--- title: "Kadence Advanced Reviews" source: "https://docs.nexcess.com/software/kadence/advanced-reviews/" description: "Shop Kit features the Advanced Reviews option, which allows you to upgrade your WooCommerce reviews from regular reviews to Advanced Reviews. This feature enhan…" vertical: "Software" area: "Kadence" date: "2018-12-12" last_modified: "2026-07-02" --- # Kadence Advanced Reviews **Shop** **Kit** features the Advanced Reviews option, which allows you to upgrade your WooCommerce reviews from **regular** **reviews** to **Advanced** **Reviews**. This feature enhances WooCommerce Reviews by adding multiple functionalities, such as including a product review title, enabling a privacy policy consent checkbox, and more. ![Advanced review sample](https://docs.nexcess.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Advanced-review-sample-1024x386-1.jpg) ![Regular/Previous Review](https://docs.nexcess.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/RegularPrevious-Review.jpg)*Regular/Previous Review Example* ![Advanced Review Example](https://docs.nexcess.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Advanced-Review-Example.jpg)*Advanced Review Example* *Advanced Reviews are intended to work for **Core** **WooCommerce** **Reviews** and help revise the feature. Shop Kit can take Core WooCommerce reviews and convert them to Kadence Advanced Reviews. If you are using a plugin that already modifies Core WooCommerce Reviews, there can be compatibility options depending on what the plugin already changes.* Enabling Advanced Reviews **Advanced Reviews** are available with the **Kadence Shop Kit** plugin. This plugin can be purchased as a stand-alone product or as part of the Full/Lifetime Plans. You can get the Shop Kit by [clicking here](https://www.kadencewp.com/kadence-shopkit/pricing/). Learn how to set up the **Kadence Shop Kit** by viewing the main **Kadence Shop Kit Set Up Document** [here](https://docs.nexcess.com/software/kadence/install-activate-kadence-shop-kit/). Once the **Kadence Shop Kit** is set up on the website, navigate to **Dashboard -> Shop Kit** page and go to the **Advanced Reviews** tab. ![Enable Advanced Reviews](https://docs.nexcess.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Enable-Advanced-Reviews.jpg)Enable the option named **Enable Advanced Reviews**. This will allow you to customize the **Advanced Review Settings** to suit your needs. ![Enabled Advanced Reviews](https://docs.nexcess.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Enabled-Advanced-Reviews.gif) The first thing you should do is **convert** the existing WooCommerce Reviews to Kadence Advanced Reviews. To do so, follow the section below. Converting Previous Reviews to Advanced Reviews Once **Advanced Reviews** are enabled, the previous reviews should be converted to **Advanced Reviews**. This can be done by scrolling to the bottom of the **Advanced Review Shop Kit Settings** **Page** and locating the option named **Convert Previous Reviews to Advanced Reviews**. For the Advanced Reviews conversion to work, you should first **enable** **Advanced Reviews**, press the **Save Settings** **button** at the bottom of the Page, and then refresh the page. If you do not save the settings and refresh the page, the **Advanced Reviews** conversion will not work. ![Enable Reviews Warning](https://docs.nexcess.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Enable-Reviews-Warning.jpg) Once you enable Advanced Reviews, save the page, and refresh the page, you can click on the **Convert Reviews** button to convert your previous reviews to **Advanced Reviews**. ![Convert Reviews Settings](https://docs.nexcess.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Convert-Reviews-Settings.jpg) Here is a GIF that demonstrates how the conversion process should look: ![Converting Reviews Gif](https://docs.nexcess.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Converting-Reviews-Gif.gif)If you decide not to use **Advanced Reviews** after converting reviews, any reviews created specifically with the **Advanced Reviews** feature will no longer appear. Only the reviews created *before* enabling **Advanced Reviews** will remain visible after disabling the feature. Advanced Reviews Settings Use the **Advanced Reviews Settings** to customize how your **Advanced Reviews** behave and look. These settings can be found by navigating to **Dashboard -> Shop Kit**, then selecting the **Advanced Reviews** tab. **Enable Advanced Reviews**: This is the main setting to enable and use Advanced Reviews. **Select Review Order**: Adjust the order in which your Advanced Reviews will display. This can be set to sort by the most helpful and newest reviews, the newest review, or the oldest review. **Enable Review Titles**: Enable the option to add titles to Advanced Reviews. **Show Reviews in Every Language**: When using WPML or Polylang, enable this option to display all reviews from all languages at once. **Enable Review Voting**: This allows users to give a thumbs up or thumbs down to reviews. A message will display showing how many users found the review helpful or not. **Voters Must Be Logged In**: Enable this option to only allow Logged In Users to rate reviews (leave a thumbs up or thumbs down). **Show Review Overview**: This feature adds a chart displaying an overview of the reviews. It includes progress bars for each rating, helping users assess the overall product rating. ![Advanced Reviews Settings A](https://docs.nexcess.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Advanced-Reviews-Settings-A.jpg) **Overview Highlight Color**: When an Overview is enabled, set a Highlight Color for the progress bars. This will pull in your Kadence Color Palette colors. You can also click the main Overview Highlight Color to manually set/adjust the Highlight Color. **Enable Featured Reviews**: This option allows for popular reviews to become Featured and shown at the top of the Reviews List. **Enable Load More for Reviews**: Enable this option to use a button to load more reviews instead of loading them all by default. **Load More Initial and Per Load Amount**: Set how many reviews you wish to display before the Load More button appears (if enabled). Whenever loading more reviews, it will also load this amount of reviews. **Convert Previous Reviews**: This option is for converting Previous Reviews to Advanced Reviews. Learn more in the section above. ![Advanced Reviews Settings B](https://docs.nexcess.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Advanced-Reviews-Settings-B.jpg)