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Widgets for Google Reviews
Google Reviews Widget for WordPress. Display Google reviews in 1 minute with 45 professional layouts. Build trust, boost SEO, and increase sales.
- Installs
- 1+ million
- Rating
- 4.9 (2.7K)
- Updated
- 2 days ago
Rich Showcase for Google Reviews
Google Reviews plugin for WordPress. Set up in a minute. No API keys or sign-in. Free, GDPR, review updates, multiple places, widgets and shortcodes.
- Active installs
- 100,000+
- #318 of 1,000
- Downloads, all time
- 8.1M
- 8,142,722
- Downloads, 30 days
- 285.9K
- 25.8K in the last 7
- Rating
- 4.9 / 5
- 1,623 reviews
- Last updated
- 11 days ago
- Oct 20, 2026
- Version
- 7.2
- 177 releases
Upkeep and compatibility
| Last updated | October 20, 2026Updated in the last 3 months |
|---|---|
| Tested up to | WordPress 7.1.4Covers WordPress 7.1.4, the current release |
| Needs WordPress | 6.0 or newer |
| Needs PHP | 7.2 or newer |
| First published | October 8, 2016 |
| Support, last two months | 7 of 7 threads resolved (100%) |
Reviews
4.9 / 5 from 1,623 reviews
| 5 stars | 1,551 |
|---|---|
| 4 stars | 37 |
| 3 stars | 7 |
| 2 stars | 7 |
| 1 star | 21 |
Downloads, last 30 days
What the author says it does
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
The opening of the plugin's own description. The full text, installation notes and changelog are on its WordPress.org page.
Questions the author answers
Do I need a Google API key?
No, you can connect and display up to 10 Google reviews without any API key – just paste your Google Maps URL or Place ID and you’re done. An API key is only needed if you want reviews to update automatically. We provide a step-by-step guide in the plugin’s Support section showing how to create a free Google API key.
Is the plugin GDPR-compliant?
Yes. All review data, business photos, and reviewer avatars are stored locally on your WordPress site after the initial connection. No external requests are made when visitors load your pages, so no personal data is shared with Google or any third party on page view. There’s also an option to display only the first name and initial of the reviewer’s last name.
Can I connect multiple Google Business locations?
Yes, there are no limits on the number of Google Business places you can connect. Reviews from multiple locations can be combined in a single widget and sorted by date, or you can create separate widgets for each location.
Will reviews update automatically?
Yes, when you add your own free Google API key, the plugin will refresh reviews on a daily schedule. Without an API key, the initial 10 reviews are loaded once; you can fetch the latest reviews at any time from the Places page.
Does it work with Elementor, Gutenberg, and WPBakery?
Yes. The plugin provides a native Gutenberg block, a shortcode that works in any page builder (Elementor, WPBakery, Beaver Builder, Divi, SiteOrigin), and a classic sidebar widget. You can mix all three on the same site.
How do I embed Google reviews on a WordPress page?
Open Google Reviews in the admin menu, find your business in the connection wizard and save the widget. Paste its shortcode into any page, add the Google Reviews block in the editor, or place the classic widget in a sidebar.
Latest changelog entry
- 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.
Screenshots
Google reviews slider with the rating header 
Google reviews grid 
Google reviews list 
Rating layout: stars, score and number of reviews
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Where this page's numbers come from
Read from the WordPress.org plugin API on , when WordPress 7.1.4 was the current release. WordPress.org rounds active installs into buckets. These are the directory's figures, not my verdict, and I haven't tested this plugin.