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.

Ricard Torres

<p>I needed a simple and light plugin to add Thumbs Rating, I couldn’t find any so I built my own.</p>
<p>This plugin allows you to add a thumb up/down rating to your content (posts, pages, and custom post types). You can set it up to show anywhere you want, check out the Installation instructions.</p>
<p>The output is very basic, no images, no fonts, no fancy CSS. Customize the ouput overriding the CSS classes in your <strong>style.css</strong> file.</p>
<h4>Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>No output printed by default, <strong>check the Installation instructions</strong>.</li>
<li>Stores the votes values for each content in the current post table (no new database tables are created).</li>
<li>Uses HTML5 LocalStorage to prevent the users from voting twice.</li>
<li>Easy to customize the output using CSS.</li>
<li>Show the most voted (positive/negative) items using shortcodes.</li>
<li>Show the buttons using shortcodes.</li>
<li>No jQuery dependency.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Internet Explorer 11 support</h4>
<p>If you want the plugin to work with IE11 users, you need jQuery. For that use the 3.4.2 version of the plugin.</p>
<p>From 4.0.0 onwards the plugin has no dependencies and uses vanilla JavaScript (ES6 syntax). Which will cause it not to work for IE11 users.</p>
<h4>Languages</h4>
<ul>
<li>Arabic: ar (by <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/iFlendra/" rel="nofollow ugc">iFlendra</a>)</li>
<li>Catalan: ca</li>
<li>Chinese (China): zh_CN (by <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/profile/suifengtec" rel="ugc">suifengtec</a>)</li>
<li>Czech: cs_CZ (by <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/profile/togur/" rel="ugc">togur</a>)</li>
<li>Danish dk_DK (by BJARNE)</li>
<li>Dutch nl_NL (by <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/profile/thijsku" rel="ugc">Thijs</a>)</li>
<li>English</li>
<li>French: fr_FR (by Arnaud)</li>
<li>German: de_DE (by <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/hvbx/" rel="nofollow ugc">webserviceXXL</a>)</li>
<li>Italian: it_IT (by <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/marcochiesi/" rel="nofollow ugc">marcochiesi</a>)</li>
<li>Japanese: ja (by heySister721)</li>
<li>Lithuanian: lt_LT (by Andrius)</li>
<li>Persian: fa_IR (by <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/profile/hamedt" rel="ugc">Hamed.T</a>)</li>
<li>Portuguese: pt_BR (by Felipe)</li>
<li>Polish: pl_PL (by <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/profile/fafu" rel="ugc">Fafu</a>)</li>
<li>Romanian: ro_RO by (by <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/profile/alexcruz1989" rel="ugc">AlexCruz1989</a>)</li>
<li>Russian: ru_RU (by <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/profile/anatolt" rel="ugc">anatolt</a>)</li>
<li>Serbian: sr_RS (by Andrijana Nikolic)</li>
<li>Spanish: es_ES</li>
<li>Turkish: tr_TR (by <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/CrimsonIdol/" rel="nofollow ugc">CrimsonIdol</a>)</li>
</ul>
<p>Give me a hand and translate the plugin in your language, it’s just a few words.</p>
<h4>Requests</h4>
<p>Feel free to post a request but let’s keep it simple and light.</p>
<h4>Ping me</h4>
<p>Are you using the plugin? Do you like it? Do you hate it? Let me know!</p>
<ul>
<li>Mastodon: <a href="https://ricard.social/@ricard" rel="nofollow ugc">@ricard@ricard.social</a></li>
<li>Blog: <a href="https://ricard.dev/" rel="nofollow ugc">Ricard Torres Code</a></li>
</ul>


Thumbs Rating

I'm so glad I stumbled upon this plugin. Everything works flawlessly, even with a site with 200+ entries directly on a homepage (a timeline).

Thank you for this superb plugin Richard. I was really lucky to pick this one when looking around for a good one.

I can't share the site because of the rules, but lets just say I'm more than happy with the result :-)

The code example for clearing cache on vote was useful as well.

Fantastic!

Thumbs Rating does what you'd expect. It allows you to add a thumbs up/down to your content (posts, pages, and custom post types).

Simple Reviews Badge vs Thumbs Rating