Completely restriction-free Google reviews and rating as Shortcode/Widget. Extensive display options; delicious themes; includes Structured Data.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 2021This 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 2020Excellent 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
We have a comprehensive showcase of the shortcode’s design and functionality on our Demonstration Website.
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.
In order to run this plugin, you will need a Google API Key and to locate your Place ID
/wp-content/plugins/g-business-reviews-rating
directory, or install the plugin through the WordPress plugins screen directly.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
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.
You can locate your unique Place ID using Google’s: Place ID Finder
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.
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.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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
There’s a demo mode that will populate some reviews for you and allow for testing prior to going live.
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.
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.
There’s a comprehensive list in the Shortcodes section in DashboardDemonstration Website.
Settings. To view a showcase of many of these Shortcodes with various parameters and some suggestions for CSS, please have a look at our