Sky Addons  ·  Elementor Widget
INTRODUCING

Google Reviews Carousel

Your Google reviews as a carousel in Elementor — real ratings, names and photos, pulled live and styled to your design.

THE SKY ELEMENTOR ADDONS TEAM

Nine people took ninety seconds to say this.

We have never run an ad. Everything below arrived on our Google listing from someone who had already shipped a site with the pack.

wowDevs on Google
5.0 out of 5
Rated 5 out of 5
STRAIGHT FROM THE PLACE PAGE
GLORY VIDEO SLIDER

The slider clients stop asking you to change.

Thumbnails on or off, captions where you want them, and a poster frame that does not fight the video. Roosevelt asked us how to hide the thumbnails and we walked him through it the same afternoon.

ONE AT A TIME, IN THEIR OWN WORDS
PRICING

Two ways to pay. Both of them end.

A year, or once. No metered sites, no per-editor seats, and nothing that quietly renews at a higher number.

MOST POPULAR

Yearly

$49 a year

Lifetime

$149 once
NOBODY HAS ASKED FOR THE REFUND YET
CHECKOUT

Your order

Total today   $58.80

Card, Apple Pay or bank transfer. Invoices with a VAT number for agencies. Fourteen days to change your mind.

WHY PEOPLE FINISH THIS FORM
DOCUMENTATION

Every control, written down before it ships.

A widget does not go into a release until its panel is documented, screenshot by screenshot. That is why support questions are usually about what to build, not where the switch is.

Getting started

Install, licence, and your first container in about four minutes.

Widget reference

All ninety panels, every control, with what it emits.

Troubleshooting

Cache, conflicts, and the three theme settings that cause most tickets.

PEOPLE WHO FOUND THE ANSWER
Shahidul Islam · Engineering
12 August 2026 · 6 min read

Why we stopped shipping custom CSS with our widgets

For the first two years, half of our support inbox was one shape of question: I changed a setting and nothing happened. Nine times out of ten the answer was a stylesheet somebody had pasted in eighteen months earlier and forgotten.

So we made a rule. If a design decision cannot be made from the Elementor panel, it is not a feature yet. It took a year to work through the back catalogue, and the tickets changed shape completely.

WHAT CHANGED, ACCORDING TO THE PEOPLE WHO WROTE IN

The rule holds for the reviews widget you are looking at too. Card colours, the star colour, the read-more label, the write-a-review button: all of it is a control, none of it is a stylesheet.

THE STUDIO

One room in Banani, and a very long changelog.

Come by if you are in Dhaka. There is filter coffee, a whiteboard covered in widget names, and usually someone arguing about whether a control needs a responsive clone.

WHAT THE LISTING SAYS, AND HOW TO ADD TO IT
LIVE
FREE WORKSHOP · 12 SEPTEMBER

Build a client site with zero custom CSS.

Ninety minutes, one real brief, and a finished five-page site at the end of it. We build it live and answer whatever you type into the chat.

No card, no upsell at minute eighty. Turn up or do not.

WHY THE LAST ONE FILLED UP
THANKS

Nine reviews is not many. It is all of them.

We have never filtered the feed, never hidden a rating, and never asked anyone to change a word. If we ever earn a two-star, it will sit right here with the rest.

Free core needs no card. Pro is $49 and stays $49.

FAQ
Frequently asked

Google Reviews Carousel

Straight answers about what this one does, where it fits in a real build, and what it costs you to ship.

Still stuck?

Read the documentation for this one, or write to us — a human answers inside a business day.

What do I need to show Google reviews in Elementor?

A Google Place ID and a Google Maps API key with the Places API enabled. Sky Addons for Elementor reads the key from Sky Addons → Settings → API — the same key the Google Map widget uses — and the Place ID is pasted into the widget itself. There is no account connection or OAuth step.

How many Google reviews can the carousel display?

Five at most. Google’s Place Details API returns up to 5 of the most relevant reviews for a place, so that is the ceiling for any plugin, Sky Addons included. The Minimum Rating filter can only reduce that set further — filtering to five stars only may leave you with fewer than five cards.

Can I choose which reviews appear?

Only by star rating. Google decides which reviews it returns and in what order, so there is no hand-picking or reordering. Sky Addons’ Google Reviews Carousel offers a Minimum Rating control from one star upward, and if no review clears that bar the widget renders nothing rather than an empty frame.

Does it call the Google API on every page load?

Not unless you ask it to. Cache Duration defaults to 12 hours and offers 1 hour, 6 hours, 12 hours, 1 day, 3 days or 1 week, holding the response in a WordPress transient keyed to the Place ID and language. A No Cache option exists, but then every view makes a billable Places request.

Where do I find my Google Place ID?

In Google’s own Place ID Finder, which the widget links to directly from the Place ID field — search your business name and copy the ID shown beneath the map. It looks like ChIJN1t_tDeuEmsRUsoyG83frY4. Sky Addons stores it per widget, so two carousels can present two different locations.

Can I show the reviews in a specific language?

Yes. Reviews Language offers Auto plus eighteen named options, among them English, Arabic, Chinese, Dutch, French, German, Hindi, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish and Ukrainian. Google supplies its translated copy where it has one, and Sky Addons caches each language separately so switching never overwrites another language’s stored response.

Does it show the overall rating and total review count?

Yes — the Place Summary shows the business name, the average rating to one decimal place, the total number of ratings and the Google logo, sitting above the track by default. An optional Write a Review button links straight to Google’s review form for that Place ID; it is off until you switch it on.

Do I need Elementor Pro or a review aggregator service?

Neither. The Google Reviews Carousel is a Sky Addons Pro widget running on free Elementor, and it talks to Google’s Places API directly. There is no aggregator subscription and no third-party relay in between — your own API key, your own Place ID, your own site making the request.

What shows if the Place ID or API key is wrong?

Nothing on the live page. Sky Addons outputs no markup on the front end and puts the specific reason in the Elementor editor instead — a missing Place ID, a missing API key, the error Google returned, or no review clearing the rating filter. Open the editor first whenever a carousel comes up blank.

How many cards show at once, and how long is the text?

Columns run from one to four with three as the default, set per breakpoint, and navigation arrows are on out of the box. Review text is trimmed to 160 characters by Excerpt Length, and three card styles are available — so five reviews read as a compact row rather than three walls of text.