Rich Showcase for Google Reviews

Historial de cambios

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.