Integrate Customer Reviews for WooCommerce anonymity: show "Anonymous" in review notifications#130
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When a customer submits a product review anonymously via the "Customer Reviews for WooCommerce" (CusRev) plugin, the review is stored with comment_author set to CusRev's "Anonymous" label while the verified buyer's WordPress user id and email stay attached to the comment. WooReviews::add() took the user-id branch and used the account display name (often the email prefix, e.g. "X123" for X123@gmail.com), so the notification leaked the identity the customer asked to hide — and the retained email also resolved to their gravatar. Detect anonymous reviews (CusRev's "Anonymous" author label when CusRev is active, or an empty comment_author) and surface a neutral "Anonymous" label, dropping the email so no name, email prefix or gravatar is shown. Both the label and the detection are filterable (nx_woo_review_anonymous_label, nx_is_anonymous_review). Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Summary
Integrates NotificationX with the Customer Reviews for WooCommerce (CusRev) plugin's anonymity feature. When a customer submits a product review anonymously, the social-proof notification now shows "Anonymous" instead of leaking the account display name / email prefix (e.g. "X123" for
X123@gmail.com).The problem
When a customer picks Anonymous as their Display name on CusRev's review (reminder/aggregated) form, CusRev stores the review with
comment_author = "Anonymous"while the verified buyer's WordPressuser_idand email stay attached to the comment.WooReviews::add()checkeduser_idfirst and used the accountdisplay_name(often the email prefix), ignoring thecomment_author. So the notification displayed the customer's identity — exactly what they asked to hide. The retained email also resolved to their gravatar.The fix
In
includes/Extensions/WooCommerce/WOOReviews.php, after building the review data, detect anonymous reviews and surface a neutral label:comment_authorequals CusRev's "Anonymous" label (localized string or English fallback) while CusRev is active (Ivole/CR_Reviews), orcomment_authoris empty (guest reviews / imports — matches CusRev's own Google-feed heuristic).is_anonymous.nx_woo_review_anonymous_label,nx_is_anonymous_review.Testing
Verified end-to-end in a WordPress + WooCommerce 10.9.1 + Customer Reviews for WooCommerce 5.113.0 sandbox:
CR_Endpoint::create_review) → stored ascomment_author="Anonymous",user_idset, email retained.No behavior change for non-CusRev or non-anonymous reviews.