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Etchenet Reviews for Google Business shows your Google Business reviews in a modern carousel (Swiper), a floating badge, and a side panel. Ideal for building trust and social proof on your site.
<h4>Internationalization</h4>
<ul>
<li>All translatable strings in the plugin use English (United States, <code>en_US</code>) as the message source, as required for community translation on WordPress.org.</li>
<li>On a site whose locale is <code>en_US</code>, WordPress typically uses those strings as-is from the plugin (no separate English file required).</li>
<li>Spanish (<code>es_ES</code>) and French (<code>fr_FR</code>) translation files are included under <code>languages/</code>. Other locales can use language packs from wordpress.org when available, or custom <code>.mo</code> / <code>.l10n.php</code> files.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Carousel – Shortcode <code>[etn_egr_reviews_carousel]</code> with configurable columns, autoplay, arrows, dots</li>
<li>Floating badge – Shows rating and total reviews; click to open the side panel</li>
<li>Side panel – List of reviews in a slide-out panel (position and styles configurable)</li>
<li>Manual reviews – Add and manage your own reviews in the admin (same structure as Google)</li>
<li>CSV/Excel import – Bulk import from <code>.csv</code> or <code>.xlsx</code> with a header row such as Author, Text, Stars, Date, Photo URL (minimum: Author, Text). Spanish column names (e.g. Autor, Texto) are also recognized for compatibility.</li>
<li>Google API sync – One-click sync with Google Places API (API Key + Place ID); optional daily cron</li>
<li>Order – Sort by newest, oldest, best/worst rating, or drag-and-drop manual order in the admin list</li>
<li>Customizable – Colors, excerpt length, min stars, “Read more” modal, Rich Snippets (JSON-LD)</li>
<li>Translations – Text domain: <code>etchenet-reviews-for-google-business</code>; see Internationalization above</li>
</ul>
<h4>Requirements</h4>
<ul>
<li>WordPress 5.0+</li>
<li>PHP 7.4+</li>
<li>Google API Key and Place ID (for syncing from Google); optional for manual-only use</li>
</ul>
<h4>How reviews are loaded from the Google API</h4>
The plugin uses the Google Places API (Place Details). It requests the <code>reviews</code> field for your place (using your API Key and Place ID). Google returns a limited number of reviews per request (typically 5) and does not support pagination for reviews.
On each sync, the plugin fetches the current batch from Google, compares it with the reviews already stored on your site, adds only new ones (no duplicates), and merges them with the existing list. It never deletes previously saved Google reviews. The API response is cached for 12 hours to avoid excessive requests.
<h4>How to get more reviews than Google’s default limit</h4>
Because the API returns only a small set per call (usually 5) and has no pagination:
<ul>
<li>Sync regularly. Use Sync now in the Connectivity tab from time to time, or enable Enable daily automatic sync (WP-Cron). Each sync can add new reviews; the plugin keeps all it has ever received and only appends new ones. Over time your total count can grow beyond 5.</li>
<li>Use manual reviews and import. Add reviews manually or import CSV/Excel for an immediate larger set; they are not limited by the API and are shown together with Google reviews.</li>
</ul>
For full details, check the plugin settings and this readme file.
<h3>External services</h3>
This plugin connects to Google services to fetch and display Google Business reviews.
<ol>
<li>Google Places API (maps.googleapis.com)</li>
</ol>
– Purpose: fetch place details and public reviews (rating, review count, business name, review entries). 
– Data sent: configured <code>place_id</code>, configured API key, requested review language (two-letter code derived from the site’s WordPress <code>get_locale()</code>, e.g. <code>en</code> for <code>en_US</code>, <code>es</code> for <code>es_ES</code>), optional <code>reviews_sort</code> parameter. 
– When sent: on manual sync and on optional daily WP-Cron sync. Two requests are made per sync (one sorted by relevance, one by newest) to maximize review collection within Google’s 5-review-per-request limit.
<ol>
<li>Remote profile-photo download (Google-hosted image URLs)</li>
</ol>
– Purpose: cache public reviewer profile images locally for faster/stable display. 
– Data sent: HTTP GET request to the profile photo URL returned by Google for each review. 
– When sent: during synchronization, when new reviews are detected and include a profile photo URL.
No personal data from your site visitors is sent by these requests.
Google Maps Platform Terms of Service: 
https://mapsplatform.google.com/terms/
Google Privacy Policy: 
https://policies.google.com/privacy

Etchenet Reviews for Google Business


J’ai testé ce plugin et franchement, très bonne surprise !L’installation est rapide et la prise en main vraiment intuitive, même sans être expert WordPress.



J’ai particulièrement apprécié la possibilité de connecter facilement les avis Google, mais aussi d’ajouter des avis manuellement ou en masse selon les besoins.



Les options proposées sont complètes, tout en restant simples à utiliser, et le rendu final est vraiment propre et professionnel sur le site.



Un excellent outil pour mettre en avant la preuve sociale et rassurer les visiteurs — clairement un plus pour la crédibilité et les conversions 👍



Je recommande sans hésiter !


Un plugin complet avec un super rendu

Display Google reviews in a carousel, floating badge, and side panel. Manual reviews, CSV/Excel import, API sync. Bundled translations (ES, FR).

Noah Hearle

Control all aspects of your business’ opening hours with this very easy management tool with multiple display options and conditional text while open or closed with renewed content upon status changes. This plugin offers a high degree of customization and can be placed almost anywhere using a shortcode or widget.
<h4>Features:</h4>
<ul>
<li>Shortcode and Widget to display your opening hours in a wide variety of formats</li>
<li>Responsive interface to quickly set regular opening hours separate from special opening hours for public holidays</li>
<li>Set up to 3 groups of opening times per day</li>
<li>Set 24 hour opening times</li>
<li>Set a date range for a temporary closure of your business</li>
<li><a href="https://demo.designextreme.com/were-open/#consolidation" rel="nofollow ugc">Consolidation of hours</a> with options for:
<ul>
<li>Just weekdays,</li>
<li>Just the weekend,</li>
<li>Separate weekdays and the weekend,</li>
<li>Full consolidation</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Very high level of customization such as:
<ul>
<li>Separator characters,</li>
<li>Extensive day and time formatting,</li>
<li>Prefix and suffix for each group of times,</li>
<li>Local language day names with option to overwrite,</li>
<li>Consolidation words,</li>
<li>Hiding of closed days,</li>
<li>Start the week to any day including the current day,</li>
<li>Regular or special opening hours only,</li>
<li>Separate day/date formatting for regular and special opening hours,</li>
<li>Date labeling and notes for special opening hours,</li>
<li>Date ranges, and much more…</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Option to refresh opening hours or reload the page at the start of each day</li>
<li>HTML classes to give high-level of design customization (e.g. past, today, tomorrow, future, special)</li>
<li>Right To Left (RTL) language support</li>
<li><a href="https://demo.designextreme.com/were-open/#open-now" rel="nofollow ugc">Conditional shortcode</a> to show content only when open, closed or <a href="https://demo.designextreme.com/were-open/#open-special" rel="nofollow ugc">special opening hours</a>
<ul>
<li>Automatic data refreshing or page reload occurring with a change of open or closed status</li>
<li>Conditionally show HTML containing special opening hours – only when this is available</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Conditional text with variables (e.g. show text or HTML relevant to current open status)</li>
<li>Structured Data (<a href="http://schema.org" rel="nofollow ugc">Schema.org</a>) support to give accurate information about opening hours to search engines and services such as Google My Business and it assists with SEO</li>
<li>Populate and synchronize opening hours from Google My Business (Google API Key, Place ID, Google Billing Account are required)</li>
<li>A comprehensive and free plugin with no upgrades for additional functionality</li>
</ul>
<h4>Demo:</h4>
We have a comprehensive showcase of the shortcode’s design and functionality on our <a href="https://demo.designextreme.com/were-open/" rel="nofollow ugc">Demonstration Website</a>.
<ul>
<li><a href="https://demo.designextreme.com/were-open/" rel="nofollow ugc">Basic Shortcode</a></li>
<li><a href="https://demo.designextreme.com/were-open/#table" rel="nofollow ugc">Table designs</a></li>
<li><a href="https://demo.designextreme.com/were-open/#text" rel="nofollow ugc">Opening hours as text</a></li>
<li><a href="https://demo.designextreme.com/were-open/#consolidation" rel="nofollow ugc">Consolidation</a></li>
<li><a href="https://demo.designextreme.com/were-open/#open-now" rel="nofollow ugc">Conditional shortcodes</a></li>
<li><a href="https://demo.designextreme.com/were-open/#open-special" rel="nofollow ugc">Conditional special opening hours</a></li>
<li><a href="https://demo.designextreme.com/were-open/#labels-notes" rel="nofollow ugc">Labels and notes</a></li>
<li><a href="https://demo.designextreme.com/were-open/#open-text" rel="nofollow ugc">Replacement text and logic</a></li>
<li><a href="https://demo.designextreme.com/were-open/#open-text-reference" rel="nofollow ugc">Replacement text reference</a></li>
</ul>
<h4>Recommendations:</h4>
<ul>
<li>If populating from Google, I would recommend <a href="https://business.google.com" rel="nofollow ugc">setting your business in Google</a> and finding your <a href="https://developers.google.com/places/place-id" rel="nofollow ugc">Place ID</a>.</li>
<li>And if used more than once, create a <a href="https://console.cloud.google.com/billing" rel="nofollow ugc">Google Billing Account</a> to receive your substantial free API Request allocation.</li>
</ul>
This is just my second public plugin and <a href="https://designextreme.com/wordpress/we-are-open/" rel="nofollow ugc">all comments</a> are very welcome. It is a sister plugin to <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/g-business-reviews-rating" rel="ugc">Reviews and Rating – Google My Business</a>.
<h3>Getting started with Google Places API</h3>
In order to retrieve your opening hours from Google My Business, you will need a Google API Key, locate your Place ID and set your billing information. With the Billing details, you’ll receive a substantial free allocation, ample enough to use this feature for free.
<ul>
<li><a href="https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/javascript/get-api-key" rel="nofollow ugc">Google API Key Guidelines</a></li>
<li><a href="https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/javascript/examples/places-placeid-finder" rel="nofollow ugc">Place ID Finder</a></li>
<li><a href="https://console.cloud.google.com/billing/enable" rel="nofollow ugc">Google Cloud Billing Account</a></li>
</ul>

We’re Open!

The plugin has an end-user-friendly interface to enter the standard opening hours and any exceptions. Then just add a shortcode on your page and you're done.

Easy way to get opening hours and exceptions on your webpage


+ Plugin uses local names of days by default, like Monday is Pondělí in Czech language. + Comes with built-in documentation for advantage use. For me I managed to have dynamic generated sentence, like: It's open now and we are closing at 22:00. Which change on closed hours for sentence It's closed now. We are opening today at 16:00. Or sentence It's closed now, we are opening tomorrow at 16:00. Code for that is listed bottom here.+ I managed to have table of opening hours simplified to my needs. I managed to set Weekdays renamed to Monday - Thuersday 16:00 - 22:00. Folowed by Weekend renamed to Friday - Saturday 16:00 - 23:00. And Sunday doesn't match any of this categories so it's showing all time like Sunday -closed-.+++ I love plugin let me do this thinks only by user settings without need of coding. 



Code for sentence, to easier your life:



[open_text]%if_open% Dnes otevřeno do %today_end%. %else% Právě máme zavřeno.%end% %if_closed%%if_open_later% %space% Otevíráme dnes od %today_start%. %else% %if_open_tomorrow% %space% Otevíráme zítra od %tomorrow_start%. %end% %end% [/open_text]


Everything you need just in one plugin. Totaly customizable. Avesome!

Opening hours for your business, a joy to manage and highly customizable. Conditional excerpts; conditional/replacement text; Structured Data for SEO.

Etchenet Reviews for Google Business vs We’re Open!