Init Review System – Reactions, Multi-Criteria, Guest-Friendly
Fast 5-star rating plugin with schema, REST API, shortcode control, localStorage voting. Now with multi-criteria review support.
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·30 active installs·Updated 1 week agoAs of April 2026, Init Review System is a WordPress vote plugin with 30 active installations and a 0/5 rating0. It has been downloaded 1.7K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 5.5+ and PHP 7.4+. Available on WordPress.org since 2025. Actively maintained — updated within the last month. Top alternative: Crowdsignal Dashboard – Polls, Surveys….
0/5Rating
30active installs
1.7K+total downloads
1 yearsince 2025
Overview
Init Review System adds a clean and customizable 5-star rating system to your WordPress site. Votes are stored via REST API, tracked with localStorage, and the average score is auto-calculated and optionally displayed with schema markup.
Built to be lightweight, developer-friendly, and easy to integrate into any theme or custom UI. Now with multi-criteria reviews and an emoji reactions system for richer user interaction.
This plugin is part of the Init Plugin Suite — a collection of minimalist, fast, and developer-focused tools for WordPress.
GitHub repository: https://github.com/brokensmile2103/init-review-system
Highlights:
- 5-star voting via frontend
- NEW: Multi-criteria review support
- NEW: Emoji Reactions with Login Enforcement
- Average score display
- Optional login requirement
- Optional…
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Ratings & Reviews
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Compatibility
| WordPress | 5.5+ requiredTested up to 6.9.4 |
| PHP | 7.4+ required |
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Frequently Asked Questions
Changelog
1.17 – March 25, 2026
- Added object cache (1 hour TTL) to
init_plugin_suite_review_system_get_score_summary_by_post_id() - Added object cache (1 hour TTL) to
init_plugin_suite_review_system_has_user_reviewed() - Added object cache (1 hour TTL) to
init_plugin_suite_review_system_get_user_reaction() - Cache for
has_user_reviewedandget_user_reactionstores sentinel values to distinguish cache miss from negative results - Cache invalidation for score summary and has-reviewed fires on
init_plugin_suite_review_system_after_insertaction hook
…and 1 more changes
Contributors
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