Rich Showcase for Google Reviews vs WP-UserOnline

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. It’s already trusted by over a thousand WordPress users who use it daily to show their best customer feedback. 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. ⚡ Plugin highlights No limits on created widgets or shortcodes Show up to 10 Google reviews on initial setup Connect multiple Google business places Fully GDPR-compliant — no external requests, all data loads from your own website Automatically updates reviews and ratings (when using your own API key) Option to hide reviews without text Responsive layouts: Slider, Grid, List, and Rating ‘review us on Google‘ button to collect new reviews Choose which reviews to display or hide Display reviews using shortcode, widget, block, or page builders (Elementor, Gutenberg, etc.) Upload a custom business photo Trim long reviews with a “read more” link Pagination support for List and Grid layouts Optimized for performance: small CSS/JS files and lazy loading UI options to customize star, text, rating, and review colors Additional styling with your own CSS Supports multiple languages Works with dark themes ⭐ Live demo Support If you have any questions or need help using the plugin, we recommend the following steps: Check the plugin’s support page in your WordPress admin under “Google Reviews / Support”. 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 New feature: minimal rating layout (rating, stars and total reviews) New feature: possibility to hide (or delete) the connected place to exclude from Overview page Improve: adapt review connection modal for mobile devices Improve: New option Style Options / Review photos max lines

WP-UserOnline shows how many people are on your site right now, and where they are. Members are named, guests and search bots are counted, and the whole thing refreshes itself in the background without a page reload. Features A counter, a “who is browsing this page” line and a “who is browsing the site” line, each usable on its own. A full users online page, listing every visitor with the page they are on, where they came from and when they arrived. A sidebar widget offering any of those five combinations. Every string is a template you can edit, so the wording is yours rather than the plugin’s. Around three hundred search bots recognised by user agent, and a filter for adding your own. One admin screen with three tabs — who is online now, the settings, the templates — plus a line in the Dashboard’s At a Glance panel. A section on the WP-Stats page when that plugin is installed. Donations I spent most of my free time creating, updating, maintaining and supporting these plugins, if you really love my plugins and could spare me a couple of bucks, I will really appreciate it. If not feel free to use it without any obligations. Usage The simplest way is the widget. Go to WP-Admin -> Appearance -> Widgets, add the UserOnline widget to a sidebar, and pick which of the five statistics types it should show. A classic theme can call the template tags directly instead, anywhere in sidebar.php, header.php or a template part: Users online: The element ids matter: useronline-count, useronline-browsing-site, useronline-browsing-page and useronline-details are what the refresh script looks for. A figure printed outside one of them is correct when the page loads and then stays where it is. To give visitors a page of their own listing everyone online, create a page and put the shortcode in it: [page_useronline] Everything the plugin has is at WP-Admin -> WP-UserOnline, on three tabs: Users Online for who is here right now, Settings, and Templates for the wording of everything the plugin prints. Showing Users Online In A Block One block is available in the editor, under Widgets: Users Online — everyone on the site right now, grouped into members, guests and bots, with the page each of them is reading and the most-ever-online record underneath. The same listing [page_useronline] produces. It renders on the server, so the preview in the editor is the real listing rather than an approximation, and the page updates itself while a visitor is reading it exactly as the shortcode’s does. Only one goes in a post: the listing carries its own useronline-details element and the refresh script finds it by that name. Rendering it records nobody. Previewing the block in the editor does not add you to the figures you are previewing, however many times the preview refreshes — visitors are recorded when a page is loaded, not when the listing is drawn. The shortcode still works and is not going anywhere. [page_useronline] behaves exactly as it always has, and a page already containing it needs no change. The block calls the same code the shortcode calls, so the two render identically — use whichever suits the page. WP-CLI wp useronline list wp useronline list --format=count wp useronline count The command reads and never writes. The table maintains itself — every visit purges rows that have timed out — and the admin screen offers no destructive action, so neither does the command. REST API GET /wp-json/useronline/v1/count POST /wp-json/useronline/v1/visit count reports how many are online now, the record and its date, and records nobody — so a monitoring script polling it does not appear in the figure it is reading. `visit` is the heartbeat: it records the caller and answers with one of the four views, given a `mode` of `count`, `browsing-site`, `browsing-page` or `details`, plus the `page_url` they are on. Neither route takes a nonce, and that is deliberate. A nonce cannot authenticate a logged-out visitor: anonymous nonces come from one session every such caller shares, so requiring one would prove nothing while breaking every visitor who is not signed in. A page_url that does not resolve to this site is ignored, and a heartbeat writes nothing but the caller’s own row. These routes are an addition. The admin-ajax.php wp_useronline action is unchanged and still supported.