tracksies

Trustie brings reviews, testimonials, and Google Business reviews to any WordPress site. Use it standalone for testimonials and Google reviews, or pair it with WooCommerce for product reviews, star ratings, and review request emails.
<h4>Works Without WooCommerce</h4>
<ul>
<li>Google Reviews — Display your Google Business reviews with star ratings, author names, and a “View on Google” link. Outputs JSON-LD schema for search engine rich results.</li>
<li>Testimonials — Collect customer testimonials through a customizable form. Display them in grid, list, masonry, or slider layouts. Auto-approve above a rating threshold or moderate manually.</li>
<li>Floating Widget — A slide-out panel that shows your latest reviews from all sources on every page.</li>
<li>Reviews Page — A dedicated <code>/reviews/</code> page with tabs, filtering, and pagination. Works automatically — no WooCommerce needed.</li>
<li>Visual Designer — Customize colors, star styles, and branding from Trustie > Designer.</li>
</ul>
<h4>With WooCommerce</h4>
Everything above, plus:
<ul>
<li>Product Reviews — Replace WooCommerce’s default reviews with better-looking cards, star summaries, and rating breakdowns.</li>
<li>Star Ratings — Display average ratings anywhere with shortcodes. Lightweight loop stars for product archives.</li>
<li>Review Request Emails — Automatically email customers after purchase asking for a review.</li>
<li>Convert Comments to Reviews — Turn existing WordPress product comments into star-rated WooCommerce reviews with a configurable default rating.</li>
<li>Sync Product Ratings — Recalculate average ratings and review counts across all products.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Import Tools</h4>
<ul>
<li>Import Testimonials — Automatically detects and imports testimonials from Strong Testimonials, Easy Testimonials, and Starter Templates. Originals can be kept or removed.</li>
<li>Convert Product Comments — If you have product comments from before WooCommerce reviews were enabled, convert them to proper reviews with star ratings in one click.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Accessibility</h4>
Trustie meets WCAG 2.1 AA standards: keyboard navigation, visible focus indicators, screen reader announcements for form submissions and content loading, and descriptive labels on all interactive controls.
<h4>Shortcodes</h4>
Google Reviews (no WooCommerce needed)
<pre><code>[trustie_google_reviews] — Display your Google Business reviews with aggregate rating and schema markup. Requires a Google API key and Place ID (Settings > Google Reviews).
</code></pre>
Testimonials (no WooCommerce needed)
<pre><code>[trustie_testimonials] — Display testimonials in grid, list, or masonry layout.
[trustie_testimonial_form] — Customer testimonial submission form.
[trustie_testimonial_slider] — Auto-advancing testimonial carousel.
[trustie_testimonial_grid] — Convenience grid layout wrapper.
</code></pre>
Product Reviews (WooCommerce required)
<pre><code>[trustie_reviews] — Reviews for a specific product with optional form and summary.
[trustie_all_reviews] — Reviews from all products in a grid.
[trustie_reviews_page] — Full reviews page with pagination.
[trustie_review_form] — Standalone review submission form.
[trustie_rating] — Average star rating for a product.
[trustie_rating_badge] — Compact rating badge (stars + count in one line).
[trustie_loop_stars] — Lightweight stars optimized for product archives.
</code></pre>
Every shortcode accepts optional attributes for customization. See the <a href="https://doc.tracksies.com/docs/trustie-free/shortcode-reference/" rel="nofollow ugc">shortcode reference</a> for full details.
<h4>Premium Add-ons</h4>
<ul>
<li>Trustie Pro — Photo reviews, custom review forms, advanced filtering, enhanced widget controls.</li>
<li>Tracksies HQ — Customer intelligence, order management, badges, email templates.</li>
</ul>
Visit <a href="https://tracksies.com" rel="nofollow ugc">tracksies.com</a> to learn more.
<h3>Privacy Policy</h3>
Trustie uses <a href="https://appsero.com" rel="nofollow ugc">Appsero</a> SDK to collect some telemetry data upon user’s confirmation. This helps us to troubleshoot problems faster & make product improvements.
Appsero SDK does not gather any data by default. The SDK only starts gathering basic telemetry data when a user allows it via the admin notice. We collect the data to ensure a great user experience for all our users.
Integrating Appsero SDK DOES NOT IMMEDIATELY start gathering data, without confirmation from users in any case.
Learn more about how <a href="https://appsero.com/privacy-policy/" rel="nofollow ugc">Appsero collects and uses this data</a>.
<h3>External Services</h3>
This plugin connects to the following external services:
<h4>Google Places API</h4>
Trustie uses the <a href="https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/places/web-service" rel="nofollow ugc">Google Places API</a> to retrieve your Google Business reviews for display on your site.
<ul>
<li>What data is sent: Your Google API key and Place ID (both configured by you in plugin settings).</li>
<li>When: When a page containing the <code>[trustie_google_reviews]</code> shortcode is loaded, or when you test the connection from Settings > Google Reviews. Results are cached for 24 hours to minimize requests.</li>
<li>No visitor data is sent to Google — only your business credentials are used to fetch your own reviews.</li>
<li><a href="https://cloud.google.com/maps-platform/terms" rel="nofollow ugc">Google Terms of Service</a></li>
<li><a href="https://policies.google.com/privacy" rel="nofollow ugc">Google Privacy Policy</a></li>
</ul>
<h4>Appsero</h4>
Trustie uses the <a href="https://appsero.com" rel="nofollow ugc">Appsero</a> SDK for optional, opt-in diagnostic data collection. This helps us troubleshoot issues and improve the plugin.
<ul>
<li>Tracking is disabled by default. Data is only collected after you explicitly allow it via the admin notice shown on plugin activation.</li>
<li>What data is sent (when opted in): Site URL, admin email, WordPress version, PHP version, server environment details, active plugin/theme information, and plugin version.</li>
<li>When: Once per week via a scheduled event, only if you have opted in.</li>
<li>You can opt out at any time from the admin notice or plugin settings.</li>
<li><a href="https://appsero.com/terms-conditions/" rel="nofollow ugc">Appsero Terms of Service</a></li>
<li><a href="https://appsero.com/privacy-policy/" rel="nofollow ugc">Appsero Privacy Policy</a></li>
</ul>
<h4>icanhazip.com (Cloudflare)</h4>
When you opt in to Appsero diagnostic tracking (see above), Trustie uses <a href="https://icanhazip.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">icanhazip.com</a> to determine your server’s public IP address for environment diagnostics. This service is operated by <a href="https://www.cloudflare.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Cloudflare, Inc.</a>.
<ul>
<li>What data is sent: A simple HTTP GET request with no payload.</li>
<li>When: Only when you have opted into Appsero tracking. Not called if tracking is disabled (the default).</li>
<li>What is returned: Your server’s public IP address, which is included in the Appsero diagnostic data.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.cloudflare.com/terms/" rel="nofollow ugc">Cloudflare Terms of Use</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.cloudflare.com/privacypolicy/" rel="nofollow ugc">Cloudflare Privacy Policy</a></li>
</ul>

Trustie

Reviews, testimonials, and Google reviews for WordPress. Works with or without WooCommerce.

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.

Trustie vs Stars Rating