TrustFusion — Show Reviews from Google Business Profile

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2.1.2

• New: “Powered by Google” text can be shown or hidden in the Carousel – Inline layout (TrustFusion → Settings → Display Options, or show_powered_by="no" on the shortcode).
• New: company names and reviewer names are now links. The company name opens the business’s Google reviews page; a reviewer’s name opens their Google profile (or the business’s reviews page when Google doesn’t provide one). Reviewer profile links appear after the next review sync.
• Improved: all layouts now use the same orange star colour, and carousel dots and arrow hover use it too; the active review dot stands out.
• Improved: the Carousel – Inline layout stays side by side on tablets and large phones, shows one review at a time on tablet and smaller, and only stacks on small phones. Other layouts were tuned for small screens too.
• Improved: on phones the Carousel – Inline company logo sits beside the name and rating, and the review card uses the full width with the arrows on its edges.
• Changed: the inline layout button now reads “Review us on”.
• Fixed: stray gaps between the reviewer name, date and stars (and in the company panel) when the shortcode sits in a theme template or post; the “Review us on” button text and Google icon now stay on one line.

2.1.1

• New: Display Options — show or hide the business header, rating, company address, “View on Google” button, “Write a Review” button and review date. Set the defaults under TrustFusion → Settings, or override them per shortcode (show_address="no" and so on) with the shortcode builder.
• Fixed: reviewer photo, name, date and star rating are now consistently aligned in every layout, even when the theme restyles headings, links or spacing, and in narrow cards.
• Fixed: carousels showed a blank last page in narrow containers. The number of cards per view now follows the carousel’s own width, and the last page lines up with the final card.
• Fixed: business logos are shown in full, never cropped.
• Fixed: “View on Google” and “Write a Review” buttons keep their proportions on themes with large button or link styles.

2.1.0

• New: Carousel – Inline layout (layout="carousel-inline-option-main") — business logo, star rating, “Based on N reviews” and a “review us on Google” button on the left, with scrollable review cards on the right.
• New: Grid – Scroll Excerpt and List – Scroll Excerpt layouts (grid-scroll-excerpt, list-scroll-excerpt) — full reviews scroll inside the card instead of using “Read more”.
• New: Shortcode builder on the Overview page — pick a layout and the number of reviews, see a short description of the layout, and copy the finished shortcode. The Default Layout setting uses the same list.
• New: Business logo — choose a logo per business from the Media Library (TrustFusion → Overview → Set Logo). Used in the carousel layouts; falls back to the site logo, then the site icon.
• New: Drag and swipe navigation on both carousel layouts (mouse drag and touch swipe), alongside arrows and dots.
• Improved: the Carousel layout now shows full reviews in scrollable cards (no “Read more”), has a smooth slide transition, and uses refreshed, vertically-centred arrow buttons.
• Improved: consistent, thin rounded scrollbars in Chrome/Edge (no more old-style arrow buttons), and respect for the “reduce motion” accessibility setting.
• Improved: updated readme, tags and documentation, plus a video setup guide.

2.0.9

• Fixed: running TrustFusion Free and TrustFusion Pro active on the same site at once caused a fatal PHP error (both plugins declared identically-named internal classes). Free’s internal classes are now uniquely named so this can never collide, regardless of which plugin happens to load first.
• Added: if TrustFusion Pro is detected active, Free now automatically deactivates itself with an explanatory notice — the two aren’t meant to run together, and Pro is a full superset, so there’s nothing Free adds once Pro is active. Connected businesses and reviews are untouched.

2.0.8

• Brought back: the “Sync Reviews Now” button, removed in 2.0.7 — it’s limited to once a month per business (matching the relay’s own once-a-month-per-IP cache) so it still can’t be used to repeatedly hit the shared relay. There’s still no automatic/background sync at all; this is the only on-demand refresh option on the Free plan.

2.0.7

• Removed: the “Sync Reviews Now” manual button and the monthly background WP-Cron sync. The Free plugin now only ever fetches reviews once when you connect a business, plus once more if you reactivate the plugin — ongoing/on-demand syncing is a TrustFusion Pro feature. Sites upgrading from an older version with the background sync already scheduled have it cleared automatically.
• Removed: the “Auto-Sync” toggle from Settings, since there’s no background sync left to toggle.

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.