Google reviews widget & Instagram feed for Elementor
Add your real Google reviews or your Instagram feed to an Elementor page with the built-in HTML widget and one line of code. Drag, paste, publish. No add-on plugin, and nothing that has to keep pace with the next Elementor release.
The steps are the same for both widgets. Everything below works unchanged whether you are adding your Google reviews or your Instagram feed to Elementor — the same block, the same one-line snippet, in the same place. Only the widget id differs, and that is generated for you when you save.
Works with Elementor free and Pro No add-on plugin About five minutes
Before you start: you need a TrustGetter account with a saved widget, which is where your embed code comes from, and a page you can open with Elementor. The HTML widget is part of Elementor's free version — only the Theme Builder route in step 4 needs Elementor Pro.
How to add Google reviews or an Instagram feed to Elementor
Five steps. The first three happen in TrustGetter, and the last two in the Elementor editor.
Connect your Google listing or your Instagram account
Create a free account and search for your business by name, the way a customer would find you on Google Maps. We fetch your reviews once and keep them, so your Elementor page never waits on Google to finish loading.
For an Instagram feed it is the same step with a different button: you connect the account on Instagram’s own sign-in screen and approve read access there. We never see your password, and we cannot post, comment or change anything. From there on the two widgets are built and installed identically.
Choose a layout and match your design
17 templates across 7 layouts — grid, list, carousel, a scrolling marquee, a rating badge, a compact slider and a floating panel. Set each colour by role, pick a font, and adjust corner radius, padding and text size so the widget agrees with the section you are dropping it into rather than fighting it.
An Instagram feed is the same panel with a different list: 10 layouts instead of templates, from a plain grid to a gapless wall to a scrolling row of reels. The colour, font and spacing controls are the ones you have just used.
Save the widget and copy the embed code
Saving publishes the widget and generates its embed code — two short lines, with your own widget id in place of the example:
Drag the HTML widget onto the page
Open the page with Edit with Elementor, type HTML into the widget search box in the left panel, and drag the HTML widget into the column where the reviews should appear. It inherits that column's width, so your existing layout keeps control of the sizing.
To place the reviews across the whole site instead of one page — every blog post, or every page footer — use Elementor Pro's Templates → Theme Builder and drop the same HTML widget into the footer or single-post template.
Paste the code and publish
Paste the embed code into the HTML Code box in the left panel, then click Publish or Update. Open the live page in another tab to confirm — the Elementor canvas does not always execute embedded scripts, so a blank space in the editor is not by itself a problem.
Check the published page, not the editor. Between Elementor's own canvas and the caching or optimisation plugin most WordPress sites run, the editor is the least reliable place to judge whether the widget works. If the live page is empty too, clear your cache and exclude trustgetter.com/widget.js from JavaScript optimisation.
Running both widgets on Elementor
The steps above already cover the Instagram feed — it is the same one-line snippet, pasted into the same block, in the same place. What follows is the only part that differs, and what happens when you want both on one page.
The one difference is step 1. A Google listing is found by searching for it; an Instagram account is connected by signing in on Instagram's own screen and approving read access there. Everything after that — choosing a look, saving, copying the snippet, pasting it into Elementor — is identical.
You can run both on one page: your reviews in a grid partway down, your latest posts in a row nearer the foot. On Elementor that is two blocks and two snippets. See the Instagram feed widget for the 10 layouts and what connecting an account gives us access to.
Common Elementor questions
Do I need an Elementor add-on for Google reviews?
No. Elementor's own HTML widget does the whole job, so there is no add-on to install, no extra plugin to keep updated, and nothing to break when Elementor next updates. Changing the widget's design happens in TrustGetter — the code on your page never changes.
Does it work with Elementor free, or do I need Pro?
The free version is enough. The HTML widget is included in it, which is all the install needs. Elementor Pro only matters if you want the widget placed through Theme Builder — in a footer or a single-post template that applies site-wide — rather than on individual pages.
Nothing shows in the Elementor editor.
Check the published page first, since the editor canvas does not reliably run embedded scripts. If the live page is blank as well, confirm both lines of the embed code are in the HTML Code box, then clear any caching plugin and exclude the widget script from JavaScript minification.
Will it break my Elementor styling?
No. The widget renders inside its own sealed container, so your theme and Elementor's global styles cannot reach in and alter it, and its styles cannot leak out and disturb the rest of your page. A theme update will not quietly wreck how the reviews look.
Using something else?
The same widget and the same embed code work anywhere you can paste HTML. These guides give the exact menu names for each platform.
Show your Google reviews and your Instagram feed on your Elementor page.
Start free with one widget on one business. Connect your listing and see your real reviews in every template before you decide anything.