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Free Facebook Review Widgets for OpenCart

Embed Facebook reviews on any OpenCart store in 60 seconds — works on OpenCart 3.x and 4.x via a CMS page or the bundled HTML Content module. Facebook has no official embed; BlooTrue is the only free path.

Key facts: 60-second install on OpenCart · fills Facebook's missing embed gap · works on OpenCart 3.x and 4.x · CMS page + HTML Content module · no Facebook API key required · schema.org markup on paid plans

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 OpenCart? All review widgets for OpenCart

Why Use BlooTrue for Facebook on OpenCart?

The only free way to put Facebook reviews on your OpenCart storefront — Facebook itself doesn't offer an embed.

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.

No OpenCart Extension Required

Pure HTML embed. No marketplace purchase, no vQmod / OCMOD patch, no PHP file edits. Pastes into the core CMS Information system or the bundled HTML Content module.

Works on OpenCart 3.x and 4.x

Same install path on both major versions. The Source toggle in the editor and the HTML Content module from Extensions → Modules exist in core on both 3.x and 4.x.

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 OpenCart

OpenCart's HTML Content module is the right mount point for the Facebook widget — not the Product Review module.
For multi-store OpenCart installations, embed a Facebook widget per store with each store's respective Facebook Page.
The Facebook widget runs independently of OpenCart's built-in review approval workflow.

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 OpenCart?

Takes less than a minute. No coding, no extension, no Facebook API key.

Decide Where The Reviews Go

Log into your OpenCart admin and pick the placement:

A static Information page — Catalog → Information.
A sidebar or footer module using the bundled HTML Content module — assigned via Design → Layouts.

For a CMS Page: Catalog → Information

In the OpenCart admin, open Catalog → Information, edit the target page. In the rich-text editor toolbar, click the Source button (looks like </>) to switch to raw HTML view.

Paste the BlooTrue embed code there. This step is critical — if you paste in the visual view instead, OpenCart sanitizes the<script> tag and the widget disappears on save.

Save the page. Visit the storefront URL — your Facebook reviews are live.

Or Use the HTML Content Module

For sidebar / footer / homepage placement, open Extensions → Modules, find HTML Content (a core module — already installed in OpenCart 3.x and 4.x), click Add Module, give it a name like "Facebook Reviews", click the Source button in its editor, and paste.

Assign to a Layout and Publish

Open Design → Layouts, pick the layout to target, and add the HTML Content module to a position — Column Left, Column Right, Content Top, Content Bottom, or Footer.

Save the layout. Reviews auto-sync from Facebook every 24 hours.

How BlooTrue Compares to Other Facebook-on-OpenCart Options

Facebook doesn't offer an embed. Here's how BlooTrue compares to the next-best paths.

Option	BlooTrue	Facebook official	Paid OC extensions
Free Facebook embed available		—	—
No widget view caps		—	—
No Facebook API key needed		—	Sometimes
No marketplace purchase required		—	—
Works on OpenCart 3.x AND 4.x		—	Often 3.x only
SEO rich snippets (JSON-LD)		—	Sometimes
Pricing for full features	$9/mo	N/A	$20–$60 each

Facebook Review Widget for OpenCart — Free, Fills Facebook's Embed Gap

BlooTrue's Facebook Review Widget for OpenCart is a free, extension-free embed that displays your Facebook reviews on any OpenCart storefront. Facebook does not provide an official embed widget for merchants — its Fusion API is gated for partner apps like Apple Maps and Trivago, not for self-service merchant embeds. BlooTrue fills that gap by pulling reviews from any public Facebook business page and turning them into a paste-ready OpenCart embed. OpenCart is a free, open-source PHP e-commerce platform widely used in MENA, Eastern Europe, and South-East Asia, and it ships with both a CMS Information system (Catalog → Information) and a bundled HTML Content module (Extensions → Modules) — BlooTrue pastes into either. No OpenCart marketplace purchase, no PHP edits, no Facebook API key, no Facebook Fusion application, no business-level claim required. Works on OpenCart 3.x (the dominant deployed version) and OpenCart 4.x with any theme. The single biggest install gotcha is the Source button (the </> toggle that switches the editor between WYSIWYG and raw HTML) — without clicking it, the visual editor escapes the embedded<script> tag and the widget disappears on save.

Why doesn't Facebook have an official embed?

Facebook's Fusion API is positioned as a partner-channel product (used by Apple Maps and Trivago) rather than a merchant self-service product. Facebook does not publish a paste-ready embed widget the way Google publishes Place Cards. Third-party widgets are the standard way OpenCart stores surface their Facebook reviews — BlooTrue is the free option in that category.

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.

Is the BlooTrue Facebook widget free for OpenCart?

Yes. BlooTrue is completely free for OpenCart. No marketplace extension purchase, no recurring license fee, unlimited views, no credit card. The free plan shows your Facebook reviews with BlooTrue branding in the footer.

Does Facebook offer its own embed widget for OpenCart?

No. Facebook does not provide an official embed widget for businesses to display their reviews on a storefront. Facebook's Fusion API is gated and primarily intended for partner apps, not merchant self-embeds. BlooTrue fills that gap by pulling reviews from any public Facebook business page and turning them into a paste-ready OpenCart embed.

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. Just paste your facebook.com/yourpage-slug URL into the BlooTrue builder.

Why does my embed code disappear after I save the OpenCart page?

Because you pasted into the WYSIWYG (visual) editor, which strips or escapes the <script> tag. Click the Source button (looks like </>) in the editor toolbar to switch to raw HTML view, paste the embed code there, and save. The Source toggle is the #1 install gotcha on OpenCart.

Does this work on both OpenCart 3.x and OpenCart 4.x?

Yes. The embed is pure client-side HTML and JavaScript and the install path (Source toggle in the editor, HTML Content module from Extensions → Modules) exists in both major versions.

Where exactly should I paste the embed code on OpenCart?

Two paths. (1) For a static page (About, Reviews, Testimonials): Catalog → Information → edit the page → click the Source button (</>) in the editor → paste. (2) For sidebar/footer placement: Extensions → Modules → install HTML Content → edit it → click Source → paste → assign via Design → Layouts.

Will the widget slow down my OpenCart store?

No. The widget loads asynchronously after page content, so it never blocks rendering. The script is under 20KB and reviews are served from a CDN cache. Typical impact on Largest Contentful Paint is under 50ms — well within Google's Core Web Vitals thresholds.