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Voice Comments & Reviews – Heyoya

Description

Let your readers voice their opinion in a fun, fast, and easy way with Heyoya comments. Try out our free voice comments platform; it’s proven to keep readers engaged and to increase your conversions, website traffic, and improve your SEO. Voice is much more personal and direct than text and lets you interact with your readers and have conversations as you would, face-to-face.

Heyoya for WordPress

  • Increase content quality, grow brand affinity and improve the SEO of your site.
  • Keep readers on your site for longer and reduce your bounce rates with a commenting experience readers love.
  • Avoid spammers and abusive content with email authentication on every commenter.
  • Keep your readers engaged, and grow your digital community.
  • Build your site credibility and increase traffic with better user-generated content.
  • Try our AMPLIFY Premium Plan for customized comment approvals, extended recording time, advanced flagging options and more.
  • Single profile for commenting across multiple sites including social login support for Facebook, Twitter, and Google accounts
  • Bring users back to your site with web and email notifications and personalized digests

Our Standard Features

Easy to Install
Voice Comments & Reviews – Heyoya is easy to install and won’t affect site loading time.

Unlimited Comments
There’s no limit to the number of voice comments you can display on your site!

Customizable Tools
Keep things on brand.

Rich Media
Use audio, video, voice and text for a bigger & better conversation.

24/7 Support
Whatever you need, whenever you need it, the Voice Comments & Reviews – Heyoya team is here for you.

Easy to Use Dashboard
Moderate comments and view your analytics simply and easily.

One-Click Share
Share comments to social media with just one click.

Heyoya on Mobile
Record and track voice comments on the go.

Language Support
Use Voice Comments & Reviews – Heyoya in over 20 different languages.

Our AMPLIFY Premium Features

Grow Your Community
Export verified emails to marketing delivery platforms.

Extended Recording Time
Extend recording time up to a full minute for each voice recording.

Custom Notifications
Send custom notifications to your readers twice a week.

Download Comments
All comments are stored on our servers so you can download & use them whenever you want.

Customized Comment Approvals
Select different configurations for different users and media.

Advanced Flagging
Choose exactly how your comments are flagged.

And more…

Platform Demo Video

Help from a mate (aka support)

  • Visit https://www.heyoya.com/#contact-us for help from our support team.

Screenshots

Installation

Minimum Requirements

  • WordPress 3.0 or greater
  • PHP version 5.2.0 or greater
  1. Install Heyoya Voice Reviews & Comments either via the WordPress.org plugin directory, or by uploading the files to your server
  2. After activating Heyoya Voice Reviews & Comments, go over the Comments link in the left hand side bar of your WordPress admin and click on the Heyoya entry.
  3. You will now need to register an account with Heyoya or log in with your existing account.
  4. Customize the different settings on the Heyoya Settings page.
  5. That’s it. You’re ready to go!

More documentation

Go to https://blog.heyoya.com/

FAQ

IMPORTANT

  • If you have a Cache Plugin, please delete all caches after Heyoya update.

I’m having difficulties logging in

We use cookies to ensure a secured log-in for you.
If you’re experiencing issues while trying to log in, please make sure your browser allows third-party cookies.

Allowing cookies on Chrome:
1. Open the Chrome browser.
2. Go to preferences and select “Settings”.
3. Under “Privacy and security”, click on “Site Settings” and then “Cookies and other site data”.
4. Check “Allow all cookies”.

Allowing cookies on Safari:
1. Open the Safari browser.
2. Go to preferences and select “Privacy”.
3. Uncheck the following fields:
* Prevent cross-site tracking.
* Block all cookies.

Allowing cookies on Firefox:
1. Open the Firefox browser.
2. Go to the “Privacy & Security” section (about:preferences#privacy)
3. Select Custom.
4. Unmark the “Cookies” checkbox.

Your browser is not listed? Contact us at support at heyoya.com, and we’ll be happy to offer further assistance.

Comments – Does Heyoya limits the number of comments?

The Voice Comments & Reviews – Heyoya plugin does not limit to the number of comments that can be posted or played on your site.

Comments – Heyoya Languages

The Voice Comments & Reviews – Heyoya widget supports 23 languages:
* English
* Deutsch
* français
* Español
* Português
* Português(brasil)
* русский
* عربىs
* Türk
* हिंदी
* български
* Română
* Ελληνικά
* فارسی
* italiano
* Nederlands
* 中文
* 日本語
* 한국어
* svenska
* עִברִית
* українська
* Polski

Change your widget language by accessing Comments > Heyoya

Does this plugin fully replace the current comment system?

Yes! Voice Comments & Reviews – Heyoya changes the default comment system to a new interactive system.

Would the plugin help me to increase my user retention?

Voice Comments & Reviews – Heyoya allows commentators to record short voice posts. Voice comments are easier than typed text for most web users, and there is an element of fun to voice recording that also promotes user engagement. The ease of posting, and the higher engagement rates, will lead naturally to improved user retention, as site visitors who leave comments – in voice or any other format – will naturally be inclined to return and revisit their comments to see responses and follow up. In this way, Voice Comments & Reviews – Heyoya voice comments will lead to a natural conversation on the website, keeping your visitors on the site longer, and improving your retention and conversion rates.

Can I import my existing WordPress comments into Heyoya?

Yes, you can import your existing WordPress comments into Voice Comments & Reviews – Heyoya during installation.

Go to: Comments > Heyoya > Advanced > Import Comments

How Heyoya associate comments with my website pages

The Voice Comments & Reviews – Heyoya plugin is a URL based solution; this means that a comment is associated with the page URL it was posted at.

How to cancel my subscription

Canceling a subscription is an easy and no-questions-asked process.
Just send an email to support at heyoya.com with the subject line: Canceling Heyoya, and we will get right to work.

Got more questions?

Our support team is available 24/7 and will get back to you about any questions you might have. You can also contact them by email at support at heyoya.com.

Reviews

March 12, 2023
You get this error after installing (WordPress version 6.1.1): "Oops.. We couldn't load the settings panel.We'll be right back, so please try again in a few minutes" Last update was 2 years ago...
February 22, 2021
The plugin was installed simply and correctly. I tested it with different devices - it works reliably. The support team is great (helped with the migration of comments quickly).
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Contributors & Developers

“Voice Comments & Reviews – Heyoya” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.

Contributors

Changelog

2.2.6 – 15/07/2020

  • Minor bug fixes.

2.2.5 – 11/06/2020

  • Improving the login flow.
  • Minor bug fixes.

2.2.4 – 21/04/2020

  • Adding FAQ
  • Minor bug fixes.

2.2.3 – 22/03/2020

  • Minor bug fixes.

2.2.2 – 04/03/2020

  • Minor bug fixes.

2.2.1 – 08/02/2020

  • Minor bug fixes.

2.2.0 – 22/12/2019

  • Manual and automatic login methods are now supported.
  • WordPress 5.3.2 is now supported.

2.1.2 – 17/12/2019

  • WordPress 5.3.1 is now supported.
  • Minor bug fixes.

2.1.1 – 08/12/2019

  • Installation flow minor improvments.
  • WordPress 5.3 is now supported.

2.1.0 – 22/10/2019

  • You can now enable the option for your users to post comments with your website accounts.
  • Minor bug fixes.

2.0.6 – 12/06/2019

  • Minor bug fixes.

2.0.5 – 06/11/2018

  • Minor bug fixes.
  • WordPress 5.0 is now supported.

2.0.4 – 08/07/2018

  • Minor bug fixes.
  • WordPress 4.9.7 is now supported.

2.0.3 – 18/04/2018

  • Improving the integration with the WooCommerce plugin.
  • WordPress 4.9.5 is now supported.

2.0.2 – 15/11/2017

  • Automatic installation reactivated.
  • WordPress 4.9 is now supported.

2.0.1 – 08/03/2017

  • Automatic installation muted.

2.0.0 – 07/03/2017

  • Automatic installation
  • WordPress 4.7.3 is now supported.

1.1.0 – 12/04/2016

  • WordPress 4.5 is now supported.
  • Minor bug fixes.

1.0.5 – 21/09/2015

  • Logout minor changes.

1.0.4 – 11/09/2015

  • Minor bug fixes

1.0.3 – 09/05/2015

  • Error reporting improvments for better bug tracking.
  • Increasing request timeouts for slow networks.
  • Uninstall behavior added.
  • Small bug fixes.

1.0 – 04/05/2015

  • Added to WordPress Platform