Separates the side-panel close button's pointer-hover colors from its automatic and keyboard focus states.<\/p>","7.0.8":"
Restores the seven style settings identified as non-functional by the completed style audit: four carousel-card surface settings and three component shadow presets.<\/p>","7.0.7":"
Applies all side-panel Read-more visual settings through explicit panel-only CSS properties while preserving hover-width inheritance and keyboard focus accessibility.<\/p>","7.0.6":"
Separates the side-panel Read-more border from its keyboard-focus outline and adds an optional hover-only border width.<\/p>","7.0.5":"
Separates the carousel read-more border from its keyboard-focus outline and adds an optional hover-only border width.<\/p>","7.0.4":"
Prevents carousel read-more controls from being clipped at narrow widths or with large visual settings, while preserving configured aspect ratios whenever the content fits.<\/p>","7.0.3":"
Adds independent inner and outer carousel-container spacing controls, with a safe automatic migration, responsive overflow protection, and corrected visual-setting bindings.<\/p>","7.0.2":"
Restores complete Google + manual review management and global manual reordering in the 7.x administration screen, and adds the carousel-container radius control. Existing manual-order sequences are retained and completed automatically.<\/p>","7.0.1":"
Improves floating-badge hover and keyboard-focus states, removes the non-configurable blue container outline, and migrates the new controls automatically.<\/p>","7.0.0":"
Major administration-interface and settings-architecture refactor. Existing configurations are migrated automatically on upgrade; no manual action is required.<\/p>","6.1.7":"
Uses the configured review count consistently in the floating badge and side panel, including their live administration previews.<\/p>","6.1.6":"
Adds configurable full-review modal and \u201cRead more\u201d control colors, plus a modal layer above the side panel.<\/p>","6.1.5":"
Adds an optional Google badge review-count override and allows manual reviews without a comment or image.<\/p>","6.1.4":"
Finalized English source strings and release metadata updates for WordPress.org translation compliance.<\/p>","6.1.3":"
Readme and translation catalogs updated; default UI strings are US English for directory compliance.<\/p>","6.1.2":"
Fixes color picker live preview in admin, card header centering, and sidebar panel CSS isolation.<\/p>","6.1.0":"
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Etchenet Reviews for Google Business<\/strong> shows your Google Business reviews in a modern carousel (Swiper), a floating badge, and a side panel. Ideal for building trust and social proof on your site.<\/p>\n\n The plugin uses the Google Places API (Place Details)<\/strong>. It requests the On each sync, the plugin fetches the current batch from Google, updates matching reviews while preserving their visibility, and adds new reviews to the stored list for the same Place ID. API failures are reported even when older reviews are available. If you change the Place ID, the previous place's reviews are not displayed under the new place; reset the stored Google reviews explicitly before syncing a different place. The API response is cached for 12 hours to avoid excessive requests.<\/p>\n\n Because the API returns only a small set per call (usually 5) and has no pagination:<\/p>\n\n For full details, check the plugin settings and this readme file.<\/p>\n\n This plugin connects to Google services to fetch and display Google Business reviews.<\/p>\n\n - Purpose: fetch place details and public reviews (rating, review count, business name, review entries).\n- Data sent: configured - Purpose: cache public reviewer profile images locally for faster\/stable display.\n- Data sent: HTTP GET request to the profile photo URL returned by Google for each review.\n- When sent: during synchronization, for new reviews or changed profile-photo URLs when no reusable local cached image is available.<\/p>\n\n The server-side API and profile-photo download requests do not send personal data from your site visitors. If a profile photo cannot be cached locally, its remote URL may be displayed directly: the visitor's browser then contacts that image host and may send its IP address, browser user agent and referrer according to the browser's policy.<\/p>\n\n Google Maps Platform Terms of Service:\nhttps:\/\/mapsplatform.google.com\/terms\/<\/p>\n\n Google Privacy Policy:\nhttps:\/\/policies.google.com\/privacy<\/p>\n\n\n The plugin ships with Spanish and French translation files in You need an API Key and Place ID only if you want to sync reviews from Google. You can use the plugin with manual reviews and\/or CSV\/Excel import only.<\/p><\/dd>\n If you see a message like No data to show. Sync from the admin or add manual reviews\u2026<\/em>, check that you have either synced from Google or added manual reviews (or imported). Also check Filters & content<\/strong> in settings: minimum stars and \u201cexclude reviews without text\u201d can hide every review.<\/p><\/dd>\n Yes. In Etchenet Reviews<\/strong> go to Reviews<\/strong>, click Reorder reviews<\/strong>, drag rows by the handle (\u22ee\u22ee), and click Save current order<\/strong>. The complete Google and manual-review inventory is shown in this dedicated mode. The saved sequence is used when Manual order<\/strong> is selected under Filters & content<\/strong>.<\/p><\/dd>\n\n<\/dl>\n\n\nInternationalization<\/h4>\n\n
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en_US<\/code>)<\/strong> as the message source, as required for community translation on WordPress.org.<\/li>\nen_US<\/code>, WordPress typically uses those strings as-is<\/strong> from the plugin (no separate English file required).<\/li>\nes_ES<\/code>) and French (fr_FR<\/code>) translation files are included under languages\/<\/code>. Other locales can use language packs from wordpress.org when available, or custom .mo<\/code> \/ .l10n.php<\/code> files.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\nFeatures<\/h4>\n\n
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reviews<\/code> field for your place (using your API Key and Place ID). Google returns a limited number of reviews per request<\/strong> (typically 5) and does not support pagination for reviews.<\/p>\n\nStored review data and Google's limits<\/h4>\n\n
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