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Displaying Review Highlights on your Product Pages

Last updated on October 22, 2026

Review Highlights puts a compact carousel of your strongest reviews right on the product page. It picks them for you: pinned reviews show first, followed by your most recent 5-star reviews that have written feedback. Instead of scrolling to the review section, shoppers see at a glance what buyers are saying — which builds trust and helps move them toward a purchase.

Enabling Review Highlights

Open your Shopify admin and go to Vitals → Product Reviews, then Settings → Widgets → Review Highlights → Customize. Turn on "Display Review Highlights automatically on product page". There is nothing to write or curate manually — the widget fills itself from your published reviews.

Placement

Review Highlights supports automatic placement in four locations on the product page:

  • Product description
  • Buy buttons section
  • Add to cart button (the default, just below it)
  • Product end section

Then choose the position: above or below it, or inside the section.

If you'd rather control the exact position yourself, you have two options:

  • Shopify theme editor — on Online Store 2.0 themes, in the Display manually panel, click Go to Shopify Editor and place the Review Highlights block wherever you want it. This is the recommended route on Online Store 2.0 themes.
  • HTML element — add an element with the ID vitals-review_highlights  anywhere in your theme. Placing the widget manually overrides the automatic placement.

Key settings

  • Automatic placement — select where the highlights block appears on the product page.
  • Number of reviews — a slider controlling how many reviews the carousel displays (default 5, maximum 10). It doesn't change which reviews qualify — the pool is always the product's 5-star reviews that have text, pinned ones first.
  • Show review media — display the photos and videos customers attached to their reviews.
  • Arrow style — six navigation arrow variants (round or square, each in halo, outline or filled) to match your store's look.

Design

The Design card controls how the highlights look:

  • Card background and text color, star color, and arrow color.
  • Show shadow and Show border, with a border color option when the border is on.
  • Card corner radius and Media corner radius.
  • Review text size.
  • Separate top and bottom margins for desktop and mobile.