Best stars plugins for WordPress
The most popular stars plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. GD Rating System leads with 1K+ active installs, ahead of Stars Rating (1K+) and Five-Star Ratings Shortcode (500+). All 24 plugins tagged “stars” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 10 stars plugins
- 1.
GD Rating SystemThe most installed stars plugin, with 1K+ active installs. Rated 4.3 from 24 reviews, updated 1 month ago.
- 2.
Stars Rating1K+ active installs. Rated 4.7 from 23 reviews, updated 7 months ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.9.11.
- 3.
Five-Star Ratings Shortcode500+ active installs. Rated 4.2 from 5 reviews, updated 4 weeks ago.
- 4.
Rating Widget400+ active installs. Rated 5.0 from 9 reviews, last updated 2 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.5.14.
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Admin Starred Posts300+ active installs. Rated 5.0 from 6 reviews, last updated 7 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 5.1.28.
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EC Stars Rating300+ active installs. Rated 4.2 from 16 reviews, last updated 11 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.3.34.
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Rating by BestWebSoft300+ active installs. Rated 4.7 from 7 reviews, last updated 1 year ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.8.12.
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GoodReviews300+ active installs. Only 4 reviews so far, last updated 6 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 5.5.24.
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Certishopping Social Reviews for Woocommerce100+ active installs. Only 2 reviews so far, last updated 1 year ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.5.14.
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Author Post Ratings100+ active installs. Rated 5.0 from 8 reviews, last updated 12 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 3.7.41.
All 24 plugins tagged “stars”
GD Rating System
Down in the last 7 days:20#6,384by Milan Petrovic1 month ago
Powerful, highly customizable and versatile ratings plugin to allow your users to vote for anything you want.
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 4.3(24)
- Downloads
- 34/day
Stars Rating
Down in the last 7 days:19#6,570by Fahid Javid7 months ago
A complete review plugin — star ratings, photo uploads, likes & dislikes, and Google rich snippets, all from one place.
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 4.7(23)
- Downloads
- 23/day
Five-Star Ratings Shortcode
Down in the last 7 days:56#8,643by Chris J. Zähller1 month ago
Simple lightweight shortcode to add 5-star ratings anywhere.
- Installs
- 500+
- Rating
- 4.2(5)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Rating Widget
Up in the last 7 days:21#9,757by TotalSuite2 years ago
Enhance UX with a customizable rating widget 5 star, smiley, and thumbs up/down. Collect feedback and ratings for your website.
- Installs
- 400+
- Rating
- 5.0(9)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Admin Starred Posts
Down in the last 7 days:61#9,972by innocuo7 years ago
Mark posts, pages and custom posts in your WordPress admin; pretty similar to the stars feature in Gmail.
- Installs
- 300+
- Rating
- 5.0(6)
- Downloads
- 0/day
EC Stars Rating
Down in the last 7 days:26#10,458by ecoal9511 years ago
A lightweigt, blazing fast star rating plugin for WordPress
- Installs
- 300+
- Rating
- 4.2(16)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Rating by BestWebSoft
Down in the last 7 days:34#10,479by bestweblayout1 year ago
Add rating plugin to your WordPress website to receive feedback from your customers.
- Installs
- 300+
- Rating
- 4.7(7)
- Downloads
- 11/day
GoodReviews
Down in the last 7 days:20#10,922by jhanbackjr6 years ago
Display Goodreads.com reviews for ISBNs or IDs you specify on any page or post.
- Installs
- 300+
- Rating
- 4.3(4)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Certishopping Social Reviews for Woocommerce
Up in the last 7 days:36#15,283by certishopping1 year ago
Certishopping is a commerce marketing platform that helps brands of all sizes collect and showcase reviews, photos.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Author Post Ratings
Down in the last 7 days:30#16,350by Philip Newcomer13 years ago
Allows a post author to assign a simple 1-5 star rating to a post, page, or custom post type, which will then be displayed on the post.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(8)
- Downloads
- 0/day
WidgetPack Review System
Up in the last 7 days:53#18,480by richplugins10 years ago
The WidgetPack Review System replaces default WordPress comments with social review service to get more reviews mean more traffic and more sales.
- Installs
- 70+
- Rating
- 4.2(6)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Custom Ratings
Up in the last 7 days:179#18,691by Steve Puddick3 years ago
A fun and creative way to let your site visitors rate your posts, pages, and more!
- Installs
- 70+
- Rating
- 4.1(7)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Better WooCommerce Stars Shortcode
Up in the last 7 days:23#20,784by Clicknathan11 years ago
Creates a shortcode that displays the rating, in stars, of any WooCommerce product.
- Installs
- 50+
- Rating
- 3.7(3)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Best Rating & Pageviews
Down in the last 7 days:282#29,044by icopydoc6 months ago
Add Star rating, pageviews and adds a tool for analyzing the effectiveness of content with the supplied shortcode.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 4.3(3)
- Downloads
- 0/day
ReviewStars
Down in the last 7 days:134#32,010by designplug5 months ago
Displays a modern Google Places rating badge with style controls, caching, auto refresh, and optional preview mode.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Rate this Author
Down in the last 7 days:2,337#40,623by Tech9logy Creators5 years ago
This is a very simple and lightweight Plugin for rating authors by visitors.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 3.0(3)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Famous Birthday Plugin
#46,014by Thorulf9 years ago
The Famous Birthday plugin for WordPress gives you on each day two famous birthdays. This is a fun way for you and your readers to se with which celeb …
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Umbradev Post Rating
Up in the last 7 days:1,209#61,008by Umbradev5 months ago
Modern lightweight AJAX star rating plugin for WordPress posts with responsive UI, duplicate protection and Schema.org support.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Sx Site Rating
Down in the last 7 days:1,844#61,118by schizma796 years ago
A simple single rating plugin for your wordpress site
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Starry Sky
Down in the last 7 days:14,294#63,078by Paxana Wiedeman2 months ago
A cover-like block with a realistic black starry sky that reacts to mouse movement. Drop any blocks on top.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Stars Rating Field for Elementor Forms
#64,729by add-ons.org12 days ago
Add beautiful and interactive Stars Rating or Like/Dislike fields to Elementor Forms.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
ReviewPanel Ratings for Google Reviews
#72,599by ReviewPanel4 months ago
Display your Google rating, review count, and Leave a Review CTA on your WordPress site with a clean rating badge.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
GameSync Review Breakdown
Down in the last 7 days:21,622#73,056by gamesync11 days ago
Multi-criteria review scores for posts, pages, games and any custom post type, with stars, points or a percentage and schema.org Review markup.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 11/day