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<p><strong>⚠️ IMPORTANT: A Google Places API key is required to display Google Reviews.</strong> Google provides a free tier (1,000 requests/month), which is sufficient for most sites. Step-by-step setup guide is available at <a href="https://www.el-plan.com/kuchikomi-wall/api-guide/" rel="nofollow ugc">el-plan.com/kuchikomi-wall/api-guide/</a>. Manual testimonials and X (Twitter) embeds work without any API key.</p>
<p><strong>Kuchikomi Wall</strong> helps local businesses collect, manage, and display Google Business Profile reviews and customer testimonials on their WordPress site. Boost your Local SEO and MEO with automatic Schema.org structured data (Pro) — turn your best Google reviews into powerful social proof and rich results in Google Search (star ratings, review snippets).</p>
<h4>Key Features</h4>
<ul>
<li><strong>Google Reviews Integration</strong> — Connect your Google Business Profile and display real customer reviews automatically (cached for performance, Google API compliant)</li>
<li><strong>X (Twitter) Embeds</strong> — Add tweet URLs and display them as beautiful testimonial cards (no API key required)</li>
<li><strong>Manual Testimonials</strong> — Add any testimonial manually — from emails, Coconala, direct feedback, or any other source</li>
<li><strong>3 Display Templates</strong> — Card Grid, Slider/Carousel, and Simple List layouts</li>
<li><strong>3 Color Schemes</strong> — Light, Dark, and Auto (inherits your theme colors)</li>
<li><strong>Unified Dashboard</strong> — Manage all review sources from a single, clean admin interface</li>
<li><strong>Gutenberg Block</strong> — Native block included — search “Kuchikomi Wall” in the block inserter; configure template, color, and filters from the sidebar</li>
<li><strong>Shortcode Support</strong> — Embed anywhere with <code>[tmnl_kuchikomi_wall]</code></li>
</ul>
<h4>Free vs Pro</h4>
<p>  Feature<br />
  Free<br />
  Pro</p>
<p>  Google Reviews (1 location)<br />
  ✓<br />
  ✓</p>
<p>  X (Twitter) embeds<br />
  ✓<br />
  ✓</p>
<p>  Manual testimonials<br />
  ✓<br />
  ✓</p>
<p>  3 display templates<br />
  ✓<br />
  ✓</p>
<p>  Gutenberg block<br />
  ✓<br />
  ✓</p>
<p>  Multiple locations (multi-store)<br />
  —<br />
  ✓</p>
<p>  Schema.org structured data (JSON-LD)<br />
  —<br />
  ✓</p>
<p>  Rich results in Google Search (★ rating)<br />
  —<br />
  ✓</p>
<p>  Review request QR code<br />
  —<br />
  ✓</p>
<p><strong>Pro is available at <a href="https://www.el-plan.com/kuchikomi-wall/" rel="nofollow ugc">el-plan.com/kuchikomi-wall</a> — $3.50/month (billed $35/year).</strong></p>
<h4>Perfect For</h4>
<ul>
<li>Local businesses wanting to show Google Reviews on their website</li>
<li>Freelancers and consultants showcasing client testimonials</li>
<li>Salons, clinics, restaurants — anyone who collects Google Reviews</li>
<li>Web creators building client sites</li>
</ul>
<h4>Shortcode Usage</h4>
<p>Basic:<br />
    [tmnl_kuchikomi_wall]</p>
<p>With options:<br />
    [tmnl_kuchikomi_wall limit=”6″ template=”slider” color=”dark” min_rating=”4″]</p>
<p>Parameters:<br />
* <code>limit</code> — Number of reviews to display (default: 6)<br />
* <code>source</code> — <code>all</code>, <code>manual</code>, <code>google</code>, or <code>x_embed</code> (default: all)<br />
* <code>template</code> — <code>card</code> (grid), <code>slider</code>, or <code>list</code> (default: card)<br />
* <code>color</code> — <code>light</code>, <code>dark</code>, or <code>auto</code> (default: light)<br />
* <code>min_rating</code> — Minimum star rating to display, 1–5 (default: 1)</p>
<h4>Google Reviews Setup</h4>
<ol>
<li>Get a Google Places API key (free tier: 1,000 requests/month)</li>
<li>Find your Google Place ID</li>
<li>Enter both in <strong>Kuchikomi Wall <span aria-hidden="true" class="wp-exclude-emoji">→</span> Google Reviews <span aria-hidden="true" class="wp-exclude-emoji">→</span> Settings</strong></li>
<li>Reviews are cached for 30 days (Google API compliant)</li>
</ol>
<h4>Privacy & API Compliance</h4>
<ul>
<li>Google review text is <strong>not stored</strong> in your database (compliant with Google’s Terms of Service)</li>
<li>Only Place ID is saved permanently; review data is cached temporarily via WordPress Transients</li>
<li>X (Twitter) embeds use the free oEmbed API — no authentication or API key required</li>
</ul>
<h4>Multilingual Ready</h4>
<p>Kuchikomi Wall is translation-ready. A Japanese translation (<code>ja</code>) is included. Contributions for other languages are welcome.</p>
<h4>Support</h4>
<ul>
<li>Plugin homepage: https://www.el-plan.com/kuchikomi-wall/</li>
<li><strong>Google API key setup guide (English):</strong> https://www.el-plan.com/kuchikomi-wall/api-guide-en/</li>
<li><strong>Google APIキー取得ガイド（日本語）:</strong> https://www.el-plan.com/kuchikomi-wall/api-guide/</li>
<li>Support forum: Use the WordPress.org support tab</li>
</ul>
<h3>External Services</h3>
<p>This plugin connects to the following third-party services:</p>
<h4>Google Places API</h4>
<ul>
<li><strong>What it does:</strong> Retrieves customer reviews and business information from Google Business Profile.</li>
<li><strong>When data is sent:</strong> Only when you manually trigger a review fetch in the admin dashboard, or automatically via WP-Cron if you enable the scheduled refresh option.</li>
<li><strong>What data is sent:</strong> Your Google Place ID and API key (stored locally on your server; sent to Google’s API endpoint).</li>
<li><strong>Service provider:</strong> Google LLC</li>
<li><a href="https://cloud.google.com/maps-platform/terms" rel="nofollow ugc">Google Maps Platform Terms of Service</a></li>
<li><a href="https://policies.google.com/privacy" rel="nofollow ugc">Google Privacy Policy</a></li>
</ul>
<h4>X (Twitter) oEmbed API</h4>
<ul>
<li><strong>What it does:</strong> Converts tweet URLs into embeddable HTML cards for display on your site.</li>
<li><strong>When data is sent:</strong> When a visitor views a page containing an X embed (the browser contacts Twitter’s oEmbed endpoint to render the tweet).</li>
<li><strong>What data is sent:</strong> The tweet URL only. No personal user data is transmitted by this plugin.</li>
<li><strong>Service provider:</strong> X Corp.</li>
<li><a href="https://twitter.com/en/tos" rel="nofollow ugc">X Terms of Service</a></li>
<li><a href="https://twitter.com/en/privacy" rel="nofollow ugc">X Privacy Policy</a></li>
</ul>


ElPlan Kuchikomi Wall

Display Google Business Profile reviews on your site. Note: Google Places API key required to show Google Reviews (free tier available).

Freemius

Saleswonder Team: Tobias

<p>Get more and only top reviews from your customers WHEREVER YOU WANT. Google Reviews, Yelp Reviews, Facebook.. Sent them wherever you want while filtering critical voices.</p>
<p>You read that right. This plugin allows you to generate a maximum of 5 star reviews without risking negative ones. And yes, DIRECTLY on Google, Yelp & Co. Pure marketing gold.</p>
<h4>Company or agency? Then watch video to get more 5 stars ratings</h4>
<p><iframe loading="lazy" title="01 - How To Maximise The Number Of Positive Reviews With RRatingg (WordPress Plugin)" width="750" height="422" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/SbbFJZGJLBA?feature=oembed" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen></iframe></p>
<h3>How does review building usually work?</h3>
<p>When you collect reviews, you link to your business page and hope for 5 stars. If a customer doesn’t look 100% happy, you won’t risk asking for a review. This uncertainty leads to few evaluations. Negative reviews still come and drag down the average.</p>
<h3>What does this plugin do to build Google Reviews easy?</h3>
<p>It works like a bouncer and only shows satisfied customers the link to Google, Yelp, etc. To do this, it creates a subpage on your website where a review is requested in advance. People who give 5 stars will see links to Google, Yelp, etc. Anyone who gives a bad rating will instead be shown a comment box asking for feedback.</p>
<p>So instead of directly linking to your business page, you can sent customers to the subpage and stop worrying. Now you can give the link to ANY customer and therefore get 5 star reviews much more often.</p>
<p><iframe loading="lazy" title="Review Management Software  How It Works - RRatingg" width="750" height="422" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/H7Wq4QR1RQg?feature=oembed" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen></iframe></p>
<p>Since 2021, RRatingg is the only WordPress plugin that implements a rating funnel with a large number of interfaces to other programs. It generates more and better 5-star reviews and supports the Google Customer Survey. Connections to Google My Business, ProvenExpert, TrustedShops and much more is available in the rating system.</p>
<h3>More & Better Google Reviews, Ratings and 5 Stars for your business</h3>
<ul>
<li>You have the fully automated options to ask your satisfied customers to rate and your dissatisfied customers to provide feedback.</li>
<li>Your customers are automatically prompted for feedback, which means you get significantly more reviews. All that without you having to invest any time.</li>
<li>Import your contacts from different platforms (Zapier, CRM, CSV, …) into the rating plugin and send them on different platforms (Google My Business, Facebook, TrustedShops, flexible plattforms, …).</li>
<li>You will receive a clear strategy with which you will gain new ratings every day. This is how you will become a customer magnet and the top provider in your industry.</li>
</ul>
<h3>WHY TO USE OUR RATING PLUGIN</h3>
<ol>
<li>Better Conversion-Rate</li>
<li>Better CTR</li>
<li>Less trouble</li>
<li>You don’t have to beg for reviews</li>
<li>Higher stars rating rates</li>
</ol>
<h3>HOW REVIEW GENERATION WORKS</h3>
<h4>1a Invitation</h4>
<p>After the service has been provided, your customers are requested by e-mail to submit an internal evaluation. If a customer does not comply with this request, he can be reminded again after a period of time of your choice.</p>
<h4>1b public feedback</h4>
<p>Anytime your customers can click on the public funnel link to submit an internal evaluation. If a customer does not comply with this request, he is NOT reminded again after a period of time of your choice.</p>
<h4>2a Negative feedback</h4>
<p>After leaving negative feedback, dissatisfied customers are navigated to a form to describe their problem. This feedback remains internal and does not influence your public rating score. A reminder function is also possible here if the customer does not provide a more detailed description of the problem.</p>
<h4>2b Positive feedback</h4>
<p>In the next step, satisfied customers are invited to submit a public rating. There are several ways to do this, which are pointed out to the customer. There is also a reminder function here if the customer does not provide feedback.</p>
<h4>Google Ads Stars Rating</h4>
<p>In both cases, the Google customer survey can be conducted for Google Ads stars.</p>
<h4>3 Result</h4>
<p>With our system you generate an above-average evaluation score, which increases your sales and your customer proximity and sets you apart from your competitors. You can even turn negative feedback from your customers positive by systematically improving the points mentioned. In the long run, this will make it even easier for you to gain additional positive reviews that represent your company.</p>
<h3>Free-Plan-Features: Many options for building Google Reviews</h3>
<ul>
<li>1 stars rating funnel</li>
<li>1 custom rating link for Facebook Reviews, Google Reviews etc.</li>
<li>Form for adding contacts</li>
<li>Invitation email to the rating funnel</li>
<li>Control the contacts for rating invitation and feedback generation.</li>
<li>Choose between 1 to 5 stars or icons, such as thumbs up/down</li>
<li>50 invitations in the first month, 10 per month thereafter</li>
</ul>
<h3>Trial & Premium-Features: Advanced options for building Google Reviews</h3>
<ul>
<li>Unlimited number of rating funnels: Use different funnels for different products or services</li>
<li>2 custom rating links: for Facebook, ProvenExpert, etc.</li>
<li>Bulk CSV import: import all your contacts with just a few clicks</li>
<li>Interfaces / API</li>
<li>Contact import for Zapier, etc.: Automatically add your contacts from different CRMs or stores to your rating funnel via interface / API & Zapier.</li>
<li>Reminder emails for invitations, ratings and feedback: Achieve a higher rating rate with tag-based reminder emails.</li>
<li>Contact import via interface / API: Easy installation with video tutorials</li>
<li>Reminder emails with direct links to review platforms: Achieve higher review rates due to fewer clicks for the customer</li>
<li>Negative feedback disables rating redirection: You can disable the rating redirection on the last page of the funnel</li>
<li>Google customer reviews for stars on Google search ads: The cheapest way to add star ratings to your Google search ads</li>
<li>Trusted Shops connection for store and product ratings</li>
<li>In the free trial phase: 100 rating invitations (including free version), then 10 requests in the free version per month</li>
<li>Premium: Unlimited review requests: invite your customers to the funnel every day and enjoy many reviews</li>
<li>5 Stars Rating Premium support</li>
</ul>
<p><a href="https://rratingg.tawk.help/en-us" rel="nofollow ugc">Do your support requests and ideas here in tickets please.</a><br />
KB will be updated on more FAQs.</p>


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