Google Ratings Widget, the most powerful widget for displaying reviews and ratings, depending on your license (Free or Pro), it also improves your SEO and the confidence of your customers. The plugin is dependent on the Google Places API, but when you fetch the place the reviews and ratings are saved to the WordPress Database in a table named 'grw', meaning after that it is not dependent on Google, in the Free version the ratings are only updated once meaning you would have to manually update them, but in the Pro version, they update automatically once a day, due to the limitation of the api.
The Pro Version contains many more features, to improve your users confidence and the professionality of your website, so
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The installation of the plugin is extremely simple, just follow these simple steps, to begin improving your customers experience:
- Upload the
google-ratings-widget
folder to your /wp-content/plugins/
directory.
- Go to the Wordpress Admin and simply activate the plugin in the Plugins Section.
- Head over to the Settings page and then into Google Ratings Widget.
- Now in the Settings page on the Google Ratings Widget Page, you need to enter your API Key.
- To get a api key go to Google API Key then follow the instructions.
- Go to Appearance then Widgets and insert Google Ratings Widget.
- In the Widget Customization go to the
Main Settings
and enter your place id.
- To get the place id go to Google Place ID Finder and type your location.
-> For more indepth documentation please visit:
Documentation, most of it is for the Pro Version though.