A lightweigt, blazing fast star rating plugin for WordPress
As of April 2026, EC Stars Rating is a WordPress stars plugin with 400 active installations and a 4.2/5 rating from 16 reviews. It has been downloaded 18K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.0+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2013. Last updated 10 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: GD Rating System.
A super fast WordPress star rating plugin, optimized for SEO, and with a really low impact on page load (just CSS + a bit of HTML, plus the strictly required JS for working).
The svn repo has been recently synchronized with a github one.
Contributions are more than welcome, so feel free to submit a PR there if you wish 🙂
Basically we create a new table called (prefix)ec_stars_votes, where we store the votes of the people (to prevent duplicate votes).
The number of votes and the sum of the total votes are stored in the (prefix)options table in form of custom meta fields, one for the count, and another for the sum. Both fields get updated when someone votes.
| WordPress | 3.0+ requiredTested up to 4.3.34 |
| PHP | false+ required |
The plugin will not output metadata when there are no votes (see issue 2)
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