Build instant trust with visitors by showing your real Google reviews and star rating right on your WordPress site. Setup takes less than a minute — no coding, no API key required for the first 10 reviews.

There are no limits on how many Google business locations you can connect, and you can create as many widgets or shortcodes as needed to place reviews across your site. The plugin is easy to use and helps build trust with your visitors by displaying real Google reviews and your overall rating.

Active on 100,000+ WordPress sites.

Want to see how it works? Watch the short demo below to see how quickly you can get started – or simply try it in the Live Preview.

Google reviews slider, grid, list and rating

• Responsive layouts: Slider, Grid, List and Rating
• Rating layout can open the reviews in a popup on click
• Floating Google rating badge with review count and a live line from your reviews, shown on every page of the site or only where you add it
• Pagination for List and Grid layouts
• Trim long reviews with a “read more” link
• UI options to customize star, text, rating and review colors
• Additional styling with your own CSS
• Works with dark themes
• Upload a custom business photo

Embed Google reviews with Elementor, Gutenberg, WPBakery or a shortcode

• Display reviews using shortcode, widget, block, or page builders (Elementor, WPBakery, Divi, Beaver Builder, SiteOrigin)
• No limits on created widgets or shortcodes
• Optimized for performance: one CSS and one JS file, about 24 KB compressed in total, lazy-loaded images

Google reviews, updates and privacy

• Show up to 10 Google reviews on initial setup – NO API KEY REQUIRED
• Connect multiple Google business places
• Places page: every connected place with its rating and last update; update reviews, create a widget or delete the place from there
• Badges: pick a preset, set position, tone and size, then publish the badge on the whole site in one click
• Automatically updates reviews and ratings when using your own API key
• Fully ADA compliant: built for Accessibility
• Fully GDPR-compliant: no external requests, all data loads from your own website
• Choose which reviews to display or hide, option to hide reviews without text
• “review us on Google” button to collect new reviews
• Supports multiple languages

⭐ Live demo

Support

If you have any questions or need help using the plugin, we recommend the following steps:

1. Check the plugin’s support page in your WordPress admin under “Google Reviews / Support”.
2. Visit the Support Forum to browse existing topics or ask a new question.

Email support in English is also available on weekdays: [email protected]

Roadmap

• Under discussion.

1. Upload the plugin files to the ‘/wp-content/plugins/’ directory, or install the plugin through the WordPress Plugins screen directly.
2. Activate the plugin through the Plugins menu in the WordPress admin panel.

1. 

   Google reviews slider with the rating header

2. 

   Google reviews grid

3. 

   Google reviews list

4. 

   Rating layout: stars, score and number of reviews

5. 

   Slider on a dark background

6. 

   Widget builder with live preview and layout options

7. 

   Places page: connected places, update reviews, create a widget or delete a place

7.2

• New: one editor for every widget: Set up holds the design gallery, the business header and the review card lines, with the live preview.
• New: a place connected in two languages shows the reviews of each language.
• New: hide a review from the widget preview, in this widget or on all widgets.
• New: Places page settings per place: auto-update, stored images and photo.
• New: six Rating designs: the business header alone, in one line, in a card, with big stars or without the name.
• Change: the editor opens the gallery on the widget’s own design.
• Change: Editors see the widgets list only; widgets are edited by administrators.
• Change: a widget with several places shows one header with their overall rating and total review count.
• Improved: the Publish step names the page the widget is on and offers a draft page only when there is none.
• Improved: the block’s widget list refreshes when you return to the editor.
• Fixed: a review without text showed once per language when one place was connected in two languages.
• Fixed: a place connected in two languages doubled the review count on a badge.
• Fixed: wordmark, compact, trust and partner badges stretched to the full screen width on phones.

7.1.7

• New: sticker designs for the site badge: round stamps and seals, a Google ring, a pennant, a trust strip with reviewer photos, partner cards.
• New: wordmark badge designs.
• New: size and color controls for the badge elements on the design step.
• Change: a saved widget keeps its own design; Reset to default style in the builder returns to it.
• Improved: a failed connection says why.
• Improved: slider arrows have names for screen readers.
• Improved: a badge that opens reviews lifts on hover.
• Fixed: the header of a list or rating widget ran past the page edge on full-width themes.
• Fixed: Create widget on the Places page opened the wrong editor and saved a list.

7.1.6

• New: Create Widget gallery with ready-made slider, grid, list, rating and badge designs, previewed with your own reviews.
• New: one click creates a draft page with the new widget.
• Change: badges are listed under Widgets, and the Badges menu item is removed.
• Change: a site without widgets starts on Create Widget; connecting reviews there needs no API key.
• Change: widgets with card styles show an outlined review button.
• Change: the mouse wheel moves the slider one step per turn, and scrolling down goes to the next reviews.
• Improved: the slider keeps its cards in place when the window is resized or the phone is rotated.
• Fixed: editing a badge from the block editor could turn it into a list.
• Fixed: the block’s Edit button with no widget chosen opened another widget for editing.
• Fixed: the Widgets list had no All, Published and Trash links.
• Fixed: cards showing under the slider arrows in Firefox.

7.1.5

• New: card styles for the slider and grid: 19 presets with an editable layout and colors.
• New: card styles show the review text in whole lines with “read more” that opens it in place; the number of lines is adjustable.
• New: CSS variables field in Advanced Options to restyle the cards and the header by hand.
• New: option to anonymize profile photos: the first letter of the reviewer’s name on a colored circle instead of the photo.
• Fixed: hiding a review did not work for reviews stored in more than one language.

7.1.4

• New: rating label above the business name (Top rated, Excellent, Great…).
• New: header settings: line order, short review count, hide rating number, sizes and colors.
• New: the slider header can sit on the left, on top or below the reviews.
• New: background, rounded corners and shadow for the header.
• Change: the widget builder shows only the options that apply to the chosen layout.
• Improved: less HTML on pages with review widgets.
• Fixed: the connection wizard showed five stars for every place.
• Fixed: review texts and owner replies are always shown as plain text.
• Fixed: in the dark theme the review text, review card and business name colors were ignored.

7.1.2

• Improved: official Google logo in ‘powered by Google’.
• Improved: text contrast of ‘powered by’ and the review button.
• Improved: keyboard focus is visible on all links and buttons.
• Improved: the badge, the reviews popup and ‘read more’ work from the keyboard.
• Improved: screen readers announce each review’s rating when ARIA labels are enabled.
• Improved: larger click area for close buttons.
• Improved: fewer database writes during the scheduled reviews update.
• Fixed: theme paragraphs (wpautop) breaking the widget layout.
• Fixed: reviews missing on the site after an incomplete database update.
• Fixed: line breaks in review texts.

7.1.1

• Improved: with your own Google API key the plugin picks the right Places API automatically; the “Use old Places API” option is removed.
• Improved: Google API key errors are shown under the key in Settings / Google.
• Improved: slider dots support keyboard navigation and pass the PageSpeed “Touch targets” audit.
• Fixed: database writes on every page view; the badge is now served from the cache.
• Fixed: a plugin update turned the reviews auto-update back on.
• Fixed: the block did not load assets with “Load assets on demand” enabled.
• Fixed: badge and widgets did not start when scripts are delayed by optimization plugins.
• Fixed: badge popup: review dates, scroll position, close button on phones.
• Fixed: floating badge width on phones.
• Fixed: badge top bar covered the WordPress toolbar.
• Fixed: Quick Edit link opened the post editor instead of the builder.
• Fixed: a widget restored from the trash stayed hidden.
• Fixed: place names with quotes were cut off in the builder.
• Fixed: Save button stayed disabled after a connection error.
• Fixed: duplicate place requests during the scheduled update.

7.1

• New: Badge page. A floating badge with your Google rating, review count and a live line that rotates sentences from your reviews and facts like the date of the latest review.
• New: the badge is shown on every page of the site with one click, or on chosen pages with the shortcode or the block.
• New: presets to start from, then position (four corners or a top/bottom bar), tone (light, dark, glass), size, width, corners, one-star mode, an optional Top rated label.
• New: connect several places to one badge to show their combined rating.
• Change: on a new install without widgets, the plugin opens the Badge page after activation instead of the widget builder.
• Change: the old badge layout from the first versions is replaced by the new one.
• Fixed: review dates were rounded up, so a review could read a month older than on Google.
• Fixed: in some themes and page builders the slider stretched the page sideways on mobile.

7.0

• New: Places page with every connected Google place, its rating, review count and last update.
• New: update reviews of a place, create a widget from it or delete it with its reviews from the Places page.
• New: the review language is preselected from the country of the connected place.
• New: optional feedback form on deactivation; only the chosen reason and the plugin version are sent.
• Improved: review counts are shown with thousands separators.
• Fixed: the plugin header could appear on admin pages of other plugins.

See changelog for all versions.