10 Best Comments Form Star Rating Alternatives in 2026
Updated September 7, 2026 · Ranked by how closely each plugin matches, from WordPress.org data · How this works
Comments Form Star Rating has 2,000+ active installs on WordPress.org. These 10 plugins share its category or its tags on WordPress.org, are actively maintained, and each has at least 100 active installs. They are ordered by how closely they match, not by our opinion.
The 10 closest alternatives to Comments Form Star Rating
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Comments Like Dislike
Closest match4.6 (38) 5,000+ active installsLike Dislike for WordPress Comments
Shares the comments, rating tags on WordPress.org. About 2.5 times the installs, last updated May 23, 2026.
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4.7 (23) 1,000+ active installsA complete review plugin — star ratings, photo uploads, likes & dislikes, and Google rich snippets, all from one place.
Shares the comments, rating tags on WordPress.org. About half the installs, last updated March 21, 2026.
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4.3 (179) 20,000+ active installsAdds an AJAX rating system for your WordPress site's content.
Shares the rating tag on WordPress.org. About 10 times the installs, last updated 5 days ago.
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4.5 (23) 500+ active installsSimple, developer-friendly, straightforward post rating plugin. Relies on post meta to store avg. rating / vote count.
Shares the rating tag on WordPress.org. About a quarter of the installs, no update since November 28, 2017.
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4.4 (273) 4,000+ active installsAdd Like button to posts, pages, comments, WooCommerce, BuddyPress, bbPress, UM, custom posts! Sort content by likes! Get instant stats and insights!
Shares the rating tag on WordPress.org. About 2 times the installs, last updated 13 days ago.
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YASR
Paid version availableYASR – Yet Another Star Rating Plugin for WordPress
4.7 (323) 10,000+ active installsBoost the way people interact with your site with an easy WordPress stars rating system! With schema.org rich snippets YASR will improve your SEO
Shares the rating tag on WordPress.org. About 5 times the installs, no update since April 10, 2025.
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GD Rating System
Paid version available4.3 (24) 1,000+ active installsPowerful, highly customizable and versatile ratings plugin to allow your users to vote for anything you want.
Shares the rating tag on WordPress.org. About half the installs, last updated July 13, 2026.
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4.7 (94) 10,000+ active installsA quick way to delete all pending and spam comments. Useful for victims of spammer attacks.
Shares the comments tag on WordPress.org. About 5 times the installs, no update since January 28, 2024.
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5.0 (22) 10,000+ active installsAn admin interface to control the default comment and trackback settings on new posts, pages and custom post types.
Shares the comments tag on WordPress.org. About 5 times the installs, last updated November 17, 2025.
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4.3 (42) 8,000+ active installsThis plugin will help you display Facebook Comments on your website. You can use it on your pages/posts.
Shares the comments tag on WordPress.org. About 4 times the installs, last updated February 2, 2026.
Switching from Comments Form Star Rating: common questions
What is the best alternative to Comments Form Star Rating?
Comments Like Dislike is the closest match: it shares the same WordPress.org tags and has 5,000+ active installs with a 4.6 out of 5 rating.
Which Comments Form Star Rating alternative has the most users?
WP-PostRatings, with 20,000+ active installs reported by WordPress.org.
Which Comments Form Star Rating alternative is rated highest?
YASR, rated 4.7 out of 5 by 323 reviewers. Only plugins with at least 50 reviews are counted.
Are these Comments Form Star Rating alternatives free?
Every plugin listed here is free to install from WordPress.org. Where WordPress.org marks a plugin as commercial, the developer also sells a paid version or add-ons, and that is shown on each plugin.
How are alternatives chosen?
Automatically, from WordPress.org data: plugins that share a category top 10 with Comments Form Star Rating score highest, then plugins that appear in the same WordPress.org rankings, then plugins with the same tags, weighted so rare tags count more than common ones. Plugins by the same author and plugins rated under 4.0 are left out.
How we choose these alternatives
Nothing on this page is picked by hand. Every day we walk the whole WordPress.org directory, then score every plugin against Comments Form Star Rating on three signals: sharing a category top 10 counts most, then appearing in the same WordPress.org rankings, then carrying the same tags, with rare tags counting for more than common ones like "wordpress". Plugins by the same author are excluded, so an author's own add-ons cannot fill the list, and so is anything rated below 4.0 or with fewer than 100 active installs. The ten highest scores are what you see, in that order. Full methodology.
The bottom line
Comments Like Dislike is the closest match to Comments Form Star Rating by the data we track, and WP-PostRatings has the widest reach with 20,000+ active installs. WP-PostRatings shipped the most recent release, on September 1, 2026. The list is rebuilt every day from WordPress.org, so a plugin that stops being maintained drops out on its own.
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