Cannot find Google Places ID for Google Places Reviews

Hi there,

The best place to confirm whether your Business should work with our plugin or not is with the Google Place Autocomplete tool here:
https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/javascript/examples/places-autocomplete

I typed “Hi-FlyFoto” and found your business immediately. I also tested it on our live demo site and had no trouble, you can see your widget live here:http://googleplacesreviews.wordimpress.com/sidebar-widget/

So if you are not finding it in our widget most likely is one of the following problems:

1) You ruled out a plugin conflict, so potentially a conflict with your theme, particularly if it’s enqueueing it’s own versions of the Google Places API javascript
2) Your API key not having Google Places enabled, see here for details: https://wordimpress.com/documentation/google-places-reviews/creating-your-google-places-api-key/

Let me know if you find additional information so we can get this resolved for you. Thanks!

Hi there,

Regarding the avatars, they should appear correctly, but what I’m seeing on your site at the moment is some JS errors resulting from your asset minification. It looks like you’re using WP Rocket. Disable the JS/CSS minification, then go into the widget in the “Advanced Options” section and hit the “Clear Cache” button and see if that resolves it.

Yes, our plugin is internationalized. Here’s what you’ll want to do:

1) Create your localized language file, and name it google-places-reviews_de_DE.pot — this is for a German language site like yours. The _de_DE part is what tells WordPress it’s for the standard German language, but if your site is running a variant of German, like Swiss German then you’ll need to change that part according to the language prefix. Here’s a list of the languages: https://make.wordpress.org/polyglots/teams/ — see the “WP Locale” column.
2) Put your localization file into this folder (you might have to create it): /wp-content/languages/google-places-reviews/

Done!

Thanks!

Sorry for the delay. We’re trying to replicate that problem. We’ve seen it only occassionally on some user sites, but we’ve never been able to reliably replicate the problem ourselves to find the source.

I’m digging into it more today. I’ll keep you posted. Thanks!

Great to hear!

If you’re enjoying Google Places Reviews and appreciate our support, we’d love a kind review from you here:
https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/google-places-reviews/reviews/

@dasped Enfold enqueues it’s own version of the Maps API. Try implementing this snippet:

add_action( 'admin_enqueue_scripts', 'wordimpress_deenqueue_gmaps_widgets', 100 );
function wordimpress_deenqueue_gmaps_widgets($hook){
    
    if( $hook == 'widgets.php' || $hook == 'edit.php' || $hook == 'post-new.php' ) {
        wp_dequeue_script( 'admin-google-maps-script' );
    }
}

If you need guidance implementing custom PHP functions on your website, we have this guide here: https://givewp.com/documentation/resources/adding-custom-functions-to-your-wordpress-website/

Let me know how that goes. Thanks!