How to Add Facebook Reviews on Your Website (Easy Steps)
Do you want to display Facebook reviews on your website?
Social media has become the backbone of digital marketing strategies and a solid platform to excel. Your business gets great exposure when you partner with a popular social network. And when we talk about the most used social media, Facebook is what comes to mind as a supreme social platform.
According to Sproutsocial, 78% of American consumers have discovered retail products to buy via Facebook. So without further ado, let’s see how to embed Facebook reviews to your WordPress website with WP Social Ninja.
Facebook reviews integration
To add the Facebook reviews on your website, you need to obtain Facebook Access Token and ID.
To authorize Facebook Pages Configuration, click on Continue with Facebook, and a box will pop up on your screen. While connecting with your Facebook Account, click on Continue as {Page Name} to complete the steps.
However, log in to your Facebook Account if you are not logged in.
After completion of Account Verification, you need to select your Page/Pages. However, it is possible to select all the Pages by clicking Select All. Now click on the Next button to go further.
Keep all permissions as they are (these are required for WP Social Ninja to work) and click on Done.
You have linked with WP Social Ninja! Click OK to complete the Authorization.
Select your Page, and you will see your Access Token and ID on the Facebook Configuration page. Don’t forget to click on the Save button to preserve all your settings!
Facebook reviews features and functionalities
WP Social Ninja is a futuristic social media plugin with some robust features. Let’s jump right in to check out the settings panel.
Source
To select your platform, click on the Source button from the dashboard, a drop-down menu will appear.
Here, you can select a platform or multiple platforms. For demonstration, we’ll select Facebook.
After you select the platform, all the Facebook reviews will come automatically on your website.
Template
Next, click on the Template button, a drop-down menu will appear. WP Social Ninja has three options at the moment.
Layout Type
Three Types of Layout are available right now: Grid, Slider & Masonry. These layout types can give your website a perfect look.
We’ve selected Grid Layout Type here; you can select any for displaying Facebook reviews.
Template Types
Next, you can adjust the Template Types. At the moment, we’ve nine Template Types.
Vega, Spica, Sirius, Rigel, Procyon, Pollux, Mimosa, Hadar, and Deneb. We’ve selected Sirius; you can select any.
Number of Columns
The next feature is the Number of Columns. Here, once you click, a drop-down menu will appear.
We’ve 1 Column to 4 Columns right now. For demonstration purposes, 3 Columns are selected to display the Facebook reviews. You can choose any that looks good on your brand.
Filters
When your plugin has an in-depth Filters option, it’s easy for you to arrange your website according to your brand. Let’s see how to do that.
Number of Reviews
To get started, click on the arrow sign, and you can adjust your Number of Reviews.
You can select different numbers of reviews for different platforms.
Filters by Minimum Rating
You don’t need to show every single rating on your website. So filter your ratings and show off the best ones.
You’ll have six options to choose from No Minimum Rating to Five Star to display your online reviews. Here, we have selected No Minimum Rating; you can pick any.
Order
In the next part, you can arrange your reviews in a particular Order.
You can select the Ascending or Descending option to display your reviews on your website.
Filter by Reviews Title
If you want to filter your reviews on your website, WP Social Ninja has that option too! In the Filter by Reviews Title, we have three options at the moment. You can choose to select All Facebook reviews or may Include/Exclude any.
If you click on the Include button, a drop-down menu will appear.
WP Social Ninja allows you to pick specific reviews by the reviewer names to display their reviews on your website.
Exclude
There will be reviews you won’t want to display on your website. Click on the Exclude button; you can eliminate the specific Facebook reviews by their names.
Once you’re finished, click on the Save button to preserve the changes.
Facebook reviews Settings
Your Facebook reviews customization is not over yet! Yes, in the next part you can decorate your WordPress website the way you want. Let’s begin with the Display Rating.
Display Rating
Want to change your Display Ratings? Click on the button from your dashboard, and you can control the ratings on your website.
Just turn the button on to display the reviews on your website. If you don’t want to display the Facebook reviews, turn off the button to hide the reviews.
Rating Style
Next is Rating Style. Here, you can change your Rating Style from the given three options.
Default, Number Style Rating, and Icon with Number Style Rating are available right now.
To change the look of your website, pick any from the drop-down menu.
Display Reviewer Name
Privacy is extremely important for any website. And WP Social Ninja has offered a 100% customized settings panel. Like Rating Style, you can take control of your Display Reviewer Name as well.
Here, we have turned on the button. You can turn off the button if you don’t want to display the Reviewer Name on your website.
Display Reviewer Image
As we’ve said, WP Social Ninja has all the necessary things that can secure users’ privacy.
In the Display Reviewer Image section, you can stop the images being displayed on the website.
Turn on the reviewer image button; the images will be displayed on your site. However, turning off the button will hide the image.
Display Platform Icon
The next feature is Display Platform Icon. Turn off the filter icon if you want to adjust the platform icon.
In order to do that, click the button to enable or disable.
Equal Height
The next filter is Equal Height. Adjust your text height by turning on/off the button.
If you turn it on, all the Facebook reviews will be in Equal Height, as you can see in the screenshot.
Moreover, you can adjust the height according to the text. To do that, click on the Plus/Minus button.
Display Review Text
After you adjust your Equal Height, you can change your Reviewer Text and Content-Length from your dashboard.
Here, if you disable the Display Reviewer Text button, then you won’t be able to display the Content-Length.
However, if you want to align in the same horizontal line for your reviews section, then enable the Content-Length button.
Display Date
We’re not done yet! WP Social Ninja allows you to take full control of your reviews section. Yes, you can control your Display Date too.
Moreover, we have four different options to rearrange your Date Format on your website.
However, in case you don’t like to keep the date displayed on the website, turn the button off.
Header Settings
When you display your social media reviews correctly, it creates word of mouth marketing and convinces your website visitors to take your brand seriously. In the next part, we’ll discuss Facebook reviews Header Settings.
In this part, four Layout options are available in WP Social Ninja dashboard; Display Title, Display Rating, Display Number of Reviews, and Display Write a Review Button.
Display Title
If you click on the Display Title, the Business name will be displayed on the Front End.
Display Rating
Next is Display Rating. You can tick mark the box to display the rating. However, untick the box if you don’t want to show off your Display Rating.
Moreover, if you select multiple platforms, Amazon and Yelp, then the average display rating will appear on your site.
Display Number of Reviews
If you turn on the Display Number of Reviews button, the total number of reviews will be displayed on your website.
Display Write a Review Button
In this section, a Call To Action button will appear on your website. Your users can give their reviews from the CTA button. Moreover, for multiple platforms, this CTA will take to the individual sites.
Pagination Settings
Pagination Settings can fix your lengthy lists on your website. Let’s change the Pagination settings.
Pagination Type has two options currently. You can pick any from None or Load More. If you select the Load More option, it’ll ask you to adjust your Reviews Per Page number.
Here, in this Review Per Page, you can adjust the review number for every page on your website from the scroll bar.
And that’s it, now click on the Save button to preserve your settings.
Final thoughts
Facebook statistics will blow your mind with 2.80 billion monthly active users. Moreover, 200 million small businesses are using Facebook for its upward trend and massive opportunities.
We hope you enjoyed this post. If you want to know what else you can do embedding social reviews on your website? If you do, you might want to check out the following articles:
- How to Embed Google Reviews on Your WordPress Website (Part 1)
- How to Do Google Reviews Settings on Your WordPress Website (Part 2)
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