Reviews Block for Google · Version history
Reviews Block for Google changelog and version history
- Latest version
- 2.0.1
- Jul 1, 2022 (4 years ago)
- Releases
- 16
- since 2014
- In the last year
- 0
- Tested up to
- WordPress 6.1.16
- PHP 7.2 or later
Releases each year
- 20144 releases
- 20152 releases
- 20164 releases
- 20171 release
- 20181 release
- 20192 releases
- 20222 releases
20222 releases
Reviews Block for Google 2.0.1Latest
- 🎨 Added CSS so the business review card has a white background and not transparent. This improves the look on non-white background websites.
- 🛠 Optimized loading Google’s autocomplete script so it doesn’t load unnecessarily when not needed.
- 🛠 Fix “Google” logo image being overlapped on the API key insertion screen.
Reviews Block for Google 2.0.0
- 🎉 Introducing the Reviews Block for Google WordPress plugin. This is a huge plugin revamp! In this new version we’ve added a new reviews block for the WordPress block editor. Don’t worry, if you’re still using the widget it will still work just fine.
- What else? The plugin settings have been cleaned up, further secured, and improved.
- Note: this plugin requires WordPress 5.0 and PHP 7.2 or higher.
20192 releases
Reviews Block for Google 1.5.2
- Maintenance: Reviewed plugin compatibility with WordPress 5.3 for compatibility and updated the plugin tested up to version.
Reviews Block for Google 1.5.1
- Maintenance: Reviewed plugin compatibility with WordPress 5.2 for compatibility and updated the plugin tested up to version.
20181 release
Reviews Block for Google 1.5.0
- We have recently launched a new premium plugin for reviews called WP Business Reviews. You can use this new WordPress review plugin to display your best reviews from platforms like Google, Yelp, and Facebook right on your website.
- New: Implemented webpack and SASS for the styles.
- Tweak: Modified upsells for new WP Business Reviews plugin.
20171 release
Reviews Block for Google 1.4.3
- New: Scripts and styles are now enqueued conditionally so that they are only loaded when the widget or shortcode is used.
- Fix: Reviewers with actual avatars appearing incorrectly as the default placeholder icon.
- Fix: Character Limit setting applied to all widgets on the page instead of individually.
- Tweak: Various JS fixes and code cleanup.
- Tweak: CSS compatibility with TwentySeventeen.
20164 releases
Reviews Block for Google 1.4.2
- Fix: Enqueue Maps JS due to new Google API Key requirement
- Tweak: Display warning message when an Google API error is detected to help prevent confusion
Reviews Block for Google 1.4
- New: Improved widget UI when viewing under Appearances > Widget
- New: Updated Google logo through out plugin
- Tweak: CSS tweaks for better frontend theme compatibility
- Tweak: Gulp now used to compile POT file for translation usage
- Tweak: Text domain changed back to ‘google-places-reviews’ do that the plugin can be included for translation by WordPress.org polyglots
- Fix: z-index conflict with Custom Sidebars plugin by WPMUDev
- Fix: Error returned from google when API url contained malformed characters – now we sanitize the URL before passing it to Google’s API; this will help businesses with unconventional characters in their name connect to Google’s API
- Fix: Prevent conflict with other review bundle plugins’ clear cache feature by prefixing ajax callback
Reviews Block for Google 1.3
- Added compatibility with Siteorigin’s PageBuilder
- Added compatibility with WordPress Customizer
- Added compatibility with WPMUDEV’s Custom Sidebar’s plugin
Reviews Block for Google 1.2.1
- Fix: Broken avatar images displayed for some reviews where the user had not set an avatar
20152 releases
Reviews Block for Google 1.1.3
- Modified text in activation banners so it’s more informative & relevant to the free version
Reviews Block for Google 1.1.2
- Added activation banner
- Updated readme.txt
- Fully I18n (internationalization) ready
20144 releases
Reviews Block for Google 1.1.1
- Fix: “Disable Title Output” under the “Advanced Options” in the widget wasn’t working, it is now; thanks “game writer” for notifying us of this bug.
- Fix: Avatar image overlapping into the content because of lack of max-width CSS property.
Reviews Block for Google 1.1.0
- New: Plugin thumbnail that now appears in WP repo search
- Improvement: If an error occurs the widget will output them and then ensure that the bad result is not cached so if the user fixes the error they won’t have to manually clear the cache.
- Minor improvements the the widget’s frontend appearance
- Fixed bad links to plugin docs
- Tested WP 4.0 functionality to approve bumping version compatibility
Reviews Block for Google 1.0.0
Reviews Block for Google 1.0.1
- Update: Removed schema.org tags from the free version of the plugin.
- Update: Fixed minor CSS issues with star counts collapsing below review avatar for some sidebars with tight widths; several padding reductions to support slimmer widths.
Questions about Reviews Block for Google’s releases
What is the latest version of Reviews Block for Google?
2.0.1, released on Jul 1, 2022 (4 years ago). It’s tested up to WordPress 6.1.16 and needs PHP 7.2 or later.
How often is Reviews Block for Google updated?
It had no release in the last year; the latest came out 4 years ago. Its first release on WordPress.org dates from August 2014.
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