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title: "How to Connect Carousel Remote with Social Review Carousel in Elementor?"
url: https://theplusaddons.com/docs/connect-carousel-remote-with-social-review-carousel-in-elementor/
date: 2023-10-28
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description: "A carousel's arrows and dots normally sit directly under it. The Carousel Remote widget moves that navigation somewhere else — into a column beside the carousel, above a heading, anywhere..."
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# How to Connect Carousel Remote with Social Review Carousel in Elementor?

## 

- Connects the Social Reviews widget from The Plus Addons for Elementor with the Carousel Remote widget for enhanced navigation control.
- Requires installation and activation of The Plus Addons for Elementor to utilize the Social Reviews and Carousel Remote widgets.
- Enables customization of navigation options, including Next/Previous buttons and dot navigation, for the reviews carousel.

A carousel's arrows and dots normally sit directly under it. The **Carousel Remote** widget moves that navigation somewhere else — into a column beside the carousel, above a heading, anywhere on the page.

The two widgets are joined by an id you invent. You type it into the carousel, then type the same id into the remote.

For the full settings tour of the **Social Reviews** widget, see [Social Reviews Widget Settings Overview](https://theplusaddons.com/docs/social-reviews-widget-settings-overview/).

***Requirement - This widget is a part of The Plus Addons for Elementor Pro, make sure it's installed & activated to enjoy all its powers.***

[LIVE WIDGET LINK](https://theplusaddons.com/elementor-widget/reviews-wall/?utm_source=tpae&utm_medium=docs&utm_campaign=text)

## Before You Start

- **Edition:** **Pro** — **Social Reviews** ships only in The Plus Addons for Elementor Pro. The widget does not exist in the free plugin at all: no widget file, no CSS and no JavaScript, so there is nothing to fall back to.- **Prerequisite:** [Elementor](https://wordpress.org/plugins/elementor/) (free) installed and active.- **Widget to enable:** go to **The Plus Addons > Widgets**, search for **Social Reviews** and turn its toggle on.- **Second widget to enable:** in the same screen, search for **Carousel Remote** and turn its toggle on.- **No account needed:** the **Manual** source needs no token, no key and no login. It is the one source you can use straight away.

## Connect the two widgets

- Edit the page with Elementor and add both the **Social Reviews** widget and the **Carousel Remote** widget.- In the **Social Reviews** widget, leave **Type** on **Reviews**, pick a **Style**, and set **Layout** to **Carousel**.- Add your reviews under **Social Reviews**, from whichever sources you want.

![The Carousel layout: four reviews visible at once, six dots below.](https://theplusaddons.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/socialreviews-carousel.webp)

- Still in the **Social Reviews** widget, go to **Style > Carousel** and type something into **Unique Carousel ID**. Any short name will do, as long as it is used once on the page.- Select the **Carousel Remote** widget, open its **Content** tab, and put the same id into **Unique Connection ID**. Set its **Remote Type** to **Carousel**.

![Putting the same id into the Carousel Remote](https://theplusaddons.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/carousel-remote-uc-id-remote.png)

## Choose the navigation

The remote gives you two kinds of control, and you can use either or both.

- For arrows: open the remote's **Prev/Next** tab and turn the **Next/Prev Button** toggle on.- For dots: open its **Dots** tab and turn the **Dots** toggle on. Give it the same number of dot items as you have slides.

![The Carousel Remote](https://theplusaddons.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/remote-next-prev.png)

![The Carousel Remote](https://theplusaddons.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/remote-dots.png)

> *Turn the carousel's own navigation off once the remote is doing the job, or visitors get two sets of controls. In **Social Reviews** that means **Style > Carousel > Show Dots**, and **Show Arrows** if you switched it on.*

## The settings involved

| Setting | Widget | What it does | Default |
| ------- | ------ | ------------ | ------- |
| **Layout** | Social Reviews | Must be **Carousel**, or there is nothing to remote-control. | **Grid** |
| **Unique Carousel ID** | Social Reviews | The name you invent. Found under **Style > Carousel**. | empty |
| **Unique Connection ID** | Carousel Remote | The same name, typed again. | empty |
| **Remote Type** | Carousel Remote | Must be set to **Carousel**. | — |
| **Show Dots** | Social Reviews | The carousel's own dots. Turn off when the remote provides them. | on |
| **Show Arrows** | Social Reviews | The carousel's own arrows. | **off** |

## How It Behaves

- **The id is the whole connection.** There is no picker and no list — the remote finds the carousel by matching the string, so the two have to be identical.- **The carousel autoplays on its own regardless.** **Autoplay** is on by default, so the reviews will move whether or not anyone touches the remote.- **The remote can sit anywhere on the page**, in any container, as long as both widgets are on the same page.

## Limitations

- **One id, one carousel.** Use the same **Unique Carousel ID** twice on a page and the remote has no way to tell the two apart.- **Three sections disappear in the Carousel layout.** **Columns Manage**, **Filter Option** and **Load More/Lazy Load** are all skipped when **Layout** is **Carousel**. The carousel has its own column settings under **Style > Carousel**.- **Carousel arrows are off by default.** A carousel straight out of the box shows **dots** only. Turn **Show Arrows** on under **Style > Carousel** if you want them.- **In the Carousel layout the source logo is rendered very large.** With **Style-1** and the default carousel settings, the Google and Facebook logos fill most of the card, and a **Manual** row with no **Platform Logo** set draws a big grey placeholder. In the Grid layout the same logos are small.- **Both widgets have to be switched on.** **Carousel Remote** has its own toggle in **The Plus Addons > Widgets**, separate from **Social Reviews**.

## Not verified

So you know exactly what has and has not been checked:

- **The Carousel Remote actually driving the review carousel.** The **Unique Carousel ID** field exists and the carousel initialises, but a page pairing the two widgets was not published and no remote click was measured.- **Clicking a carousel dot.** The carousel was seen to have advanced on its own (autoplay is on by default), but a dot click did not move it in the one measurement taken, and arrows are off by default so there was none to click.- **A wall of real Facebook or Google reviews.** This page was checked without ever entering a real access token, API key or place id, so what the finished Facebook or Google feed looks like once connected was not observed for this revision. Everything below that does not need a credential was checked on a published page.- **The Carousel Remote widget's own settings.** Its **Prev/Next** and **Dots** tabs were not opened for this revision; the steps and screenshots for them are the ones this page already carried.

## Troubleshooting

### The remote does nothing

Check the id on both sides, character for character — a trailing space is enough to break it. Then check that **Remote Type** on the remote is **Carousel**, and that the **Social Reviews** widget's **Layout** really is **Carousel**.

### I cannot find Unique Carousel ID

It is on the **Style** tab, under **Carousel** — and that section only exists when **Layout** is **Carousel**.

### There are two sets of dots

The carousel's own dots are still on. Turn **Show Dots** off under **Style > Carousel** in the **Social Reviews** widget.

### The Carousel Remote widget is not in the panel

Switch it on in **The Plus Addons > Widgets**. It is a separate widget with its own toggle.

## Related Docs

- [Social Reviews Widget Settings Overview](https://theplusaddons.com/docs/social-reviews-widget-settings-overview/)- [How to Show Social Reviews in Carousel Slider in Elementor?](https://theplusaddons.com/docs/show-social-reviews-in-carousel-slider-in-elementor/)- [How to Show Social Reviews in Grid Layout in Elementor?](https://theplusaddons.com/docs/show-social-reviews-in-grid-layout-in-elementor/)