Truewidgets – Google Reviews Widget Wordpress Plugin - Rating, Reviews, Demo & Download
Plugin Description
Truewidgets puts your Google reviews on your website, so visitors see what your customers say without leaving your page.
Connect your Google Business Profile in Truewidgets by signing in with Google, choose how the widget looks, then add it to any page with the Truewidgets Reviews block or the [truewidgets] shortcode.
What you get
- Your newest reviews, kept up to date. Truewidgets checks Google for new reviews every day. There is nothing to refresh by hand.
- Five layouts. Carousel, grid, list, masonry, and a compact badge.
- Your look. Set the colours, fonts and layout in Truewidgets. Change them any time: your pages update by themselves, with no new code.
- An honest average. The rating counts every review, not just the ones the widget shows.
- More reviews. A “Write a review” button, plus a review link and QR code to share, make it easy for customers to review you on Google.
- Fast and self-contained. The widget loads in the background, only on pages that show it. It draws itself in a closed Shadow DOM, so your theme can’t break it and it can’t change your theme. Its fonts come from Truewidgets, never from Google Fonts.
- Works where you build. The block editor, the classic editor, page builders that accept shortcodes, and theme templates.
Free and paid plans
The Free plan shows your 5 newest Google reviews in one widget, with a small “Powered by Truewidgets” line under it. Paid plans, from $9 a month, show all your Google reviews, remove that line, add more widgets and locations, and add tools such as replying to reviews and finding the words your customers use. Plans are listed at truewidgets.com.
Truewidgets is not affiliated with or endorsed by Google. Google is a trademark of Google LLC.
External services
This plugin shows your reviews from Truewidgets (app.truewidgets.com), the service that holds them. It connects to it, and to Google, like this:
- The widget script. Every page with a Truewidgets block or shortcode loads the widget from https://app.truewidgets.com/embed.
- Your widget’s reviews and settings. The visitor’s browser then fetches them from https://app.truewidgets.com/widget-data/ with your Widget ID. In the WordPress admin, “Check it” and the block’s preview fetch the same data.
- View counts. The widget tells Truewidgets, anonymously, when it was seen on a page, and when a visitor opens a review, taps “Write a review” or taps “See all reviews”, together with the address of that page (without anything after a “?”). It is sent to https://app.truewidgets.com/analytics/event. The widget sets no cookies and sends nothing about who the visitor is. As with any request on the web, the visitor’s browser sends its IP address and browser name; Truewidgets doesn’t keep them with the counts. The block’s preview in the editor is never counted.
- Fonts. If your widget uses one of the fonts offered in Truewidgets, the visitor’s browser loads it from https://app.truewidgets.com/widget-fonts/, never from Google Fonts.
- Google. Google reviewers’ profile pictures load from Google (googleusercontent.com).
- Links. “See all reviews” and “Write a review” open your reviews page and your review link on app.truewidgets.com. On the Free plan, “Powered by Truewidgets” links to truewidgets.com.
Truewidgets’ terms: https://truewidgets.com/terms
Truewidgets’ privacy policy: https://truewidgets.com/privacy
Google’s privacy policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy
Screenshots
Your Google reviews on your page, in the carousel layout.
The Truewidgets Reviews block shows your real reviews in the page editor.
The grid layout.
Settings → Truewidgets: paste your Widget ID and check it.
