Mediaofficers

Boost trust and conversions by showcasing your Google reviews directly on your WordPress website. Reviews Showcase for Google is a powerful and easy-to-use plugin that lets you display your Google Business reviews beautifully, without any complex setup. Leverage your hard-earned social proof to increase credibility and improve your local SEO.
Unlike other plugins, our solution is designed for simplicity. You don’t need to create your own Google API project. Simply enter your Google Place ID, and our secure proxy service fetches your reviews one time, ensuring your site remains fast and reliable.
Key Features:
Simple & Secure Setup: No need to create your own Google API project.
Floating Review Badge: Display a professional, floating badge in the corner of your site.
Easy Shortcode: Use [reviews_showcase_for_google] to display a full list of your latest reviews.
Powerful SEO Schema Markup: Automatically adds AggregateRating schema to your pages to help you get star ratings in search results.
User-Friendly & Compliant: Includes a close button on the badge and data privacy consent.
Manual Refresh: Instantly fetch your latest reviews with a single click.
<h3>External Services</h3>
This plugin connects to a secure API server provided by MediaOfficers (api.mediaofficers.com) to obtain Google review information. This is necessary for the plugin to function without requiring users to set up their own complex Google API project.
What data is sent: The plugin sends the user’s public Google Place ID to the server when reviews are fetched or refreshed.
Terms of Service: https://mediaofficers.com/terms-of-service
Privacy Policy: https://mediaofficers.com/privacy-policy

Reviews Showcase for Google

A simple plugin to display Google Reviews using a shortcode and a floating badge. Now with SEO Schema Markup.

Gary Kovar

If you find you regularly write blog posts about (local?) places you might want to provide info such as hours, phone number, address to your users. However, this can be difficult to keep current. Fortunately Google offers an API called Google Places API Web Service. Google Place API Web Service allows you to Add up-to-date information about millions of locations.
WP_Places Plugin requires a Google Places API Web Service Key. However, at the time of writing the API key is free and provides up to 1,000 requests per 24 hour period. If you verify your identity (by providing Google a Credit Card) they will increase your daily request per 24 hours to 150,000.
Once Installed, WP_Places takes name and location and displays a DIV containing Business Name, Address, Hours, Phone Number, Website.
The following shortcodes are available:
<ul>
<li>[wp_places name] displays the Google Places name</li>
<li>[wp_places formattedAddress] displays the address in the regionally standardized way</li>
<li>[wp_places phoneNumber] displays the phone number in the regionally standardized way</li>
<li>[wp_places hours] displays the hours of operation in a list</li>
<li>[wp_places website] displays the website</li>
<li>[wp_places priceLevel] returns the pricing level as prescribed in google places API</li>
<li>[wp_places rating] returns the average rating as prescribed in google places API</li>
<li>[wp_places lat] lattitude</li>
<li>[wp_places lng] longitude</li>
<li>[wp_places openNow] returns 1 if open</li>
<li>[wp_places openNowText] returns “Open Now” if open</li>
<li>[wp_places permanentlyClosed] returns 1 if permanently closed</li>
<li>[wp_places photos] returns photos if google supplies them</li>
<li>[wp_places reviews] returns a UL list of reviews if google supplies them</li>
</ul>
To filter how long to cache the google reply there is a filter:
add_filter( ‘wp_places_transient’, ‘wp_places_update_transient’, 10, 1 ); 
wp_places_update_transient( $time ) { 
 // return a value in seconds for how long to cache. 
 return 86400; // one day 
 return 604800 // one week 
}

WP_Places

I wrote this. And it works for me. I kinda like me. Thanks me.



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