Force WooCommerce product reviews to be manually approved.
As of April 2026, Manually Approved Reviews for WooCommerce is a WordPress woo plugin with 700 active installations and a 4.3/5 rating from 11 reviews. It has been downloaded 8.9K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 2.1.0+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2016. Recently updated within the last 3 months. Top alternative: WooCommerce Stripe Payment Gateway.
With this plugin, newly written WooCommerce product reviews will be in a pending (hold) status until manually approved.
Product reviews in WooCommerce are immediately available for everyone to see (this can’t be changed without this plugin). WooCommerce ignores the WordPress “comment must be manually approved” discussion setting. With this plugin, new product reviews must be manually reviewed and approved before being visible on the front-end.
| WordPress | 2.1.0+ requiredTested up to 6.9.4 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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