OpenTable Review Widget for OpenCart — Free, Shows the Reviews the Official Widget Hides
BlooTrue's OpenTable Review Widget for OpenCart is a free, extension-free embed that displays your OpenTable reviews on any OpenCart-built restaurant site. OpenTable's official website widget only takes reservations — it books tables but never shows the reviews diners left for you. BlooTrue fills that gap by pulling reviews from any public OpenTable restaurant page and turning them into a paste-ready OpenCart embed. Every review comes from a verified diner — someone who booked through OpenTable and honored the reservation — and the widget header shows your real 1–5 star OpenTable average, no conversion, no percentages. 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 OpenTable API key, no developer application, no restaurant-account login 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.
How to embed OpenTable reviews on OpenCart in 60 seconds
- Paste your OpenTable restaurant URL (https://www.opentable.com/r/your-restaurant) into the configurator above.
- Pick a widget style and customize colors, theme, and layout.
- Click Copy Code to get the one-line HTML embed.
- For a CMS page: open Catalog → Information, edit the page, click the Source button (
</>) in the editor toolbar, and paste. - For a sidebar / footer module: open Extensions → Modules, install HTML Content, paste in its Source view, and assign via Design → Layouts.
- Save — your OpenTable reviews are live on OpenCart 3.x or 4.x.
Why doesn't OpenTable's own widget show reviews?
OpenTable's first-party website widget is built for one job: taking reservations. It embeds a booking form, not your review feed — the verified-diner reviews stay on opentable.com. Third-party widgets are the standard way OpenCart-built restaurant sites surface their OpenTable reviews — BlooTrue is the free option in that category, and because every OpenTable review comes from a diner who honored a reservation, the social proof it displays is unusually hard to fake.
