Description

Promote your Google reviews and rating from your Google My Business listing – with current customer reviews and the overall rating loading from within your website

This plugin will collect your location’s data using Google’s Place ID; transforming this information into a well-formatted list or blocks of reviews. You’ll be able to add links to the Google reviews, your Google Maps listing, plus direct your customers to post their reviews and ratings with Google. Don’t worry: there are no restrictions to the reviews collection and plenty of options to display it perfectly on your website.

Easy and secure integration direct from Google

This Google reviews plugin is the perfect tool for businesses looking to showcase their customer reviews and ratings fully-loaded right on their website.

One of the many standout features of the plugin is its easy setup and integration with reviews posted to Google My Business using Google’s Places API. You will be able to quickly and easily display your business’s ratings and reviews on your website. A fully automated process keeps the overall rating accurate and over time maintains and builds the catalog of customer reviews.

Highly customizable with an extensive selection of designs

Whether you prefer lists, carousels, columns, or tiles… it’s all covered. A great feature of the plugin is the customizable designs – currently 150 variations with light and dark versions and 14 color schemes.

All aspects of the summary can be selected as with each review item. There’s even the author’s name and date formatting for good measure!

You can choose from an extensive range of templates to display their reviews and ratings in a way that fits your website design. The styling has a light touch so you can also customize the templates to match your brand style and preferences.

Unconstrained filtering of reviews

The plugin also allows businesses to sort and filter reviews by all elements of the review including its star rating. Star rating filtering means a business can choose to display only its most positive reviews or, for a transparent approach, all reviews, regardless of their rating. Apply your desire for similar-length reviews, include or exclude reviews by their word content, cached shuffled reviews, and more – everything you’ll need, it’s all there.

A fully responsive design

The plugin is designed to be fully responsive, which means that it will look great on all devices, including desktop computers, laptops, tablets, and smartphones. This is an important feature for businesses that want to ensure that their customer reviews and ratings are easily accessible to all visitors and deliver on the highest SEO demands.

Regularly updated and feedback-driven development

This plugin is regularly updated to ensure that it is always up-to-date and working with the latest version of WordPress and edge PHP releases. This means that businesses can rest assured that their customer reviews and ratings will be displayed correctly and accurately, without any technical issues.

We listen to user feedback and any good suggestions will be considered and implemented in new releases. As documented in our plugin reviews, support is second to none, surpassing what you’d expect from paid support with premium plugins.

Free, powerful and reliable

So, get this Google reviews plugin for a powerful and versatile way to showcase your customer reviews and ratings on your website. With its easy integration with the Places API, numerous customizable designs, extensive sorting and filtering, excellent shortcode support, responsive design, free to use, Structured Data/Schema and fully maintained. This plugin is the perfect tool for any business looking to build trust and credibility with its customers.

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 the number of loops or iterations
- Swipe gestures and clever keyboard navigation
- Transitions will pause on mouse hover
- Customizable navigation bullets
- 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 to present clear business information and review data to search engines which assists 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 .

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 or view our visual guide for the Google API Key setup
Place ID Finder

Screenshots

Examples of the reviews listings with Light/Dark themes, badges, multiple columns and bubble themes
Examples of shortcodes and their results; all visible on the Demonstration Website
Dashboard view with general review display settings and a preview of a bubble theme
Shortcodes with some examples of the parameters
Details of the many shortcode parameters available to customize the display
Dashboard view of all retrieved reviews, with more added over time from Google
Dashboard view of current retrieved data using the Google API
Widget with extensive customization in the Dashboard
Dashboard view of advanced HTML import, custom styles, script and style preferences, cache clearing and various resets
Dashboard view of advanced import with 9 new reviews

Installation

Upload the plugin files to the /wp-content/plugins/g-business-reviews-rating directory, or install the plugin through the WordPress plugins screen directly.
Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ screen in WordPress
Use the Settings Reviews and Rating – Google Reviews screen to configure the plugin with
a. your Google API Key and
b. the business’ Place ID .
Once the Google credentials are all set, shortcodes will be available to place in any page, post or use the widget

FAQ

How do I get a Google API Key?

All the details for collecting your Google API Key can be found at our visual guide to creating a Google API Key .

Once your Project is set, you will need a new API Key with access to the Places API . As a restriction, set your host’s IP Address (not your website’s URL). Details of this value are listed on the Settings Reviews and Rating page.

The Google API is required for this plugin to load the data from the Google API.

How do I find my Place ID?

You can locate your unique Place ID using Google’s: Place ID Finder

I have more than 5 reviews, why can I only see 5 in this plugin?

The Google API only offers a maximum of 5 relevant or recent reviews at a time. Fortunately, this plugin will collect more reviews over time giving you more options to display your selection of reviews from a larger pool. If you feel comfortable with the HTML Inspector in your browser, you can import all the reviews showing in the Google reviews popup.

Why can’t I see any reviews on the website?

Your first place to check is the Retrieved Data section in Dashboard Settings. If there is an error here, follow the advice offered by the Google API. If you can see some reviews listed, check for restrictions in your settings or Shortcode that may limit the results. You can use the parameter: errors=1 to report back potential issues in the front-end.

I retrieved some reviews, but now an error message is asking for an “active billing account”. What can I do to see my reviews again?

To use this plugin over time, you’ll need multiple requests to the Place API. Accounts without billing details have a tiny initial allocation. So, please enable billing to receive your substantial and free API request allocation.

Why does this require a Google Billing Account if it’s free?

The link to a Google Billing Account is Google’s way of preventing overuse of its APIs – prolific users will be billed according. Fortunately, this plugin will use a tiny fraction of your inclusive free allowance; so it is free to use.

Can I limit my API requests to keep these within my free allowance?

This plugin will only use a fraction of your free allowance. However, for peace of mind, you can limit the request to ensure it stays within your free allowance. Just go to Google Maps Platform: Quotas ; select Places API from the dropdown at the top; in the first Requests section, set the “Requests per day” to 100 and click Save.

Getting my own Google API is annoying; can’t I just load my reviews from somewhere else?

This is possible; however it would involve sharing your data with a third-party provider. We believe that it is much better to source your reviews direct from Google. Additionally, relying on anyone other than Google will result in slower updates and/or fewer reviews with the possibility of being cut-off their service goes down or if they decide to limit their service to reduce costs.

When setting up the Google API Credentials, I cannot see Places API listed. Where is it?

Some people don’t appear to have the Places API enabled in their account. Go to your Places API page and click to Enable this API.

How many locations can I add to this plugin?

You can add as many as you wish. However, only the current location will be updated at the frequency you’ve set within the Settings. There is a Shortcode parameter: place_id will load reviews and other data from a previously set location. A new premium plugin is in development that will offer comprehensive management of multiple locations. So if this is of interest, please get in touch and we’ll notify you when this is available.

May I allow an editor to manage the reviews?

Yes, the role: Editor is permitted to manage reviews by default. If you wish to switch off access to the review management (also Shortcodes and About sections), this switch is available in the Advanced section.

Can I place Structured Data on a different page; not the front page?

Yes. However, you will need to manually edit the options table and look for the name google_business_reviews_rating_structured_data . Set the value to correspond to the Page ID you’d like to use.

I can see my reviews in Google, but nothing is appearing in the plugin. The Google API and Place ID are valid. What is happening?

Google does not send data for all places; only those currently found using the Place ID Finder . Some people who have service or coverage areas that aren’t a specific area may receive an error message: Not Found when attempting to retrieve data. This may occur after some time has passed. Unfortunately, there is nothing to remedy this issue for the time being other than to ensure your business uses a specific location as its Place ID.

My reviews are no longer updating. What can I do to retrieve new reviews?

This could occur if your billing details become outdated or something else has changed that has disrupted the flow of new data. Please check your billing details are current in your Google Billing Account .

If you’re seeing either a vague error message (or no error message at all), please try enabling: Clean Retrieved Data in the General section and then Clear Cache in the Advanced section.

I don’t have any reviews yet, how can I develop my new website without any data to preview?

There’s a demo mode that will populate some reviews for you and allow for testing prior to going live.

I want to load a compressed version of the script and/or CSS, is this possible?

You can select to load the standard or minified versions of the JavaScript and style sheet files or opt to avoid loading either/both of these.

Is this plugin GDPR compliant?

Yes. The customer ratings and reviews are collected directly by your web server from Google Cloud using the Places API. No customer data is shared at any point in this process. Similarly, the HTML Import process processes the same publicly available content from Google’s review listing.

If you are concerned about loading either the business icon or avatar images through Google’s CDN, you can choose to use locally hosted images in their place, save all CDN images locally or hide these altogether.

Where can I find some examples of the Shortcodes?

There’s a comprehensive list in the Shortcodes section in Dashboard Settings. To view a showcase of many of these Shortcodes with various parameters and some suggestions for CSS, please have a look at our Demonstration Website .

Reviews

Longbow September 17, 2024 1 reply

Reviews and Ratings – Google Reviews is perfect. It’s rock-solid, easy to setup, and does the job quickly. After years of use, updates were seamless.

solarshaneadb September 13, 2024 1 reply

Very good plugin and very responsive on the support questions. Highly recommend.

dacoz August 18, 2024 1 reply

Wow! Great plugin and great support, too. Google API only allows 5 reviews to be downloaded (as far as I understand). But in the advanced tab of this plugin, you have the option of doing a little bit of work with HTML inspector and downloading all of the reviews. That is such a fantastic option! Thank you for making this fantastic well-supported and very useful plugin.

SophiaAlexis July 16, 2024 1 reply

This WordPress plugin is a fantastic tool for adding a the .thml suffix to your site’s page URLs. It’s incredibly easy to use and seamlessly integrates with existing themes and plugins without affecting performance. Highly recommended! Also support is fast and very helpful.

aager June 26, 2024 1 reply

This is a five star plugin, and to think that Noah has offered this free of charge is amazing. Thank you, is all I can say, and for new users, you will not regret trying this out!

Elizabeth June 11, 2024 1 reply

This plugin is really very, very good.

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Contributors & Developers

“Reviews and Rating – Google Reviews” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.

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Changelog

five point five

Added support for inline SVG stars
Added Hungarian and Japanese language support for relative times (Thanks to Örs and Kevin)
Improved rating star animation: initiating when in view
Restricted effect of avatar dimension variables in CSS

five point four

Fixed color replacement for 90% star (Thanks to @kennypurnomo)
Added sticky table headers throughout plugin’s settings

five point three

Added file selection support for WEBP images
Removed support for uploading unsanitized SVG (Thanks to Tiffany Tyson, Wordfence)

five point two

Added an option to store avatars locally

five point one

Added individual place deletion
Fixed review counter animation in Reviews section
Adjusted base64 strings in CSS

five

Altered the name of the plugin
Refreshed design of plugin’s settings
Improved navigation within sections
Improved check for maybe_serialize() issue
Added keyboard navigation between sections
Added a more informative place listing for more than one
Added instant review list filtering in the Dashboard
Added instant filtering by rating in the Dashboard
Added a hidden option to include Structured Data on all pages
Added administrator notifications
Added reset for additional places
Added reset for administrator notifications
Added editor permission toggle to Advanced section
Added work-around for PHP 8.3.2 bug concerning instable arrays to Widget class
Fixed warning returned by sorting null values
Fixed fwrite warning from a null value
Added support for WordPress Playground
Tested with WordPress 6.5

four point three zero

Extended HTML Import to support several versions of Google Maps (Thanks to @nielsgww)

four point two nine

Added a warning for HTML Import using HTML from Google search results
Extended HTML Import to support Google Maps version

four point two eight

Added work-around for PHP 8.3.2 bug concerning instable arrays (Thanks to @navmansolutionsgmailcom)

four point two seven

Added new parameters for Structured Data Shortcode: html_tag and outer_html (Thanks to @louisgcom)
Updated diagrams for HTML Import

four point two six

Improved input sanitization
Improved clarity and readability of text strings
Fixed the style sheet check in the theme selection

four point two five

Updated design of Shortcode examples
Fixed HTML validity in Dashboard Settings
Tested with WordPress 6.4

four point two four

Fixed warning caused by missing avatars in the meta box

four point two three

Fixed carousel activity at short intervals

four point two two

Improved HTML Import

four point two one

Added option to disable editor capabilities (Thanks to @lion73)
Improved HTML Import diagram layout
Tested with WordPress 6.3

four point two zero

Improved tab navigation for editors
Corrected reviews link in widget for editors
Fixed review text issue in HTML Import (Thanks to @arielhc)

four point one nine

Added editor capabilities to review management (Thanks to @desclosf)
Fixed theme disabled toggle when style sheet option is altered

four point one eight

Fixed rating and date issue in HTML Import (Thanks to @blymi)

four point one seven

Added manual translations for relative times in Danish, Hebrew and Korean

four point one six

Fixed missing elements in some instances of parameter: review_item_order (Thanks to Baruch)
Fixed translate reviews into selected language
Added null value check in Widget’s Shortcode builder

four point one five

Added CSRF check to AJAX calls (Thanks to Rafie)
Fixed retrieval language translation option
Improved the appearance of the advice for the data retrieval sorting

four point one four

Added credential check for Dashboard AJAX calls (Thanks to Rafie)
Fixed missing argument in wp_kses function call
Tested with WordPress 6.2

four point one three

Added Czech language support for relative times (Thanks to @jakeob)
Fixed JavaScript error in Dashboard

four point one two

Added new parameters to Place API data retrieval
Added warning suppression for wp_remote_get function call in PHP 8.1+
Added new option to collect newest reviews through Places API (Thanks to @mazursv)
Added new information to retrieval record
Added image url retrieval check for missing images
Updated synchronization calculations to reflect retrieval sort
Increased retrieval record size
Set avatar size in HTML Import to 128 pixels (Thanks to Michael)
Fixed HTML Import for hotels and accommodation review listing (Thanks to @lescabottes)
Fixed string type warnings with PHP 8.1+
Fixed avatar parameter with an image URL
Fixed carousel navigation to prevent jumps
Tested with WordPress 6.1

four point one one

Fixed sanitization issues introduced in version 4.10

four point one zero

Improved limits for previews of 5 and 6 column themes
Improved security through more vigorous variable santization and escaping
Tested with WordPress 6.0.2

four point nine

Tested with WordPress 6.0.1
Fixed minor styling issues in Dashboard

four point eight

Improvements to the grammar in Dashboard Settings
Improved accuracy of Google Places API setup instructions
Added a link to a visual guide to setup the Google Places API
Added new parameter to specify image loading method (Thanks to @degorych)

four point seven

Added manual translations for relative times in Greek (Thanks to @theodorc)

four point six

Added sorting by character and word counts
Added limit and offset when a list of IDs is specified
Updated plugin’s badge/icon
Tested with WordPress 6.0

four point five

Added new parameter to set review text formatting

four point four

Added new parameters to override the Google’s URLs for “read reviews” and “write a review”

four point three

Fixed carousel view when set in Dashboard Settings

four point two

Fixed date issue in HTML Import (Thanks to @desclosf and @pierremartin310)

four point one

Fixed missing Widget functionality in front-end
Minor improvements to review item styling
Improved preview styling

four

Added carousel functionality
Added new themes
Added Dashboard Widget with recent reviews
Added new parameters and HTML classes to Shortcodes section
Added JavaScript preferences to Additional section
Added tile theme
Added display vicinity option to Widget
Added display avatar option to Widget
Added carousel functionality to Widget
Added recent reviews to the main Dashboard in a meta box
General improvements in Dashboard Settings
Improved HTML Import versatility
Improved Widget management in Dashboard
Improved style sheet preferences; moved to Additional section
Improved handling of Widget – calling Shortcode method for HTML output
Improved HTML output within review list
Improved review item customisations
Fixed warning when avatar image is not included in API data (Thanks to Christopher)
Fixed rel parameter as null for its removal (Thanks to Robert)
Optimized style sheet

three point four five

Added no preference for retrieval language (Thanks to @mcian)
Added remote retrieval fields for Places API as an option

three point four four

Added display instance counter
Added carousel navigation HTML
Fixed incorrect review key name

three point four three

Added compressed/minified versions of JavaScript and CSS activated through respective options: compress
Added new parameters to handle future carousel/slider functionality

three point four two

Improved readability and grammar in some text strings within Dashboard Settings
Improved Structured Data with better support for review authors (Thanks to @geroroe)

three point four one

Improved handling of themes and classes within class attribute
Improved consistency of star styling

three point four zero

Updated fonts theme to more closely reflect reviews in Google
Fixed review filtering issue across multiple Widget instances
Added new set of SVG stars in yellow
Added two HTML classes to support sets of star colors
Optimized inline SVG in CSS

three point three nine

Readded list of languages to Widget

three point three eight

Added Right To Left (RTL) language support
Improved positioning of some elements

three point three seven

Added informative error messages in cache clear
Improved core data handling

three point three six

Improved layout in preview for column themes
Fixed unexpected review filtering behaviour in some cases
Fixed multibyte character issue in review text
Fixed missing Widget

three point three five

Improved review limit handling in Dashboard Settings
Minor improvements to styling in Dashboard Settings
Minor improvements to HTML Import functionality
Tested with WordPress 5.8

three point three four

Minor improvements for smaller screens
Improvements to HTML Import (Thanks to @aitsatur and Allandora)

three point three three

Fixed disabled avatar images: no longer appearing in HTML (Thanks to @hsntgm)
Improved HTML Import to support additional structure (Thanks to Allandora)

three point three two

Improved HTML Import for hotels and accommodation review listing (Thanks to @ralphgl)
Fixed overall review count word (Thanks to @hitec4ever)
Added new Shortcode parameter to disable links (Thanks to @hsntgm)

three point three one

Added an option to skip JavaScript enqueue

three point three zero

Improved Polish language support (Thanks to Tomek)
Moved billing account mention from Updates to API Key setup in Dashboard Settings

three point two nine

Fixed display issue in HTML Import when errors are highlighted
Added manual translations for relative times in Dutch and Polish

three point two eight

Added additional translatable strings
Tested with WordPress 5.7

three point two six

Improved layout of Shortcode section with more examples
Added link to Demonstration website within Shortcode section

three point two five

Added the basic shortcode string to Setup section
Further improvements to Dashboard Settings interface

three point two four

Reinserted missing wrapping element for settings

three point two three

Added week update interval for synchronization
Improved handling of non-plugin notices within plugin’s settings

three point two two

Improved processing of review text in HTML import

three point two one

Improved handling of the first, type parameter in shortcodes
Improved name formatting to support lowercase, uppercase and title case
Improved consistency of styling for dates
Added more themes
Added color schemes
Fixed first parameter as an alias of type

three point two zero

Fixed sort argument in reviews filtering

three point one nine

Corrected a some possible warnings in unset array elements
Improved appearance of some notices on settings page load
Improved sorting functionality for random shuffle to give more consistency
Added new review sorting option for shuffle

three point one eight

Corrected a some possible warnings in unset array elements

three point one seven

Fixed place information in Reviews section
Fixed review sorting in preview
Fixed name of a theme
Fixed relevance sorting as a parameter option
Improved listing of theme options in Shortcode section
Improved output of review text when none exists
Added bubble themes with outline and fill variants

three point one six

Fixed upgrade method
Fixed overall rating and review count for places with less than 5 reviews (Thanks to @santaklaus805)
Improved review delete functionality (Thanks to @thor_a)
Improved setting and sorting of review relevance (Thanks to @scartwright)
Improved fidelity of HTML Import with Place ID check
Checking and setting of Custom Style on upgrade (Thanks to @prometheusppc)

three point one five

Improved update for relative times (Thanks to @prometheusppc)
Improved functionality and corrected theme name in Widget Dashboard

three point one four

Improved Widget functionality in Dashboard
Corrected translation variable in HTML Import
Set image selection on Media Library selection; not close

three point one three

Hidden review count display when not included in summary list
Altered Dashboard notification styling to affect just the plugin
Added manual translations for relative times in German, Spanish, French and Italian

three point one two

Fixed Update input in Setup section so it doesn’t always set to “Never”
Added HTML classes for outline and padding
Added week update interval for synchronization

three point one one

Added a check for language value for the setup process in Dashboard Settings

three point one zero

Improved setting of existing API Key and Place ID
Improved visuals in Dashboard Settings
Added a new welcome page when plugin is individually activated
Added new parameter values for name_format to support only first and last names

three point nine

Improved localization and language support in Widget
Improved positioning of rating number and stars
Improved support of stars_gray parameter
Fixed HTML entity star animation when rating number contains a comma character

three point eight

Structured Data now accepts a page ID value as an alternative to the front page
Corrected synchronization time checks for each time interval
Fixed shortcode display option to hide rating number

three point seven

Fixed JavaScript repeat method error in Internet Explorer 11 (Thanks to @compking)
Improved timing of retrieval occurrences for 6 and 24 hour intervals
Added language option for all reviews containing text
Clarified Structured Data business types

three point six

Significant improvements to review listing in Dashboard Settings with sorting and language selection

three point five

Significant improvements to HTML Import (Thanks to @hacaro, @gonab and @thor_a)

three point four

Improved retrieval of icon and logo image URLs
Improved styling for small screens
Structured Data price range data set to use only dollar symbol

three point three

Fixed Structured Data appearances
Fixed empty review limit to hide reviews (Thanks to @edlosee)

three point two

Fixed display issue of reviews for processing HTML import

three point one

Set more specific styling
Set all external links’ rel parameter to nofollow
Added 6 hour update interval for synchronization
Added no-outline pre-defined class
Added rel parameter to set this attribute for all links (Thanks to @zevs3000)
Added background fill option to Widget

three

Improvements to collection of retrieved data from Google
Changed html_tags parameter to allow single character
Extended HTML Import to accept alternative/consolidated review listings for accommodation such as hotels (Thanks to @achillesden)
Extended summary parameter
Improved icon and logo image selection script
Improved Place ID interface when multiple places exists in archive
Improved review_word parameter
Added HTML classes as a new section in the Shortcodes section
Added language support for parameter descriptions
Added tiny theme (Thanks to @humaniza)
Added stripe and stripe contrast styling
Added author switch layout
Added rating parameter
Added fill style to add a solid background color
Added list of pre-defined HTML classes to Shortcode section
Added further information about places in Dashboard Reviews listing (for multiple places)

two point one nine

Improvements to position of rating star animation elements
Icon can be displayed without name in heading

two point one eight

Added new centered theme

two point one seven

Improving reliability of web server’s current IP address
Removed empty heading when icon and name parameters are set to hide

two point one six

Improved stability for the storage of retrieved data and reviews
Added new setting to strip emoticons from retrieved data
Improved language support
Improved visibility of animate HTML class when a specific script library exists

two point one five

Added a check for some instances when icon doesn’t exist in data archive
Improved notice messages for submissions in Advanced section in Settings

two point one four

Fixed unset variable error for retrieved data in some instances (Thanks to @joshdraha)

two point one three

Fixed error that sometimes occurred with empty retrieved data array
Improvements to the CSS color logic for SVG fills

two point one two

Significant improvements to requests of Google Places API and storage of data
Improved handling of other Places with storage of name, icon, vicinity, overall rating and review count
Improved stability of stars animation in JavaScript
Improved number formatting to use localize formatting style
Added color support for overall SVG rating stars with shortcode parameter or style sheet
Added parameter to show/hide overall rating stars
Added HTML entity version of rating stars
Fixed empty review count warning (Thanks to @havin)
Fixed missing value for Custom Styles textarea in Advanced section

two point one one

Discovered a bug with a core WordPress function: maybe_serialize(). Added a work-around.
Corrected HTML Import count

two point one zero

Improved stability of HTML import with a fall-back on failure
Restored message display issue when initiated from JavaScript
Improved Google API Key and Place ID help text

two point nine

Improvements to notices in Dashboard Settings, particularly with external plugin nagging
Improved stability when retrieved data is no longer valid (Thanks to @philos1964)
Improved log of retrieved data
Improved sanity checks for Structured Data
Changed maximum review display limit to exceed collected number of reviews
Added help as a numbered list for setting the Google API with restrictions
Corrected a theme display name
Fixed JavaScript error when no style sheet is set (Thanks to @tomaszgasioritdesk)

two point eight

Added new narrow badge theme for narrow spaces to improve position of elements
Added hide parameter for review count
Improving the switch between demo and non-demo modes
Improvements to styling and position of elements

two point seven

Added name format parameter (Thanks to Scott S.)
Added overall link parameter (Thanks to @kodendigital and @hamudi)

two point six

Fixed backwards compatibility for less recent WordPress versions for wp_date() function (Thanks to @Carret and @joshdraha)

two point five

Fixed JavaScript Ajax call (Thanks to @gradlon)

two point four

Improvement to JavaScript and style sheet loading
Fixed activation error

two point three

Added custom style sheet
Added included and excluded word filter for review text

two point two

Added responsive multi-column support for review listings
Improved theme interface in Dashboard Settings
Added a live preview for smaller screens
Improved theme selection dropdown
Added justified reviews text when matching class specified as a parameter
Switched default heading from H3 back to H2 (correction from 2.1)

two point one

Added a parameter to overwrite the HTML element tags

two

Added Structured Data (schema.org) with supporting functionality
Added a live preview of shortcode output in Dashboard Settings
Added icon and logo image selection from Media Library
Switching HTML-only rating stars to SVG vector-images to offer a more consistent experience
Added support for uploading SVG images
Added review translation option for HTML import
Reset now available for reviews only
Improved language support
Improved tab navigation in Dashboard
Improved behavior of hide/show reviews in Widget

one point three two

Improved number parse for imported rating numbers
Added a js-links fall-back to circumvent conflicts with event tracking of links starting with a hash
Improved consistency of review excerpt trimming
Added shortcode examples of Google icon to links/buttons

one point three one

Restored no excerpt when non-numeric (or < 20) value is set as a parameter
Added review/reviews parameter description in Dashboard Settings list

one point three zero

Fixed empty shortcode attribute error (Thanks to @markima75)
Improved styling in Advanced section in Dashboard Settings for some screen sizes

one point two nine

Added a shortcode parameter to override the review/reviews word in the summary (Thanks to @sebastienrenaudeau)
Improved logic for review limits so Dashboard Settings value is a true fall-back
Improved language support in Dashboard and for review/reviews word

one point two eight

Improved language filtering in shortcode (Thanks to @niseadel)
Added language filtering in widget
Improved Badge theme styling – star alignment and spacing

one point two seven

Fixed PHP tag closure shortening in Settings template file (Thanks to @indekssolutions)
Added inline style for review meta (author name, rating, date)
Added date formatting support to override relative time

one point two six

Fixed bug for minimum rating when set to 5 in shortcode

one point two five

Added translatable relative time words (Thanks to @chris-kns)
Added option to hide or override business name (Thanks to @chris-kns)

one point two four

Added random shuffle for sorting reviews
Added functionality to clear cache and retrieve current Google data
Improved Widget customization in Dashboard
Added new attribution parameter to force light or dark background version

one point two three

Change to checking of cron task (Thanks to @designermark)

one point two two

Checking for existence of language review text array value

one point two one

Fixed two Safari issues: SVG images not appearing and main rating star width is now wider (Thanks to @sterlingokura and @nouvellessubstances)
Fixed specific review ID listing bug (Thanks to @sterlingokura)

one point two zero

Change to setting cache to help show reviews after initial setup
Added a parameter to show/hide errors and warnings in the shortcode

one point one nine

Changed review ordering for IDs
Fixed bug with empty attributes (Thanks to @marameodesign)
Added a numeric limit check in review filter

one point one eight

Added new themes to Widget
Added plugin reset functionality
Added review sorting for shortcode and widget
Set Advanced HTML import to pre-select new reviews

one point one seven

Improved Google API Key error notice (Thanks to @minks32578)
Improved tab navigation, with last active section visible upon return
Added none/some/all reviews to assist with setting the review limit

one point one six

Added a comprehensive list of shortcode parameters
Fixed theme shortcode parameter
Added language filter
Added a checklist for the advanced section (Thanks to @minks32578)
Minor fixes, usability and design alterations

one point one five

Added two new themes for a more compact Badge appearance
Allowing a zero review limit to intentionally hide all reviews
Added new shortcode parameters to handle layout
Improvements to styling

one point one four

Checking for existence of array keys in early Google review data
Fixed regular expression for customized icon string
Removed button class attribute when parameter is set

one point one three

Fixed error in Google write review and view reviews link class attribute

one point one two

Fixed JavaScript context error in handling the HTML import

one point one one

Improvements to navigation menu in Dashboard
Refreshing relative times from retrieved data

one point one zero

Minor design and functionality changes
Added a missing shortcode attribute (Thanks to @conceptio)

one point nine

Advanced – Improved stability of HTML Import functionality
Changes to design

one point eight

Advanced – Added import functionality from the HTML in Google Reviews popup
Changed default sort order to remain more constant over time
Other minor improvements to design and functionality

one point seven

Updated definition of dummy data for Demo Mode

one point six

Added set of all data prior to displaying Dashboard Settings

one point five

Added a refresh of data upon plugin upgrade

one point four

Improved shortcode customization
Improved the switch between modes
Added widget with live preview support

one point three

Added show/hide review functionality

one point two

Fixed a style issue in Dashboard Settings

one point one

Added Demo mode
Extended review listing functionality

one

Initial version