Title: Revys
Author: revys
Published: <strong>October 27, 2026</strong>
Last modified: October 28, 2026

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# Revys

 By [revys](https://profiles.wordpress.org/revys/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/revys.1.4.3.zip)

 * [Details](https://wordpress.org/plugins/revys/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/plugins/revys/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://wordpress.org/plugins/revys/#installation)
 * [Development](https://wordpress.org/plugins/revys/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/revys/)

## Description

Revys is a review service (SaaS) published by OZAPP SRL (Belgium). It collects the**
Google reviews** of your business through the official Google Business Profile API(
you connect your profile with Google OAuth in your Revys dashboard), then **pushes
them to your WordPress site every night** over a signed connection (HMAC SHA-256).

This plugin is the WordPress side of that connection. It receives the reviews, stores
them in your WordPress database and **renders them on the server**: the reviews 
are part of the static HTML of your page, with no JavaScript needed to display them.
Search engine crawlers and AI assistants that read pages without running JavaScript(
Google, ChatGPT search, Google AI Overviews, Perplexity…) can therefore read your
reviews, which is not the case with most review widgets loaded by JavaScript or 
in an iframe.

**A Revys account is required.** The plugin does nothing on its own: the reviews
come from your Revys account. A free plan (one Google Business Profile) and a paid
Pro plan are available on [revys.io](https://revys.io).

#### Features

 * Google reviews shown as server-side HTML: author, rating, date and text, with
   the layout, theme and style chosen in your Revys dashboard (carousel, grid, list,
   badge, wall; light or dark).
 * Compliant `schema.org` structured data: an `Organization` object (name, URL) 
   only. The plugin never outputs `AggregateRating` or `Review` markup for your 
   own business (see the FAQ).
 * “Revys Reviews” block for the block editor, and the `[revys_reviews widget="ID"]`
   shortcode.
 * Settings page (top-level “Revys” menu, also under Settings  Revys) to paste your
   connection secret, with an immediate check against Revys.
 * Signed, push-based sync: Revys sends the reviews to a dedicated REST endpoint
   of your site; requests without a valid signature are rejected.
 * The widget markup sent by Revys is filtered before output (strict allow-list 
   of tags and attributes, stylesheet scoped to the widget, JSON-LD re-encoded).
   No JavaScript is added to your pages.
 * Works with page cache plugins: when a sync changes your reviews, the cached pages
   that show them are cleared (LiteSpeed Cache, WP Rocket, W3 Total Cache, WP Super
   Cache, WP Fastest Cache, SiteGround Optimizer, Hummingbird, Cloudflare).
 * Translation-ready (translations are managed on translate.wordpress.org).

#### Supported review sources

 * **Google** (Google Business Profile): available.
 * Facebook and Trustpilot: planned, **not available yet**.

#### Free plan credit

On the free Revys plan, the widget rendered by the Revys service ends with a small“
Widget gratuit par Revys” credit linking to revys.io (`rel="nofollow sponsored"`).
It is part of the service output, not added by the plugin, and it is removed on 
the paid plan.

#### Source code

The plugin ships with its full, human-readable source code (no build step, no minified
or obfuscated file).

### External services

This plugin connects to **Revys** (https://revys.io), a review service published
by OZAPP SRL (Belgium). The service is required: it collects your Google reviews
and provides the content the plugin displays.

**1. Secret check (request sent by your site to Revys)**

 * What: a `POST` request to `https://revys.io/api/wordpress/verify`.
 * When: only when an administrator saves a connection secret on the Revys settings
   page. Never on page views, never on a schedule.
 * Data sent: your site’s home URL, the current timestamp, and an HMAC SHA-256 signature
   of those two values computed with the secret (in the `X-Revys-Signature` header).
   The secret itself is not sent. No data about your visitors or users is sent.
 * Why: to tell you right away whether the secret matches your site’s connection
   in Revys and, if it does, to let Revys send the first sync.

**2. Review sync (requests sent by Revys to your site)**

 * What: Revys calls the REST endpoint `POST /wp-json/revys/v1/sync` of your site.
 * When: every night, right after a secret is successfully checked, and when you
   click “Sync now” in your Revys dashboard (My businesses › your business › On 
   my website).
 * Data received: the reviews of the connected Google Business Profile (author name,
   author picture URL, rating, text, language, date), the business name and URL,
   the display settings and the widget markup rendered by Revys. Requests without
   a valid signature are rejected. Your site answers with the widget ID and the 
   number of reviews stored.

Author pictures, when present in the reviews, are image URLs served by Google; visitors’
browsers load them when the reviews are displayed.

Developers can point the plugin to another Revys instance (for local testing) with
the `REVYS_API_URL` constant or the `revys_api_url` filter.

The reviews themselves are retrieved by Revys from Google through the official Google
Business Profile API, under your Google account’s authorization; the plugin does
not contact Google.

 * Revys terms and conditions: https://revys.io/legal/cgv
 * Revys privacy policy: https://revys.io/legal/confidentialite

## Blocks

This plugin provides 1 block.

 *   Revys Reviews

## Installation

 1. In WordPress, go to Plugins  Add New, search for “Revys”, then click Install Now
    and Activate. (Or upload the `revys` folder to `/wp-content/plugins/`.)
 2. Create a Revys account on [revys.io](https://revys.io) and connect your Google 
    Business Profile.
 3. In your Revys dashboard, open My businesses › your business › On my website and
    click “Put on my website”. Enter or confirm your site’s address and follow the 
    WordPress steps: click “Generate the secret” and copy the **connection secret**(
    it is shown only once).
 4. In WordPress, open the “Revys” menu (or Settings  Revys), paste the secret and 
    click Save. The plugin checks the secret with Revys; if it matches, Revys sends
    the first sync right away.
 5. Add the “Revys Reviews” block, or the shortcode `[revys_reviews widget="YOUR_WIDGET_ID"]`,
    to a page or post. The last WordPress step in Revys shows the shortcode with the
    right widget ID.

## FAQ

### Do I need a Revys account?

Yes. The reviews are collected by the Revys service and pushed to your site. Without
a Revys account and a connection secret, the plugin shows nothing.

### Which review platforms are supported?

Google reviews (Google Business Profile) only, for now. Facebook and Trustpilot 
are planned but not available yet.

### Where do I find my widget ID and my secret?

In your Revys dashboard, open My businesses › your business › On my website, click“
Put on my website” and follow the WordPress steps: “Generate the secret” shows the
secret (only once), and the last step shows the shortcode with your public widget
ID. The shortcode is also under “Embed code” on your widget’s card, on the same 
page.

### Does the plugin send data to an external service?

Only once, when you save the secret: the plugin asks Revys (revys.io) whether this
secret matches your site’s connection. It sends your site address, a timestamp and
a signature computed with the secret, never the secret itself and never any data
about your visitors. The rest of the time, Revys sends the reviews to your site (
push-based): the plugin checks their signature, then stores and displays them. See“
External services” below.

### Will I get review stars in Google search results?

No, and no plugin can honestly promise that. Google’s rules on review snippets do
not allow “self-serving” reviews: star ratings that a business publishes about itself
on its own website are not eligible, and neither is review markup copied from other
platforms such as Google itself. That is why this plugin only outputs `Organization`
structured data and never `AggregateRating` or `Review` markup. What the plugin 
does is make the review content visible in the HTML of your page, so search engines
and AI assistants can read it.

### Does it add JavaScript to my pages?

No. The reviews are rendered on the server. The only script file is the block editor
script, loaded in the editor.

### Does it slow down my site?

No external request is made when a page is displayed: the reviews are read from 
your WordPress database. The fallback stylesheet is only loaded on pages that need
it.

### I use a page cache plugin. Will new reviews show up?

Yes. When a sync changes what a widget shows, the plugin clears the cached copies
of the published pages and posts that contain its block or shortcode, through the
cache plugin’s own API: LiteSpeed Cache, WP Rocket, W3 Total Cache, WP Super Cache,
WP Fastest Cache, SiteGround Optimizer, Hummingbird and Cloudflare (APO). If the
widget is in a widget area, a block template or a synced pattern, or if it is not
found in any page content (for example in a page builder layout or a theme template),
the whole page cache is cleared instead. Nothing is cleared when a sync brings no
change.

Developers can adjust the purged posts with the `revys_purge_post_ids` filter (return`
null` to clear the whole cache), and clear other caches (host or CDN) on the `revys_cache_purged`
action.

### What happens to my data when I delete the plugin?

Deleting the plugin from the Plugins screen removes its options: the connection 
secret, the sync timestamps and the stored reviews. Deactivating it keeps them.

## Reviews

There are no reviews for this plugin.

## Contributors & Developers

“Revys” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ revys ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/revys/)

[Translate “Revys” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/revys)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/revys/), check out 
the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/revys/), or subscribe to 
the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/revys/) by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/revys/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Changelog

#### 1.4.3

 * Page caches are cleared after a sync that changes a widget, so new reviews and
   widget updates show up right away instead of when the cache expires. Supported:
   LiteSpeed Cache, WP Rocket, W3 Total Cache, WP Super Cache, WP Fastest Cache,
   SiteGround Optimizer, Hummingbird and Cloudflare (APO). Only the pages that contain
   the widget are cleared when they can be found; otherwise the whole page cache.
 * Nothing is cleared when a sync brings no change: the plugin now stores a hash
   of the synced content.
 * New `revys_widget_updated` and `revys_cache_purged` actions, and `revys_purge_post_ids`
   filter, for developers.

#### 1.4.2

 * The widget stylesheet is now loaded through the WordPress styles API (printed
   in the page head when the widget is in the post content) instead of a `<style
   >` element inside the widget markup. The reviews and their structured data stay
   in the page HTML.
 * Translations are now delivered by translate.wordpress.org language packs (bundled
   translation files removed).

#### 1.4.1

 * The instructions point to the new Revys dashboard path: My businesses › your 
   business › On my website › “Put on my website” (WordPress) › “Generate the secret”,
   and “Sync now” on the site’s card.
 * Clearer messages when the secret check fails: what to do when the secret is lost,
   when the site address differs, or when Revys cannot be reached (click Save again
   to retry).
 * The settings page says where to find the widget ID for the shortcode.

#### 1.4.0

 * Ready for the WordPress.org plugin directory: English source strings, bundled
   French translation, translation-ready block editor script.
 * The sync endpoint now checks the request signature in its REST permission callback(
   same protocol, same responses).
 * Deleting the plugin now removes all its options (secret, sync timestamps, stored
   reviews), on every site of a multisite network.
 * The fallback stylesheet is no longer loaded by the block when the Revys rendering
   is used.
 * Structured data: the fallback JSON-LD is now encoded with `<`, `>` and `&` escaped.

#### 1.3.2

 * If you paste a Revys API key (“rv_…”) instead of the WordPress connection secret,
   the plugin does not save it and explains where to find the right secret.
 * The instructions point to the new Revys page “Afficher mes avis” (Show my reviews)
   WordPress.

#### 1.3.1

 * The secret is checked as soon as it is saved: the plugin asks Revys whether it
   matches the site’s connection and shows the result (verified, wrong secret, site
   unknown to Revys, Revys unreachable). If it is correct, Revys starts the first
   sync right away.
 * The Revys page has its own menu in the admin sidebar (the Settings  Revys shortcut
   remains), and a “Settings” link appears on the Plugins screen.

#### 1.3.0

 * The widget looks exactly as in Revys: Revys now sends the ready-made rendering(
   styles, templates, buttons, “Read more”), still server-side and without JavaScript.
   The plugin filters it before output (tag allow-list, stylesheet limited to the
   widget, structured data re-encoded). New dashboard styles no longer require a
   plugin update.
 * Compatibility: without this rendering (older Revys version), the previous plugin
   rendering is kept.

#### 1.2.0

 * Settings  Revys page: the “Connected” status only appears after a sync has actually
   been received with the current secret, with its date; otherwise “Waiting for 
   the first sync”.

#### 1.1.0

 * The rendering now follows the layout (carousel, grid, list, badge, wall), the
   theme (light/dark) and the style options (accent color, number of columns, corner
   radius, hiding the Google branding) chosen in the Revys dashboard.

#### 1.0.0

 * Initial release: secure REST endpoint, shortcode, Gutenberg block, settings page,
   server-side rendering + Organization structured data.

## Meta

 *  Version **1.4.3**
 *  Last updated **3 days ago**
 *  Active installations **Fewer than 10**
 *  WordPress version ** 6.0 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **7.1.4**
 *  PHP version ** 8.0 or higher **
 * Tags
 * [Google Reviews](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/google-reviews/)[reviews](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/reviews/)
   [schema](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/schema/)[seo](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/seo/)
   [testimonials](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/testimonials/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://wordpress.org/plugins/revys/advanced/)

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## Contributors

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