Review Widgets – Vertical, Horizontal and Submit Review

What is a Review Widget?

You can embed a review widget on your website to display your latest reviews, ratings and/or review score. Residents/service and their friends/family can also access the ‘Submit Review’ section directly from the widget. 

You must have a subscription level of Enhanced or higher to unlock Review Widgets.

Why use a review widget

Using a widget is an excellent way to get your carehome.co.uk reviews in front of more people. A widget also helps you generate reviews from your website users as well as establishing trust with new and existing clients.

For example, a care seeker who goes directly to your website might miss all the great reviews you have received from residents/service users and their friends/family.

With a Review Widget on your site, the care seeker is more likely to find their way to your carehome.co.uk profile and read more reviews.

Review Widget options

Vertical Review Widget

 A Vertical Review Widget is highly customisable. You can change the size, background colour, number of reviews to display and much more.

It allows you to display:

• Review Snippet
• Full Review
• Full Review and Reply
• No Reviews

You can also decide to show:

• Review Score
• Average Rating Stars for each Review
• A ‘Write a Review’ Link
• A ‘Write a Review’ Button

 As you select and deselect the customisation options, the preview widget will be updated in real time which means you will be able to see your changes instantly.

 Horizontal Review Widget

 A Horizontal Review Widget is similar to the vertical, but lets the website user scroll through a set number of reviews.

 To customise the widget, simply use our tool and tick the boxes to preview the changes in real-time.

 You can choose the maximum number of recent reviews to display, ranging from 5 to 50.

You can also choose to show:

• A ‘Write a Review’ Link
• carehome.co.uk logo and review score
• Review score only
• Logo only
• Average Rating Stars for each Review
• Shaded background behind each review
• Add a ‘nofollow’ tag to links

 Submit Review Widget

The Submit Review Widget is the smallest of the three and can only be used to generate reviews, as opposed to the vertical and horizontal widgets which can generate and display reviews. 

You can customise it by changing the widget size, background colour, show the carehome.co.uk logo, show strapline below the logo and include a border.

How do you activate a Review Widget?

 When you are happy with your widget design, simply agree to our Terms & Conditions by ticking the box below the widget.

A code will appear which you can copy and embed on your website to activate the widget.

If you are unsure how to embed this widget on your website, please either send a link to this page to your web developers or create your custom widget below and email your web developer the code.

If you wish to manually or programmatically alter a widget URL please refer to the table at the bottom of the page for the widget parameters.

If you are altering the code manually (i.e. not using the above customisation tool above to generate each instance) adding multiple widgets to the same page, please make sure a unique ID is given (following 'tgrw-') for each containing script/div eg. script/div for widget 1 ID = 'tgrw-12345' & script/div for widget 2 ID = 'tgrw-54321'.

Which of the Review Widgets should I use?

We would recommend using either the Vertical Review Widget or the Horizontal Review Widget depending on which one is best suited to the design of your website. Both of the widgets can be used on separate pages on your website. 

For example, a Group may use the Horizontal Widget on their Home page to display reviews from all their Settings, and then use a separate Vertical Widget on each of the individual Setting pages to display the reviews just for the relevant Setting.

However, in some cases you may wish to use the Submit Review Widget to just generate reviews. It can be installed on the same page or separate pages to the other widgets.