Yelp Review Widget for OpenCart — Free, Fills Yelp's Embed Gap
BlooTrue's Yelp Review Widget for OpenCart is a free, extension-free embed that displays your Yelp reviews on any OpenCart storefront. Yelp 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 Yelp 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 Yelp API key, no Yelp 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.
How to embed Yelp reviews on OpenCart in 60 seconds
- Paste your Yelp business URL (yelp.com/biz/your-business-slug) 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 Yelp reviews are live on OpenCart 3.x or 4.x.
Why doesn't Yelp have an official embed?
Yelp's Fusion API is positioned as a partner-channel product (used by Apple Maps and Trivago) rather than a merchant self-service product. Yelp does not publish a paste-ready embed widget the way Trustpilot publishes TrustBox or Google publishes Place Cards. Third-party widgets are the standard way OpenCart stores surface their Yelp reviews — BlooTrue is the free option in that category.
