Topher

<p>Creates a widget showing the most recent essay data from HeroPress.  Optionally renders featured image, title, contributor, and date.</p>
<h3>Usage</h3>
<p>Use the normal widget admin UI to drag the widget into your sidebar.</p>
<p>The data fetcher caches the data for 12 hours.</p>


HeroPress Recent Essay Widget

Creates a widget showing the most recent essay data from HeroPress.  Optionally renders featured image, title, contributor, and date.

richplugins

Daniel K.

<p>This plugin allows you to display up to 10 <strong>Google Business reviews</strong> and immediately show them on your WordPress website. The setup process is extremely simple and takes less than a minute.</p>
<p>There are no limits on how many Google business locations you can connect, and you can create as many widgets or shortcodes as needed to place reviews across your site. The plugin is easy to use and helps build trust with your visitors by displaying real Google reviews and your overall rating.</p>
<p>It’s already trusted by over a thousand WordPress users who use it daily to show their best customer feedback.</p>
<p>Want to see how it works? Watch the short demo below to see how quickly you can get started – or simply try it in the Live Preview.</p>
<span class="embed-youtube" style="text-align:center; display: block;"><iframe loading="lazy" class="youtube-player" width="750" height="422" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/rMbwqCjDc80?version=3&rel=1&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&fs=1&hl=en-US&autohide=2&wmode=transparent" allowfullscreen="true" style="border:0;" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox"></iframe></span>
<h3>⚡ Plugin highlights</h3>
<ul>
<li><strong>No limits on created widgets or shortcodes</strong></li>
<li><strong>Show up to 10 Google reviews on initial setup</strong></li>
<li><strong>Connect multiple Google business places</strong></li>
<li>Display customer photos and owner replies inside reviews</li>
<li><strong>Fully GDPR-compliant</strong> — no external requests, all data loads from your own website</li>
<li><strong>Automatically updates reviews</strong> and ratings (when using your own API key)</li>
<li>Option to hide reviews without text</li>
<li>Responsive layouts: Slider, Grid, List, and Rating</li>
<li>‘<strong>review us on Google</strong>‘ button to collect new reviews</li>
<li>Choose which reviews to display or hide</li>
<li>Display reviews using shortcode, widget, block, or page builders (Elementor, Gutenberg, etc.)</li>
<li>Upload a custom business photo</li>
<li>Trim long reviews with a “read more” link</li>
<li>Pagination support for List and Grid layouts</li>
<li>Optimized for performance: small CSS/JS files and lazy loading</li>
<li><strong>UI options to customize star, text, rating, and review colors</strong></li>
<li>Additional styling with your own CSS</li>
<li>Supports multiple languages</li>
<li>Works with dark themes</li>
</ul>
<p>⭐ <a href="https://richplugins.com/demos/" rel="nofollow ugc">Live demo</a></p>
<h3>Support</h3>
<p>If you have any questions or need help using the plugin, we recommend the following steps:</p>
<ol>
<li>Check the plugin’s support page in your WordPress admin under “Google Reviews / Support”.</li>
<li>Visit the <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/widget-google-reviews/" rel="ugc">Support Forum</a> to browse existing topics or ask a new question.</li>
</ol>
<p>Email support in English is also available on weekdays: support@richplugins.com</p>
<h3>Roadmap</h3>
<ul>
<li>New feature: minimal rating layout (rating, stars and total reviews)</li>
<li>New feature: possibility to hide (or delete) the connected place to exclude from Overview page</li>
<li>Improve: adapt review connection modal for mobile devices</li>
<li>Improve: New option Style Options / Review photos max lines</li>
</ul>


Rich Shortcodes for Google Reviews


Relatively easy to install. We used our own Google API. Worked first time.


Works as promised...


Improvement suggestion would be to add Schema Ratings / Reviews / Aggregate reviews to the page to help even further.


Great plugin, does what it says and looks good on front end.


Extremely easy to use with beautiful slider layout plugin.


Excellent easy to use no non-sense plugin.


Works good, could use a little more styling options but ill change them with some custom code


Great plugin


Thanks for this; it has plenty of free features, and is super lightweight!


Very lighweight!


We tested a lot of plugins for displaying Google reviews, and this one works the best from the ones we tested.


Awesome - Works the best


A good plugin that provides support that goes the extra mile


Good Plugin, Great Support

Satisfied


Very simple installation, fast configuration, direct connection with google business reviews, easy to configure and embed it anywhere.


Excellent plugin that works really great

It is very easy to use.

Display up to 10 Google reviews in less than a minute. Continue collecting new reviews. No limits on connected places, widgets and shortcodes.

HeroPress Recent Essay Widget vs Rich Shortcodes for Google Reviews