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Customizing the Review Widget

Customize and display reviews on your store’s product pages using the Review Widget

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Collect and showcase customer reviews where they matter most — right on your product pages. The Review Widget lets you display star ratings, review text, and powerful visuals like photos and videos to build trust, inspire buying confidence, and turn customer feedback into social proof that sells.

To customize your Review Widget, go to Widgets > Review Widget > Customize.


1. Hide the review date

To hide your review date:

  1. From your Judge.me admin, go to Widgets > Review Widget > Customize.

  2. In the Theme section, disable Show review date.

  3. Click Save.


2. Add a border to the Review Widget

Available on the Awesome plan.

To add a border around your Review Widget:

  1. From your Judge.me admin, go to Widgets > Review Widget > Customize.

  2. In the Theme section, enable "Add a border around the widget".

  3. Choose between these border styles:

    • Square corners

    • Round corners

  4. Click Save.


3. Customize the widget colors

To customize your widget colors:

  1. From your Judge.me admin, go to Widgets > Review Widget > Customize.

  2. In the Colors section, adjust the color options as needed.

  3. Click Save.

Basic color customizations

Option

What it applies to

Primary color

The color of the stars, buttons, and links across all widgets and emails

Star color

The color of the stars in the Review Widget only

Secondary color

The color of the reply backgrounds (which shows your reply to the customer's review), dividers, and other secondary elements across all widgets and emails

Advanced color customizations

Available on the Awesome plan.

Option

What it applies to

Review filter color

Rating filter buttons

"Write a review" text color

Text color in the "Write a review" button

"Write a review" background color

Background color of the Write a review button

Reviewer name text color

Color of the reviewer’s name

Verified buyer badge text color

Text color of the "Verified" badge

Verified buyer badge background color

Background color of the "Verified" badge

Pagination color

Text color of pagination numbers


4. Show recent photos and videos in a grid

The media grid is a horizontal section displayed within the Review Widget, showcasing customer-uploaded photos and videos.

To enable the media grid in your Review Widget:

  1. From your Judge.me admin, go to Widget > Review Widget > Customize.

  2. In Photos and Videos, enable Show recent photos and videos in a grid.

  3. Click Save.


5. Disable product medals

To disable all medals in the Review Widget (transparency badge, authenticity badge,...):

  1. From your Judge.me admin, go to Widgets > Review Widget > Customize.

  2. Scroll down to Judge.me Medals and disable Show product medals.

  3. Click Save.

Note: It's not possible to disable a specific medal in the Review Widget.


6. Enable the search bar

Available on the Awesome plan

To allow customers to search for reviews in the Review Widget:

  1. From your Judge.me admin, go to Widgets > Review Widget > Customize.

  2. Scroll down to Search and pagination and enable Show review search bar.

  3. Click Save.


7. Allow customers to search by keywords

Available on the Awesome plan

To display a searchable list of top words in the reviews:

  1. From your Judge.me admin, go to Widgets > Review Widget > Customize.

  2. Scroll down to Search and pagination and enable Enable keyword search.

  3. Click Save.

This will show up to 10 review keywords. Keywords will be added to product pages for products with at least 10 verified reviews.

Here's how the keywords will show in the Review Widget:


8. Hide the rating filter

Available on the Awesome plan

To hide the section where customers can filter reviews by ratings:

  1. From your Judge.me admin, go to Widgets > Review Widget > Customize.

  2. Scroll down to Search and pagination and disable Show the widget rating filter.

  3. Click Save.


9. Set the default sorting method

Available on the Awesome plan.

To set your default sorting method:

  1. From your Judge.me admin, go to Widgets > Review Widget > Customize.

  2. Scroll down to Search and pagination.

  3. Under Default sorting method, choose your preferred option from the dropdown, then click Save.

Option

What it does

Most Recent

Shows the newest reviews first

Highest Rating

Displays reviews with the highest star ratings first

Lowest Rating

Displays reviews with the lowest star ratings first

Only Pictures

Shows only reviews that include at least one image

Pictures First

Prioritizes image reviews, followed by text-only reviews

Videos First

Shows reviews with videos before others

Most Helpful

Displays reviews with the most thumbs-up (likes) from customers first

This setting will also apply to the All Reviews Page and Floating Reviews Tab.


10. Change pagination type

Available on the Awesome plan

To adjust the pagination type and change how many reviews to display per page:

  1. From your Judge.me admin, go to Widgets > Review Widget > Customize.

  2. Scroll down to Search and pagination.

  3. Under Configure the pagination of reviews and questions, you can choose either:

    • Use "Load more" button to show more reviews

    • or Use pagination

  4. You can also adjust the "Number of reviews per page" to your preference (default to 5).

  5. Click Save.


11. Choose how reviewer names are displayed

Available on the Awesome plan.

To customize how reviewer names appear:

  1. From your Judge.me admin, go to Widgets > Review Widget > Customize.

  2. Scroll to the Review card details section.

  3. Under Reviewer name format, choose one of the following options, then click Save.

Option

How names will appear

Show full name

Reviewer name will appear as "John Smith"

Shorten last name

Reviewer name will appear as "John S"

First name only

Reviewer name will appear as "J. Smith"

Initials

Reviewer name will appear as "J. S"

Anonymous

Reviewer name will appear as "Anonymous"


12. Remove the reviewer avatar

Available on the Awesome plan

To remove the profile icon in the reviews:

  1. From your Judge.me admin, go to Widgets > Review Widget > Customize.

  2. Scroll to the Review card details section.

  3. Disable "Show avatar icon"

  4. Click Save.


13. Show or hide the location of the reviewers

Available on the Awesome plan

To showcase the country of your reviewers:

  1. From your Judge.me admin, go to Widgets > Review Widget > Customize.

  2. Scroll to the Review card details section.

  3. Enable Show reviewer location and/or Show reviewer country flag.

  4. Click Save.


14. Add a "Read more" link in long reviews

Available on the Awesome plan

To limit the number of lines shown in each review:

  1. From your Judge.me admin, go to Widgets > Review Widget > Customize.

  2. Scroll to the Review card details section.

  3. Under Review length, select Limit the number of lines shown.

  4. Click Save.


15. Allow customers to engage with the reviews

Available on the Awesome plan

Add upvote buttons

To let customers react to the reviews with a thumbs-up or thumbs-down:

  1. From your Judge.me admin, go to Widgets > Review Widget > Customize.

  2. Scroll to the Review card details section.

  3. Under Review engagement, enable Show review upvotes / downvotes buttons.

  4. Click Save.

Add social sharing buttons

To let customers share the reviews to their social media:

  1. From your Judge.me admin, go to Widgets > Review Widget > Customize.

  2. Scroll to the Review card details section.

  3. Under Review engagement, enable Show social media share buttons.

  4. Choose from these social media platforms:

    • Facebook

    • Twitter

    • Pinterest

    • LinkedIn

  5. Click Save.


16. Hide the Review Widget when there's no review

To hide the Review Widget on products without reviews:

  1. From your Judge.me admin, go to Manage Reviews > Moderation > Review restriction > Web reviews.

  2. Choose either Only buyers who have received a review request email and API users or Only buyers who have received a review request email.

  3. Click Save.


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