Google Places Reviews Pro WordPress Plugin
  • Introduction
  • Getting Started
    • How to Install
    • How to deactivate and delete
  • How It Works
    • How to Create Google API Key
    • How to Find Your Place ID
    • Locations: How to Import Reviews
  • Shortcode
    • Shortcode Options
    • Badge Options
  • Settings
    • General
    • Google Rich Snippet
  • Other Links
    • Changelog
    • Support
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  • Step 1: Create a Google project and an API key
  • Step 2: Set up the Billing account
  • Step 3: Restrict your API key
  • Step 4: Copy API key, and paste to the plugin Settings
  1. How It Works

How to Create Google API Key

Create Google API Key in Google Cloud APIs and Services

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Last updated 5 months ago

Step 1: Create a Google project and an API key

Go to https://console.cloud.google.com/, and choose New Project.

Then you name it

Then on dashboard, you choose Explore and enable APIs

Click on Enable API and Services

Search for for “Places API”

Enable it

Step 2: Set up the Billing account

At this point, you can be prompted to set up Billing account.

If not prompted, then you can get started with this by clicking on the Billing via the hamburger icon.

Go here https://cloud.google.com/billing/docs/how-to/budgets to set budget $0 so you’ll not be charged.

In case you want more than regular requests (of budget $200 free) and willing to pay, you can set any budget you want.

If you want to limit requests, you can refer to this setting

After that you need to create your API Credentials and just choose the API key

Step 3: Restrict your API key

Go to your API key

Set restrictions like this:

Step 4: Copy API key, and paste to the plugin Settings