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title: "How to Show Social Reviews in Carousel Slider in Elementor?"
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date: 2023-10-28
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# How to Show Social Reviews in Carousel Slider in Elementor?

## 

- Utilizes the Social Reviews widget from The Plus Addons for Elementor to display reviews in a carousel slider.
- Selects 'Reviews' from the Type dropdown and 'Carousel' from the Layout dropdown to configure the widget.
- Manages carousel settings through the Style > Carousel Options tab after adding reviews from the Social Reviews section.

A carousel shows a handful of reviews at a time and slides through the rest, so a long list of reviews takes up a fixed amount of page.

The **Social Reviews** widget builds one from the same reviews you would put in a grid — you only change **Layout**.

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.- **No account needed:** the **Manual** source needs no token, no key and no login. It is the one source you can use straight away.

## Build the carousel

- Edit the page with Elementor and drag the **Social Reviews** widget onto it.- In **Content > Content**, leave **Type** on **Reviews** and choose a **Style**.- Set **Layout** to **Carousel**.- Add your reviews under **Social Reviews**, from whichever sources you want.- Open **Style > Carousel** to control how it slides.

![The Content section: Type, Style and the Layout dropdown.](https://theplusaddons.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/socialreviews-content-panel.webp)

## Style > Carousel

| Setting | What it does | Default |
| ------- | ------------ | ------- |
| **Slider Mode** | Horizontal or vertical movement. | horizontal |
| **Slide Direction** | Left to right, or right to left. | ltr |
| **Slide Speed** | How fast one transition takes. | — |
| **Draggable** | Lets visitors drag the slides. | on |
| **Infinite Mode** | Loops back to the start instead of stopping. | on |
| **Autoplay** | Moves the carousel on its own. | on |
| **Autoplay Speed** | How long each slide is held. | — |
| **Show Dots** | The dot navigation under the carousel. | on |
| **Dots Style** | Preset look for the dots. | style-1 |
| **On Hover Dots** | Only show the dots on hover. | off |
| **Show Arrows** | The previous and next arrows. | **off** |
| **Unique Carousel ID** | An id you invent, so the Carousel Remote widget can drive this carousel. | empty |

> *The section is called **Carousel** and it lives on the **Style** tab, not the Content tab. It only appears once **Layout** is **Carousel**.*

## How It Behaves

- **Several reviews are visible at once, not one.** Six reviews rendered four cards side by side with six dots underneath.- **It moves by itself.** **Autoplay** is on out of the box — in the screenshot below the carousel has already advanced past the first review, and the second dot is the active one.- **Infinite Mode is on**, so the widget also renders duplicate slides at each end to make the loop seamless. That is normal and not a duplicate review.- **Arrows are off until you turn them on.** A carousel straight out of the box gives you dots only.

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

![The reviews carousel sliding on the published page.](https://theplusaddons.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/social-reviews-carousel-demo.gif)

## Limitations

- **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.- **Review text is truncated out of the box.** **Text Limit** is on by default with **Limit Count** at **100** characters, so longer reviews end in **...Show More** before you change anything. Turn **Text Limit** off under **Content > Extra Options** to show reviews in full.- **Two carousel controls are both labelled Arrows Style.** One chooses the arrow design and the other their position. Check which one you have open.

## Not verified

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

- **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 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.- **The Style tab.** Only the three content **Style** presets were rendered; no colour, typography or per-source styling control was exercised.- **Slider Mode, Slide Direction, Slide Speed, Draggable and Autoplay Speed.** Defaults were left alone; none of these was changed and re-measured.

## Troubleshooting

### There are no arrows

**Show Arrows** is off by default. Turn it on under **Style > Carousel**.

### The Filter Option and Columns Manage sections have gone

Both are unavailable in the **Carousel** layout, and so is **Load More/Lazy Load**. Carousel columns are set under **Style > Carousel** instead.

### I see the same review twice

Check whether it is at the very start or end of the strip. **Infinite Mode** renders cloned slides there so the loop has no seam. Turn **Infinite Mode** off if you would rather it stopped at the last review.

### The source logo is enormous

That is how this layout renders it. If the card is dominated by a Google or Facebook logo, try **Style-3**, which shows no source logo at all, or set your own smaller **Platform Logo** on manual rows.

## Related Docs

- [Social Reviews Widget Settings Overview](https://theplusaddons.com/docs/social-reviews-widget-settings-overview/)- [How to Connect Carousel Remote with Social Review Carousel in Elementor?](https://theplusaddons.com/docs/connect-carousel-remote-with-social-review-carousel-in-elementor/)- [How to Show Social Reviews in Grid Layout in Elementor?](https://theplusaddons.com/docs/show-social-reviews-in-grid-layout-in-elementor/)- [How to Show Social Reviews in Masonry Grid Layout in Elementor?](https://theplusaddons.com/docs/show-social-reviews-in-masonry-grid-layout-in-elementor/)