Add Like button to posts, pages, comments, WooCommerce, BuddyPress, bbPress, UM, custom posts! Sort content by likes! Get instant stats and insights!
As of April 2026, Like Button Rating ♥ LikeBtn is a WordPress like plugin with 4.0K+ active installations and a 4.4/5 rating from 272 reviews. It has been downloaded 488K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 2.8+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2013. Actively maintained — updated within the last month. Downloads are up 24% this week. Top alternative: WP ULike – Like & Dislike Buttons for….
The Like Button Rating plugin allows you to add a cool looking fully customizable Like button to:
Perfect
Easy to customize, works fine for me
Kudos to the entire team behind this amazing plugin; it does what it says and works perfectly with caching websites as well. Please ensure it continues to work as flawlessly as usual with each update and doesn’t break.
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Simple to set up, especially if you have multiple sites. Easily generate multiple API keys under one account. I had been using the Like button in Jetpack but when I moved to a new provider and exported/imported my WordPress blog, I quickly discovered that the Likes didn’t come over, so they were all lost. I wanted to find a replacement that stores the likes in the WordPress DB so that if I ever move providers again, Likes will remain. It looks like this like button fulfills that requirement.
In addition to all of that, there are many configuration styles available that meet my needs. Choose to show only Like, or can add Dislike too (and rename them to whatever you want. Now it’s all up to my content to determine if it’s good enough for people to mash that new Like button.
| WordPress | 2.8+ requiredTested up to 6.9.4 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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