Joseph D'Souza

<p>Simple Reviews Badge is a lightweight plugin that displays aggregate Google Reviews and star ratings in a customisable badge format. It uses the Google Places API to fetch and display reviews with schema markup support for better SEO.</p>
<p><strong>Key Features:</strong><br />
* Display Google Reviews with aggregate ratings and stars.<br />
* Customisable through WordPress admin settings.<br />
* Supports schema markup for enhanced SEO.<br />
* AJAX-based loading for better performance.<br />
* Filterable and customisable HTML structure.</p>
<h3>Usage</h3>
<p>You can display the Simple Reviews Badge on any page or post by using the following shortcode:</p>
<pre><code>[simple_reviews_badge_display_reviews include_schema="true" img_src="./logo.png"]
</code></pre>
<ul>
<li>include_schema (default: false): Whether to include a product schema describing your review count and average score. Enabling this will add a review star rating to your Google search results on the page your shortcode is included.</li>
<li>img_src (default: see settings page): Override the main image from the settings page for a single reviews badge instance</li>
</ul>
<p>The shortcode will render a Simple Reviews Badge with stars, aggregate ratings, and a review count.</p>
<h3>Settings</h3>
<p>To configure the plugin, go to Settings > Simple Reviews Badge in the WordPress admin panel. Here are the available settings:</p>
<h3>Basic Settings</h3>
<ol>
<li>Google Place ID: The Place ID of your business location on Google.</li>
<li>Google API Key: Your Google Places API key.</li>
<li>Review Badge Image URL: The image displayed alongside the reviews (e.g., Google logo).</li>
<li>Cache Duration: How long (in seconds) to cache the review data before fetching fresh data.</li>
<li>Google Review Link: A link to the reviews page on Google (used in the badge).</li>
</ol>


Simple Reviews Badge

Show your Google rating on your website with a simple badge, including stars and number of reviews.

Igor Yavych

<p>Version 2.0 is currently in the works. If you’d like to see a certain feature in this release, please <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/simple-rating" rel="ugc">create a thread</a> and tell me about your idea.</p>
<p><a href="https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/simple-rating/trunk/2.0_planned_changelog.txt" rel="nofollow ugc">Current changelog for 2.0</a></p>
<p>Simple rating plugin with few features.</p>
<h4>Features:</h4>
<ul>
<li>4 shapes which come in 5 colors to fit wide variety of themes</li>
<li>Adjust scale of rating</li>
<li>Turn on/off display of amount of votes</li>
<li>Display before or after content</li>
<li>Select for what types of content rating will be displayed</li>
<li>Disable rating for specific entry</li>
<li>Choose alignment of the rating</li>
<li>Customize vote count style</li>
<li>Widget that lists your top rated content </li>
<li>Works with custom posts types</li>
<li>Supports aggregated rating to show rating in search engine’s snippets</li>
<li>Allow or disallow guests to vote</li>
<li>Rating statistics metabox</li>
<li>Few languages available with an ability to easily add your own</li>
</ul>


Simple Rating

None of the settings are working. Boo. Switched to rating-widget. Way better plugin then this.



Simple Reviews Badge vs Simple Rating