GD Rating System
Powerful, highly customizable and versatile ratings plugin to allow your users to vote for anything you want.
4.3(24 reviews)
·1.0K+ active installs·Updated 1 year agoAs of April 2026, GD Rating System is a WordPress like plugin with 1.0K+ active installations and a 4.3/5 rating from 24 reviews. It has been downloaded 127K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 5.5+ and PHP 7.4+. Available on WordPress.org since 2015. Last updated 1 year ago — may have compatibility concerns. Downloads are up 37% this week. Top alternative: WP ULike – Like & Dislike Buttons for….
4.3/524 reviews
1.0K+active installs
127K+total downloads
11 yearssince 2015
Overview
GD Rating System is the successor to GD Star Rating plugin, but it has nothing in common with the old plugin. GD Rating System uses modular structure with most features split into addons and rating methods. For front end display plugin uses templates similar to WordPress theme templates and allows you to override existing templates or add new ones.
Overview of plugin features
With GD Rating System you can rate anything. The Plugin supports several basic rating entities, and for each one you can have more than one rating type. This includes posts with all default and custom post types, comments, users, terms for default or custom taxonomies.
Here is the list of most important plugin features:
- Rating Method: Stars Rating
- Rating Method: Like This (3.0)
- Addon: Shortcodes Builder (3.1)
- Addon:…
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Ratings & Reviews
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Recent Reviews
Perfect Plugin
by kroustos·2 years ago
The best plugin i’ve tested so far…!! The only plugin that give you free implementation with custom fields…!!
The most powerfull rating plugin
by chillmen·2 years ago
This is the most porwerfull rating plugin i’ve tested so far.
It’s complicated to manipulate, it’s takes time to understand how it works, but it’s the only one that offer many options to play with.
Today i’ve tested at least 6 other plugins, but this one is a very solid choice.
The free option offers already many options to play with.
The plugin have many template to choose from, many designs ( if you don’t want to display stars, you can choose hearts and other designs )
i found some dificulties customizing the text render ( i just wanted to display a single heart with number of votes ), but with some search and tests, i could achieve what i wanted.
Thanks to the developer for this plugin.
Overcomplicated, Not Intuitive
by mikeybayer·2 years ago
I needed a simple post rating system for a film review site built with Elementor and a custom post type where any logged-in user can leave a review and rate the film. I am not a developer, but I use 20 plugins on the site without a problem, and this one was far too complicated to implement for such a simple application. Even just inserting the rating feature (without the reviews add-on) requires more work than it should. I’m used to plugins with a lot of shortcode options, a highly intuitive interface/dashboard, etc., but this one was not intuitive and pretty frustrating. There were no clear, linear instructions in the documentation (a handful of YouTube videos were nominally helpful but haphazard, and the designer’s how-to articles were very strangely organized and left gaps). It may have deeper features and benefits I’m not aware of, but for a pretty straightforward use, it was not a good fit. Please note: If you use the reviews add-on and want users to be able to leave a rating without taking the time to leave a review, that’s not possible with this. They must leave both.
messy documentation
by gauravkeerthi·5 years ago
The configuration is so complicated and there is no good user guide to walk through. Seems like it might be a really powerful plugin, but this is not a simple one to use or understand.
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Compatibility
| WordPress | 5.5+ requiredTested up to 6.7.5 |
| PHP | 7.4+ required |
Version Adoption
v3.6
67.5%
Other
20.3%
v3.5
12.2%
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Changelog
= 3.6.2 – 2024.11.15
* Edit: proper sanitization of the HTML classes
* Edit: d4pLib 2.8.19
* Fix: authenticated stored cross-site scripting vulnerability
* Fix: import from YASR plugin doesn’t import decimal places
= 3.6.1 – 2024.06.28
* Edit: validate the template in render functions prior to inclusion
* Fix: underlying functions not loaded on the blocks widgets panel
* Fix: widgets not loading interface when used via blocks
* Fix: local file inclusion vulnerability with the rating block templates
= 3.6 – 2024.06.07
* New: fully tested and compatible with WordPress up to 6.6
* Edit: updates to code formatting and readability
* Edit: updates to the translation strings
* Edit: many improvements to the PHP core code and syntax
* Edit: d4pLib 2.8.18
* Fix: minor issue with state capture class on taxonomy archives with no results
* Fix: several typos and other text and information issues
* Fix: several small issues with the boolean functions and methods
3.5.1 – 2023.12.19
- New: fully tested and compatible with WordPress up to 6.4
- New: plugin is tested and compatible with the PHP 8.0, 8.1, 8.2 and 8.3
- Edit: escaping IP for display in a votes list and dashboard widget
- Edit: rewritten functions for getting and validating IP
- Edit: d4pLib 2.8.16
…and 1 more changes
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