# Create and customize a widget

Source: https://help.testimonials.ltd/articles/create-and-customize-a-widget

To create a widget, open **Widgets**, click **New widget**, pick a type and adjust it while the live preview shows your real approved testimonials. When it looks right, copy the snippet and add it to your site.

## Create a widget

1. Click **Widgets** in the top menu.
2. Click **New widget**. A new wall is created that already uses your space's brand color and theme.
3. In the **Type** panel, choose the layout you want.

## Widget types

- **Wall of love**: a masonry or grid of testimonials.
- **Collage**: a mixed grid of quotes and faces.
- **Carousel**: a slider, as **Cards** or **Spotlight**.
- **Marquee**: a moving row, as **Cards**, **Strip** or **Cross**.
- **Single quote**: one testimonial.
- **Video embed**: your video testimonials.
- **Avatar rating**: faces and your average rating, as a **Badge** or **Face wall**.
- **Floating popup**: a small card that appears in a corner of the page.
- **Rating badge**: your rating, **Inline** or **Floating**.
- **Logo slider**: a scrolling strip of your reviewers' company names, each with a lettered badge. If fewer than 3 reviews include a company, it shows reviewer names and photos instead.

## Style

- **Internal name**: a name only you see.
- **Override branding appearance**: off means the widget follows your **Branding** colors and theme. Turn it on to set an **Accent color** and **Theme** for this widget only.
- **Layout** and **Direction**: available for some types.

## Behavior

- **Scroll effect** (Wall of love only): **Auto** or **Manual**, with a **Speed**.
- **Appears after** and **Popup position** or **Badge position**: for floating types.
- **Expandable long reviews**: lets visitors open clipped quotes.
- **Show review dates**: off by default.
- **Review order**: Newest first, Oldest first, Highest rating, Lowest rating, Detailed first or Brief first.

## Pin your best testimonials

In **Pinned testimonials**, select the reviews to show first. Other approved reviews still show after them.

## Status and review stars in Google

- **Widget is active**: turn it off to hide the widget everywhere without removing the code.
- **SEO rich snippet**: adds review structured data for product, software app, course, book, event or creative work pages. Google decides whether stars appear in search results.

Widgets only ever show approved testimonials.

## Related articles

- [Add a widget to your website](https://help.testimonials.ltd/articles/install-a-widget-on-your-website)
- [Brand your forms, widgets and Wall of Love](https://help.testimonials.ltd/articles/brand-your-forms-widgets-and-wall)
- [My widget is not showing on my site](https://help.testimonials.ltd/articles/widget-not-showing)