How Do I Use Automation to Auto-Select Reviews on My Carousel Widget in Feedspace?

Overview

The Carousel widget in Feedspace slides through your reviews in a continuous loop, showing one or a few cards at a time. Because visitors see each card for only a few seconds as it scrolls past, it matters more than ever that every review in the rotation is high quality and current. Manually updating the selection each time a new review arrives is time-consuming and easy to forget.

The Automate Review Selection feature solves this by letting you define a set of rules once. Any new review that matches those rules is automatically added to your Carousel, so the widget keeps rotating through the freshest, highest-rated testimonials without any manual action on your part.

How to set up automation for your Carousel widget

Step 1: Open your Carousel widget

1. Log in to your Feedspace account.
2. Click Widgets in the left sidebar.
3. Locate your Carousel widget and click the pencil (edit) icon to open the editor.
4. Go to the Select Reviews tab.

Step 2: Open Automated Selection

On the Select Reviews tab, find the Automate Review Selection card and click Setup Automation inside it. The panel that replaces the review list is headed Automated Selection.

Step 3: Choose your filters

Choose which reviews should automatically rotate through your Carousel. You can apply one filter or combine several for more precise control:

• Star Ratings: Automatically include reviews rated 1 to 3 stars or 4 to 5 stars. For a Carousel, selecting 4 to 5 stars ensures only your strongest social proof slides into view.
• Review Sentiment: Filter by positive, neutral, or negative sentiment to control the tone of what cycles through the widget.
• Review Type: Limit the Carousel to specific formats such as video, audio, text comments, highlighted text, images, or favourites.
• Keywords: Include reviews that contain specific words or exclude reviews with certain terms to keep messaging on topic.
• Reviewer Details: Only include reviews where the reviewer has a name, profile image, job role, or company, so every card that appears in the Carousel looks credible and complete.
• Review Forms: Pull reviews only from a specific form if you want the Carousel to focus on a particular product or campaign.
• Auto-Imported Sources: Include reviews from platforms connected to your auto-import, so new reviews from those sources enter the Carousel automatically.
• Imported Review Sources: Filter by manually imported review platforms to target a specific source.

Step 4: Save your rules

Click Save Selection in the automation panel to store your filter configuration. Then click Save & Next in the editor header to apply the changes to the Carousel widget. From this point, any review that matches your filters will be added to the carousel rotation automatically.

Resetting automation

To remove your rules, open Automated Selection again and click Reset. That clears every filter, leaving you free to define a fresh set.

What’s next

• Adjust the Carousel autoplay speed in the Design tab so the rotation pace matches the number of reviews in your automated pool.
• Combine the star rating filter with a keyword filter to surface reviews that are both highly rated and mention a specific feature or product name.
• Create a second Carousel widget with a different automation rule set to target a separate audience or landing page.
• Embed the Carousel widget on your homepage and let automation keep it fresh so returning visitors always see new testimonials in the loop.

Common questions

Will automation remove the reviews I picked by hand?

No. The summary at the bottom of the panel spells this out: only new reviews that match your filters are added. Anything you selected yourself stays in the widget.