Auto-Publish to Google Business Profile (GMB Poster) vs Reviews and Rating – Google Reviews

Promote your Google reviews and rating from your Google Business Profile listing, formerly Google My Business – with current customer reviews and the overall rating loading from within your website This plugin will collect your location’s data using Google’s Place ID; transforming this information into a well-formatted list or blocks of reviews. You’ll be able to add links to the Google reviews, your Google Maps listing, plus direct your customers to post their reviews and ratings with Google. Don’t worry: there are no restrictions to the reviews collection and plenty of options to display it perfectly on your website. Easy and secure integration direct from Google Show your Google reviews and overall rating on your own website, fully formatted and ready to match your design. Setup is straightforward: connect your listing through Google’s Places (New) API and your ratings and reviews appear on your site. A fully automated process keeps the overall rating accurate and builds the catalog of reviews over time. Highly customizable with an extensive selection of designs Whether you prefer lists, carousels, columns or tiles, it’s all covered: currently 250 design variations with light and dark versions and 14 color schemes. All aspects of the summary can be selected as with each review item. There’s even the author’s name and date formatting for good measure! You can choose from an extensive range of templates to display your reviews and ratings in a way that fits your website design. The styling has a light touch so you can also customize the templates to match your brand style and preferences. Unconstrained filtering of reviews The plugin also allows businesses to sort and filter reviews by all elements of the review including its star rating. Star rating filtering means a business can choose to display only its most positive reviews or, for a transparent approach, all reviews, regardless of their rating. Apply your desire for similar-length reviews, include or exclude reviews by their word content, cached shuffled reviews and more – everything you’ll need, it’s all there. A fully responsive design The design is fully responsive, so your reviews read well at any screen size. That keeps them accessible to every visitor and helps meet the highest SEO demands. Regularly updated and feedback-driven development This plugin is updated regularly to keep pace with new WordPress releases and supported PHP versions. I respond quickly to any issue raised in the support forum, and user suggestions genuinely shape the plugin. A good deal of what it does today started as a request from someone using it. Free, powerful and reliable This plugin gives you a powerful and versatile way to show your Google reviews: easy integration with the Places (New) API, 250 customizable designs, extensive sorting and filtering, comprehensive Shortcode support, a responsive layout and Structured Data for search engines. It is free to use and actively maintained. People love this plugin: This. Plugin. Is. OUTSTANDING This is easily the best plugin out there for showing Google reviews on a WordPress site. I’ve tried everything, and nothing out there provides the flexibility that this one’s shortcode system uses. All in an easy-to-use package. Very impressed! ★★★★★ – npierno, Feb 2021 This Is The Best Google Business Reviews Plugin Out There I’ve used all the Google Business Reviews plugins out there and this is the best. … Love the presentation of the reviews. … The plugin author is VERY responsive. Answers all questions and quickly. ★★★★★ – minks32578, Jan 2020 Excellent Plugin Very impressed with the functionality of this plugin. Manual HTML import worked smooth and took less than a minute. … This is an amazing plugin. Looking forward to seeing what else this rockstar dev releases. ★★★★★ – sterlingokura, Nov 2019 Features: Shortcode, Widget and Block for customer reviews on Google Very high level of customization with more added on request Insert a list of customers’ reviews with rating range, review length range, offset, [unrestricted] limit, sorting, language and individual review(s) selection Fully responsive design with light styling to allow for your customizations; show/hide any element using Shortcode parameters Customize appearance with columns, customize order within review items, hide or overwrite avatars, date formatting, name formatting and much more Designed with SVG vector graphics for a crisp appearance across all devices 250 designs/themes including: support for light/dark backgrounds, fonts similar to those used by Google, badge themes with standard and small versions, bubble themes, outlined and filled, tile themes, responsive 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6 columns layouts for wider spaces, a center-aligned version, a narrow version for smaller spaces, 14 additional color schemes, plus options to load compressed CSS or remove it entirely Carousel/Slider capabilities Specify slides with one or more reviews Set the number of loops or iterations Swipe gestures and clever keyboard navigation Transitions will pause on mouse hover Customizable navigation bullets Works with all themes containing a list of reviews Additional Shortcodes for: Link to reviews and current rating on Google, with an optional Google icon Link for customers to leave their rating and write a review on Google, with an optional Google icon Link to the business place/location with Google Maps, with an optional Google icon Display the current rating as a number Display the total number of reviews Right To Left (RTL) language support Live preview in Dashboard→Settings Light and dark mode for the dashboard, following your operating system unless you choose otherwise Select your choice icon to replace Google’s generic icons Structured Data (Schema.org) support to present clear business information and review data to search engines which assists with SEO Demo mode to help create your website before it goes live; without requiring Google API credentials Manage all retrieved reviews and selectively hide reviews See the latest formatted JSON data from Google’s API Retrieves reviews in the background, collecting more through Google’s API over time with a snapshot of valid data for stability Clear cache, reset retrieved reviews and overall reset to clear all plugin data Advanced capability to import all review data from Google’s review popup HTML, Google My Business reviews or consolidated reviews HTML (inspecting the live HTML) A comprehensive and free plugin with no upgrades for additional functionality Demonstration: We have a comprehensive showcase of the Shortcode’s design and functionality on our Demonstration Website. Basic Shortcode Standard appearance in French Bubbles, outlined Bubbles, centered and filled Tile effect Columns and colors Review item order and design Carousel/Slider Selection of badges Buttons and links Requirements: A free Google API Key and a Place ID. Specific locations are supported; coverage areas are no longer offering data through the API. A Google Billing Account to receive your substantial and free API Request allocation. Recommendations: Please set your business in Google and find your Business’ Place ID before using this plugin. For peace of mind, please set Google Places (New) API Quotas to keep requests below the billable threshold. The recommended value for requests is 100 per day. This is my first public plugin, so all comments are very welcome. I would also like to see your usage so I can introduce new themes. There is a sister plugin: We’re Open! which retrieves current opening hours from Google My Business. Getting started with Google API In order to run this plugin, you will need a Google API Key and to locate your Place ID Google API Key Guidelines or view our visual guide for the Google API Key setup Place ID Finder

GMB Poster turns your WordPress posts into a steady stream of Google Business Profile (GBP) updates. New posts join a queue, the scheduler picks a slot from your cadence, and at slot time GMB Poster either: Auto-publishes the post directly to your GBP location via the official Google Business Profile API (v2.0+), or Prepares the caption, image and tracked link and hands it off to you for a one-click publish in the GBP web interface (the original semi-manual mode). You pick the mode in Settings. You can switch any time. Auto-publish (recommended, v2.0+) Create a free Google Cloud project, enable the My Business APIs, paste your OAuth Client ID + Secret into GMB Poster Settings. (Step-by-step guide is built into the setup wizard.) Click Connect Google account — Google’s consent screen opens, you pick the Google account that manages your GBP, click Allow. Pick your GBP location from the dropdown. Flip the Auto-publish toggle on. From then on, every time a queued post hits its scheduled slot, GMB Poster posts it directly to your GBP location automatically. Posted items show a green “Posted” pill and the Google post ID. Failed items show a red “Failed” pill with the Google API error and a one-click Retry publish button. Why “per-install” OAuth credentials? GMB Poster never embeds a shared Google client — that would leak the same OAuth secret to every installation of the plugin on WP.org and risk Google revoking it for everyone. Instead, each install uses its own free Google Cloud project; the OAuth Client Secret and the refresh token are stored encrypted-at-rest in your WordPress database using a key derived from your site’s AUTH_KEY constant. Semi-manual mode (original) If you don’t want to set up a Google Cloud project, the original semi-manual handoff still works: New WordPress posts are added to the GMB Poster queue automatically (configurable per post type and category). The scheduler picks a posting slot using either time-of-day slots or a cooldown window. When a slot is due, the next item appears in your Dashboard widget and on the GMB Poster Queue screen. Click Prepare & open GBP. GMB Poster: copies the formatted caption to your clipboard, downloads the featured image to your computer, opens your GBP composer in a new browser tab. In GBP: paste the caption, drop in the image, set the call-to-action, click Publish. Click Mark posted back in WordPress. Features Auto-publish to Google Business Profile via the official Google API (v2.0+), with a built-in setup wizard Per-install OAuth 2.0 credentials — your secret + refresh token are encrypted at rest in your WordPress database Semi-manual mode preserved as a fallback for installs that don’t want a Google Cloud project Custom queue with statuses: Pending → Ready → Prepared → Posted (or Skipped / Failed) Time-of-day slots OR cooldown-hours cadence, with optional weekend skipping Auto-queue on publish, filterable by post type and category Per-post opt-out checkbox in the editor sidebar Dashboard widget showing the next item ready to send “Publish now” / “Retry publish” buttons per row when auto-publish is on UTM-tagged Learn-more links (utm_source / medium / campaign configurable) Featured image → GBP image, title + excerpt → caption, permalink → call-to-action Translation-ready Disclaimer This plugin is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Google LLC. “Google” and “Google Business Profile” are trademarks of Google LLC. External services GMB Poster communicates with the official Google Business Profile API when (and only when) you’ve connected a Google account and turned on Auto-publish: Google OAuth 2.0 (https://accounts.google.com/o/oauth2/v2/auth, https://oauth2.googleapis.com/token, https://oauth2.googleapis.com/revoke) — used to obtain, refresh and revoke the access token GMB Poster uses on your behalf. My Business Account Management API (https://mybusinessaccountmanagement.googleapis.com/) — to list the GBP accounts your Google login can manage. My Business Business Information API (https://mybusinessbusinessinformation.googleapis.com/) — to list the locations under each account so you can pick one. Google My Business API v4 (https://mybusiness.googleapis.com/) — to create local posts on the location you selected. This is the actual “publish” call. When and what is sent: * The OAuth handshake sends nothing about your WordPress posts — only your chosen Google account’s permission to act on its behalf. * For each post we publish on your behalf, we send the caption text, the URL of your featured image, the call-to-action button text + URL, and the post’s language code. We do not send any visitor data, analytics, or anything else. If you do not connect a Google account, GMB Poster never contacts Google. The semi-manual mode opens GBP in your browser as a normal page navigation (your browser, your session — exactly as if you had clicked a regular link). Google’s terms of service: https://policies.google.com/terms Google’s privacy policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy