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Reviewer 2 Academic Rejection Stamps & Verdict Widgets

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Reviewer 2 Academic Rejection Stamps & Verdict Widgets

by Reviewer 2

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Description

Reviewer 2 Academic Rejection Stamps & Verdict Widgets adds dry peer-review verdict cards to academic blogs, lab sites, research notebooks, and methods posts. It reads the room locally, reaches an unnecessary concern deterministically, and sends your content absolutely nowhere.

Use it as a block, shortcode, classic widget, or optional post-footer objection. The bundled matcher checks the current post title, tags, categories, and a capped portion of the post body against local dictionaries for fields such as Machine Learning, Statistics, Medicine, Economics, Psychology, Physics, Biology, Humanities, and Data Science.

Reviewer 2 then selects a bundled original phrase from the local phrase pack. There is no AI, no API call, no analytics, no remote asset, no tracking, no cookie, no visitor fingerprinting, and no external full-review callout unless the site owner explicitly enables one.

Key features:

  • Gutenberg block: Reviewer 2 Verdict Card.
  • Shortcode: [r2rs_verdict].
  • Classic widget for a daily sidebar objection.
  • Optional auto-append mode for single posts.
  • Display styles: card, stamp, decision letter, reviewer comment, and conference review.
  • Tone settings: Mild, Dry, and Brutal but civil.
  • Local discipline matching with deterministic daily or permanent rotation.
  • Optional metadata labels for detected field and Reviewer concern.
  • Optional full-review callout that turns the short verdict card into a stronger visual gateway to the complete Reviewer 2 roast tool.

Shortcode examples:

  • [r2rs_verdict] uses the site defaults.
  • [r2rs_verdict style="decision-letter" tone="brutal-civil" labels="true"] overrides display style, tone, and labels for one card.
  • [r2rs_verdict phrase_id="ml-benchmark-001"] pins a specific bundled phrase.

Privacy summary: Reviewer 2 reads only the post being displayed, locally, and immediately forgets the text. It does not analyze comments, visitors, unrelated posts, or external data.

External links: By default the frontend verdict card does not link out. Site owners can enable an optional full-review callout in the settings screen. When enabled, that callout links to the full Reviewer 2 roast tool on mlscientist.com.

  1. Install the plugin zip through Plugins > Add New > Upload Plugin, or place the plugin folder in your site’s plugins directory.
  2. Activate the plugin.
  3. Add the Reviewer 2 Verdict Card block to a post, use [r2rs_verdict], add the classic widget, or enable auto-append under the Reviewer 2 Stamps admin menu.
  4. Optional: open Reviewer 2 Stamps > Shortcodes to generate a shortcode line with only the overrides you want.
  1. screenshot-1.png - Default verdict card under a research blog post.

    screenshot-1.png - Default verdict card under a research blog post.

  2. screenshot-2.png - Compact sidebar stamp.

    screenshot-2.png - Compact sidebar stamp.

  3. screenshot-3.png - Decision-letter style.

    screenshot-3.png - Decision-letter style.

  4. screenshot-4.png - Reviewer-comment style.

    screenshot-4.png - Reviewer-comment style.

  5. screenshot-5.png - Settings page main tab.

    screenshot-5.png - Settings page main tab.

  6. screenshot-6.png - Settings page shortcode tab.

    screenshot-6.png - Settings page shortcode tab.

Does this send my content anywhere?

No. It analyzes the current post locally on your WordPress site, using bundled keyword dictionaries. There are no AI calls, API calls, analytics calls, remote assets, or tracking.

Is this AI?

No. Reviewer 2 has been replaced by deterministic keyword matching, which is somehow both less expensive and less merciful.

Can I remove the full-review callout?

There is no public full-review callout unless you explicitly enable it. The plugin works fully without it.

Can I choose a specific verdict?

Yes. Use the block editor’s Pin this phrase option, or use the Shortcodes tab under the Reviewer 2 Stamps admin menu to choose a pinned phrase and generate a shortcode with the correct phrase_id.

Can I use different styles on different posts?

Yes. Site defaults live under Reviewer 2 Stamps, but each block or shortcode can override the style, tone, rotation mode, labels, credit callout, and pinned phrase.

Will this slow down my site?

It should not. The signal profile is cached by post content hash and recomputed only when the post changes.

What does the matcher analyze?

Only the current post title, tags, categories, and the first approximately 1,500 words of post content after HTML is stripped. It does not analyze comments, visitors, unrelated posts, or external data.

Does the plugin load images on the frontend?

No. The frontend verdict card uses local CSS and inline SVG. WordPress.org listing assets are included for publication convenience but are not runtime dependencies.

1.0.1

  • Updated Reviewer2 tool destination URL.

1.0.0

  • Initial release.
  • Adds local deterministic Reviewer 2 matching.
  • Adds block, shortcode, classic widget, and optional auto-append mode.
  • Adds five CSS-only verdict styles.
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