easysocialproof

Easy Social Proof Lite adds a beautiful, customizable social proof widget to your WordPress site using the Gutenberg block editor. Show overlapping avatar circles, gold star ratings, and a custom message to build trust and encourage sign-ups.
“Proven to increase conversions — based on scientific social proof principles.”
Features:
<ul>
<li>Overlapping circular avatar display</li>
<li>Gold star ratings (1-5 whole stars, customizable color)</li>
<li>Custom text message (e.g. “Join 1,000+ happy subscribers”)</li>
<li>Upload up to 10 avatars via the media library</li>
<li>Horizontal and vertical layouts</li>
<li>Fully responsive</li>
<li>No build step required — lightweight and fast</li>
</ul>
Upgrade to Pro:
<ul>
<li>Precise star ratings — use a slider to display any value like 4.5, 4.6, 4.7, not just whole numbers</li>
<li>Avatar picker — auto-pull Gravatars and API images</li>
<li>Auto user count — pull real user counts from your WordPress database</li>
<li>Social Proof Cards block — grid of testimonial-style cards</li>
<li>Trust badges — 30 Day Money Back, Trusted Seller, Free Shipping, Secure Payments and more</li>
<li>FOMO toast notifications with customizable timing and burst mode</li>
<li>WooCommerce integration — show real purchase notifications</li>
<li>No “Powered by” branding</li>
<li>Auto-updates</li>
<li><a href="https://easysocialproof.io" rel="nofollow ugc">Get Easy Social Proof Pro</a></li>
</ul>
Learn More:
<ul>
<li><a href="https://easysocialproof.io/social-proof-for-ecommerce-reducing-cart-abandonment-with-trust/" rel="nofollow ugc">Social Proof for eCommerce – Reducing Cart Abandonment With Trust Badges</a></li>
<li><a href="https://easysocialproof.io/best-social-proof-plugins-for-wordpress-2026-the-complete-guide/" rel="nofollow ugc">Best Social Proof Plugins for WordPress (2026) — The Complete Guide</a></li>
<li><a href="https://easysocialproof.io/social-proof-in-ecommerce-a-research-based-guide-to-increasing-sales/" rel="nofollow ugc">Social Proof in eCommerce – A Research-Based Guide to Increasing Sales</a></li>
<li><a href="https://easysocialproof.io/the-science-of-trust-badges-how-visual-security-cues-affect-purchasing-decisions/" rel="nofollow ugc">The Science of Trust Badges – How Visual Security Cues Affect Purchasing Decisions</a></li>
<li><a href="https://easysocialproof.io/easy-social-proof-pro-everything-in-the-upgrade/" rel="nofollow ugc">Easy Social Proof Pro – Everything in the Upgrade</a></li>
</ul>
<h3>How to Use</h3>
<ol>
<li>In the Gutenberg editor, click the + block inserter and search for Easy Social Proof</li>
<li>Add the block to your page or post</li>
<li>Select the block and open the settings panel on the right. The settings are organized into three sections:</li>
</ol>
Avatar Settings
<ul>
<li>Click “Add Avatar” to upload up to 10 images from your media library</li>
<li>Adjust avatar size, overlap amount, border width, and border color</li>
</ul>
Content
<ul>
<li>Edit the display text (e.g. “Join 1,000+ happy subscribers”)</li>
<li>Toggle star ratings on or off, set the star count (1-5), and pick a custom star color</li>
</ul>
Style
<ul>
<li>Switch between horizontal and vertical layouts</li>
<li>Set the alignment (left, center, or right)</li>
<li>Choose a text color and adjust the font size</li>
</ul>
<ol>
<li>The block renders on the frontend exactly as it appears in the editor</li>
</ol>
<h3>Reviews</h3>
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Easy Social Proof Lite

Display overlapping avatars, gold star ratings, and custom text as a Gutenberg block for social proof.

Fahid Javid

Stars Rating transforms WordPress comments into a fully featured review system. It is simple to set up, highly configurable, and designed to keep your Media Library and admin clean no matter how many reviews come in.
Its main features are as follows:
Star Ratings 
* Turns posts, pages and custom post types comments into star-rated reviews. 
* Choose which post types have ratings enabled, globally and per post. 
* Option to require a star selection before a comment can be submitted. 
* Choose from two star styles (regular outline or solid filled) with a custom colour picker. 
* Display the average rating above the comments section. 
* Offers a shortcode [stars_rating_avg] to display the average rating anywhere. 
* Hide the average rating text: [stars_rating_avg show_text=”no”]. 
* Hide an empty average rating: [stars_rating_avg show_empty_rating=”no”]. 
* See each review’s star rating on the WordPress comments screen (backend).
Review Photos 
* Allow reviewers to attach photos to their comments. 
* Photos are stored in a dedicated folder (wp-content/uploads/sr-reviews/) — completely separate from the WordPress Media Library to keep it clean. 
* Photos open in a per-review lightbox gallery on the front end. 
* Manage and delete individual review photos from the comment edit screen in the admin. 
* Configure max number of photos, max file size, and max image dimension per upload. 
* Restrict photo uploads to logged-in users or allow everyone.
Likes & Dislikes 
* Add thumbs-up / thumbs-down buttons to posts on any post type. 
* Show or hide vote counts next to each button. 
* Restrict voting to logged-in users or allow everyone. 
* SVG icons ensure consistent rendering across all browsers and devices.
Negative Rating Alert 
* Show a popup when a reviewer selects a low star rating, giving them a chance to reach out before posting. 
* Set the rating threshold that triggers the alert. 
* Configure a direct link to your contact page inside the alert.
Google Rich Snippets 
* Output JSON-LD structured data so star ratings can appear directly in Google search results. 
* Set the review type (Product, Recipe, Book, Course, etc.) to match your content.
Labels & Messages 
* Customise every user-facing string — prompts, button labels, alert text, error messages — directly from the settings page without editing any code.
Settings 
* Organised settings page with tabbed navigation (Stars & Reviews, Likes & Dislikes, Labels & Messages) for quick access to each feature area.

Stars Rating

So i was looking for some simple star rating system, that would support schema and had as least bloat as possible. I thought i found what i was looking for, unfortunely this is not the case.

For simple usage it's ok, but there's two major drawbacks:
* Can't use it outside specified post/page/cpt, i.e. you wanna list ratings on loop somewhere? Too bad. 
* WHOLE Font Awesome library for simple star icon and it's added to plugin TWICE! Who does that? Without all that FA bloat plugin weight goes down to ~170kb from almost 2MB.

Also i'm not sure that author of the plugin understands support enquiries, but that might be just my speculation.

Acceptable quality at most

Very Good

Does what it says. I tried 3 other Plugins to get my CPT ratings, but due to heavy customization in the comments template (and form) none of them worked. This one integrates without any problems.

The only thing I'd like to see is an option to hide or customize the average rating text - for now it's not possible to only show the average number without additional text.

Hiding all text with CSS doesn't work too, because the text is in plain HTML without a class. I would like to have it like this:

<div class="stars-avg-rating">
 ...
 3.5 based on 2 reviews
</div>




Would enable more options for styling.

Works great!

A complete review plugin — star ratings, photo uploads, likes & dislikes, and Google rich snippets, all from one place.

Easy Social Proof Lite vs Stars Rating