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Free Facebook Review Widgets for Magento

Embed Facebook reviews on any Magento or Adobe Commerce store — paste into a CMS Block or Page Builder, place via Content → Widgets, flush the cache. Facebook has no official embed and the Magento Marketplace has no Facebook extension; BlooTrue is the free path.

Key facts: 2-minute install on Magento · fills Facebook's missing embed gap · CMS Blocks, Pages + Page Builder all supported · works on Magento 2.x and Adobe Commerce Cloud · no Facebook API key required · no extension — zero code deployed

Last updated September 16, 2026·by Mike Ragimov

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Install guides

Same Facebook widget, platform-specific install guide. Pick where your store lives.

Looking for a different review source? See all Facebook widgets

Setting this up on a different platform? See all Facebook review widgets · Want a different review platform on Magento? All review widgets for Magento

Why Use BlooTrue for Facebook on Magento?

The only free way to put Facebook reviews on a Magento storefront — Facebook has no embed, and the Marketplace has no Facebook extension.

Fills Facebook's Missing Embed

Facebook doesn't publish an official embed widget for merchants. BlooTrue is the free, paste-and-go alternative — pulls reviews from your public Facebook page automatically.

Fills the Marketplace Gap Too

The Magento Marketplace has no meaningful Facebook review extension — and an extension would mean composer installs and upgrade re-validation anyway. BlooTrue is CMS content: zero code deployed.

Place It Anywhere via CMS Static Block

Content → Widgets → CMS Static Block drops the widget into any layout position — homepage, category pages, footer — without writing layout XML.

No Facebook API Key Required

Works with any public Facebook Page. No Facebook Fusion application, no API quotas, no business-level claim required.

What makes a Facebook widget different from a Google review widget?

Facebook's recommendation system works differently from star-based platforms like Google. Knowing how recommendations become stars, and how Page moderation works, avoids surprises after you embed.

How BlooTrue turns Facebook recommendations into star ratings

Facebook retired numeric star ratings in 2018. Instead, visitors tap Recommends or Doesn't recommend and write a short comment, and the Page shows a percentage of people who recommend it. BlooTrue normalizes that into the star format your other widgets use: each “Recommends” renders as a 5-star review, each “Doesn't recommend” as 1 star, and the Page's overall recommendation percentage becomes a clean 0–5 star header rating. The result is a Facebook widget that looks and reads exactly like your Google or Yelp widget — no confusing percentages on your site. The header rating always comes from Facebook's own published aggregate, never from averaging the individual cards.

Where the recommendations come from and how often they refresh

BlooTrue fetches the publicly-visible recommendations from your Facebook Page on a server-side schedule — roughly once every 24 hours on paid plans — and caches the result. Your site never calls Facebook directly, so visitor traffic to your page doesn't depend on Facebook being reachable, and the widget loads instantly from cache. Only recommendations that are public on your Page are included; anything set to private or hidden by the Page owner is never pulled. Each recommendation keeps its reviewer name, photo, and comment, and links back to your Facebook Page.

Turning on recommendations and what shows up in the widget

Recommendations only appear if your Page has the Reviews / Recommendations section enabled and public. If your Page is brand new or has recommendations switched off, there's nothing for the widget to import yet — turn the section on in your Page settings and the widget will populate as soon as your first public recommendation lands. Once enabled, the widget shows whatever your Page shows publicly: no more, no less. If a recommendation disappears from your widget after a sync, it almost always means the reviewer deleted it or Facebook removed it — the widget simply follows your Page's public state.

Moderation, Community Standards, and attribution

Facebook moderates recommendations under its Community Standards and removes spam, hate speech, and content that violates its policies. Because BlooTrue reads only your Page's public recommendations, the widget automatically reflects those removals on the next sync — you never display content Facebook has already taken down. Every card keeps the Facebook mark and the reviewer's name, and clicking a review links back to your Facebook Page, so attribution stays intact. BlooTrue never fabricates a rating: an empty “Recommends” with no comment is still shown as a real recommendation, and the header number is always Facebook's own aggregate.

Facebook tips for Magento

Use a CMS Static Block so the same Facebook widget can be placed into multiple layout positions without duplicating code.
Remember to flush the Magento cache (System → Cache Management) after saving — the widget will not appear until you do.
No marketplace extension or Composer install is needed, so the widget survives Magento / Adobe Commerce version upgrades untouched.

Want more on Facebook itself? See the Facebook widget overview or our guide to the best review widgets for websites.

How Do I Install BlooTrue Facebook on Magento?

Four steps: create the block, paste the HTML, place it, flush the cache.

Open Content → Blocks (or Pages) in the Magento Admin

Log into your Magento / Adobe Commerce admin and open Content → Blocks. Click Add New Block for a reusable block — or open Content → Pages and edit a CMS page if you only need the widget on one page.

Works identically on Magento 2.x Open Source and Adobe Commerce, including Adobe Commerce Cloud.

Paste the Embed as Raw HTML

In the content editor, click Show / Hide Editor to switch the WYSIWYG into raw-HTML mode, then paste the BlooTrue Facebook embed code.

Using Page Builder? Drag an HTML Code element into your layout, click its Edit (gear) button, and paste the embed there instead.

Place the Block via Content → Widgets

For CMS Blocks: open Content → Widgets, click Add Widget, choose type CMS Static Block, pick your theme, and assign the block to a layout position — for example Main Content Bottom on the homepage or a category-page sidebar.

CMS Pages skip this step — they publish directly when you click Save.

Flush the Cache (Do Not Skip This)

Open System → Cache Management and flush the invalidated cache types — or run bin/magento cache:flush. Magento's full-page cache keeps serving the pre-widget version of the page until you do. Purge Varnish / Fastly too if they front the store.

One-time step. Reviews auto-sync from Facebook every 24 hours afterward — no further flushes needed.

How BlooTrue Compares to Other Facebook-on-Magento Options

Facebook has no embed. The Magento Marketplace has no Facebook extension. Here are the only paths.

Option	BlooTrue	Facebook official	Custom module
Free Facebook embed available		—	Manual scrape
No composer install / deploy		—	—
Survives Magento upgrades untouched		—	Re-test
Auto-sync new Facebook reviews		—	—
No Facebook API key needed		—	Sometimes
No coding required		—	—
SEO rich snippets (JSON-LD)		—	Manual
Pricing for full features	$9/mo	N/A	Dev time

Facebook Review Widget for Magento — Free, the Only Practical Path

BlooTrue's Facebook Review Widget for Magento is a free, extension-free embed that displays your Facebook reviews on any Magento 2.x or Adobe Commerce storefront. There's a double gap to bridge: Facebook does not publish an official embed widget for merchants (its Fusion API is gated for partner apps like Apple Maps and Trivago), and the Magento Marketplace has no meaningful Facebook review extension either. BlooTrue fills both gaps with a pure HTML embed pasted into a CMS Block or CMS Page via the Show / Hide Editor raw-HTML toggle, or a Page Builder HTML Code element. Blocks slot into any layout position through Content → Widgets → CMS Static Block — homepage, category pages, footer. No composer install, no deploy, nothing to re-validate on the next Magento upgrade, and it works on Adobe Commerce Cloud out of the box. The one Magento-only step: flush the full-page cache afterward via System → Cache Management, or the cached page keeps serving the pre-widget version. Magento skews to North American retail and service businesses with physical locations — exactly where Facebook's review footprint is strongest, which makes the pairing unusually effective. Six widget styles, light and dark themes. On paid plans, schema.org Review + AggregateRating JSON-LD is added to the page, which makes it eligible for star ratings in Google search results where the embed runs inline rather than inside an iframe.

Why doesn't Facebook have an official embed?

Facebook's Fusion API is positioned as a partner-channel product (used by sites like Apple Maps and Trivago) rather than as a merchant self-service product. Facebook does not publish a paste-ready embed widget the way Google publishes Place Cards. For Magento stores the gap is doubled — the Magento Marketplace has no meaningful Facebook review extension. Third-party widgets like BlooTrue are the canonical way to surface Facebook reviews on a Magento storefront.

About Facebook reviews in this widget

The Facebook widget embeds the recommendations left on your Facebook Page. Facebook retired star ratings for Pages in 2018, so there is no native Facebook star average; the widget shows each Recommends as a 5-star card and turns the Page's overall recommendation percentage into a 0 to 5 star figure for the header, both read from your Page. A customer leaves a recommendation by tapping Recommends or Doesn't recommend and writing a comment, which only works once Reviews are switched on in your Page settings. Many owners reach for Facebook's Page Plugin instead, an iframe of your timeline with no way to feature recommendations.

Frequently Asked Questions

Facebook only lets people click Recommends, so what rating does my widget display?

Facebook dropped numeric stars for Pages in 2018, so the widget does not invent a Facebook star average. Each Recommends becomes a 5-star card, and the header converts the Page's overall recommendation percentage into a 0 to 5 star figure. Both come from your Page, not from a calculation over the cards on your site.

Can I use Facebook's own Page Plugin to embed my recommendations?

No. The Page Plugin drops your whole Page timeline into an iframe and has no setting to show only recommendations, and Facebook's own tools cannot place them on an external site at all. The BlooTrue builder takes your Page URL instead and gives you a one-line embed, with no Facebook ad spend and no plugin required.

My Page has no Reviews tab, so where would the recommendations come from?

They only exist once you turn them on: open your Facebook Page settings, find the Reviews or Recommendations option and switch it on. Until then customers cannot tap Recommends and the builder finds nothing to import. A free widget holds the recommendations found that day; paid plans check the Page daily and drop the BlooTrue badge.

Does Facebook offer its own embed widget or Magento extension?

No on both counts. Facebook doesn't provide an official embed widget for merchants — its Fusion API is gated for partner apps, not merchant self-embeds. And the Magento Marketplace has no meaningful Facebook review extension either. BlooTrue fills both gaps with a free HTML embed pasted into a CMS Block or Page Builder element.

Do I need a Magento extension to display Facebook reviews?

No. BlooTrue is a pure HTML embed pasted into a CMS Block or CMS Page — no Marketplace extension, no composer require, no setup:upgrade, no deploy. The embed lives in CMS content in your database, so it survives Magento upgrades and Adobe Commerce Cloud deploys untouched.

Do I need a Facebook API key or Facebook Fusion access?

No. BlooTrue works with any public Facebook Page — no Facebook API key, no Facebook Fusion application, no business-level claim required.

Does this work on Adobe Commerce and Adobe Commerce Cloud?

Yes. Adobe Commerce shares the same admin — Content → Blocks, Pages, Page Builder, and Widgets all work identically. On Adobe Commerce Cloud there is nothing extra to deploy: the embed is CMS content stored in the database.

I saved the block but the Facebook widget isn't showing — why?

Almost always Magento's full-page cache. Open System → Cache Management and flush the invalidated caches (or run bin/magento cache:flush). Purge Varnish / Fastly too if they front the store. One-time step — new reviews sync through the embed script, no further flushes needed.

Where exactly do I paste the embed code in the Magento admin?

Classic WYSIWYG: Content → Blocks (or Pages), click Show / Hide Editor to switch to raw HTML, and paste. Page Builder: drag an HTML Code element into your layout and paste there. For blocks, finish via Content → Widgets → CMS Static Block to assign a layout position.

Will the widget slow down my Magento store?

No. The widget loads asynchronously, the script is under 20KB, reviews are served from a CDN cache, and it adds zero PHP execution to your server — full-page-cached pages stay fully cacheable. Typical LCP impact is under 50ms.