Review Fry

Pull your reviews into WordPress and show them anywhere: sliders, grids, masonry, lists, sidebars, badges, a floating badge, a popup button and rotating review pop-ups.

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Sources

Source	What you get	Needs
Google Business Profile (your own)	Every review with your replies; reply from WordPress	Google Cloud OAuth client + approved Business Profile API access
Google, any business	5 reviews per request, collected over time	Places API (New) key
Yelp	Newest 3 excerpts per request, collected over time	Yelp Fusion API key
Manual / CSV	Facebook, Trustpilot, Tripadvisor, testimonials…	–

Secrets are stored encrypted. They can also live in wp-config.php:

define('REVIEW_FRY_GOOGLE_CLIENT_SECRET', '…');
define('REVIEW_FRY_PLACES_API_KEY', '…');
define('REVIEW_FRY_YELP_API_KEY', '…');

Google Business Profile setup

1. Google Cloud Console → create a project.
2. Enable My Business Account Management API, My Business Business Information API and Google My Business API.
3. Request Business Profile API access (developers.google.com/my-business/content/prereqs). Quota is 0 until approved.
4. OAuth consent screen: External, then Publish (apps in "Testing" lose access after 7 days).
5. Credentials → OAuth client ID → Web application, redirect URI https://your-site/wp-admin/admin-post.php.
6. Review Fry → Settings: paste client ID + secret, save, Sign in with Google, then Sources → Show my locations → Add.

Showing reviews

• Shortcode: [review_fry id="123"]
• Block: "Review Fry"
• Elementor: "Review Fry" widget
• Site-wide: Settings → Site-wide widget (good for the floating badge and pop-ups)

Managing reviews

Hide or feature single reviews, highlight a phrase (select it, click Highlight), reply to Google reviews, paste full Yelp texts over excerpts, import/export CSV, and get emailed about new (or only negative) reviews.

Developer notes

• Reviews: table {prefix}reviewfry_reviews, unique by (source, external_id); syncing never touches the local flags (hidden, featured, highlight).
• Sources: option review_fry_sources. Widgets: post type rf_widget, config JSON in _review_fry_config.
• Sync: WP-Cron hook review_fry_sync (twice daily / daily / weekly).
• Front end: server-rendered HTML, one CSS file and one dependency-free JS file, loaded only on pages with a widget.