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Oh, sorry. No we don’t have any plans for a new or updated plugin along these lines.

We are not planning on any updates.

@joegp We don’t support this plugin any more. I reviewed the code, though, and I don’t see any need for the start_session() call. So, you should be able to just edit the rw_gplaces.php file and remove (or comment out) the line that looks like (around line 15):
$this->init_session();
That should resolve the first issue.

I’m afraid I cannot speak to other issues. It may be that they will be resolved by making the change above.

The Review Wave – Google Places Reviews plugin uses the Google API to look up business place IDs and to retrieve publicly available reviews. We are unaware of and don’t believe there is any way for the Google API as used by the plugin to collect or transmit website visitor information. You are, of course, free to review the plugin source code yourself to confirm.

The plugin will attempt to display an author specific avatar when one is available. It displays the generic person.png image when one is not.

Thanks

Hello. The plugin works exactly how it says it does. Gooogle doesn’t allow for you to pull many reviews via the API any more. There are no bugs.

Hello. The plugin works exactly how it says it does. Gooogle doesn’t allow for you to pull many reviews via the API any more. There are no bugs.

Please make sure you have entered a valid Google+ API key and that there are no javascript errors on the WordPress sites you are using. When I enter in your business name the plugin returns the following Place ID: ChIJb3GQCFxLSIgRDwetVc4XtEU

This shortcode should work for you:
[review_wave_gplaces title=”Strong Tower Fitness – Strengthen The Faith CrossFit” place_id=”ChIJb3GQCFxLSIgRDwetVc4XtEU”]

Are you able to look up any businesses with the search field? If none will come up, then the problem could be an unrelated javascript error on your site. If other businesses will come up, however, there may be something about yours that is a bit different. If so, would you mind posting what your you business is so I can try to look it up? Thanks.

Dave, it’s not clear why your business is not showing up in the Google search. If you do not have a G+ account for it, then adding one would probably help.

With a simple change to the code you can restrict the search to businesses within the UK. Edit the review-wave-gplaces-reviews/js/rw_gplaces.js file in your plugins directory. Change the following line from:

var autocomplete = new google.maps.places.Autocomplete(this);

to:

var autocomplete = new google.maps.places.Autocomplete(this, { componentRestrictions: {country: ‘gb’} });

Note, however, that even with this change I was not able to find your business by name with the G+ autocomplete search. I was, however, able to find it by address with or without the change; although your business information did not come up properly this way.

Thanks @bouncy. I received your email with the info/pics. I wanted to follow up here in case others were following this thread or ran into the same issue.

When I tested with your business ID and Yelp credentials I created this morning I got the same single review that you are getting. When I tried with an older set of credentials I got three reviews – the same review that you are seeing and two older ones (from 1 month and 2 months ago). It appears that the Yelp API is now returning the top reviews based on it’s “Yelp Sort” order. It used to return the most recent reviews. Unfortunately, it looks like we’re not likely to get all reviews even by saving them over time the way the Review Wave – Yelp Reviews plugin does. There’s nothing to be done about that unless Yelp changes the way their API works.

I don’t think a Yelp Business Account would matter. Do you mind posting the business ID here or emailing it to [email protected]? I can test the API to see what it is returning. Also, please include the review that the plugin shows. Thanks.

The review rating. If they’re 4 or 5 they should be displayed by default. If you changed the minimum rating to 5, though, they wouldn’t appear.

Reviews lower than the required minimum rating will be imported, but they won’t be displayed.

If you think the rating threshold may be the cause for the missing reviews you can temporarily adjust that setting in the widget or shortcode settings. Also, if you know how to do so you could check the database to see how many reviews are stored there. You will find the reviews in a table called wp_rw_yelp_review (or something similar depending on how you have your WP database table prefix set up).