2017-11-13
jQuery Plugin for showing google places reviews
Inspired by Steven Monson's magnificent article here: https://www.launch2success.com/guide/display-google-reviews-website-2017/ or check out Steven's github. Steven's code is based on peledies jquery plugin repo. So, I simply remixed their work into this little gem of code poetry. Thank you guys!
Source Code on GitHub
https://github.com/simonneutert/jquery-google-reviews
Prerequisites
You must have jQuery in your project: get jQuery
add the .js and .css from here to your project (see index.html for inspiration :wink:)
if you do not have a working Google Maps API key already: create a Google API Key: https://console.developers.google.com/apis/
add the following line with your Google Maps API key with your key as param:
<script src="https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/js?v=3.exp&libraries=places&key=YourApiKeyHere" ></script>
add an empty div element in your html template with an unique ID, where the reviews should show up. In this case:
<div id="google-reviews"></div>
Call the Plugin
<script>
jQuery(document).ready(function ($) {
if ($("#google-reviews").length == 0) {
return;
}
// Find a placeID via https://developers.google.com/places/place-id
$("#google-reviews").googlePlaces({
placeId: "ChIJZa6ezJa8j4AR1p1nTSaRtuQ",
// the following params are optional (default values)
header: "<h3>Google Reviews</h3>", // html/text over Reviews
footer: "", // html/text under Reviews block
max_rows: 6, // max rows of reviews to be displayed
min_rating: 4, // minimum rating of reviews to be displayed
months: [
"Jan",
"Feb",
"Mär",
"Apr",
"Mai",
"Jun",
"Jul",
"Aug",
"Sep",
"Okt",
"Nov",
"Dez",
],
text_break_length: "90", // length before a review box is set to max width
shorten_names: true, // example: "Max Mustermann" -> "Max M.""
});
});
</script>