Title: Praising – Reviews Widget for Google Reviews
Author: praising
Published: September 23, 2026
Last modified: September 23, 2026
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# Praising – Reviews Widget for Google Reviews
By [praising](https://profiles.wordpress.org/praising/)
[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/praising.1.0.0.zip)
* [Details](https://wordpress.org/plugins/praising/#description)
* [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/plugins/praising/#reviews)
* [Installation](https://wordpress.org/plugins/praising/#installation)
* [Development](https://wordpress.org/plugins/praising/#developers)
[Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/praising/)
## Description
Praising collects your reviews and shows them on your website in a widget you design
once in your Praising dashboard: a carousel, a grid, a wall of reviews or a compact
rating badge, in light or dark, filtered to the ratings you choose.
This plugin puts that widget on your WordPress site. Paste your widget’s install
snippet into Settings Praising, switch it on, then place it anywhere:
* **Block editor:** add the “Praising Reviews” block.
* **Classic editor, widget areas and page builders:** use the shortcode `[praising_reviews]`.
* **More than one widget:** give a placement its own ID — `[praising_reviews id
="your-widget-id"]`, or set it in the block’s settings.
The widget keeps itself up to date: new reviews appear on your site as Praising
collects them, with nothing to re-publish. It sizes itself to its content and works
with any theme, because it is drawn inside its own frame and never restyles your
pages.
**What you need**
A Praising account. The Forever Free plan needs no card: connect your Google Business
Profile and your reviews come in automatically. Widgets on the free plan show a
small “Powered by Praising” link, which the Pro plan can switch off. Praising can
also import reviews from Trustpilot and Tripadvisor.
### External services
This plugin shows a reviews widget hosted by **Praising** (https://praising.ai),
a review-management service. It is required: the widget, and the reviews in it,
come from your Praising account.
Nothing is loaded from Praising until you enter a widget ID **and** tick “Show on
my site” in Settings Praising. The block editor shows a placeholder, never the
live widget, so writing posts never contacts Praising either.
Once it is switched on, each page that contains the block or shortcode loads the
widget in a frame from `https://app.praising.ai/embed/w/`:
* **What the visitor’s browser sends:** a normal page request for that address —
the widget ID in the address, plus what every browser sends with any request (
IP address, user agent, language). The plugin adds nothing about the visitor
or about your WordPress users.
* **What comes back:** your widget, showing your reviews and the reviewers’ public
names and photos. Reviewers’ profile photos are loaded from Google’s image servers(`
lh3.googleusercontent.com`), the same way they appear on Google.
* **Nothing else:** the widget page sets no cookies, Praising’s analytics are switched
off inside it, and the plugin itself writes nothing to your visitors’ browsers.
The plugin itself stores one option (your widget ID and the on/off switch), and
removes it when the plugin is deleted.
Praising’s terms of service: https://praising.ai/terms
Praising’s privacy policy:
https://praising.ai/privacy
## Blocks
This plugin provides 1 block.
* Praising Reviews Show your Praising reviews widget: your Google reviews as
a carousel, grid, wall or badge.
## Installation
1. Install and activate the plugin.
2. In your Praising dashboard, open Visibility Widgets, design a widget and copy
its install snippet.
3. In WordPress, open Settings Praising, paste the snippet (or just the ID), tick“
Show on my site” and save.
4. Add the “Praising Reviews” block to any page, or use the shortcode `[praising_reviews]`.
## FAQ
### Do I need a Praising account?
Yes — the widget and your reviews live in your Praising account. The Forever Free
plan needs no card.
### Where do I find my widget ID?
In your Praising dashboard under Visibility Widgets. Copy the whole install snippet
and paste it into Settings Praising; the plugin reads the ID out of it.
### Can I show different widgets on different pages?
Yes. The widget saved in Settings Praising is the default. Give any block or shortcode
its own ID to show a different widget there: `[praising_reviews id="your-widget-
id"]`.
### Will it slow my site down?
The widget loads in its own frame, lazily, only on pages where you place it, and
the only script the plugin adds is a few lines that keep that frame the right height.
### Does it change my theme’s styles?
No. The widget is drawn inside its own frame, so your theme’s styles and the widget’s
cannot affect each other.
### How do I remove it?
Untick “Show on my site” to stop loading the widget everywhere at once, or remove
the block or shortcode from a page. Deleting the plugin also removes its saved settings.
## Reviews
There are no reviews for this plugin.
## Contributors & Developers
“Praising – Reviews Widget for Google Reviews” is open source software. The following
people have contributed to this plugin.
Contributors
* [ praising ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/praising/)
[Translate “Praising – Reviews Widget for Google Reviews” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/praising)
### Interested in development?
[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/praising/), check out
the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/praising/), or subscribe
to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/praising/) by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/praising/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).
## Changelog
#### 1.0.0
* First release: settings page, “Praising Reviews” block and [praising_reviews]
shortcode.
## Meta
* Version **1.0.0**
* Last updated **22 hours ago**
* Active installations **Fewer than 10**
* WordPress version ** 6.3 or higher **
* Tested up to **7.1.2**
* PHP version ** 7.4 or higher **
* Tags
* [Google Reviews](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/google-reviews/)[review slider](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/review-slider/)
[reviews](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/reviews/)[Reviews Widget](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/reviews-widget/)
[testimonials](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/testimonials/)
* [Advanced View](https://wordpress.org/plugins/praising/advanced/)
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## Contributors
* [ praising ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/praising/)
## Support
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