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EffortLess Simple Reviews Editor lets visitors submit reviews (pending admin approval) and displays published reviews in a responsive card grid with infinite scroll.
Features:
<ul>
<li>Front-end review submission form with star rating, name, title, and review text fields</li>
<li>Admin approval workflow — all submissions are set to “Pending”</li>
<li>Responsive card grid with configurable columns</li>
<li>Infinite scroll (IntersectionObserver) for seamless loading</li>
<li>Spam protection: honeypot field + rate limiting (1 submission per 60 s)</li>
<li>Accessible star rating with keyboard navigation</li>
<li>One-time-use review links — send unique links to clients</li>
<li>Programmatic link generation via <code>elsre_create_review_link()</code></li>
<li>No external dependencies — pure CSS stars, vanilla JavaScript</li>
<li>i18n ready — <code>.pot</code> translation template included</li>
</ul>
<h3>Shortcodes</h3>
<h4>[elsre_reviews] — Display Reviews Grid</h4>
Place this shortcode on any page or post to display published reviews.
Attributes:
<ul>
<li><code>per_page</code> (default: <code>6</code>) — Reviews per load batch</li>
<li><code>columns</code> (default: <code>3</code>) — Grid columns on desktop (1–6)</li>
<li><code>ids</code> (default: empty) — Comma-separated review IDs; disables pagination</li>
<li><code>order</code> (default: <code>desc</code>) — Sort order: <code>desc</code> for newest first, <code>asc</code> for oldest first</li>
<li><code>star_size</code> (default: <code>18px</code>) — Star icon size (any CSS unit)</li>
<li><code>text_size</code> (default: <code>15px</code>) — Review text font size</li>
<li><code>name_size</code> (default: <code>14px</code>) — Reviewer name font size</li>
</ul>
Examples:
<pre><code>[elsre_reviews]
[elsre_reviews per_page="9" columns="3"]
[elsre_reviews ids="12,45,78" columns="2"]
[elsre_reviews star_size="28px" text_size="18px" name_size="16px"]
</code></pre>
<h4>[elsre_form] — Review Submission Form</h4>
Place this shortcode on any page or post to display the submission form.
Attributes:
<ul>
<li><code>require_token</code> (default: <code>no</code>) — Set to <code>yes</code> to require a one-time-use link token</li>
<li><code>star_size</code> (default: <code>32px</code>) — Star icon size in the rating picker</li>
</ul>
Examples:
<pre><code>[elsre_form]
[elsre_form require_token="yes"]
[elsre_form star_size="48px"]<h3>One-Time Review Links</h3>
</code></pre>
1. Create a page with <code>[elsre_form require_token="yes"]</code>. 
2. Go to Reviews → Review Links in the admin. 
3. Click Generate Link (optionally add a label for your reference). 
4. Copy the link and send it to your client.
Each link works only once. After the client submits their review, the link is marked as used.
<h3>Developer Integration</h3>
Generate review links programmatically from your own plugin or theme:
<pre><code>$link = elsre_create_review_link( 'client@example.com' );
$link = elsre_create_review_link( 'client@example.com', 'John Doe', 42 );
</code></pre>
<ul>
<li>First parameter: client email (unique identifier — reuses existing unused token if found)</li>
<li>Second parameter: optional label for admin reference</li>
<li>Third parameter: optional page ID containing <code>[elsre_form]</code> (auto-detected if omitted)</li>
<li>Returns the full URL with token, or empty string if no form page found</li>
</ul>
Check availability before calling: <code>function_exists( 'elsre_create_review_link' )</code>
<h3>Admin Pages</h3>
<h4>Reviews List (Dashboard → Reviews)</h4>
All submitted reviews are listed here as a standard WordPress post list. 
Extra columns show the key review data at a glance:
<pre><code>┌──────────────┬────────┬──────────────┬─────────────┬────────────┐
│ Title │ Rating │ Reviewer │ Date │ Status │
├──────────────┼────────┼──────────────┼─────────────┼────────────┤
│ Great hotel! │ ★★★★★ │ Jane Doe │ 2026-03-01 │ Pending │
│ Good service │ ★★★★☆ │ John Smith │ 2026-02-28 │ Published │
└──────────────┴────────┴──────────────┴─────────────┴────────────┘
</code></pre>
Publish a review to make it appear on the front end. Leave it as Pending to 
keep it hidden until you have reviewed it.
<h4>Review Edit Screen</h4>
Each review has a Review Details meta box below the title field:
<pre><code>┌─────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ REVIEW DETAILS │
├──────────────┬──────────────────────────┤
│ Reviewer Name│ Jane Doe │
│ Review Title │ Perfect weekend getaway! │
│ Rating │ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ │
│ Review Text │ Fantastic experience... │
│ Review Date │ 2026-03-01 │
└──────────────┴──────────────────────────┘
</code></pre>
The star picker is fully keyboard-accessible (arrow keys, Enter, Space).
<h4>Review Links Page (Dashboard → Reviews → Review Links)</h4>
Generate one-time-use links to send to specific clients:
<pre><code>┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ GENERATE NEW LINK │
│ Client Email [client@example.com ] │
│ Label [e.g. John's booking ] (optional) │
│ Form Page [Leave a Review ▾ ] │
│ [ Generate Link ] │
└──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ ALL LINKS │
├──────────────┬───────────┬────────┬────────────┬────────┬───────────┤
│ Email │ Label │ Status │ Created │ Used │ Actions │
├──────────────┼───────────┼────────┼────────────┼────────┼───────────┤
│ jane@... │ Jane Doe │ Active │ 2026-03-01 │ — │ Copy Link │
│ john@... │ John Smith│ Used │ 2026-02-28 │ Mar 01 │ Expired │
└──────────────┴───────────┴────────┴────────────┴────────┴───────────┘
</code></pre>
After generating, a success banner shows the link ready to copy:
<pre><code>┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ ✓ Link generated! Send this link to your client: │
│ https://example.com/review/?elsre_token=abc123 [ Copy ] │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
</code></pre>

EffortLess Simple Reviews Editor

A simple reviews system with front-end submission, admin approval, and responsive card grid display with infinite scroll.

Collins Agbonghama

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Blaz K.

Rate My Post – Star Rating System by FeedbackWP allows you to easily add rating functionality to your WordPress website. Visitors can rate your posts/pages and send you private feedback after rating.
Functionality to add star rating and result widget to custom post types, use different rating icons, create custom rating widgets that work independently of posts and pages is available in the <a href="https://feedbackwp.com/?utm_source=wprepo&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=liteversion" rel="nofollow ugc">Premium Version</a>.
What sets Rate My Post apart from other WordPress rating plugins is its simplicity, performance and impact on engagement. It works with any page cache plugin and is probably the most customizable free WordPress rating plugin.
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Highlights
<ul>
<li>Add rating functionality to your website automatically or use shortcodes – no coding required!</li>
<li>Option to show ratings visually before the content of each post (so-called results widget)</li>
<li>Stats section where you can see how many votes each post/page received and what is its average rating.</li>
<li>Analytics section with detailed information about each rating such as time, IP (optionally), username, title, time spent on page before rating etc.</li>
<li>Easily change ratings in the admin panel</li>
<li>Supports structured data for rich snippets according to the latest <a href="https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2019/09/making-review-rich-results-more-helpful.html" rel="nofollow ugc">Google guidelines</a></li>
<li>GDPR compliant</li>
<li>Top rated posts widget</li>
<li>Custom templates for complete customization</li>
<li>Works with infinite scroll plugins and popups (implementation required)</li>
</ul>
<blockquote>
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</blockquote>
Shortcodes
[ratemypost] – embeds rating widget
[ratemypost-result] – embeds results widget
It is also possible to embed a rating of whichever post by passing the id of the post to the shortcode.
[ratemypost id=”1″] – embeds rating widget for the post with the id of 1
[ratemypost-result id=”1″] – embeds results widget for the post with the id of 1
FeedbackWP Premium
<a href="https://feedbackwp.com/?utm_source=wprepo&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=liteversion" rel="nofollow ugc">FeedbackWP Premium</a> comes with advanced schema selector which allows you to select schema type directly in the post editor for each post and supports custom rating widgets. Read more about <a href="https://feedbackwp.com/?utm_source=wprepo&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=liteversion" rel="nofollow ugc">FeedbackWP Premium</a>.
Features to add rating and feedback result widgets to Custom Post Types (CPT), add rating to existing posts without votes, and support for a different icon other than the Star icon are available in <a href="https://feedbackwp.com/?utm_source=wprepo&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=liteversion" rel="nofollow ugc">FeedbackWP Premium</a>.
Components
The plugin includes five components; rating widget, results widget, social widget, feedback widget and top rated posts widget.
<h4>Rating Widget Features:</h4>
Rating widget adds the basic rating functionality to your website
<ol>
<li>
Choose between different types of rating widget: Stars, Thumbs, Hearts, Smileys and Trophies
</li>
<li>
Add rating widget to any page/post with shortcode: [ratemypost]
</li>
<li>
Add rating widget to all posts or pages with one click in the settings
</li>
<li>
Exclude rating widget from certain pages and posts – such as About Us page etc.
</li>
<li>
All texts and colors can be easily changed in the settings
</li>
<li>
Option to add structured data for Rich Snippets to be displayed in search engines
</li>
<li>
Option to get email when a post is rated
</li>
<li>
Option to prevent accidental votes
</li>
<li>
Prevent double votes with cookies
</li>
<li>
Option to hide average rating and vote count
</li>
<li>
Option to show descriptive ratings while a user hovers over rating icons
</li>
<li>
Option to enable reCAPTCHA v3 and Cloudflare Turnstile protection
</li>
<li>
Option to show results (visual rating) on archive pages
</li>
<li>
Option to allow only logged in users to vote
</li>
<li>
Option to prevent double votes via IP addresses
</li>
</ol>
<h4>Results Widget Features:</h4>
Results widget is similar to the rating widget, but is not interactive – it only displays rating visually.
<ol>
<li>
Optional feature – you can enable it or disable it
</li>
<li>
Add results widget to any page/post with shortcode: [ratemypost-result]
</li>
<li>
Add results widget to all posts or pages with one click in the settings
</li>
</ol>
<h4>Feedback Widget Features:</h4>
Feedback widget enables visitors to leave you anonymous feedback
<ol>
<li>
Optional feature – you can enable it or disable it
</li>
<li>
After a negative rating (you define what is a negative rating in the settings), displays the feedback widget
</li>
<li>
Users who give you negative rating can help you improve your post
</li>
<li>
Feedback is not posted publicly – only you can see it
</li>
<li>
Option to get an email if somebody leaves you feedback
</li>
</ol>
<h4>Social Widget Features:</h4>
Social widget displays social follow or social share links after the rating has been submitted
You can show social follow/share links after a positive rating (you define what is a positive rating in the settings).
<h4>Top Rated Posts Widget:</h4>
Displays top rated posts on your website
Display top-rated posts on your website with the “Top Rated Posts” widget. You can specify the number of posts, minimum average rating, and vote count required. Additionally, enable featured images and visual ratings.
[ratemypost-top-rated] – embeds the top-rated posts widget.
<h4>Why use Rate My Post?</h4>
<ol>
<li>
Increase engagement
</li>
<li>
Get feedback and improve your content
</li>
<li>
Get more followers on social media
</li>
<li>
It’s responsive, lightweight and simple to use
</li>
<li>
It’s probably the most customizable free WordPress rating plugin
</li>
<li>
It uses AJAX and thus works super fast
</li>
<li>
It’s compatible with caching plugins
</li>
<li>
It supports structured data for rich snippets
</li>
<li>
It works with multilingual websites
</li>
<li>
AMP compatibility
</li>
<li>
Cloudflare Turnstile and reCAPTCHA v3 protection
</li>
<li>
Migration tools – easily migrate from kk Star Ratings, YASR or WP-PostRatings
</li>
</ol>

Rate My Post – Star Rating Plugin by FeedbackWP


A great little plugin that works out of the box and has the basic styling options needed. I managed to get it where I wanted it on some templates using the do_shortcode function, and it's doing what I need.


Works great

Great plugin for collecting feedback

Add Star Rating to WordPress posts & pages, collect feedbacks from users and improve website SEO with Schema markup for Rich Snippets.

EffortLess Simple Reviews Editor vs Rate My Post – Star Rating Plugin by FeedbackWP