Opinew’s state-of-the-art Shopify review widgets come with highly-customizable settings, allowing you to blend them with your store’s design style seamlessly.
Our main product review widget comes with 4 different themes layout you can choose from: Default, Modern, Minimal, and Carousel.
Opinew’s review widget settings are divided into three main components:
- General Settings
- Colour Settings
- Font Size Settings
General Settings
First, you will need to choose between our 4 different themes. Read more about each of our new review widgets layouts here.
![Choose Layout settings](https://sp-ao.shortpixel.ai/client/to_auto,q_glossy,ret_img,w_1024,h_387/https://www.opinew.com/help-center/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Frame-5227-1024x387.png)
Language
Then, you will be asked to choose the main language of your reviews. Choose between more than 80+ languages to display in your store.
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Sorting of Reviews
Default sorting controls the order in which reviews are sorted by default on the store. The merchant can choose to sort by:
- Smart Reviews
- By time (newest reviews first)
- By review photos and videos, then by time
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On your Shopify store, the customer will see the following sort by options:
- Photos & Videos
- Verified purchase
- Default (only if Smart Reviews is enabled)
- Recent
- Highest Rated
- Lowest Rated
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No Reviews
Controls whether an empty state widget is shown to customers in the store. The product may have ratings or not.
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Review Source
The label displays if the control is on and if the reviews have been imported from Amazon, eBay, or Aliexpress.
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Verified Label
The label displays if the control is on and if we can match the email address of the review to an email that made a purchase or if the review was verified at the time of import.
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Search
Display a search bar on your review widget and let your customers search for specific reviews.
![Search - review widgets](https://sp-ao.shortpixel.ai/client/to_auto,q_glossy,ret_img,w_1024,h_146/https://www.opinew.com/help-center/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Screenshot-2022-12-14-at-16.20.07-1024x146.png)
Separate Reviews
This will display International reviews on the segmented control navigation menu. Any reviews in a different language will be displayed on your review widget in a different tab called International Reviews.
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Star Bars
The customer will be able to filter the reviews by a given star rating by hovering over the star bar.
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Date Format
The date controls whether a date is shown for each review and in which format.
Options for the date format:
- day/month/year
- month/day/vear
- year/month/day
- Relative (Ebay’s date format) eg. The past month
![Date format](https://sp-ao.shortpixel.ai/client/to_auto,q_glossy,ret_img,w_297,h_49/https://www.opinew.com/help-center/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Screenshot-2022-12-14-at-16.15.12-1024x173.png)
Reviews per page
Controls how many reviews are visible per page on the store.
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Review Columns
Controls whether the reviews display on one or two columns on the store.
![review columns - shopify product review widget](https://sp-ao.shortpixel.ai/client/to_auto,q_glossy,ret_img,w_263,h_51/https://www.opinew.com/help-center/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Screenshot-2022-12-14-at-10.42.38.png)
Review Images
The review images settings control:
- Whether to display review images or not.
- Whether the first image for any given review is displayed larger, the user can also toggle the max height.
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Controls the aspect of your review cards.
- Pick between card style and flat style.
- Activate and choose a border or a shadow colour
- Set your border-radius
- Set your review card colour
Search
Colors Settings
Widget Elements
Controls the colour of the stars rating and the search icon colour.
![Widgets Element](https://sp-ao.shortpixel.ai/client/to_auto,q_glossy,ret_img,w_313,h_56/https://www.opinew.com/help-center/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Screenshot-2022-12-14-at-16.18.11-1024x185.png)
Font Colours
- Body text: Controls the review text, total number of reviews and date colours.
- Large rating
- Tabs text color
- Verified label: Controls the colour of the font and icon
- Review source label: Controls the colour of the font and icon
- Reviewer Name: Controls the colour of the name of the reviewer
- Search placeholder: Controls the colour of the ‘Search’ placeholder text in the search bar
- Navbar text: Controls the colour of the Reviews | Q&A | International
![Font Colours](https://sp-ao.shortpixel.ai/client/to_auto,q_glossy,ret_img,w_454,h_208/https://www.opinew.com/help-center/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Screenshot-2022-12-14-at-10.54.06-1024x472.png)
Button Colours
- Write a review button: Controls the colour of the button
- Write a review button text: Controls the colour of the text inside the button
- Sort by / Filter by button: Controls the colour of the filter and sort by button border and font
![Button Colours](https://sp-ao.shortpixel.ai/client/to_auto,q_glossy,ret_img,w_466,h_163/https://www.opinew.com/help-center/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Screenshot-2022-12-14-at-11.00.28-1024x360.png)
Pagination Colours
Controls the colour of the arrows to go to the previous or next page of reviews and the colour of the review page number.
![Pagination Colours](https://sp-ao.shortpixel.ai/client/to_auto,q_glossy,ret_img,w_467,h_119/https://www.opinew.com/help-center/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Screenshot-2022-12-14-at-11.02.01-1024x262.png)
Font Size
You can set a font size in rem or pixels for the Main review text, this is the body of the review. The other fonts will scale in relation to this.
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If you happen to have any issues when customizing the widgets, feel free to contact our support center via the live chat at the bottom right of this page.