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.

Rustaurius

EtoileWebDesign

<p><a href="http://www.etoilewebdesign.com/ultimate-reviews-demo/" rel="nofollow ugc">Reviews Demo</a></p>
<h3>Complete Reviews Solution</h3>
<p>An easy to use product review plugin that lets visitors submit reviews for different products, events or anything else. Ultimate Reviews is easy to set up and includes two smart shortcodes, one that displays your reviews and one that displays a form that your visitors can use to submit reviews.</p>
<p><strong>Includes Gutenberg blocks for displaying reviews and for the submit review form!</strong></p>
<h4>Key Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Accept and manage user reviews</li>
<li>Display product reviews for one or all products</li>
<li>Multiple rating systems, including points and percentage</li>
<li>Set the maximum score for your product review and use either a text input, dropdown selection or number of stars for score input</li>
<li>Filter reviews by score, product name and/or review author</li>
<li>Restrict reviewable products to a predefined list, and drag-and-drop to re-arrange the list</li>
<li>Flexible styling using the Custom CSS option</li>
</ul>
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<pre><code>[ultimate-reviews]
</code></pre>
<p>Simply insert the shortcode above into any page to display your reviews.</p>
<p>Many straight-forward options are included that let you adjust review rating and scoring, add images and videos, restrict reviewable products, add review categories, change how reviews are displayed, and more.</p>
<h4>Additional Features</h4>
<p>The following are some of the other great features that are included with the Ultimate Reviews plugin:</p>
<ul>
<li>Allow users to upload an image with their review</li>
<li>Allow users to upload a video with their review</li>
<li>Options to display the date and author of the review</li>
<li>Ability to flag reviews as a inappropriate</li>
<li>Option to allow comments on reviews</li>
<li>Review categories for simple organization and classification</li>
<li>Review pagination</li>
<li>
<p>Integration with <a href="//wordpress.org/plugins/ultimate-product-catalogue/“" rel="nofollow ugc">Ultimate Product Catalog</a> plugin, allowing you to restrict reviews to only products in your catalog</p>
<p>[submit-review]</p>
</li>
</ul>
<p>Insert the shortcode above on any page to display a review submission form, allowing your WordPress site’s visitors to leave reviews.</p>
<h4>WooCommerce Reviews Integration (Requires Premium)</h4>
<p><a href="http://www.etoilewebdesign.com/ultimate-reviews-demo/shop/" rel="nofollow ugc">WooCommerce Reviews Demo</a></p>
<p>Ultimate Reviews is now integrated with WooCommerce. Available in the premium version are options to replace the default WooCommerce product reviews tab as well as the ratings area on your WooCommerce product page with the reviews and ratings from this plugin. This will allow you to better manage your reviews, review WooCommerce products using Ultimate Reviews, and offer your visitors more customized reviews and ratings in your WooCommerce shop.</p>
<ul>
<li>Replace WooCommerce Reviews: Make it so the “Reviews” tab on the WooCommerce product page uses Ultimate Reviews instead of the default WooCommerce system</li>
<li>Override WooCommerce Theme: Make it so the “Ratings” area under the product name on the WooCommerce product page is overwritten with the rating score from Ultimate Reviews</li>
<li>Verified Buyers: Make it so that only those who have purchased a product can leave a product review</li>
<li>Set a minimum and/or maximum number of days after purchase a verified buyer is able to leave a review</li>
<li>Email Messages: Create one or more email messages that can be sent to users</li>
<li>Review Reminders: Choose to send a reminder to review after an order has been set to a selected status for a certain amount of time.</li>
</ul>
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<h4>Premium Features</h4>
<p>It’s never been easier to add review functionality to your site. From simple reviews, with one overall rating score, to in-depth reviews, with multiple fields and sub-ratings, you can customize Ultimate Reviews to perfectly suit your needs. All of this with multiple layout, styling and review ordering options.</p>
<p>The premium version includes many useful features such as:</p>
<ul>
<li>WooCommerce integration, including verified buyers and min/max days after purchase to leave a review</li>
<li>Allow in-depth reviews and create additional review fields, such as value, appearance, quality, etc.</li>
<li>Add in custom fields to the review that don’t affect the score/rating, such as text, checkbox, radio button and drop-down fields</li>
<li>Rich snippets / schema structured data for individual reviews and also for aggregate ratings in the reviews summary</li>
<li>Detailed, customizable HTML emails that can automatically ask for reviews of each product in a WooCommerce order</li>
<li>Reviews search shortcode using AJAX, so visitors can search reviews by keyword without reloading the page</li>
<li>Option to make any review field filterable (ex. What store did you visit? What size did you buy? etc.) so visitors can find the most helpful reviews for them</li>
<li>Infinite scroll for reviews</li>
<li>Let visitors vote reviews up or down if they find them helpful (review karma). Sort reviews by karma.</li>
<li>Require reviewers to be logged in, with available login options including WordPress and the <a href="//wordpress.org/plugins/front-end-only-users/“" rel="nofollow ugc">Front-End Only Users</a> plugin</li>
<li>Replace “Reviews” tab on WooCommerce product page with reviews from Ultimate Reviews</li>
<li>Replace “Ratings” area on WooCommerce product page with ratings from Ultimate Reviews</li>
<li>Multiple layout options for your reviews, including thumbnail (excerpt with read more link) and expandable layouts, in addition to the standard layout</li>
<li>Require Admin Approval of reviews before they’re displayed</li>
<li>Require confirmation of a review submitter’s email address</li>
<li>Add a captcha to your review submission form to help prevent spam</li>
<li>Group your reviews by product for better organization</li>
<li>Weighted reviews: make certain reviews count for more towards the average rating</li>
<li>Display summary statistics above product groupings</li>
<li>Aggregate microdata for WooCommerce, Ultimate Product Catalog, and review display pages for rich review listings</li>
<li>Dozens of options to customize the labels, fonts, colors, etc. of the plugin</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>** We are pleased to offer a free 7-day trial of the premium version, which users can use to test out all the features before buying the premium version! **</strong></p>
<h4>Shortcodes</h4>
<ul>
<li>[submit-review]: displays a form that allows visitors to submit a review of a product that you or they specify</li>
<li>[ultimate-reviews]: displays all reviews, or all reviews of a specified product</li>
<li>Premium: [ultimate-review-search]: displays all reviews with a search box that lets users search for keywords in reviews (such as “Great product”, “Customer service”, etc.)</li>
<li>Premium: [reviews-summary]: displays summary statistics for all reviewed products, which can then be clicked on to see individual reviews</li>
</ul>
<p>For further information and purchasing options, please visit our <strong><a href="http://www.etoilewebdesign.com/plugins/ultimate-reviews/" rel="nofollow ugc">WordPress reviews plugin</a></strong> homepage.</p>
<h4>Reviews Additional Languages</h4>
<ul>
<li>Czech</li>
<li>French – Thanks to Julien R.</li>
</ul>
<p>Have any questions? Please check out the support forum.</p>
<p>For help and support, please see:</p>
<ul>
<li>Our FAQ page, here: https://wordpress.org/plugins/ultimate-reviews/faq/</li>
<li>Our installation guide, here: https://wordpress.org/plugins/ultimate-reviews/installation/</li>
<li>Our documentation, here: https://www.etoilewebdesign.com/support-center/?Plugin=URP&Type=FAQs</li>
<li>Our tutorial videos, here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLEndQUuhlvSpw3HQakJHj4G0F0Gyc-CtU</li>
<li>The Ultimate Reviews support forum, here: https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/ultimate-reviews</li>
</ul>


Ultimate Reviews

Best review plugin. Let visitors submit reviews and display them via shortcode or widget. Replace WooCommerce reviews and ratings. Require login, etc.

Simple Reviews Badge vs Ultimate Reviews