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Smart Showcase for Google Reviews is a comprehensive WordPress plugin that enables businesses to effortlessly display customer reviews from Google on their websites. By syncing reviews directly from Google My Business, this plugin helps build trust and credibility with potential customers. With a range of display options including grids, lists, sliders, badges, and popups, you can showcase reviews in a format that best suits your site’s design.
Customize the look and feel with custom CSS, and place reviews anywhere on your site using shortcodes. The plugin also supports multiple languages, ensuring a seamless and secure user experience. Additionally, Smart Showcase for Google Reviews offers admin management features, including form fields for review replies, filters for sorting reviews, and notification systems for new reviews and replies. Whether you’re using Elementor, WPBakery, or Divi, this plugin integrates smoothly with your page builder to enhance your site’s functionality and appearance.
<h3>Features of Smart Showcase for Google Reviews</h3>
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<li>Syncing of Google reviews from Google My Business</li>
<li>Cron Job has Option daily, weekly, monthly</li>
<li>Filters for sorting reviews by Rating, Keywords</li>
<li>Display Option Grid, List, Slider, Badge, Popup</li>
<li>Custom CSS support for design tweaks</li>
<li>Generate Shortcodes for embedding reviews anywhere on the site with attributes
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<li>Number of reviews displayed</li>
<li>Rating filters</li>
<li>Location wise</li>
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<li>Customize number of reviews displayed</li>
<li>5+ Widget Design layouts</li>
<li>Compatibility with standard page builders like elementor, WPBakery, and Divi</li>
<li>Load more review and Limit Functionality</li>
<li>Trim long reviews with “read more” link</li>
<li>Responsive Slider, Grid, and List layouts</li>
<li>Notify admins of new reviews – with selection admin or other</li>
<li>Send notification emails to users after submitting reply to reviews</li>
<li>Keep all reviews in a WordPress database (CPT)</li>
<li>Multi-language support</li>
<li>Multilingual support with automatic translation options for user-submitted reviews</li>
<li>Create and display review widgets in sidebars and footers, showing the latest reviews and average star ratings.</li>
<li>‘Review us on G’ button to collect new Google Reviews</li>
<li>Show/hide any elements (business photo, name, rating, reviews, avatars, names, time and etc)</li>
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<a href="https://demo.zealousweb.com/wordpress-plugins/smart-showcase-for-google-reviews/" rel="nofollow ugc">Demo for Smart Showcase for Google Reviews</a>
<h3>Features of Smart Showcase for Google Reviews Pro</h3>
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<li>Dashboard for review statistics
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<li>Total reviews</li>
<li>Average rating</li>
<li>Top reviews</li>
<li>Date range filter</li>
<li>Color Selection</li>
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<li>Multi-location support to pull reviews from multiple Google Business listings</li>
<li>Structured data support for products, services, and local businesses</li>
<li>Upload your own Google business photo</li>
<li>Option to export/import reviews in CSV format</li>
<li>Integration with WooCommerce to display reviews on product pages – Aligned with filter option</li>
<li>Options to highlight featured reviews or pin important reviews at the top</li>
<li>Customizable templates for automatic replies to approved reviews</li>
<li>Advanced spam detection using AI or machine learning algorithms like adult content etc</li>
<li>Automatic replies to users based on their star rating (positive or negative) (Using AI)</li>
<li>Integration with Google Analytics to track user interaction with reviews</li>
</ul>
<a href="https://store.zealousweb.com/smart-showcase-for-google-reviews-pro" rel="nofollow ugc">Get more information of Pro version here</a> 
<a href="https://demo.zealousweb.com/wordpress-plugins/smart-showcase-for-google-reviews-pro/" rel="nofollow ugc">Demo for Smart Showcase for Google Reviews Pro</a>
<h3>Background Processing</h3>
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This plugin utilizes the <a href="https://github.com/deliciousbrains/wp-background-processing" rel="nofollow ugc">WP Background Processing</a> library by Delicious Brains to efficiently handle background tasks without affecting the user experience or website performance.
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The library enables asynchronous processing of large datasets and operations by leveraging the WordPress Cron system. This ensures that critical tasks such as API data fetching, batch processing, or heavy computations are handled smoothly and reliably.
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We extend and integrate this library to manage the background processing of:
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<li>Fetching accounts, locations, and reviews in batches. </li>
<li>Importing large datasets into WordPress. </li>
<li>Performing other time-intensive operations. </li>
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For more information on this library, visit its <a href="https://github.com/deliciousbrains/wp-background-processing" rel="nofollow ugc">GitHub repository</a>.
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<h3>Use of External Services</h3>
<h3>Google My Business API</h3>
Purpose The plugin uses the Google My Business API to fetch Google My Business account-related locations and reviews, as well as to manage review replies. This includes adding, updating, editing, and deleting review replies.
Data Sent Upon user authorization, the plugin collects and sends a refresh token to enable API interactions for retrieving location and review data, as well as for managing review replies.
Conditions This data is only transmitted after explicit user consent during the “Connect with Google” process. No other personal or business information is shared or used.
Terms and Privacy 
 – <a href="https://policies.google.com/terms" rel="nofollow ugc">Google Terms of Service</a> 
 – <a href="https://policies.google.com/privacy" rel="nofollow ugc">Google Privacy Policy</a>
ZealousWeb Third-Party API Service (https://sgr.zealousweb.com/)
Purpose The plugin saves the Google My Business API refresh token in a secure third-party API service to generate temporary access tokens. These tokens are provided to the user’s site, which uses them to securely fetch data from Google My Business and perform operations such as retrieving locations, reviews, and managing review replies.
Data Sent The Google My Business refresh token is stored securely in the third-party service solely to facilitate access token generation. No additional personal or business information is shared.
Conditions The data is transmitted only after user consent and is used exclusively for enabling the plugin’s functionality. All operations are performed directly by the user’s site.
Terms and Privacy 
 – <a href="https://zealousweb.com/privacy-policy" rel="nofollow ugc">ZealousWeb Privacy Policy</a>
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<h3>YouTube Video Tutorials</h3>
Watch our complete video tutorial series on how to use Smart Showcase for Google Reviews:
Smart Showcase for Google Reviews – Video Playlist 
Link: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBQXEmIlghW4_EPlfiqxRTARjPdvaPKEZ" rel="nofollow ugc">Watch on YouTube</a>

Smart Showcase for Google Reviews

Smart Showcase for Google Reviews is a WordPress plugin that lets businesses display Google customer reviews on their websites easily.

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Showcase Google Reviews on your website with ease via our 100% free Google Reviews WordPress plugin. Great for any business 
that uses WordPress, has reviews on Google and wants to display them on their website.
<a href="http://www.reviewwave.com" rel="nofollow ugc">Check Out Our Demo</a>
<h3>Plugin Features:</h3>
Google Business Reviews – Instantly Display business reviews on your web site. We start with 5 reviews, but over time we 
continue to check with Google for new reviews. You are given the option to display as many reviews as you have.
Simple Shortcode – Display reviews in your post and page content.
Widget – for easy configuration. Google Places Reviews widget auto completes your business look up. Display your business 
info via the widget or turn this off.
Review Concatenation – Some reviews returned by Google may be very long which could result in a very long widget. Configurable 
lengths and Collapsing and expanding long reviews with “Read more” links.
Fast Loading – Optimized widget caching included within the plugin ensure you save on load time and API calls
Review Schema is included.
Review styling is controlled by your theme.
Actively Supported and Developed. Get fast and responsive support from our USA based team.
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Why limit your reviews to just Google Places Reviews? Check out our other free business reviews plugins to add to your site 
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<h3>Reviews Page</h3>
On this page you can view the reviews retrieved by the plugin. Please note that the Google Places API only allows for 5 reviews 
to be retrieved at a time. We will continue to check via the API every day or so and using a data base store the reviews for you 
so over time you can have more than 5 reviews. You can “promote” certain reviews by making these the reviews you show if you 
have more than the number of reviews to be displayed.
<h3>WordPress Widget and Shortcode</h3>
Display Google Places reviews on your WordPress site using our widget or shortcode. The following settings are supported:
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<li>Widget Title: Add Widget Title (Optional)</li>
<li>Place Lookup: Start typing your Business Name and select it when it auto completes.</li>
<li>Lookup Type: Having trouble finding the correct business? Try narrowing down the results by having the Place Lookup search only by business name – “Establishments”, by address – “Addresses”, or by area – “Regions”.</li>
<li>Place Name: Once the correct business is selected from “Places Lookup” this will auto fill.</li>
<li>Place ID: Once the correct business is selected from “Places Lookup” this will auto fill.</li>
<li>Show Reviews Only: By default the plugin will display your business data. If checked the widget will not show your business data.</li>
<li>Maximum Excerpt Length: Chose the length of excerpts that will look best for your site.</li>
<li>Show # Reviews: Pick the number of reviews to show.</li>
<li>Total # of Reviews: Enter the number of reviews that you have on your google places page. The Google API does not allow us to get this info for you, so you have to manually add it for your review schema output.</li>
<li>Minimum Review Rating: If you only want to show 4 star or 5 Star reviews you can select the appropriate setting.</li>
</ul>
When using a shortcode, use the Place Lookup field on the Settings page to look up the Place ID for your business.

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