I'd like to start off by saying that i'm using this plugin on 2 websites and it's working on both..
With that said, this plugin needs some work and the fact that it hasn't been updated 8 months is not good sign..
So i got the name and address that showed up google maps and put that in Places ID finder then finally that found the right places ID..
But i could have just put in the name of the straight into the google places ID finder and it also works..
Until you get the right places ID nothing works, it's like all that API key BS i had to do didn't do anything..
Google also needs to work on this, they could have provided ID in Google Business backend somewhere..
Dropped another star because none of the avatars show up, also the number of reviews it says the business has is not retrieved, if you remove the shortcode it says you have 0 reviews, so you have to change the shortcode to match, or you can just as lie and say your business has million reviews..
And another because the widget is broken, doesn't search for anything you type and you can't add Places ID, for some stupid reason..
Thankfully you can just use the same shortcode in text widget...
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