Google Reviews Plugin
Posted by Brian Stigall on 17 December 2024 08:39 AM
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Adding the Google reviews plugin and reviews to site
**THIS IS ONLY AVAILABLE ON V2 WORDPRESS SITES, the plugin isn't supported in v1 anymore**
- Activate "WP Google Review Slider" plugin
- WordPress Dashboard > Plugins > WP Google Review Slider > Activate
- Click "Skip" on next step
- Click " Get Google Reviews Tab"
- Click Select button under "Crawl Google Review Page"
- You will need to obtain either the Place ID or search location
- Instructions for finding this info are in this screen you can click the "Need help finding your Google Search Terms or Place ID?" Link
- Once the plugin finds the location click the green "Download Reviews" button
- Note: the free version of the plugin can only download 50 reviews (which is more than enough!)
- Once green success message appears you can move on, don't close tab or click anything while it is downloading
- Create a reviews widget template
- Click the "Templates" tab
- Click "Add New Reviews Template" button
- Give Template a title, something like "Homepage Reviews" or something descriptive of where it will be on the site
- Set all options to "Yes" except for Show Date, set it to No
- Change Text Color 1 and Text Color 2 to black if on a white background, or white if on a dark background
- Set how many per row to display, but leave as 1 row, it looks weird if it's more than 1 row
- I usually set to show newest first
- You can filter by on 5 star if you want to
- If they have more than 4 reviews you can set it to shoe in a slider and how many slides to show (keep it under 10, no need for more, try to keep it to 4 or 5 at the most)
- Select Yes for Read More link
- I'd leave show images off
- Save Template
- Add widget to site
- Click "Shortcode" button
- copy 1st shortcode
- ex: [wprevpro_usetemplate tid="1"]
- Paste into a text module or html module on page desired
- Publish and you're done!
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