Social Reviews & Recommendations is a free WordPress plugin that makes it easy to display real reviews and recommendations from social platforms like Facebook, Google, and Yelp on your website. Instead of only showing static text, this plugin pulls live review data via APIs and displays it in widgets, blocks, or shortcodes — helping you strengthen trust, credibility, and conversions through authentic social proof.
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It’s ideal for local businesses, service providers, e‑commerce stores, and portfolios that want a professional way to show what customers are saying across the web without manual copying of reviews.
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🧩 Key Features & Functionality
📌 Unified Social Reviews Feed
You can combine and display reviews from:
Google Reviews (up to 10 via public API)
Facebook Reviews & Recommendations (all available recommendations via official Graph API)
Yelp Reviews (up to 3 via public API at first install)
All of these can be shown separately or together in one feed.
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📊 Widgets, Shortcodes & Blocks
Display reviews in sidebar widgets for footers or sidebars
Use shortcodes to drop review feeds into posts or pages
Includes a Gutenberg block for block editor compatibility
Works with page builders like Elementor, Beaver Builder, WPBakery, Divi, and SiteOrigin.
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📋 Multiple Layout Options
Choose from:
List view — simple vertical list
Grid layout — compact arrangement
Slider / Carousel — rotating testimonials
These help you match the reviews to your site’s design and layout preferences.
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🌐 SEO & Performance
Automatically caches review data to improve loading speeds
Includes SEO‑friendly markup so search engines can better understand your review content
Supports pagination and “Read more” for long reviews to keep displays tidy.
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🧠 Review Management
You can hide any review manually if you don’t want it to appear
Shows a “Based on … reviews” summary badge
Works with both light and dark website themes
Includes nofollow and target=”_blank” link options for external review sources.
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📈 Benefits for Your Website
🔹 Build Credibility with Social Proof
Displaying real reviews from platforms people trust (Google, Facebook, Yelp) helps boost confidence in your brand, products, or services.
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🔹 Increase Conversions
Seeing social feedback near CTAs or on landing pages helps potential customers make decisions faster.
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🔹 Easy to Use & Setup
No coding is required — connect your review sources via the plugin settings, choose layouts, and insert the widget/block/shortcode wherever you want.
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🔹 Flexible Display
Use it in sidebars, footers, full‑width sections, or within content — wherever reviews will most help conversion.
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⚙️ General Usage Overview
Install and activate the plugin in your WordPress dashboard.
Connect your business pages or profiles from Google, Facebook, and Yelp in the plugin settings.
Choose how you want reviews displayed — widget, shortcode, or block.
Configure layout (list, grid, slider), filtering, and other display options.
Place it on your site to show customers’ social feedback automatically.
This setup gives you a live, dynamic reviews feed that stays updated
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