Joseph D'Souza

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.
Key Features: 
* Display Google Reviews with aggregate ratings and stars. 
* Customisable through WordPress admin settings. 
* Supports schema markup for enhanced SEO. 
* AJAX-based loading for better performance. 
* Filterable and customisable HTML structure.
<h3>Usage</h3>
You can display the Simple Reviews Badge on any page or post by using the following shortcode:
<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>
The shortcode will render a Simple Reviews Badge with stars, aggregate ratings, and a review count.
<h3>Settings</h3>
To configure the plugin, go to Settings > Simple Reviews Badge in the WordPress admin panel. Here are the available settings:
<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.

Gemini Labs

Paul

Site Reviews is a complete review management solution for your website that is designed to work in a similar way to Amazon, Tripadvisor, and Yelp. The plugin provides blocks, shortcodes, and widgets, along with full documentation.
You can pin your best reviews so that they are always shown first, request review verification, require approval before new reviews are published, require visitors to be logged-in in order to write a review, send a custom notification when reviews are submitted, respond to reviews, and a lot more!
Site Reviews provides more features and options than almost every other free review plugin, and the support provided on the WordPress forum is excellent.
<h4>Try a Live Demo</h4>
<ol>
<li><a href="https://tastewp.com/plugins/site-reviews/?ni=true&redirect=index.php%3Fpage=site-reviews-welcome%26tab=getting-started" rel="nofollow ugc">Try Site Reviews</a> for yourself on a demo server.</li>
<li><a href="https://demo.site-reviews.com" rel="nofollow ugc">View a demo website</a></li>
</ol>
<h4>Watch a Tutorial</h4>
<iframe loading="lazy" title="How to add reviews to a property website using Site Reviews." width="750" height="422" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/H5HdMCXvuq8?feature=oembed" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen></iframe>
<h4>Current Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Actively Developed and Supported</li>
<li>Asian Language Support for Excerpts</li>
<li>Assign Reviews: Reviews can be assigned to Categories, Posts, Pages, Custom Post Types, and Users.</li>
<li>Avada Support: Use the native Avada Fusion Builder elements in the Fusion Builder.</li>
<li>Avatars: Provided by the WordPress Gravatar service</li>
<li>Backup and Restore: Export/Import your settings and custom text strings, and use the WordPress Export and Import tools to backup your reviews.</li>
<li>Bayesian Ranking: Easily sort pages with assigned reviews by rank (using the bayesian algorithm) in your custom WP_Query</li>
<li>Blacklist: Block review submissions which contain specific words, phrases, IP addresses, names, and emails</li>
<li>Developer Friendly: Designed for WordPress developers with over 200 hooks and convenient functions</li>
<li>Discord Integration: Receive notifications in Discord when a review is submitted</li>
<li>Documentation: FAQ and documenation for all shortcodes and functions</li>
<li>Editor Blocks: Use the custom editor blocks in the Gutenberg editor</li>
<li>Elementor Support: Use the native Elementor Widgets in the Elementor editor</li>
<li>Form Styles: Match the review form with popular themes and form plugins</li>
<li>GamiPress Support: Site Reviews integrates with GamiPress allowing you to award points when someone writes or receives a review</li>
<li>Import Third-Party Reviews: Includes a built-in CSV importer</li>
<li>JSON-LD Schema: Display your reviews and ratings in search results</li>
<li>Members Only: Require users to be logged in before submitting a review</li>
<li>Multilingual Support: Integrates with Polylang and WPML allowing you to assign reviews to all languages of a multilingual page (note: translating reviews is not supported)</li>
<li>Multisite Support: Fully supports network/multisite websites</li>
<li>myCRED Support: Site Reviews integrates with myCRED allowing you to award points when someone writes or receives a review</li>
<li>Notifications: Send notifications to one or more emails when a review is submitted</li>
<li>Pagination: Display a set number of reviews per-page with AJAX</li>
<li>Privacy: Integrates with the WordPress privacy tools</li>
<li>Rating Summaries: Display a summary of your review ratings from high to low.</li>
<li>Relative Dates: You decide the date format that is displayed in your reviews</li>
<li>Responses: Write responses to your reviews</li>
<li>REST API: Access your reviews from remote websites and applications using the API.</li>
<li>Restrictions: Require approval before publishing reviews and limit review submissions by email address, IP address, or username</li>
<li>Review Limits: Prevent people from submitting more than one review per day (based on IP address, email, or username). Works with review assignments. </li>
<li>Shortcodes: Configurable shortcodes complete with full documentation</li>
<li>Slack Integration: Receive notifications in Slack when a review is submitted</li>
<li>SPAM Protection: Includes 5 layers of protection from spam! Built-in Honeypot, 6 CAPTCHA options (Cloudflare Turnstile, FriendlyCaptcha, hCaptcha, Procaptcha, reCAPTCHA v2 Invisible, and reCAPTCHA v3), Akismet, Blacklist, and Review limits</li>
<li>Templates: Use the Site Reviews templates in your theme for full control over the HTML</li>
<li>Translations: Easily change any text of the plugin to your own in the settings.</li>
<li>Verify Reviews: Automatically request verification of new reviews</li>
<li>WooCommerce Support: Site Reviews integrates with your WooCommerce Products</li>
</ul>
<h4>Site Reviews Premium</h4>
If you need even more features, <a href="https://niftyplugins.com/plugins/site-reviews-premium/" rel="nofollow ugc">Site Reviews Premium</a> gives you access to all of our paid addons, and offers faster and more personalised support. Premium addons include:
<ul>
<li><a href="https://niftyplugins.com/plugins/site-reviews-actions/" rel="nofollow ugc">Review Actions</a>: Allow people to upvote, report, and translate your reviews.</li>
<li><a href="https://niftyplugins.com/plugins/site-reviews-authors/" rel="nofollow ugc">Review Authors</a>: Update your reviews from the frontend.</li>
<li><a href="https://niftyplugins.com/plugins/site-reviews-filters/" rel="nofollow ugc">Review Filters</a>: Sort, filter, and search your reviews.</li>
<li><a href="https://niftyplugins.com/plugins/site-reviews-forms/" rel="nofollow ugc">Review Forms</a>: Create custom review forms with over 20 field types, field conditions, and individual review templates.</li>
<li><a href="https://niftyplugins.com/plugins/site-reviews-images/" rel="nofollow ugc">Review Images</a>: Add images with captions to your reviews, and display a gallery of your review images.</li>
<li><a href="https://niftyplugins.com/plugins/site-reviews-notifications/" rel="nofollow ugc">Review Notifications</a>: Create and schedule custom review notifications with conditions, and send reminder emails for WooCommerce purchases.</li>
<li><a href="https://niftyplugins.com/plugins/site-reviews-themes/" rel="nofollow ugc">Review Themes</a>: Display your reviews in a carousel or grid and create custom review designs with a drag-and-drop builder.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Third Party Plugin Support</h4>
Site Reviews is officially compatible with the following plugins:
<ul>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/akismet/" rel="ugc">Akismet</a></li>
<li><a href="https://avada.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Avada Fusion Builder</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.buddyboss.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">BuddyBoss</a></li>
<li><a href="https://buddypress.org/" rel="nofollow ugc">BuddyPress</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.elegantthemes.com/gallery/divi/" rel="nofollow ugc">Divi</a></li>
<li><a href="https://elementor.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Elementor</a></li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/bluehost/endurance-page-cache/" rel="nofollow ugc">Endurance Cache</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/gamipress/" rel="ugc">GamiPress</a></li>
<li><a href="https://generatepress.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">GeneratePress</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/hcaptcha-for-forms-and-more/" rel="ugc">hCaptcha</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/hummingbird-performance/" rel="ugc">Hummingbird Performance</a></li>
<li><a href="https://crocoblock.com/plugins/jetwoobuilder/" rel="nofollow ugc">JetWooBuilder For Elementor</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/litespeed-cache/" rel="ugc">Litespeed Cache</a></li>
<li><a href="https://advancedcouponsplugin.com/woocommerce-loyalty-program/" rel="nofollow ugc">Loyalty Program for WooCommerce</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/members/" rel="ugc">Members</a></li>
<li><a href="https://mycred.me/" rel="nofollow ugc">myCRED</a></li>
<li><a href="https://ninjaforms.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Ninja Forms</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/nitropack/" rel="ugc">NitroPack</a></li>
<li><a href="https://oxygenbuilder.com" rel="nofollow ugc">Oxygen Builder</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/perfect-woocommerce-brands/" rel="ugc">Perfect Brands for WooCommerce</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/polylang/" rel="ugc">Polylang</a></li>
<li><a href="https://rankmath.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">RankMath Pro</a></li>
<li><a href="https://structured-data-for-wp.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Schema and Structured Data for WP</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wpschema.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Schema Pro</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-seopress/" rel="ugc">SEOPress</a></li>
<li><a href="https://searchandfilter.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Search & Filter Pro</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/sg-cachepress/" rel="ugc">SiteGround Optimizer</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/speed-booster-pack/" rel="ugc">Speed Booster Pack</a></li>
<li><a href="https://swiftperformance.io/" rel="nofollow ugc">Swift Performance</a></li>
<li><a href="https://thrivethemes.com/architect/" rel="nofollow ugc">Thrive Architect</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/w3-total-cache/" rel="ugc">W3 Total Cache</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/woocommerce/" rel="ugc">WooCommerce</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.flycart.org/products/wordpress/wployalty" rel="nofollow ugc">WooCommerce Loyalty Points and Rewards</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/woorewards/" rel="ugc">WooRewards</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.wpfastestcache.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">WP Fastest Cache</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wp-rocket.me/" rel="nofollow ugc">WP Rocket</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-super-cache/" rel="ugc">WP Super Cache</a></li>
<li><a href="https://getwpo.com" rel="nofollow ugc">WP-Optimize</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/wpforms-lite/" rel="ugc">WPForms</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wpml.org/" rel="nofollow ugc">WPML</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/duplicate-post/" rel="ugc">Yoast Duplicate Post</a></li>
</ul>
<h4>Open Source</h4>
<a href="https://github.com/pryley/site-reviews/" rel="nofollow ugc">Follow plugin development on Github.</a>
<h4>Attribution</h4>
Images adapted from <a href="https://www.freepik.com" rel="nofollow ugc">freepik</a>.

Site Reviews

Speaking as developers ourselves, this is a very well done plugin - the author has put in so much work. Deserves 5+ stars.

Very well done, documented and great attention to detail


I really like Site Reviews and I also have the Filters addon.




I like the way the plugin is designed for the user as regards the GUI. And a lot of effort has gone in to clean and elegant help.





I have requested help a few times and the support has been really good.




Sometimes I come across plugins that I feel are special because of the plugin and their author. Some of these are Autoptimize, Enlighter. Now I add Site Reviews to that list!



😏


Excellent Plugin


Perfect if we don't have WooCommerce and we want to collect reviews. Love it !


Great !


Plugin and functionality is good but want to more settings for UI configuration, for example make slider or vertical and horizontal mode


Good Review block

Site Reviews is a complete review management solution for your website that is designed to work in a similar way to Amazon, Tripadvisor, and Yelp.

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