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Free Facebook Review Widgets for Showit

Embed Facebook reviews anywhere on your Showit canvas in 60 seconds — drag an Embed Code widget, paste, Publish. Facebook has no official embed and Showit has no plugin store; BlooTrue is the only free path.

Key facts: 60-second install on Showit · fills Facebook's missing embed gap · drag-anywhere Embed Code widget placement · desktop + mobile canvas both supported · no Facebook API key required · built for photographers, salons & studios

Last updated September 16, 2026·by Mike Ragimov

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Install guides

Same Facebook widget, platform-specific install guide. Pick where your site 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 Showit? All review widgets for Showit

Why Use BlooTrue for Facebook on Showit?

The only free way to put Facebook reviews on a Showit design — Facebook has no embed, and Showit has no plugin store.

Fills Facebook's Missing Embed

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

Made for Local Service Brands

Photographers, salons, studios, and planners — the Showit crowd — are exactly the categories where Facebook reviews carry the most weight with North American customers.

Drag-Anywhere Placement

Showit's Embed Code widget goes wherever your design needs it, on both the desktop and mobile canvases. Pixel-level control, no layout grid fighting you.

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 Showit

Showit's in-app preview does not run third-party scripts — publish the site to see the Facebook widget render.
Showit canvases are designed per device: place the Embed Code widget on both the desktop AND mobile canvas views.
Photographers: a Facebook widget near your booking inquiry form shows real client proof exactly where couples decide to reach out.

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 Showit?

Takes less than a minute. One Embed Code widget, placed on both canvases, then Publish.

Add an Embed Code Widget to the Canvas

Open your page in the Showit design app and add an Embed Code widget. Drag it anywhere on the desktop canvas — beside your inquiry form, under the hero, on the services page.

The Embed Code widget is built into every Showit plan.

Paste the Facebook Embed Code into the Widget Settings

With the Embed Code widget selected, open its settings panel and paste the BlooTrue Facebook embed code you copied above. The widget shows as a placeholder box in the design app — that's expected (see step 4).

Place It on the Mobile Canvas Too

Showit designs desktop and mobile canvases separately. Switch to the mobile view and position the Embed Code widget there as well so phone visitors see your Facebook reviews.

Same embed code on both — the widget adapts to each canvas width.

Publish — and Check the Live Site, Not the Preview

Click Publish. Showit's in-app preview does not run third-party scripts, so the widget will not render there. Open the live published URL — your Facebook reviews appear on it.

Reviews auto-sync from Facebook every 24 hours.

How BlooTrue Compares to Other Facebook-on-Showit Options

Facebook has no embed. Showit has no plugin store. Here are the only paths.

Option	BlooTrue	Facebook official	Static screenshots
Free Facebook embed available		—	Images only
Auto-sync new Facebook reviews		—	—
No Facebook API key needed		—
Desktop + mobile canvas placement		—
No design-app rework when reviews change		—	—
Clickable, accessible review text		—	—
SEO rich snippets (JSON-LD)		—	—
Pricing for full features	$9/mo	N/A	Your time

Facebook Review Widget for Showit — Free, the Only Free Path

BlooTrue's Facebook Review Widget for Showit is a free, no-code embed that displays your Facebook reviews anywhere on a Showit canvas. 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 Showit has no plugin marketplace at all — so there's no app route either. BlooTrue fills both gaps through Showit's built-in Embed Code widget: drag it onto the desktop canvas, paste the snippet into the widget settings, place it again on the separate mobile canvas, and Publish. Note the Showit quirk: the in-app preview does not run third-party scripts, so the widget renders on the live published site only. Showit's user base — photographers, salons, studios, wedding planners — is exactly the local-service crowd where Facebook reviews carry the most weight in North America. 100+ widget styles, light and dark themes, free custom color picker. 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 a merchant self-service product. Facebook does not publish a paste-ready embed widget the way Google publishes Place Cards. For Showit sites the gap is even wider — Showit has no plugin marketplace, so there is no app to install in the first place. Third-party widgets like BlooTrue are the canonical way to surface Facebook reviews on a Showit site.

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 Showit?

Yes. BlooTrue is completely free for Showit. No plugin, no recurring fee, unlimited views, works on every Showit plan. The free plan shows your Facebook reviews with BlooTrue branding in the footer.

Does Facebook offer its own embed widget for Showit?

No. Facebook does not provide an official embed widget for businesses to display their reviews on a website — Facebook's Fusion API is gated for partner apps, not merchant self-embeds. Showit also has no plugin marketplace, so there's no app route either. BlooTrue fills the gap with a free embed pasted into Showit's built-in Embed Code widget.

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 don't my Facebook reviews show in the Showit preview?

Showit's in-app preview doesn't execute third-party scripts — by design. The Embed Code widget shows as a placeholder box inside the design app and preview. Publish your site and open the live URL: the Facebook reviews render there. This applies to every script-based embed on Showit, not just BlooTrue.

Do I place the Facebook widget twice for desktop and mobile?

Yes. Showit designs the desktop and mobile canvases independently. Add the Embed Code widget on the desktop canvas, then switch to the mobile view and position it there too. Same embed code in both — the widget sizes itself to each canvas automatically.

Which Showit businesses benefit most from a Facebook widget?

Local service businesses — exactly the crowd that runs on Showit: photographers, salons, beauty studios, wedding planners, and boutique fitness. Facebook carries serious weight for these categories in North America, and surfacing your real Facebook reviews next to your inquiry form keeps prospects from leaving your site to check you on Facebook.

Will the widget slow down my Showit site?

No. The widget loads asynchronously after your page content. The script is under 20KB and reviews are served from a CDN cache. Typical impact on Largest Contentful Paint is under 50ms — well within Core Web Vitals thresholds, even on image-heavy portfolio pages.