by Rating-Widget 4.6 (895 reviews)

Rating-Widget: Star Review System

Name: Rating-Widget: Star Review System
Rating: 4.6 (895 reviews)
Author: Rating-Widget

The most popular Five Star Review System on the web. User-friendly ratings for: posts, pages, comments, WooCommerce, BuddyPress and bbPress forums.

Rating-Widget ranks #3,998 among WordPress.org plugins with 3,000+ active installations, is #541 of 12,226 in the E-commerce category, a 4.6/5 rating from 895 reviews, and was last updated Sep 9, 2025. Data from WordPress.org, refreshed twice daily — see methodology.

Tested up to WP 6.3 (Current: 7.1)

v3.2.4 Current Version v3.2.4

Updated 1 year ago Last Update on 09 Sep, 2025

Refreshed 9 hours ago Last Refreshed on

#541 of 12,226 in E-commerce Top 10% by installs No update in over a year

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#3,998

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Active Installs

3K+

-22.1%

KW Avg Position

52.5

0.2 worse

Downloads

1.2M

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Support Resolved

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Rating

92%

Review 4.6 out of 5

4.6 (895 reviews)

Next Milestone 4K

Total Progress 85.7%

3K+ 4K+

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Reviews & Ratings

4.6

895 reviews

Overall 92%

758 (85%)

52 (6%)

14 (2%)

9 (1%)

62 (7%)

Security History

Source: WPVulnerability

10 known vulnerabilities on record · 1 in the last 24 months · checked 2 days ago

Oct 16, 2024

Rating-Widget: Star Review System [rating-widget] < 3.1.4 (closed)

CVE-2022-4974 · Fixed in v3.1.4
Jul 18, 2023

Rating-Widget: Star Review System [rating-widget] < 3.2.0 (closed)

CVE-2023-33999 · Fixed in v3.2.0
Apr 24, 2023

Rating-Widget: Star Review System [rating-widget] < 3.2.1 (closed)

CVE-2023-23831 · Fixed in v3.2.1
Mar 4, 2022

Rating-Widget: Star Review System [rating-widget] < 3.1.4 (closed)

CVE-2022-4974 · Fixed in v3.1.4
Feb 28, 2022

Rating-Widget: Star Review System [rating-widget] < 3.1.4 (closed)

Fixed in v3.1.4
Feb 28, 2022

Rating-Widget: Star Review System [rating-widget] < 3.1.4 (closed)

Fixed in v3.1.4
Apr 29, 2018

Rating-Widget: Star Review System [rating-widget] < 2.9.0 (closed)

Fixed in v2.9.0
Oct 30, 2017

Rating-Widget: Star Review System [rating-widget] < 2.9.0 (closed)

Fixed in v2.9.0
Mar 17, 2011

Rating-Widget: Star Review System [rating-widget] < 1.3.2 (closed)

Fixed in v1.3.2
Rating-Widget: Star Review System [rating-widget] < 2.9.0 (closed)

Fixed in v2.9.0

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Plugin Details

Version: 3.2.4
Last Updated: Sep 09, 2025
Requires WP: 3.0+
Tested Up To: 6.3
PHP Version: N/A
Author: Rating-Widget

Support & Rating

Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6
Reviews: 895
Support Threads: 0
Resolved: 0%

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TL;DR

AI summary of the plugin's readme

This plugin is for WordPress site owners who want to collect star or thumb ratings on posts, pages, comments, WooCommerce products, BuddyPress activity, and bbPress forums. It provides a customizable, GDPR-compliant rating widget with cookie-based duplicate-vote prevention, translations, and paid tiers for added analytics, moderation, and support features.

Post ratings
Page ratings
Comment ratings and reviews
WooCommerce product ratings
BuddyPress user and activity ratings
bbPress forum ratings
Custom post type ratings
Top Rated widget

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about Rating-Widget: Star Review System

You can find our WordPress documentation here: http://rating-widget.com/support/wordpress/

Yes we do! Rich-Snippets schema.org metadata integration is supported in our Professional and Business plans. We have many customers which have the ratings shown in Google SERP (Search Engine Results Page). We follow Google's best practices and constantly improve the plugin according to the newest updates to make sure that your pages will pass Google's official rich snippets testing tool. But, we cannot guarantee that Google will show your stars in the search results. Why? Unfortunately, we don't have access nor control of Google's algorithms. The algorithm which decides whether to show the stars (or not) is based on the search keywords, page popularity, device type, country, and many more variables. Our recommendation: if you are willing to risk one month of payment for the Professional plan, upgrade, and give it between 2-3 weeks to see if Google "liked" your site. If the ratings will be synced with the search results - AWESOME! If not, simply downgrade back to the Free version. Note - there won't be any refunds for claims about the Rich-Snippets.

Follow this short guide to test the rich-snippets

Yes you can! Install the free plugin, then go to RatingWidget -> Account, and click the "Free Trial" tab.

Don’t panic – you are not alone! Your custom theme’s developer forgot to call wp_footer() in the footer template file (usually named footer.php). Our star ratings core JavasScript is loaded on this action hook. Once this fixed the ratings should appear. More info here - http://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Development#Plugin_API_Hooks

Make sure your Front Page ratings are enabled for excerpts. In addition, your theme’s front page template must use the_excerpt() method to show/load the excerpts. We use this method’s hook to add the rating code.

First, make sure you’ve enabled the ratings for comments in your admin’s dashboard. Once you sure it’s enabled, but still doesn't work, a common cause can be that your theme isn’t using comment_text() to display the comments text. A common mistake by theme developers is the use of get_comment_text() instead of comment_text(). Try to switch between those and it should fix the issue. If you are awesome, contact the theme developer and let him know about the issue so he can fix it for everyone else.

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