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How to Use the Featured Review Widget

Plans: Essentials, Pro, Enterprise Platforms: Shopify


Overview


Showing the best reviews on your store is the best way to highlight the positive experience that shoppers have got so far with your brand. It instills confidence in prospects while buying.


With AfterShip Reviews, you can add a featured review widget to your Shopify store with the utmost ease.


What you’ll learn


In this article, we will show you:




  1. Go to the ** Display widgets ** in your your AfterShip Reviews admin.
  2. Navigate to **Featured review. **
  3. Shift the toggle to the right to turn to activate the featured review widget. To customize the review widget, follow the steps given in the next section.
  4. Go to the All reviews ** and select the reviews you want to **Mark as featured.



  1. Navigate to Featured review page and click Customize.



  1. You will see two sections: Settings and Style


Settings

Under settings you get 4 sub-settings to optimize your featured reviews widget



  1. Featured reviews: To add more reviews to the featured list or remove some from the list, click Manage featured reviews.
  • You will be directed to the ** All reviews ** dashboard.


  1. Widget title: Give the featured review widget a title which will be displayed to the customers on your website. The maximum character limit is 30.
  2. Display rules: Specify what information you want to show on the featured reviews widget. All you need to do is to click on the given checkboxes.
  • To edit the Reviewer name, you will be taken to the Review widget editor where under Content settings, you can modify the Review content.


  1. Pages: Choose pages where you want to place the featured review widget. It will appear at the bottom of the page by default.


Styles



  1. Display: Specify which font you want to use for the title of the featured review widget, its body content, and the button
  • To keep the font as the rest of the Shopify theme, select the checkbox for Follow theme font.


  1. Colors: Choose colors with respect to Widgets, Verified Badge, and Button
  2. Hit Save button to apply the changes in real-time



After enabling this widget on AfterShip Reviews admin, we will add this widget to the bottom of the selected pages automatically


  1. If the widget is not auto-inserted, you can insert it by yourself using the Shopify theme editor
  2. You could also adjust the position and width using the Shopify theme editor
  • Section name: AS Featured Review Widget


  1. If your theme doesn’t allow you to adjust the sections or you want to insert it to other pages, please use the following code block in your theme files:


<div id="aftership_reviews_featured-review--production"></div>


Check this help article if you have created a new draft theme and can't find the AS featured review widget option.


FAQs



Upon enabling the featured review widget, we add it to the bottom of the selected pages automatically. However, if you want to adjust its position, here’s what you need to do:


Scenario 1: Your Shopify theme lets you adjust sections


Simply, go to your theme editor page to drag and drop the section named AS Featured Review Widget to adjust the position of the featured review widget. You can even set the desired width by tapping on the section to see the option



Scenario 2: Your Shopify theme doesn’t let you adjust sections


  • Go to the Themes ** section of your Shopify store > click on **Actions and choose Edit code from the dropdown menu


  1. For collection page:


  • Now, look for this code <div id="aftership_reviews_featured-review--production"></div> in these theme files: Sections/collection-template.liquid and Templates/collection.liquid
  • After finding the code block, make sure you move it to the preferred location


  1. For home page:


  • You need to search the code block in this theme file: Templates/index.liquid
  • Once you find the code block, move it to your preferred location

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Updated on: 10/07/2025