow plan and is enforced by the service.
Branding: on the Free plan, walls and forms rendered by the PlugFlow service include a small “Powered by PlugFlow” link. This link is part of the service’s output (it is not added by the plugin) and paid plans can turn it off per wall in the PlugFlow dashboard.
Earlier copies of this plugin: if you installed an earlier WordPress integration from your PlugFlow dashboard (plugin folder plugflow) or an earlier review package of this plugin (plugin folder sedulousweb-automate-engage or plugflow-automate-engage), deactivate that older copy before activating this plugin. Your settings, licence key, blocks, shortcodes and widgets carry over unchanged. You can then delete the older copy while this plugin is active.
The plugin’s JavaScript is not minified or compiled: what ships in the plugin is its source.
External services
This plugin relies on PlugFlow (https://plugflow.in), a hosted service operated by Sedulous Web, the publisher of this plugin. It does not display anything without it. PlugFlow Terms of service · Privacy policy.
Requests your WordPress server makes to the PlugFlow API (https://plugflow.in/v1/public/…)
Every request identifies the plugin and your site URL in its User-Agent header.
- Connecting and checking the licence – sends the licence key and your site’s domain; when you activate, it also sends the site URL, the plugin version and the WordPress version. This happens when you click Activate, Re-check or Deactivate on Settings Automate & Engage; once a day in the background; when a page showing a wall or form is viewed after the last check has expired (at most about once a day); when the plugin is re-activated with a key already saved; and when the plugin is deactivated or deleted (to free the site’s slot).
- Listing your walls and forms – sends the licence key and domain, and receives wall and form names and IDs. Happens on Settings Automate & Engage, in the block editor and in the classic widget form (cached for 10 minutes).
- Wall content – sends the wall ID and receives the wall’s HTML (approved testimonials). Happens when a page containing a wall is rendered (cached for 10 minutes).
- WooCommerce review requests – only if you switch on “Post-purchase review requests”. For each paid or completed order it sends the licence key, domain, the customer’s name and email address, the order number, and your chosen delay and form. PlugFlow uses them to email the customer a link to your collection form and also records the order in your PlugFlow workspace.
- WooCommerce order events – only if you switch on “Order events for automations”. When an order is paid, completed, cancelled or refunded it sends the licence key, domain, order number, status, total and currency, the customer’s name and email address, and each item’s name, quantity and SKU, so your PlugFlow automations can react to them.
Requests your visitors’ browsers make on pages that contain a PlugFlow wall or form:
- The embed script
https://plugflow.in/widget.jsis loaded from PlugFlow, and it loads the wall or form from the PlugFlow API. As with any web request, PlugFlow receives the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent. - The embed script reports anonymous view and click counts (wall or form ID, page domain and path) to PlugFlow for your dashboard statistics. It sets no cookies and uses no identifiers.
- When a visitor submits a PlugFlow form, what they enter (for example their name, email address, testimonial, rating and any photo or video they add), together with their consent, is sent to PlugFlow.
- Testimonials that contain a video hosted on YouTube or Vimeo load a preview image from YouTube (i.ytimg.com) and, when the visitor presses play, the YouTube (youtube-nocookie.com) or Vimeo player. See the YouTube/Google privacy policy and the Vimeo privacy policy.
If you enable the WooCommerce features or show PlugFlow forms, mention PlugFlow in your site’s privacy policy.
Screenshots
Settings → Automate & Engage: licence status, licence key and the list of walls and forms with their shortcodes.
The “Testimonial Wall” block with its wall picker and preview in the block editor.
A testimonials wall on the front end.
