TrustFusion — Show Reviews from Google Business Profile

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TrustFusion connects to your Google Business Profile and displays your Google reviews per business on your site via a simple shortcode. Reviews are fetched and stored server-side (not loaded live from Google on every page view), which keeps pages fast and lets reviews contribute to your site’s SEO through JSON-LD schema markup.

Key Features

  • Connect a Google Business Profile via the TrustFusion relay — no Google API key required.
  • Grid, list, and carousel display layouts.
  • Multi-location support: connect and display reviews from more than one business, individually or merged into a single feed.
  • Hide/show individual reviews from the admin without deleting them.
  • JSON-LD AggregateRating schema markup, using the business’s real Google rating and review count.
  • Automatic sync via WP-Cron (about once a month); the manual “Sync Now” button matches that cadence via the relay, or works anytime once you add your own Google API key.
  • Shortcode: [trustfusion_reviews] (supports id, place_id, ids, layout, and limit attributes).

TrustFusion Pro is a separate plugin, sold directly at reviews.webcitylab.com (not listed on or distributed through WordPress.org), with official Google OAuth connect and a higher review-sync ceiling for licensed sites.

External services

This plugin connects to external services to fetch and display your Google reviews. Details below.

  1. Google Business Profile API / Google Places API
    Used to search for your business and fetch its reviews, rating, and business details for display on your site. This happens when: you search for a business on the “Add New” admin page, you connect a business (via the TrustFusion relay, or your own Google Maps/Places API key if you’ve added one), and during the monthly automatic sync (and manual “Sync Now”). Data sent to Google includes your search query and/or the connected business’s Google Place ID.
    This service is provided by Google LLC — Google APIs Terms of ServiceGoogle Privacy Policy.

  2. TrustFusion Relay (reviews.webcitylab.com)
    When you connect a business without entering your own Google API key (the default, key-free path), this plugin sends your site URL and the connected business’s Google Place ID to reviews.webcitylab.com — a service operated by Web City Lab (this plugin’s developer) — which fetches the review data on your behalf. This plugin doesn’t impose any review-count limit of its own; the relay itself currently returns up to 10 reviews per business for requests without a paid TrustFusion Pro license, to keep the shared, free service sustainable.
    This service is provided by Web City Lab — Terms of ServicePrivacy PolicyData Deletion Policy.

Орнотуу

  1. Upload the plugin folder to /wp-content/plugins/.
  2. Activate the plugin via the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress.
  3. Go to TrustFusion Add New in the WordPress admin menu and connect your Google Business Profile.
  4. Use the [trustfusion_reviews] shortcode (generated automatically for you on the TrustFusion overview page) to display reviews.

FAQ.KG

How often does the plugin sync reviews?

Automatic sync runs about once a month via WP-Cron, to keep unattended Google API usage sustainable. The manual “Sync Reviews Now” button follows the same once-a-month cadence when syncing via the built-in TrustFusion relay. If you add your own Google Maps/Places API key in Settings, manual sync works immediately, anytime — since it then runs on your own Google quota instead of the shared relay.

Do I need a Google API key?

No — the built-in TrustFusion relay can fetch reviews without one. You can optionally add your own Google Maps/Places API key in Settings for direct access.

Can I display reviews from multiple locations?

Yes. Connect as many businesses as you like (unlimited) and either show them individually or merge several into one combined feed using the ids shortcode attribute.

Can I hide a specific review?

Yes, from the Manage Reviews admin page. Hidden reviews are excluded from both the on-page display and the JSON-LD schema rating.

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Contributors & Developers

“TrustFusion — Show Reviews from Google Business Profile” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.

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2.0.6

  • Removed the remaining promotional links to TrustFusion Pro from the admin UI (Plugins list row action and dashboard banner).
  • Reworded the “Connect & Fetch Reviews” helper text for accuracy.
  • Plugin activation now re-syncs connected businesses immediately, instead of waiting on the throttled background/manual sync.

2.0.5

  • Removed the plugin’s own hardcoded 10-review cap on fetching, storing, and displaying reviews (TrustFusion_Shortcode::REVIEW_CAP). This plugin no longer imposes any review-count limit of its own; it fetches and shows whatever the TrustFusion Relay returns, and the relay independently caps unlicensed/free requests to keep the shared service sustainable (see the “External services” section below). Site owners can still set an explicit limit on the [trustfusion_reviews] shortcode.
  • Reworded the description and readme to reflect the above — the review-count limit was never something this plugin’s own code needs to enforce.
  • Removed the “Connect Official Google Business Profile (TrustFusion Pro)” upsell link from the Add New page for this submission — to be reintroduced later.

2.0.4

  • Author changed from “Web City Lab” to a personal name (matches the WordPress.org account/Contributors); Author URI now points to a personal GitHub profile. The previous Author URI/Donate link (webcitylab.com) was unreachable during a plugin review check.
  • Donate link changed to a personal Wise payment link, for the same reason.
  • Manual “Sync Reviews Now” via the TrustFusion relay is now limited to once a month per business, matching the automatic sync cadence (was once a day), to keep shared relay usage sustainable. Add your own free Google Maps/Places API key in Settings to sync manually anytime instead — that path was always immediate and still is.
  • Fixed a stale reference to “OAuth tokens” in the plugin-delete confirmation dialog; this plugin hasn’t stored any since Google OAuth moved to TrustFusion Pro in v2.0.0.
  • Corrected a docblock on an internal repository method that inaccurately described a 10-review cap it doesn’t itself enforce (the cap is applied by the caller).

2.0.3

  • Removed the “Powered by Google” attribution feature entirely (was an opt-in Settings toggle; not needed).
  • Removed the optional async-CSS preload toggle — it rewrote an already-enqueued stylesheet’s tag via style_loader_tag, which repeatedly triggered plugin-review false positives for unenqueued CSS. Not worth the friction for an optional perf toggle.

2.0.2

  • Fixed Plugin Check warnings on the wait query parameter (uses absint( wp_unslash( ... ) ) now, the recognized WP sanitization pattern).

2.0.1

  • Manual “Sync Reviews Now” is now limited to once a day per business, to keep shared relay API usage sustainable across every Free install. Automatic background sync (about once a month) is unaffected. TrustFusion Pro has no such limit.
  • Tested up to WordPress 7.1.

2.0.0

  • This plugin is now Free-only and fully self-contained — no license key, no locked/limited built-in features. TrustFusion Pro is a separate plugin distributed outside WordPress.org.
  • Official Google OAuth connect moved to TrustFusion Pro; this plugin uses the key-free TrustFusion relay only.
  • Fixed: JSON-LD review text could contain a literal </script> sequence, breaking out of the schema markup.
  • “Powered by Google” credit is now an opt-in Settings toggle instead of always-on.
  • “Based on X reviews” and the JSON-LD rating now reflect the business’s real Google review count, not just the reviews stored locally.
  • Renamed all AJAX actions/nonces to a trustfusion_ prefix; removed an unused, unreachable secondary OAuth code path.
  • Plugin renamed to “TrustFusion — Show Reviews from Google Business Profile”.

1.2.5

  • Fixed: an invalid or expired license key saved in Settings couldn’t be cleared from the admin UI — the “Deactivate” button only appeared for a currently-valid license, so a stale/rejected key would keep reappearing in the field after every save. A “Clear” button is now shown next to “Activate” whenever a key is saved, regardless of its current validity.

1.2.4

  • Free plan’s automatic background sync now runs about once a month instead of weekly, to keep unattended Google API usage sustainable on a plan with no associated revenue. Paid plans are unaffected (still weekly). The manual “Sync Reviews Now” button works immediately on any plan regardless of this schedule.

1.2.3

  • Removed a leftover developer debug tool from the My Businesses admin page (reachable via an undocumented query string) that dumped internal diagnostics and wrote to the reviews table on a plain, un-nonced GET request.

1.2.2

  • Removed a Google Maps internal-endpoint fallback used for fetching extra reviews via a user-supplied API key; the plugin now only calls Google’s official, public Places API endpoints.
  • Fixed uninstall.php referencing incorrect database table names (data removal on uninstall now actually removes all plugin tables).
  • Added “External services” disclosure section to this readme.

1.2.1

  • Code-quality pass: prepared-statement corrections, input sanitization/escaping fixes, gated debug logging behind WP_DEBUG, corrected readme metadata.

1.2.0

  • Multi-location connect and merged shortcode display.
  • Hide/show individual reviews from the admin.

1.0.0

  • Initial release.