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Customizing the Reviews Carousel

Showcase your top reviews in a dynamic, eye-catching carousel

Updated over 3 weeks ago

Available on the Free plan

Customize the Reviews Carousel with built-in settings

1. Reviews Carousel theme

To select from prebuilt themes to change the overall layout and styling of your Review Carousel:

  1. From your Judge.me admin, go to Settings > Widgets.

  2. Find the Reviews Carousel card and click Customize.

  3. Scroll down to the Theme section.

  4. Under the Widget theme, choose from the following themes and click Save.

Compact without pictures (default)

Available on the Free plan

How it looks

Gallery

Available on the Awesome plan

How it looks

This theme is designed to highlight big, bold images, making it ideal for visual storytelling and product presentation.

Cards

Available on the Free plan

How it looks

Centered

Available on the Free plan

How it looks

Compact with pictures

Available on the Free plan

How it looks

Focused view

Available on the Free plan

How it looks

Vertical sliding

Available on the Free plan

How it looks

2. Slider arrows

Slider arrows position

To choose where to place the slider arrows in your Reviews Carousel:

  1. From your Judge.me admin, go to Settings > Widgets.

  2. Find the Reviews Carousel card and click Customize.

  3. Scroll down to the Theme section.

  4. Under Slider arrows, choose from these 2 options:

    • Show arrows on the sides of the carousel

    • Show arrows below the carousel

  5. Click Save.

Slider arrows color

To change the color of the slider arrows:

  1. From your Judge.me admin, go to Settings > Widgets.

  2. Find the Reviews Carousel card and click Customize.

  3. Scroll down to the Color section.

  4. Under Slider navigation arrows, adjust the color to your preference.

  5. Click Save.

3. Review details

To choose which elements of the reviews you want to show in your Reviews Carousel:

  1. From your Judge.me admin, go to Settings > Widgets.

  2. Find the Reviews Carousel card and click Customize.

  3. Scroll down to the Design section.

  4. Under Review details, enable some or all of the following options and click Save:

Option

What it means

Show review rating

Enable to show the star rating of each review in the carousel

Show review title

Enable to show the title of the featured reviews in the carousel

Show review body

Enable to show the content of the featured reviews in the carousel

Show review date

Enable to show the date the review was submitted in the carousel

To choose which reviewer information you want to show in your Reviews Carousel:

  1. From your Judge.me admin, go to Settings > Widgets.

  2. Find the Reviews Carousel card and click Customize.

  3. Scroll down to the Design section.

  4. Under Reviewer information, enable some or all of the following options and click Save:

Option

What it means

Show reviewer name

Enable to show the name of the reviewer in the carousel

Show product name and URL

Enable to show the name of the product in the carousel and link it to the product page

4. Product and review pictures

To choose the type of pictures you want to show in your Reviews Carousel:

  1. From your Judge.me admin, go to Settings > Widgets.

  2. Find the Reviews Carousel card and click Customize.

  3. Scroll down to the Design section.

  4. Under Pictures, select from these options and click Save.

Option

What it means

Disabled

To not show any pictures

Show product pictures

To show pictures of the products

Show review pictures if available

To show pictures from the reviews. If no review pictures are available, fall back to use pictures of the products.

You can also adjust the physical size of the images to make them less blurry:

  1. From your Judge.me admin, go to Settings > Widgets.

  2. Find the Reviews Carousel card and click Customize.

  3. Scroll down to the Design section > Pictures.

  4. Under Picture physical size, adjust the pixel to your preference.

  5. Click Save.

5. Number of reviews

By default, the Reviews Carousel will show 3 reviews on each slide.

To change how many reviews the carousel will show on each slide on desktop:

  1. From your Judge.me admin, go to Settings > Widgets.

  2. Find the Reviews Carousel card and click Customize.

  3. Scroll down to the Design section.

  4. In the Number of reviews on desktop field, adjust the number to your preference.

  5. Click Save.

6. Carousel's behavior

To change how fast the carousel slides:

  1. From your Judge.me admin, go to Settings > Widgets.

  2. Find the Reviews Carousel card and click Customize.

  3. Scroll down to the Design section.

  4. In the Autoslide interval field, adjust the seconds to your preference.

  5. Hit Save.

7. Longer reviews

By default, the carousel height is set to 250px, but you can increase its height to prevent longer reviews from being cut off.

  1. From your Judge.me admin, go to Settings > Widgets.

  2. Find the Reviews Carousel card and click Customize.

  3. Scroll down to the Design section.

  4. In the Block height field, adjust the pixel to your preference.

  5. Click Save.

8. Carousel width

By default, the Reviews Carousel is set to 80% width of the block it is installed in.

To adjust this width:

  1. From your Judge.me admin, go to Settings > Widgets.

  2. Find the Reviews Carousel card and click Customize.

  3. Scroll down to the Design section.

  4. In the Page width field, adjust the percentage to your preference.

  5. Click Save.

9. Carousel header

To remove the header ("Let customers speak for us") from the Reviews Carousel:

  1. From your Judge.me admin, go to Settings > Widgets.

  2. Find the Reviews Carousel card and click Customize.

  3. Scroll down to the Header section.

  4. Disable "Show the header".

  5. Click Save.

10. Link to a Reviews page

To make the text under the Reviews Carousel header (e.g., “ from {{n}} reviews”) clickable and link to your Reviews page:

  1. From your Judge.me admin, go to Settings > Widgets.

  2. Find the Reviews Carousel card and click Customize.

  3. Scroll down to the Header section .

  4. Enable "Link text to All Reviews Page if available".

  5. Enter the link to your All Reviews page.

  6. Click Save.

11. Reviews Carousel texts

To adjust the texts in your Reviews Carousel:

  1. From your Judge.me admin, go to Settings > Widgets.

  2. Find the Reviews Carousel card and click Customize.

  3. In the Text section, click Customize text.
    ​

  4. Adjust the texts in the following fields to your liking and click Save.

Field

Default texts

Note

Header title

Let customers speak for us

Text

from {{ n }} reviews

The variable {{ n }} shows the total number of reviews in your store

Theme-specific settings

Gallery theme

Border style

To change the border style of the Reviews Carousel on the Gallery theme:

  1. From your Judge.me admin, go to Settings > Widgets.

  2. Find the Reviews Carousel card and click Customize.

  3. Scroll to the Theme section.

  4. Under Border style, select either:

    • "Square corners" or

    • "Round corners"

  5. Click Save.
    ​

Review length

To show longer reviews in the Reviews Carousel on the Gallery theme:

  1. From your Judge.me admin, go to Settings > Widgets.

  2. Find the Reviews Carousel card and click Customize.

  3. Scroll to the Design section.

  4. In the Review length field, adjust the number of lines to your preference (Default: 5 lines).

  5. Click Save.

Read more button

To show a Read more reviews button at the bottom of the carousel on the Gallery theme:

  1. From your Judge.me admin, go to Settings > Widgets.

  2. Find the Reviews Carousel card and click Customize.

  3. In the Text section, click Customize text.
    ​

  4. In the Button card, enable the Show button at the bottom of the carousel.

  5. Under Button text, enter your preferred label (Default: "Read more reviews").

  6. Under Page URL, paste the link to your All Reviews page.

  7. Click Save.

Cards theme

To change the star color of the carousel on Cards theme:

  1. From your Judge.me admin, go to Settings > Widgets.

  2. Find the Reviews Carousel card and click Customize.

  3. Scroll to the Color section.

  4. Choose your preferred color using the color picker or enter a hex code for:

    • Full star color

    • Empty star color

  5. Click Save.

Vertical sliding theme

To change the Header and Review block color of the carousel on Vertical sliding theme:

  1. From your Judge.me admin, go to Settings > Widgets.

  2. Find the Reviews Carousel card and click Customize.

  3. Scroll down to the Color section.

  4. Choose your preferred color using the color picker or enter a hex code for Header background and border, Header text, and Review block.

  5. Click Save.

Customize the Reviews Carousel with JavaScript (Advanced)

To apply even more custom styling to your Reviews Carousel:

  1. From your Shopify admin, go to Online Store > Themes.

  2. Find the theme you want to edit, click the 3-dot icon and select Edit code.

  3. Go to the theme.liquid file.

  4. At the bottom of that file, above the before ending </body> tag, add in the JavaScript code.

  5. Hit Save.

Javascript code

To make the images in the Reviews Carousel clickable and direct to the product page

<script>
   document.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', function() {    
      var jdgmImgs = document.querySelectorAll('.jdgm-carousel-item__product-image');    
      var jdgmLinks = document.querySelectorAll('a.jdgm-carousel-item__product');        
      for (var i = 0; i < jdgmImgs.length; i++) {        
         (function(index) {            
            jdgmImgs[index].addEventListener('click', function() {                
               window.open(jdgmLinks[index].getAttribute('href'), '_blank');            
            });        
         })(i);    
      }
   });
</script>
<style> 
   img.jdgm-carousel-item__product-image:hover {    
      cursor: pointer !important;
   }   
</style>

Troubleshoot

Product images appear broken in the Reviews Carousel

If the product images in your Reviews Carousel show as missing or broken (shown as a small icon and placeholder), this is typically because:

  • The reviews are linked to out-of-store products. Out-of-store products no longer exist in your live store, so their images can’t be retrieved. To prevent reviews from out-of-store products from showing in the Reviews Carousel:

    • From your Judge.me admin, go to Settings > Advanced.

    • In the Out-of-store products section, disable "Include reviews for out-of-store products in all widgets and out-of-store text setting".

    • Click Save.

  • You recently updated your products and replaced or changed their images. When product images are changed, the image URLs may be refreshed or temporarily unavailable, causing the carousel to attempt to load outdated or invalid links. To refresh the image links in the Reviews Carousel:
    ​

    1. From your Judge.me admin, go to Settings > Widgets.

    2. Find the Reviews Carousel card and click Customize.

    3. Scroll down to the main Design section.

    4. Under Pictures:

      1. Select Disabled and click Save.

      2. Then, select Show product pictures and click Save again.

Product pictures still show when I select "Show review pictures if available"

If you've enabled "Show review pictures if available" in the Reviews Carousel but still see product pictures, it usually means the featured reviews don't include any images. When a review has no picture, the carousel will automatically fall back to the product image.

To make sure only review pictures show in the Reviews Carousel:

  1. Keep the "Show review pictures if available" setting enabled to show review pictures if available.

  2. Adjust the Reviews Carousel curation method so that only reviews with pictures are included:

    • Select "Recent reviews with pictures" to automatically feature only image reviews, or

    • Select "Choose reviews manually" and feature only the reviews with pictures yourself.

With this setup, the Reviews Carousel will display only reviews that have images — and only their review pictures.

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