Google Reviews Plugin

Hi, sorry to bump this old post but I feel its highly relevant. Google reviews play an important role in local business ranking & it is worth noting Google like it when you embed their reviews within a website itself, a good SEO tool.

In the 2.4 yrs since this post I’m struggling to understand why the issue has not been addressed in a theme update. This is not a plugin issue in my eyes, its a theme issue. Theme blocks all third party Google map interaction other than the in-house facility provided within the theme. If you could please provide a switch in the next update to switch it off or a code fix, I feel it would be highly beneficial to many users.

After researching online, I came across the following code that I have implemented with small success:

add_filter( 'avf_load_google_map_api', '__return_false' );
add_theme_support('avia_template_builder_custom_css');

I placed the code into child theme functions.php but this only addressed part of the issue, whilst I managed to get a Google reviews plugin widget working, I can not duplicate the same results in a secondary widget area for some reason.

Please advise as to what can be done in relation to the problem as I’ve not come across a single alternate theme that has such issues with this plugin.

kind regards,