About the Yelp Reviews Widget
Zyff's Yelp reviews widget shows your Yelp rating and reviews on any website, free. Paste the address of your business page on Yelp — no Yelp API key, no developer account, nothing to authorise — and Zyff collects the public reviews, then renders them the way you choose: as a feed (a carousel, a grid, masonry, a list, a one-at-a-time slider or a scrolling ticker) or as a summary (a rating badge, a compact pill, a reviews button, a review request, or one of 5 stickers), pinned to a corner of the page if you like. Filter by star rating, hide reviews containing a word or a reviewer's name, show only reviews that mention a topic, and choose the order. Reviews are collected on the server and stored by Zyff, so the widget keeps working without asking Yelp on every pageview. The output is one div and one script tag that works in WordPress, Shopify, Wix, Squarespace, Webflow or a hand-written HTML page alike.
How to embed Yelp reviews on your website
Paste your Yelp business address
Copy the address of your business page on Yelp — it contains yelp.com/biz/ — and paste it into the Business tab. Yelp's other country sites work too.
Load the reviews
Press Load reviews. The first collection takes up to a minute; after that the reviews are served from Zyff's own copy and load instantly.
Choose a template and a layout
Start from one of the 12 templates, then pick any of the 15 layouts — feeds, badges or stickers — and set the columns, rows and order. Every setting previews live against your real reviews.
Style the header and the cards
Choose a header style, a card style, the stars, the theme and the accent colour, and show or hide the date, the reviewer photos and the Yelp Elite badge.
Save and paste the code
Sign in free to save the widget, copy the two-line snippet, and paste it where the reviews should appear. Editing the saved widget updates every site using it.
What the Yelp Reviews Widget does
No Yelp API key
Yelp's own API never returns a whole review, only a few short excerpts per business. Zyff reads your public business page instead, so the widget shows whole reviews — with nothing to authorise and no token to keep alive.
Feeds, badges and stickers
6 feed layouts, 4 badges and 5 stickers, with the option to pin a badge or sticker to a corner of every page — and 12 ready-made templates to start from.
Filters, free
A minimum star rating, a blocklist of words or reviewer names, and an allowlist of topics. Deciding which reviews appear on your own site is not an upsell.
Yelp's own figures
The rating and the total in the header are the ones on your Yelp page, never worked out from the reviews collected. Reviewer names and a link to each review on Yelp are always shown.
Review highlights, word for word
An optional summary card quotes the themes your reviews keep returning to, taken word for word from real reviews — nothing written or paraphrased by a machine.
Honest about filtering
Whenever the widget shows a filtered or reordered set, it says so under the reviews. That line is not optional: a selection of other people's opinions shown as the whole picture misleads whoever reads it.
At a glance
| Businesses per widget | One — embed a second widget for a second business |
|---|---|
| Collected per check | 10 to 100 reviews, newest first |
| Kept across checks | Up to 100 reviews per business |
| Layouts | 12 templates; 15 layouts across feeds, badges and stickers |
| Filters | Minimum rating, hide by word or name, show only matching; 6 orders |
| Refresh window | Reused for 3 days; re-checked on request, at least 1 hour apart |
| Account needed | Free account to save and embed; none to build |
Frequently asked questions
Do I need a Yelp API key or a Yelp business account?
No. Zyff reads the reviews on your public Yelp business page, so there is nothing to authorise, no API key and no token to maintain. Paste the address of the page — the one containing yelp.com/biz/ — and press Load reviews.
Why not use Yelp's own API?
Because it never returns a whole review. Yelp's API hands back excerpts of about 160 characters — three per business by default, and at most seven on its top plan — so a widget built on it can only ever show a few snippets. Zyff collects the whole reviews from your public page instead, and every card links back to the original on Yelp.
How often do the reviews update?
Only when someone asks from the editor — nothing runs on a timer, so reviews never change behind your back. Press "Check Yelp for new reviews" whenever you want the latest; checks of one business are spaced at least 1 hour apart unless you ask for a deeper set. Reconnecting a business within 3 days of its last check reuses what was already collected without asking Yelp at all.
Can I hide negative reviews?
You can set a minimum star rating, hide reviews containing a word or a reviewer's name, or show only reviews that mention a topic — and the widget then states on the page that it is showing a filtered set. That notice is not optional, and every review links back to the original on Yelp.
Can the widget ask visitors to leave a review?
It can: the header can carry a write-a-review button, and the Review Request layout is a card built around one. Both are off until you choose them, because Yelp asks businesses not to solicit reviews and may not recommend reviews it believes were requested. If you use them, every visitor sees the same button — there is no gate that shows it only to happy customers, which Yelp's guidelines forbid outright.
Is the review summary written by AI?
No, deliberately. The highlights card finds the themes your reviews keep returning to and quotes the clearest real sentence about each, word for word. It is extracted rather than generated, so it cannot put words in a reviewer's mouth.
What happens to reviews already collected?
They are kept, up to 100 per business. Each check collects the newest reviews, so a widget that only showed the last check would lose ones that merely scrolled out of it. Zyff pools them across checks and never alters the text — a stored review is exactly what Yelp last returned.