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⚠️ IMPORTANT: A Google Places API key is required to display Google Reviews. 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.
Kuchikomi Wall 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).
<h4>Key Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Google Reviews Integration — Connect your Google Business Profile and display real customer reviews automatically (cached for performance, Google API compliant)</li>
<li>X (Twitter) Embeds — Add tweet URLs and display them as beautiful testimonial cards (no API key required)</li>
<li>Manual Testimonials — Add any testimonial manually — from emails, Coconala, direct feedback, or any other source</li>
<li>3 Display Templates — Card Grid, Slider/Carousel, and Simple List layouts</li>
<li>3 Color Schemes — Light, Dark, and Auto (inherits your theme colors)</li>
<li>Unified Dashboard — Manage all review sources from a single, clean admin interface</li>
<li>Gutenberg Block — Native block included — search “Kuchikomi Wall” in the block inserter; configure template, color, and filters from the sidebar</li>
<li>Shortcode Support — Embed anywhere with <code>[tmnl_kuchikomi_wall]</code></li>
</ul>
<h4>Free vs Pro</h4>
 Feature 
 Free 
 Pro
 Google Reviews (1 location) 
 ✓ 
 ✓
 X (Twitter) embeds 
 ✓ 
 ✓
 Manual testimonials 
 ✓ 
 ✓
 3 display templates 
 ✓ 
 ✓
 Gutenberg block 
 ✓ 
 ✓
 Multiple locations (multi-store) 
 — 
 ✓
 Schema.org structured data (JSON-LD) 
 — 
 ✓
 Rich results in Google Search (★ rating) 
 — 
 ✓
 Review request QR code 
 — 
 ✓
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).
<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>
Basic: 
 [tmnl_kuchikomi_wall]
With options: 
 [tmnl_kuchikomi_wall limit=”6″ template=”slider” color=”dark” min_rating=”4″]
Parameters: 
* <code>limit</code> — Number of reviews to display (default: 6) 
* <code>source</code> — <code>all</code>, <code>manual</code>, <code>google</code>, or <code>x_embed</code> (default: all) 
* <code>template</code> — <code>card</code> (grid), <code>slider</code>, or <code>list</code> (default: card) 
* <code>color</code> — <code>light</code>, <code>dark</code>, or <code>auto</code> (default: light) 
* <code>min_rating</code> — Minimum star rating to display, 1–5 (default: 1)
<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 Kuchikomi Wall → Google Reviews → Settings</li>
<li>Reviews are cached for 30 days (Google API compliant)</li>
</ol>
<h4>Privacy & API Compliance</h4>
<ul>
<li>Google review text is not stored 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>
Kuchikomi Wall is translation-ready. A Japanese translation (<code>ja</code>) is included. Contributions for other languages are welcome.
<h4>Support</h4>
<ul>
<li>Plugin homepage: https://www.el-plan.com/kuchikomi-wall/</li>
<li>Google API key setup guide (English): https://www.el-plan.com/kuchikomi-wall/api-guide-en/</li>
<li>Google APIキー取得ガイド（日本語）: 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>
This plugin connects to the following third-party services:
<h4>Google Places API</h4>
<ul>
<li>What it does: Retrieves customer reviews and business information from Google Business Profile.</li>
<li>When data is sent: 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>What data is sent: Your Google Place ID and API key (stored locally on your server; sent to Google’s API endpoint).</li>
<li>Service provider: 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>What it does: Converts tweet URLs into embeddable HTML cards for display on your site.</li>
<li>When data is sent: When a visitor views a page containing an X embed (the browser contacts Twitter’s oEmbed endpoint to render the tweet).</li>
<li>What data is sent: The tweet URL only. No personal user data is transmitted by this plugin.</li>
<li>Service provider: 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).

quicklyreviewus

The Business Reviews WordPress Plugin is a multi-faceted reputation and <a title="The complete reputation and review management platform." href="https://www.quicklyreviewus.com" rel="nofollow ugc">review management platform</a> for Business Owners, Webmasters and Internet Marketers to analyze, aggregate, acquire, manage and display business reviews. We all know that business reviews are one of the primary ranking factors in search algorithms. The more positive reviews your company has the higher you can expect to rank in organic search, on Google Maps and within the search results of the major consumer platforms like Facebook and Yelp.
Free Plugin Functionality
After activation there will be a new Admin Menu labelled Review Scan. With the free plugin you can run an unlimited number of reports showing extremely important information about your company’s reviews and public sentiment. Information in these reports include:
a) Reputation Issues – This section of the report shows issues with your company’s reputation, marketing and public sentiment. Issues covered in this section include review coverage, recent activity, stagnant sentiment, missing profiles, un-rated profiles, unclaimed profiles and more. 
b) Review and Reputation Rating – This is a grade on a 1 – 100 scale that takes into account all the factors from the Reputation Issues report. 
c) Reputation Overview – This section shows you your aggregate rating (5 star based) across all the major review sites. 
d) Ratings Distribution by Sentiment – This report shows you, through a pie chart, the 3 individual sentiments, positive, neutral and negative, across all the major review sites. 
e) Ratings Distribution by Number of Stars – This report shows you the number of individual star ratings you have 1 – 5. 
f) Total Number of Reviews – This section of the report shows you the total number of reviews you have across all the major review sites. 
g) Review Breakdown Per Site – This report shows you how many reviews you have on each individual site.
Premium Plugin Functionality
Please Note: For the month of April WordPress user get a 51% discount on Premium Plugin Functionality.
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Review Page – You will get your own Branded Review Page. Every aspect of this page is completely customizable. You can embed your Review Page with a short code into any page or post on your website.
When a customer visits this page they will choose to leave a positive or negative review. The positive selection goes to their selected platform. You decide which platforms to include, i.e. Google, Yelp, Facebook, even your own website’s review system. Negative review selections go to a form they fill out which is submitted to you, giving you the opportunity to correct the issue befor they leave a negative review on a public website. We integrate with over 200 review sites.
Review Campaigns – Within the plugin platform dashboard you can run campaigns inviting your current customers to visit your to review page. These campaigns include email, SMS (text message) and even printed business cards. You can have a huge influx of new, positive reviews in no time catapulting your business to the top of the search rankings.
Review Aggregation and Display – With this feature you can embed your reviews from multiple different websites like Google, Facebook and Yelp into any page with a simple shortcode. Your embedded reviews will automatically update any time there is a new one left on any of the aggregated platform sites.
Review Monitoring & Management – You can monitor your reviews across the web right from the backend dashboard of your WordPress Website. In an instant you can see all your reviews, respond to both negative and positive with the click of a button and also share all your positive reviews on your social media profiles.
In additional to all this you will also be notified via email any time a new review is left on all the major monitored review platforms.
As you can see, when it comes to reviews and business reputation management, this plugin does it all.

Business Reviews

Run unlimited free business review reports showing reviews across all major sites, your aggregate rating, public sentiment about your company and much …

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