Reviews and Rating – Google My Business free WordPress plugin

Do you have a Google My Business listing and would like to show your current customer reviews and rating on your website?

This plugin will collect this data using your unique Google Place ID and display a well-formatted list or column/blocks of reviews, and some associated links to reviews and Google map listing, plus point customers to post their review and rating on Google. Don’t worry: there are no restrictions to the reviews collection and plenty of options to display it perfectly on your website.

People love this plugin:

This. Plugin. Is. OUTSTANDING
This is easily the best plugin out there for showing Google reviews on a WordPress site. I’ve tried everything, and nothing out there provides the flexibility that this one’s shortcode system uses. All in an easy-to-use package. Very impressed!
★★★★★ – npierno, Feb 2021

This Is The Best Google Business Reviews Plugin Out There
I’ve used all the Google Business Reviews plugins out there and this is the best. … Love the presentation of the reviews. … The plugin author is VERY responsive. Answers all questions and quickly.
★★★★★ – minks32578, Jan 2020

Excellent Plugin
Very impressed with the functionality of this plugin. Manual HTML import worked smooth and took less than a minute. … This is an amazing plugin. Looking forward to seeing what else this rockstar dev releases.
★★★★★ – sterlingokura, Nov 2019

Features:

• Shortcode and Widget for customer reviews on Google
• Very high level of customization with more added on request
• Insert a list of customers’ reviews with rating range, review length range, offset, [unrestricted] limit, sorting, language and individual review(s) selection
• Fully responsive design with light styling to allow for your customizations; show/hide any element using shortcode parameters
• Customize appearance with columns, customize order within review items, hide or overwrite avatars, date formatting, name formatting, and much more
• Designed with SVG vector graphics for a crisp appearance across all devices
• 250 designs/themes including:
  • support for light/dark backgrounds,
  • fonts similar to those used by Google,
  • badge themes with standard and small versions,
  • bubble themes, outlined and filled,
  • tile themes,
  • responsive 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6 columns layouts for wider spaces,
  • a center-aligned version,
  • a narrow version for smaller spaces,
  • 14 additional color schemes,
  • plus options to load compressed CSS or remove it entirely
• Carousel/Slider capabilities
  • Specify slides with one or more reviews
  • Set number of loops or iterations
  • Swipe, smart keyboard navigation, bullet controls and pause view on hover
  • Works with all themes containing a list of reviews
• Additional shortcodes for:
  • Link to reviews and current rating on Google, with an optional Google icon
  • Link for customers to leave their rating and write a review on Google, with an optional Google icon
  • Link to the business place/location with Google Maps, with an optional Google icon
  • Display the current rating as a number
  • Display the total number of reviews
• Right To Left (RTL) language support
• Live preview in Dashboard→Settings
• Select your choice icon to replace Google’s generic icons
• Structured Data (Schema.org) support presenting clear business and review data to search engines to assist with SEO
• Demo mode to help create your website before it goes live; without requiring Google API credentials
• Manage all retrieved reviews and selectively hide reviews
• See the latest formatted JSON data from Google’s API
• Retrieves reviews in the background, collecting more through Google’s API over time with a snapshot of valid data for stability
• Clear cache, reset retrieved reviews and overall reset to clear all plugin data
• Advanced capability to import all review data from Google’s review popup HTML or consolidated reviews HTML (inspecting the live HTML)
• A comprehensive and free plugin with no upgrades for additional functionality

Demonstration:

We have a comprehensive showcase of the shortcode’s design and functionality on our Demonstration Website.

• Basic Shortcode
• Standard appearance in French
• Bubbles, outlined
• Bubbles, centred and filled
• Tile effect
• Columns and colors
• Review item order and design
• Carousel/Slider
• Selection of badges
• Buttons and links

Requirements:

• A free Google API Key and a Place ID. Specific locations are supported; coverage areas are no longer offering data through the API.
• A Google Billing Account to receive your substantial and free API Request allocation.

Recommendations:

• Please set your business in Google and find your Business’ Place ID before using this plugin.
• For peace of mind, please set Google Places API Quotas to keep requests below the billable threshold. The recommended value for requests is 100 per day.

This is my first public plugin, so all comments are very welcome. I would also like to see your usage so I can introduce new themes. There is a sister plugin: We’re Open! which retrieves current opening hours from Google My Business.

Getting started with Google API

In order to run this plugin, you will need a Google API Key and to locate your Place ID

• Google API Key Guidelines
• Place ID Finder