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.

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<p>Display your testimonials for free with our responsive widgets in 2 minutes. This plugin is absolutely free.</p>
<p>Testimonial Widgets plugin allows you to show off your best customer testimonials in stunning predesigned widgets on your website. You can create your widgets with a series of options, and filter customer testimonials to show off your business’s outstanding reputation.</p>
<h3>Video about the plugin</h3>
<div class="embed-vimeo" style="text-align: center;"><iframe loading="lazy" src="https://player.vimeo.com/video/674434538" width="750" height="422" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen></iframe></div>
<p>If you care at all about growing your business and improving your online reputation, you’ll know just how important customer testimonials can be. Testimonials are what can set your company apart from the competition.</p>
<p>They provide valuable social proof to your business, which means that other consumers will have an easier time justifying choosing your company over another. The social proof from testimonies shows customers that you are the real deal, and that you are a company that can be trusted.</p>
<h3>Plugin features</h3>
<p>Here are some of the most important features of the Testimonial Widgets plugin.</p>
<ul>
<li>Free usage</li>
<li>21+ Widget layouts</li>
<li>25+ Pre-designed widget styles</li>
<li>Upload unlimited testimonials</li>
<li>Create unlimited testimonial widgets</li>
<li>Categorize testimonials</li>
<li>Schema.org Markup</li>
<li>Language support</li>
<li>Shortcode integration</li>
<li>Keep all testimonials in a WordPress database</li>
<li>Dark website support</li>
<li>Use in any page builder: Gutenberg, Elementor, Page Origin, Beaver Builder, WPBakery, Divi, Classic</li>
<li>Zero loading time</li>
<li>Use of assets stored in CDN</li>
</ul>
<h3>Languages</h3>
<p>If your company trades internationally, then you should cater to as many languages as possible.<br />
 Our Plugin supports the following languages:</p>
<p>Afrikaans, Albanian, Arabic, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Bengali, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, Galician, Georgian, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Kazakh, Korean, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Malay, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Scottish Gaelic, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukranian, Vietnamese, Welsh</p>
<h3>Support</h3>
<p>If you’re struggling to set up the WP Testimonials Plugin then you can reach out to our customer support team in any of the following ways.</p>
<p>We offer 24/7 email support in English.</p>
<p>Before you do shoot us an email, though, make sure you read our FAQ where you can find the answers to many commonly asked questions.</p>


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