Put your reviews, testimonials and posts on one wall
If you have tried to show social proof on a website, you know how it ends up. A strip of Google reviews near the top, a testimonials block further down that someone updates once a year, and maybe a feed of posts in the footer. Each one is fine. Together they look like three different websites, and a visitor scrolling past sees bits of the story instead of all of it.
Today you can put them in one widget. A mixed feed takes up to four sources and shows them on one wall. The new Bento layout, the arrangement our logo is drawn from, gives that wall a shape that suits a mix: big squares for what deserves attention, small tiles for the rest.
What you can do with it
- Mix up to four sources in one widget, for example your Google reviews, your testimonials and your X posts. Each item keeps its own look. A review is a card with its stars, a post is a post card, and a photo is a photo tile.
- Choose the order. Newest puts every source’s items together, newest first. Even takes one from each source in turn, so a busy account does not crowd out a quiet one.
- Show where each item came from. A small platform icon sits on each item, on by default in a mixed feed.
- Filter without losing the mix. Each source’s filters apply to its own items. Set “4 stars and up” and you keep your good reviews and every post.
- Lay it out as a Bento: a big square, a tall one, a small one and a wide one, repeating with no gaps, at 3 to 6 columns and 2 on a phone. A review or a post without a photo becomes a text card in its cell instead of being left out.
- Give the big squares to your best reviews. On Google reviews, a Bento widget can put the top-rated reviews in the big cells instead of the newest ones.
With an AI agent connected to TileSet, a sentence is enough:
- “Put my X posts and my testimonials together in one TileSet widget, in the Bento layout, one from each in turn.”
The agent adds the second source to the widget, switches it to Bento and sets the order. Your page picks it up with no new snippet.
Who this is for
A local business with a handful of good reviews, a few written testimonials and a social account that posts now and then. None of those fills a section on its own, but together they make a strong wall.
It also suits agencies that want one proof block per client site instead of three. And anyone who saw the wall on our home page and asked how to build one: this is how.
How to set it up
- Sign in to TileSet and connect the sources you want to mix, if they are not connected yet.
- Open a widget, or make one on the first source.
- In the builder, open the Source drawer and press a source under Add another source. Add up to four, and move them up or down.
- Under Order, pick Newest or Even. Under Layout, pick Bento.
- Press Save. Every page that already shows the widget gets the new wall.
Bento is free on every plan. Mixed feeds are on Starter and up. The Mixed feeds guide has the details.
What it costs
Nothing extra. A mixed widget spends no credits of its own. Each source keeps its own update speed and spends what it always did, and the widget shows what those sources already fetched. Page views are never counted, on any plan.
Why you can trust it
A mixed widget behaves like each of its sources. If one source has a bad day, its items stay as they were and the rest of the wall carries on. If you remove one of the sources, it drops out of the widget and the others stay. A source that has not finished its first update joins the wall once it has.
On a phone, the Bento layout drops to two columns and the big squares stay square. If a visitor has reduced motion turned on, nothing on the wall moves.
We built our home page out of exactly this. If I had one widget for my own site, it would be this one.
Joel and the TileSet team