How to Add Reviews to Showit: Two Platforms, One Site

Showit is the design-canvas builder that photographers and designers pick when they want the page to look exactly the way they drew it, and it delivers that by positioning everything absolutely and treating each breakpoint as its own layout. That is wonderful for control and it means an embedded widget is a box you draw rather than a block that finds its own size. The second thing to know is that a Showit site is usually two platforms: Showit for the pages, WordPress for the blog, with different answers on each side.

The Canvas Positions Everything

Showit does not flow content down a page. Elements sit where you place them, at the size you give them, and the page is a composition rather than a document. That is the reason people choose it, and it changes what adding an embed means.

Add an Embed Code widget and draw its box where the reviews should sit. Whatever you paste renders inside that box, and the box does not resize itself when the content is taller. A review list longer than the box will be cropped or will scroll inside it.

So pick the layout before you draw the box, not after. A compact badge or a single row has a predictable height that you can frame precisely. A tall list needs a tall box and a page composition that accommodates one.

Every Breakpoint Is a Separate Drawing

Desktop and mobile views in Showit are separate arrangements rather than one reflowing into the other. Moving or resizing something on desktop does not move it on mobile, which is the whole point of the tool and also the thing that catches people out on embeds.

The box has to be sized on each view you support. A widget that frames three cards neatly across on desktop will stack them vertically on a phone, which makes it much taller, and the mobile box has to be drawn for that taller shape.

Check both before publishing. This is the single most common Showit embed complaint and it is entirely avoidable: the desktop looks right, nobody opens the mobile view, and half the visitors get a cropped widget.

The Blog Is a Different Platform

A typical Showit site pairs Showit pages with a WordPress blog, joined so the visitor never notices. From an editing point of view they are two systems, and the instructions for one do not work on the other.

On a Showit page, the Embed Code widget is the route. On a blog post or a blog page, you are in WordPress and the route is a WordPress block, with all the usual WordPress considerations including whatever caching plugin the host runs.

Establish which half you are in before you start. Looking for an Embed Code widget inside the WordPress editor, or for a block inside the Showit canvas, is a frustrating few minutes that has nothing to do with the widget.

The Design Standard Is Higher Here

Showit users choose it for visual control, and their sites usually show it: considered type, a deliberate palette, generous spacing. A widget in default styling stands out more on a Showit site than it would almost anywhere else.

Set the colours and the typeface in the widget builder to match the page before you paste anything. It takes a minute and it is the difference between a reviews section that belongs and one that looks bought.

Consider a badge rather than a wall on a portfolio site. Photographers and designers are selling taste as much as service, and a compact rating near the enquiry form makes the point without interrupting the imagery the page is built around.

How Do You Build the Widget?

Paste your Google, Trustpilot or Facebook profile URL, preview your real reviews and rating, then choose from over 100 layout styles across the slider, marquee, grid, list, masonry and badge families, and match the colours and fonts to the site.

Choose for predictability given the fixed-box constraint. A slider keeps one card height regardless of how long a review is, which is much easier to frame on a canvas than a list that grows with its content.

The header rating comes from the platform aggregate rather than from the cards on screen. Free plan, unlimited widget views.

Where Should the Reviews Go?

Near the enquiry form or the contact page. Showit sites are usually built to produce enquiries rather than transactions, and the rating belongs at the point where somebody is deciding whether to write to you.

A compact badge on the portfolio or services page is worth the second placement. Those pages get read carefully by people comparing you with two other photographers, and a rating with a count settles a comparison that images alone cannot.

If the blog gets real traffic, one badge in the sidebar or after the post content is worth having there too. That is the WordPress half, so it goes in as a block rather than as a canvas widget.