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How to add reviews to your Elementor website

If you’re looking to add testimonials to Elementor, you’ve come to the right place.

If you're not a developer or you've never done this before, knowing where to start can be difficult.

In this guide, we'll show you how you can add testimonials to any Elementor website in 3 easy steps for free.

This step-by-step guide will help you get up and running in the next 10 minutes. Let's get into it.

Why embed testimonials on Elementor?

One word, credibility.

Adding testimonials to Elementor provides instant social proof, enhances your SEO, increases trust and credibility, and leads to higher conversion rates.

It allows potential customers to see real opinions about your products or services directly on your site. It also improves your search engine rankings, getting you more traffic.

What is Senja?

Senja is a free tool that makes it easy to collect, manage, and share your testimonials anywhere on the web.

Senja testimonial and review widgets - all

Senja comes with 100s of ways to share your testimonials for free, including review widgets (ex. review sliders, carousels and walls), testimonials images, rich snippets and Walls of Love. With Senja, you can easily add a feed to any website without a single line of code or custom plugins.

In this guide, we'll use one of their free review widgets to add your testimonials to your Elementor website, no plugins required!

How it works

  1. Create a Senja account and import your testimonials

  2. Create a free and customizable testimonial widget that matches your brand

  3. Add it to your Elementor website by copying and pasting the embed code

Step 1: Import your testimonials

Visit the Senja dashboard and sign up for an account. It's free and only takes 2 minutes.

Now go to the import page. Here you'll be able to import your reviews and customer love from over 17 sources including Google, Youtube, Slack, and Whatsapp.

Import reviews/testimonials in Senja

Once you're done importing, head back to the testimonials page.

Now you should see all the testimonials you imported in your Senja account. That's all for step one! Now let's add your testimonials to your Elementor website 🎉

Step 2. Create a widget for your testimonials

Now that you've imported your testimonials, you can finally add them to your website.

To do this, we'll create a Senja widget. Don't worry, the process will only take a couple minutes.

To get started, click on the Studio button in the Senja sidebar.

Arrow pointing to testimonial studio - Senja testimonial dashboard

Immediately, you'll see all the sharing options available in Senja.

Senja testimonial studio all options - testimonial widgets, walls of love, images

Other than embedding your testimonials on your Elementor website, Senja lets you create beautiful images you can post on social media, as well as stunning Walls of Love that you can use to showcase your best testimonials.

Since we're trying to embed testimonials on our website, let's click on the widgets tab.

Senja testimonial studio - arrow pointing to widgets tab

Now you can select a widget template you want. For this example, I'll use this grid widget.

Senja testimonial studio - arrow pointing to grid reviews embed/masonry

I want to put my testimonials on my home page, so I'll call this widget "Home Page Testimonials" and hit the "Create Widget" button.

Modal that says "create widget" - home page testimonials senja

And you're done! Now you already have this beautiful testimonial widget that you can add to any page of your website.

Senja has dozens of templates and customization options to choose from. You can pick any of them and see how your widget looks.

Senja testimonial widget studio editor with dozens of testimonial/review embed templates

You can also customize the colors (background color, link color, text color etc), shape and style of any widget to match your website's design perfectly 🎨

Senja - widget design editor tab with options for review widget colors, layout, border, typography et cetera

Step 3: Embed the widget on Elementor

Senja integrates with every website builder that supports custom HTML or URL embeds, including Elementor.

We have detailed instructions for the most popular website builders like WordPress, Webflow, Wix and Squarespace.

Check out our help center to learn how to install it on your website builder.To get started, click on the share button at the top-right of the page.Now copy the embed code you see on the screen.

In Senja

Click on the share button at the top-right of the Senja testimonial widget studio.

Senja testimonial widget studio - arrow pointing to the share button

A panel will open up that'll show you how to share your widget.

Copy the code.

Copy senja testimonial widget code - arrow pointing to javascript option

In Elementor

Depending on where WordPress is installed, your theme, and your page builder, the instructions vary. In this guide, we'll cover how to do this with Elementor.

Click on "Pages" in the WordPress dashboard

Wordpress Dashboard - Arrow pointing to Pages

Find the page you want to add your online reviews to and click on the “Edit with Elementor” button.

Wordpress pages dashboard - arrow pointing to edit with elementor

In the elements browser, search for the “HTML Element.”

Elementor elements browser - arrow pointing to html element

Paste the Senja embed code

Senja reviews embed code in page

Click on the Publish Button.

Reviews on page called Testimonials

Drag the HTML Element, then drop it on your page.

Now paste the Senja widget embed code, then hit publish.

Paste senja widget embed code - elementor html code editor

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