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WP Ultimate Review
Looks pretty but lacks the brains to stop the bots.
GrowingPoor rating
64/100
Visual appeal cannot hide the lack of schema support and broken spam protection.
Active installs
~75,000
our estimate · wp.org shows 70k+
Rating
3.4★
17 ratings
Trend · vs a year ago
+826%
Growing fast
74 → 685 installs/day
What to watch out for
- MAJORverified rating is 3.31★
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 · +826% in the last year
74/day a year ago→685/day today
Reviews
what people actually sayWP Ultimate Review is a functional and visually appealing review plugin that works well for basic use cases, but is held back by unresolved feature gaps, poor spam protection, and support that tends to dismiss rather than resolve user problems.
What people like
- +Easy to set up and functional for basic review display needs×3
- +Support is responsive and can be fast×3
- +Visually attractive output×2
- +Support has proactively sent updated plugin files to fix bugs outside of official releases
Common complaints
- −No reliable spam/bot protection — captcha either absent or broken even in the Pro version, with no fix delivered despite long-standing requests×2
- −Support dismisses reported issues rather than resolving them, repeating that things 'work for them' or promising fixes that never arrive×2
- −Reviews are tied to individual pages with no way to display them globally or as testimonials on other pages
- −Post-submission UX is poor — page refreshes to the top with no clear confirmation, and confirmation text sometimes does not appear at all
- −Cannot disable the 'write a review' form or the email field×2
- −Not mobile responsive — content pushes off-screen on mobile
- −Does not generate schema/JSON-LD structured data
- −Cannot hide the reviews block when there are zero reviews
- −Cannot edit a review's score after submission
- −Compatibility issues reported with at least one popular theme (Flatsome) when not using a shortcode
- −One user reported unexpected audio (music) playing in the admin panel, causing concern about malicious code
Review trustMostly organic
- 3.31★Verified rating — drops from 3.40★ once one-shot reviewers are removed
- 6%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
2023-08-192025-01-102026-06-04
5★ reviews1–4★ reviews
All-time ratings · 17 total
Latest reviews · 17 analyzed
- 2026-03-08★★★★★recaptcha not workingganiksoul
- 2024-08-30★★★★★Great!agicgz11-shot
- 2023-07-27★★★★★This could be the best review plugin ever, however…artifexmedia
- 2023-02-24★★★★★AVERAGEevcv
- 2022-12-23★★★★★Viral pluginas1974
- 2022-12-21★★★★★There aren't schema json.Mateusz jasi?ski
- 2022-03-15★★★★★Able to solve bug.alyab
- 2022-02-07★★★★★Good and easycisssssssss
- 2021-07-06★★★★★Great Plugingrayson9
- 2021-04-16★★★★★Average plugin with some problems..monkeydluffy
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.
703
Baseline · median of last 7 organic days
612
Prior 7-day baseline
796
Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days
6,574
Mean release-day peak (30d)
793
Latest day · 2026-06-03(organic)
+14.9%
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
3.27
Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty
47%
5★ share in analyzed sample
6%
Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity
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Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo
3.41 → 3.31★
Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered