Nearby Now Reviews and Audio Testimonials Plugin

Nearby Now for WordPress is an awesome way to add your real-time Nearby Now reviews and checkins, along with an eye-catching interactive service area heat-map to your website. Here’s a quickstart guide:

Heatmap

Our most powerful shortcode, the heatmap includes.

1. A large interactive service area heat-map combined with interactive review markers.
2. A wide column of your reviews, properly coded so that search engines recognize them as reviews of your business.
3. A narrow column of your check-ins, along with related comments and photos.
4. A masonry tiled layout option for an even more modern look.

Place the heatmap on city-specific pages to provide for unique, rich, dynamic, and schema formatted content that is specific to that city in order to bolster rankings for each city your business services.

Please login to the admin portal and view the knowledgebase for a list of all available options with the heatmap short-code, as well as additional short code options.

If you have any questions or need any assistance with the plugins, you can email us at [email protected].

1. Install the plugin from the WordPress Plugin Directory
2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
3. Add your API token in the settings page – Login to admin.nearbynow.co and click the API tab to get your API Access Token
4. Place the heatmap short-code on a page or blog post: [heatmap city="Dallas" state="TX"]

2.0.3

• Filter checkin content by image labels
• Version Bump for WP 6.5

2.0.1

• Heatmap Enhancements
• Version Bump for WP 6.4

2.0.1

Version 2.0 released!
All new short-code named heatmap with even more powerful interactive display and a modern look and feel

1.16.2

• Bug Fixes
• Version Bump for WP 6.1

1.16.1

• Bug Fixes

1.16.0

• Bug Fixes

1.15.0

• Added Google Reviews Shortcode

1.14.0

• Version Bump for WP 6.0
• Added Tags param for checkin/review/photogallery shortcodes

1.13.0

• Version Bump for WP 5.6

1.12.0

• New FAQ shortcode

1.11.2

• Fix asset directory

1.11.0

• Bug fixes

1.10.2

• Removing Open graph registration which is not required for the Nearby Now version

1.10.1

• Big fixes

1.10.0

• Added shortcode for regional and nationwide maps
• Version Bump for WP 5.1

1.9.0

• Added shortcode for regional and nationwide maps
• Version Bump for WP 4.9

1.8.8

• Update to API v3 (Map Theme Support)

1.8.6

• Added ability to hide the mini-map on reviews
• Added ability to hide checkin photos

1.8.0

• Version Bump for WP 4.4

1.7.1

• Version Bump for WP 4.2

1.7.0

• Auto detection of Google Maps API
• Deferred loading of Google Maps API and Heatmap
• Encoded Polygons for faster service area loading and rendering

1.6.0

• Added ability to filter multiple cities for a single hyperlocal page
• Added ability to name the service area – used when multiple cities are specified

1.5.0

• Version Bump for WP 4.0
• Bug fixes and general code improvements

1.4.5

• Increase timeout threshold on plugin API calls

1.4.4

• API improvements

1.4.3

• Adjustment to the API endpoint

1.4.2

• API Modifications

1.4.1

• Version Bump for WP 3.9

1.4.0

• New Photo Gallery Plugin

1.3.5

• Improved Script Loading
• Scripts are now loaded in the footer
• Both scripts & styles are only loaded on pages that have the Nearby Now short-code

1.3.4

• WordPress compatibility version bump to 3.8

1.3.3

• Fix for Review City URL’s

1.3.2

• Trimming all whitespace on the API key which fix some 400 erros; common when copy/pasting the API key from email or the web

1.3.1

• Audio Testimonial ShortCode name correction

1.3.0

• Added Audio Testimonial ShortCode
• Added technician email as a param to the combo ShortCode

1.2.0

• Removed our version of jQuery in favor the version that WordPress automatically loads
• WordPress compatibility version bump to 3.6

1.1.1

• Version 1.1.1 is a compatibility version bump

1.1.0

• Version 1.1.0 adds the powerful service area and review combination map, and several new parameters for all short codes

1.0.3

• Version 1.0.3 fixes a bug with the count parameter and also adds two new parameters. 1) Show Map and 2) Show Favorites

Show Map allows you to control the visibility of the map.
Show Favorites allows you to display only reviews that you’ve specifically marked as a favorite from the admin site

1.0.2

• Version 1.0.2 ads better documentation and an updated settings admin page

1.0.1

• Version 1.0.1 fixes a bug in the order that the plugin content is rendered to the browser

1.0

• Version 1.0 released!