Yelp Reviews Widget - ChoosePlugin.com

Yelp Reviews Widget show Yelp Business Reviews on your WordPress website to increase user confidence and SEO.

Author:	RichPlugins (profile at wordpress.org)
WordPress version required:	2.8
WordPress version tested:	6.2.2
Plugin version:	1.7.8
Added to WordPress repository:	02-03-2017
Last updated:	24-05-2023
Rating, %:	96
Rated by:	43
Plugin URI:	https://richplugins.com
Total downloads:	69 050
Active installs:	4 000+
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To get more unique features we have Business version of the plugin

This plugin display Yelp Business Reviews on your websites in sidebar widget. A unique feature of the plugin is that it save reviews in WordPress database and have no depend on any services like Yelp to show these reviews.

The plugin requires Yelp API key to work. To get the key, please create Yelp application under a free Yelp account.

Online demo

Plugin Features

Free!
SEO
Shortcode support!
Trim long reviews with “read more” link
Support page builders: Elementor, Page Origin, Beaver Builder, WPBakery, Divi
Keep all reviews in WordPress database
Display up to 3 Yelp business reviews per location
Shows real reviews from Yelp users to increase user confidence
Easy connect of business and instantly show reviews
Review list theme
Pagination
Support dark websites
Nofollow, target=”_blank”
Zero load time regardless of your site
Works even if Yelp is unavailable

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New awesome flash theme!
Merge reviews between each other from different platforms (Google, Facebook, Yelp) and places
Google Rich Snippets (schema.org)
Powerful Collection Builder
Slider/Grid themes to show G+ reviews like testimonials
Yelp Trust Badge (right/left fixed or embedded)
‘Write a review’ button to available leave Yelp review directly on your website
Show/hide any elements (business, reviews, avatars, names, time and etc)
Any Sorting: recent, oldest, rating, striped
Include/Exclude words filter
Minimum rating filter
Priority support

Additional Free Reviews Plugins

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Support

Email support support@richplugins.com
Live support https://richplugins.com/forum

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ChangeLog

1.7.8

Improve: contrast (Based on, User links, reviews time, Next Reviews)
Update to WordPress 6.2

1.7.7

Improve description
Update to WordPress 6.1

1.7.6

Update to WordPress 5.8

1.7.5

Update plugin to WordPress 5.6

1.7.4

Security pass fixes

1.7.3

Update plugin to WordPress 5.5

1.7.2

Bugfix: W3C compatibility

1.7.1

Improve: auto-updating reviews option
Bugfix: Yoast XML plugin makes ‘Class not found’ error

1.7

Update to WordPress 5.3
Improve: added dots for read more link
Improve: added width, height, title for img elements (SEO)
Improve: added rel=”noopener” option

1.6.9

Bugfix: is_admin checks for notice

1.6.8

Improve: shortcode support
Improve: admin notie
Bugfix: undefined widget property in Elementor

1.6.7

Bugfix: some style fixes

1.6.6

Update to WordPress 5.2
Bugfix: conflict with a Bootstrap css in the widget

1.6.5

Bugfix: avoid duplicate the time-ago library
Update readme and links to the business version

1.6.4

Update plugin to WordPress 5.1
Improve: reviewer profile photo reduce size to 100×100 (ms.jpg)
Improve: ‘read more’ feature
Improve: ‘read more’ on Yelp feature
Improve: added pagination feature
Improve: added centered option
Improve: added width & height options
Improve: update widget design
Improve: update setting page design

1.6.3

Update plugin to WordPress 5.0
Improve: added a default sorting by recent
Improve: easy connect Yelp business in the widget by link
Improve: instruction for getting Yelp API key was updated
Bugfix: fixed the issues with working on site builders (SiteOrigin, Elementor, Beaver Builder and etc)

1.6.2

Bugfix: remove deprecated function create_function()
Bugfix: fixed problem with tabs on the setting page

1.6.1

Improve: instruction for getting Yelp API key was updated
Improve: added error message for incorrect Yelp API key
Improve: support of SiteOrigin builder

1.6

Update readme
Improve: Added compatibility with WP multisite
Bugfix: corrected time ago messages

1.5

Move from OAuth to Yelp API Key
Tested up to WordPress 4.9
Improve: added language setting
Improve: added a service option for re-creating of database

1.4

Widget options description corrected
Bugfix: widget options loop

1.3

Tested up to WordPress 4.8
Improve: change permission from activate_plugins to manage_options for the plugin’s settings
Bugfix: CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION for curl used only with open_basedir and safe_mode disable
Bugfix: cURL proxy fix

1.2

Improve: extract inline init script of widget to separate js file (rplg.js), common for rich plugins

1.1

Added common libs for urlopen and debug

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