Needs work

I’d like to start off by saying that i’m using this plugin on 2 websites and it’s working on both.

With that said, this plugin definitely needs some work and the fact that it hasn’t been updated in 8 months is not a good sign.

I almost gave up on it because the built in Places ID finder doesn’t work as well as the one google has, i put in the name of the company i was making this for (City Boss Residential Roofing) and it came up with nothing, had to go to google maps to find it, then used the address listed there, which is not an exact one since it’s set to service a 60km radius around a specific address that is not listed, so the address was a very general one (Calgary, AB, Canada).
So i got the name and address that showed up in google maps (City Boss Residential Roofing, Calgary, AB, Canada) and put that in the Places ID finder (https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/javascript/examples/places-placeid-finder) then finally that found the right places ID.

But i could have just put in the name of the company straight into the google places ID finder and it also works.

Until you get the right places ID nothing works, it’s like all that API key BS i had to do didn’t do anything.

Google also needs to work on this, they could have provided the places ID in the Google Business backend somewhere.

Dropped another star because none of the avatars show up, also the total number of reviews it says the business has is not automatically retrieved (like the rating), if you remove the shortcode it says you have 0 reviews, so you have to change the shortcode to match, or you can just as easily lie and say your business has 10 million reviews.

And another because the widget is completely broken, doesn’t search for anything you type and you can’t manually add the Places ID, for some stupid reason.
Thankfully you can just use the same shortcode in a text widget.

• This topic was modified 7 years, 3 months ago by JoeGP.
• This topic was modified 7 years, 3 months ago by JoeGP.