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Widgets on the free plan show a small \u201cPowered by Praising\u201d link, which the Pro plan can switch off. Praising can also import reviews from Trustpilot and Tripadvisor.<\/p>\n\n<h3>External services<\/h3>\n\n<p>This plugin shows a reviews widget hosted by <strong>Praising<\/strong> (https:\/\/praising.ai), a review-management service. It is required: the widget, and the reviews in it, come from your Praising account.<\/p>\n\n<p>Nothing is loaded from Praising until you enter a widget ID <strong>and<\/strong> tick \u201cShow on my site\u201d in Settings \u2192 Praising. The block editor shows a placeholder, never the live widget, so writing posts never contacts Praising either.<\/p>\n\n<p>Once it is switched on, each page that contains the block or shortcode loads the widget in a frame from <code>https:\/\/app.praising.ai\/embed\/w\/&lt;your widget ID&gt;<\/code>:<\/p>\n\n<ul>\n<li><strong>What the visitor's browser sends:<\/strong> a normal page request for that address \u2014 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.<\/li>\n<li><strong>What comes back:<\/strong> your widget, showing your reviews and the reviewers' public names and photos. Reviewers' profile photos are loaded from Google's image servers (<code>lh3.googleusercontent.com<\/code>), the same way they appear on Google.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Nothing else:<\/strong> the widget page sets no cookies, Praising's analytics are switched off inside it, and the plugin itself writes nothing to your visitors' browsers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p>The plugin itself stores one option (your widget ID and the on\/off switch), and removes it when the plugin is deleted.<\/p>\n\n<p>Praising's terms of service: https:\/\/praising.ai\/terms\nPraising's privacy policy: https:\/\/praising.ai\/privacy<\/p>\n\n<!--section=installation-->\n<ol>\n<li>Install and activate the plugin.<\/li>\n<li>In your Praising dashboard, open Visibility \u2192 Widgets, design a widget and copy its install snippet.<\/li>\n<li>In WordPress, open Settings \u2192 Praising, paste the snippet (or just the ID), tick \u201cShow on my site\u201d and save.<\/li>\n<li>Add the \u201cPraising Reviews\u201d block to any page, or use the shortcode <code>[praising_reviews]<\/code>.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n<!--section=faq-->\n<dl>\n<dt id=\"do%20i%20need%20a%20praising%20account%3F\"><h3>Do I need a Praising account?<\/h3><\/dt>\n<dd><p>Yes \u2014 the widget and your reviews live in your Praising account. 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