Customer Reviews and Rating Plugin for WordPress
WordPress Customer Reviews Plugin is an easy yet powerful way to let your customers and site visitor leave reviews and rate your products easily, without affecting the speed of your site.
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Review and Rating Plugin Use Cases
- Product Review – Apply the Review form only to your beauty or medicinal product pages and invite users to give feedback
- TV Show Website – Let users review and rate their favorite TV shows episodes
- Soccer Review – Invite visitors to rate and comment on how they team performed on the last matches
Using the User Review and Rating Plugin
- WordPress Reviews Tool – Let customers leave reviews or ratings or both to any post or page
- Moderate and Approve Reviews – Moderate each review before it is published
- Notifications – Send notifications when a new review is posted
- Per Post Review – Disable reviews for a single post/page (or custom post type)
- Edit Review Content – Option to update review content
- Customize Review Widget – Customize reviews widget including color, font and functionality
- Custom Fields – Add any custom field to the review widget
- Review Response – The admin can post a response to any review
Review and Rating Plugin Additional Resources
WordPress User Review Plugin Related Plugins
WordPress User Reviews and Rating Plugin Features
Please check the user guide to learn more about this plugin.
Ratings and Reviews Features
Reviews – Let user post reviews on any or selected pages and posts | |
Ratings – Users can add rate content with a 1 to 5 star rating scale | |
Like/Dislike – Enable a voting system with like and dislike options for reviews | |
Review With Image – Let users add images and control the width of images. | |
Review With Video – Allow users to add videos to their reviews and control the width of videos | |
Reactions – Let users react to reviews with Happy, Amused, Angry, Indifferent and Excited emotions | |
Custom Star Icon – Use a heart, smile or custom icons on your 1 to 5 ratings | |
Customize Review Form – Add optional or required custom fields to the review form | |
Google Results – Supports Google Rich Snippets Schema.org microformat so ratings appear in Google search results | |
Admin Response – The admin can post a response to reviews. Responses can appear in a different color | |
Anonymous Review – Open ratings to anonymous users if needed | |
Rating Weight – Apply different weight to logged-in users versus anonymous users | |
Easy Import/Export – Import and Export collections of reviews to a CSV file with a single click | |
Posts, Custom Posts, Pages – Show the review form on multiple posts, custom posts and pages | |
Integration with BuddyPress – User reviews are posted in his profile and added to his wall once posted |
Admin Features
Moderation – Moderate reviews and ratings before they appear on the Front-End or affect ratings | |
Full Control – Edit or delete existing reviews. You can delete all page or site-wide reviews with a single click | |
Notification – Send notifications to the admin when new reviews are posted. Update users when reviews are approved by an admin |
Interface and Visual Features
Two Views – Choose between the elegant Classic View and the fancy Tile View | |
Customize Feel – Customize the look and feel including background color, location within post and much more | |
Mobile Responsive – Supports mobile devices by adjusting the display to mobile and narrow screens view | |
Sorting – Sort reviews based on score or date | |
Read More – Limit the display of reviews to a certain number of words. Users can read the full text by clicking a “Read More” link | |
Widget – Add a list of recent reviews to the sidebar or footer of your website | |
Translate – Easily modify all plugin labels and messages from the plugin settings | |
WPML – Integrate WPML (WordPress Multi Language) to use the plugin in many languages at the same time | |
Top Reviews Widget – Show list of highest or lowest reviews on your sidebar | |
Recent Reviews Widget – Show most recent reviews on your sidebar |
Privacy and Security
Access Control – Limit ratings and reviews to user roles or logged-in users only | |
One Vote Per User – Limit multiple votes by the same users either by configuring cookies or IP | |
reCAPTCHA Support – Use reCAPTCHA to prevent bots from posting spam reviews | |
GDPR Compliant – Allows the users to have total control over their data related to the plugin Learn more | |
Terms of Service – Add a disclaimer to first time users. Those who reject it won’t be able to review the page/post | |
Blocked IP List – Block ratings and reviews from specific IPs |
WordPress Customer Reviews and Rating Plugin Frequently Asked Questions
Please check the user guide to learn more about this plugin.
How do I let users submit reviews for a product?
Can I add custom fields to a review that do not affect the score?
Yes, the custom field doesn’t affect the score in any way and you can add multiple custom fields.
To learn more about adding custom fields to the review form read this Help article.
Can I restrict what visitors are allowed to review?
How do I display reviews that have been submitted?
If you have defined in the plugin settings to moderate each review, you need to approve each review before it is shown on the front-end. If reviews are not moderated they will appear after submission
To learn more about managing and approving reviews, check this hall postelp article
Can I choose the order in which the reviews appear? (submit date, review title, etc)
Can I customize the styling and layout of my reviews?
WordPress Customer Reviews and Rating Plugin Gallery
Front-end Gallery
Reviews Back-end Gallery
Back-end Settings Gallery
WordPress Customer Reviews and Rating Plugin Demo
![]() ![]() ![]() | Different ways to use the plugin, such as full view or individual reviews. Live Demo |
![]() ![]() ![]() | Check different skins and potential look and feel the customization possibilities. Live Demo |
EXAMPLES OF SITES USING THE REVIEWS PLUGIN
Reviews for the Customer Reviews and Rating Plugin
- Super happy with the resultsLove how customizable this plugin is. We've always had good feedback from customers but now they can leave their reviews on our products for others to see and it has really increased our sales overall. Super happy with the results after only having the plugin for a month! Great work!
- Multi-purposeUsing it on blog posts and our eCommerce pages. The options to respond to reviews and hide spammy ones sold us
- Product pages are better nowCustomers were always asking if the supplements were trustworthy. Now I've added reviews to each of product page (and not to the homepage) and they can rate each, just what I needed.
- Fully recommendedCustomizable form, nice interface and didn't slow down my site... Top-notch plugin and support.
Review and Rating Plugin Release Notes
Version 2.8.2 15th Jan 2021
- Fixed: update review from admin section
- Fixed: sort option not show issue
Version 2.8.1 12th Jan 2021
- Fixed: review success notification issue
- Fixed: recaptcha lookup issue
Version 2.8.0 13th Dec 2020
- Optimized review frontend class methods
- Fixed: multiple reviews allowance issue
Version 2.7.6 28th July 2020
- fixed JS masonry issue
Version 2.7.5 27th June 2020
- Fix issue with version number
Version 2.7.4 26th June 2020
- Added support for a video link in user review
- Added support for an uploaded image in user review
- Bugs fixing
Version 2.7.3 15th June 2020
- Added: custom field type selection “text/textarea”
Version 2.7.2 5th June 2020
- Fixed the support for review validation
- Fixed the Masonry issues on custom loaded content
Version 2.7.1 26th May 2020
- Minor fixes
Version 2.7.0 26th Apr 2020
- Bugfix related to simple captcha feature
- Updated package 1.9.0
Version 2.6.9 26th Apr 2020
- Added: custom fields edit feature
Version 2.6.8 11th Apr 2020
- Fixed: shortcode attributes list
- Added: reviews sort order
Version 2.6.7 1st Apr 2020
- Fixed: statistics show bug
- Fixed: add/edit/delete review issues
- Added: option to import/export reviews for a single post/page
Version 2.6.6 17th Mar 2020
- Added support to add IP address shortcode in to admin email notification
- Improvement into update review date from admin
- Improvement into simple captcha feature
- Added support to custom rating icon into review form
Version 2.6.5 28th Feb 2020
- Implement date format in classic view
- Exclude review form from archive page
- Updated package 1.8.10
Version 2.6.4 25th Feb 2020
- Bugfix related to require rating setting
Version 2.6.3 9th Feb 2020
- Added custom fields data into admin screens
Version 2.6.2 8th Jan 2020
- Added label and placeholder for simple captcha
- Bugfix related to success message when moderation is enabled
- Improvement in CSS
Version 2.6.1 25th Dec 2019
- Removed notices and warnings from WP_List_Table
- Added new widget with top rated reviews
- Updated the Schema.org output
- Improvement in masonry tile view
- Added new text in label section
- Added show_date=”0|1″ param to shortcode cmr_reviews
- Bugfix related to display review date in Tile View
- Added masonry script on Tile View
- Improvement in CSS
- Correction in likes/dislikes and emotion feature
- Added new shortcode cmr_post_summary with postid parameter
- Integration with BuddyPress
- Added support to add My Reviews tab in buddyPress profile
- Added support to add review activity feed post on user wall
- Added edit review feature from frontend
- Added support to stop multiple reviews by same user on same post/page
- Added support to add profile link on author name
- Bugfix related to statistics
- Improvement in likes/dislikes and emotion feature
- Added accept, reject and delete review support in centralized dashboard
- Improved schema.org support
- Improvement in centralized dashboard
- Added filters in centralized dashboard
- Resolve some bugs
- Added itemReviewed schema.org support
- Added centralized dashboard
- Added capability to hide ratings if none exists in shortcode
- Improved review form CSS
- Date format setting implement on old view
- Added the bulk remove reviews global option and for each post/page
- Added date time format option in settings
- Added option to change rating bar color
- Added the widget that shows reviews sorted by specific order
- Added new shortcode cmr_all_reviews orderby=”random|post|date|post|content|rating|author_email” sort_order=”ASC|DESC”
- Added support with woocommerce products even if product has no description
- Added support to change star
- Added likes/dislikes and emotion with each review
- Added support to change text color on review form
- Updated package 1.8.9
- Added/changed some attributes in cmr_ratings shortcode
- Updated package 1.8.8
- Added custom fields position setting
- Added use editor instead of textarea for content field
- Improvement in inline script and style call function
- Added priority for auto add shortcode function
- Improved review form CSS for mobile
- Improved disclaimer popup
- Bugfix in statistics reports section
- Added stripslashes for disclaimer text
- Updated license package 1.8.6
- Split review author name and date settings
- Bugfix related to date format
- Fixed the bug related to form rendering twice
- Improved review form CSS
- Fixed some warning issue
- Fixed the bug with add review form validation
- Replaced add review “init” hook with “wp_loaded”
- Added simple captcha support
- Added WPML String Translation Support
- Fixed array initialization bug
- Fixed problem with rating only allowing 5 stars
- Fixed the problem with the captcha
- Updated package
- Fixed PHP variable case-sensitive issue
- Updated license package
- Bug fixes
- Added sorting based on date and score
- Added “Read more” feature
- Fix: Now reviews are listed horizontally and not vertically
- Fix: Date listing for July
- GDPR: Added the shortcode allowing to remove the reviews and ratings
- Added the parameter postid=”current_post_id” when using the auto add shortcode option
- Fixed the bug with the form not being displayed more than once on a page
- Bug: Fixed the bug in the cmr_ratings shortcode when the postId parameter was set
- Option: Added the option to Export all of the reviews to the CSV
- Option: Added the option to Import all of the reviews from the CSV
- Option: Added the new option to select the view of the reviews
- Option: Added the new options to select colors of some elements
- Option/Change: Moved the color options to the Style tab
- Change: Added the “Review ID” visible only for admins
- Change: Added the possibility to edit the review date
- Change: Added the possibility to add the “Origin” of the review (visible only on the backend)
- Option: Added the options to select the default values for “Origin” of the review (visible only on the backend)
- Change: Changed the order of the reviews to “by Review date” descending
- Shortcode: Added the new shortcode allowing to display a single review
- Bugfix: Improved the shortcodes page
- Updated the Licensing Package
- Added the option to change the color of the stars in the form when they’re highlighted
- Fixed the display of the custom fields 3 and 4
- Updated the licensing package
- Added the option to add the response for the review
- Added the option to display responses for reviews
- Added the option to change the color of the responses for the reviews
- Added the option to disable ratings in form
- Improved the output of disabling the ratings in general
- Added the option to add two more additional fields (4 in total)
- Added the option to paginate the reviews
- Bug Fixing
- Updated the Licensing Package
- Fixed the conflict with CM Paged Post Slider
- Added options inside plugin Settings page to allow HTML code in user reviews and custom fields (customizable restrictions).