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kk Star Ratings – Rate Post & Collect User Feedbacks
Easy star ratings that might accidentally break your entire website.
GrowingPoor rating
57/100
The plugin is easy to use but updates often break sites or lock features behind a paywall.
Active installs
~75,000
our estimate · wp.org shows 70k+
Rating
3.9★
171 ratings
Trend · vs a year ago
+39%
Growing fast
156 → 217 installs/day
What to watch out for
- MAJORverified rating is 3.42★
Downloads over time
real new installs per day · release spikes shown separately from the trend2025-04-302025-08-082025-11-162026-02-232026-06-03
organicrelease spikerelease tailorganic trend · 14d rolling median
Growing fast · +39% in the last year
156/day a year ago→217/day today
Reviews
what people actually saykk Star Ratings is a long-standing, easy-to-use rating plugin that works well for many users in its stable versions, but has a significant history of updates breaking sites, losing rating data, and degrading features in favor of a PRO tier.
What people like
- +Works reliably for users on stable/older versions, with long-term use reported across multiple sites×4
- +Easy to install and use×2
- +Adds rich snippet / structured data rating markup to posts×2
- +Regularly updated (noted positively by at least one user)
Common complaints
- −Updates have broken websites outright, in some cases taking down entire sites including cpanel access (since 5.1.x)×4
- −Updates have caused complete loss of all stored star rating data×2
- −Version 5.x removed or locked features behind a PRO version that were previously free (since 5)
- −Google rich snippet / structured data stopped working after an update×2
- −Unique votes / IP-based vote limiting does not work correctly, allowing infinite votes from the same visitor
- −Does not work on mobile
- −Stars inside tables break column sorting functionality (since 5)
- −No response from support
- −Compatibility with newer PHP and WordPress versions needs improvement
Review trustMostly organic
- 3.42★Verified rating — holds steady vs the raw 3.90★
- 12%One-shot reviewers — most reviewers are active community members
- past spikeReview timing — up to 33% of all reviews landed in a single month
Reviews per month · 5★ vs lower
2024-10-122025-08-082026-06-04
5★ reviews1–4★ reviews
All-time ratings · 171 total
Latest reviews · 90 analyzed
- 2025-12-05★★★★★Love itEric
- 2025-01-29★★★★★Love this pluginehsanmn
- 2024-10-10★★★★★Love the PluginMuhammad Usman
- 2023-04-06★★★★★Great plugin!readysite
- 2022-09-23★★★★★No answer from support after 2 weeksArmin SQ
- 2022-03-23★★★★★Review sao chuẩn trên googleKinh Nghiem So1-shot
- 2022-02-27★★★★★The best and regularly updatedzepolo
- 2022-02-07★★★★★Update pleasedejongebelegger
- 2021-11-15★★★★★last update broke websiteskrzxsiek
- 2021-11-06★★★★★Unique votes (based on IP Address)saeed2822
Releases
recent versions from WordPress.org SVNFor developers & the curious
the raw signals behind the grade — none of this is on the friendly summary aboveDownload signals
Baselines are computed on organic days only — release spikes and their tails are excluded, so they're not inflated by the auto-update wave.
229
Baseline · median of last 7 organic days
220
Prior 7-day baseline
206
Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days
229
Latest day · 2026-06-03(organic)
+4.1%
Week-over-week organic trend
Review signals
Concentration and drive-by metrics drive the review-burst and fake-review flags. 30–40% solo reviewers is normal; we only flag the extremes.
33%
Max month share · biggest single 30-day window
2.45
Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty
53%
5★ share in analyzed sample
12%
Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity
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Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo
3.46 → 3.42★
Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered