10 Best GD Rating System Alternatives in 2026
Updated September 7, 2026 · Ranked by how closely each plugin matches, from WordPress.org data · How this works
GD Rating System has 1,000+ 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 GD Rating System
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Like Button Rating ♥ LikeBtn
Closest match4.4 (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 like, rating, vote tags on WordPress.org. About 4 times the installs, last updated 13 days ago.
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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 rating, stars tags on WordPress.org. A similar number of installs, last updated March 21, 2026.
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4.6 (38) 5,000+ active installsLike Dislike for WordPress Comments
Shares the like, rating tags on WordPress.org. About 5 times the installs, last updated May 23, 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, vote tags on WordPress.org. About 20 times the installs, last updated 6 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 half the installs, no update since November 28, 2017.
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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 10 times the installs, no update since April 10, 2025.
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4.9 (1,617) 100,000+ active installsShow real Google reviews on your WordPress site in under a minute. Free, GDPR-compliant, with unlimited widgets and locations.
Shares the rating tag on WordPress.org. About 100 times the installs, last updated 23 days ago.
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4.9 (324) 10,000+ active installsCombine Facebook reviews and recommendations with Google, TripAdvisor and Yelp reviews in a widget, block or shortcode. Build a trusted website!
About 10 times the installs, last updated July 2, 2026.
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4.7 (77) 10,000+ active installsLet customers attach photos to reviews, enhanced with filterable grids and overall ratings. Auto-send review reminders and coupon emails
About 10 times the installs, last updated 16 days ago.
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4.9 (64) 8,000+ active installsEmbed Booking.com reviews fast and easily into your WordPress site. Increase SEO, trust and sales using Booking.com reviews.
About 8 times the installs, last updated 3 days ago.
Switching from GD Rating System: common questions
What is the best alternative to GD Rating System?
Like Button Rating ♥ LikeBtn is the closest match: it shares the same WordPress.org tags and has 4,000+ active installs with a 4.4 out of 5 rating.
Which GD Rating System alternative has the most users?
Rich Showcase for Google Reviews, with 100,000+ active installs reported by WordPress.org.
Which GD Rating System alternative is rated highest?
Rich Showcase for Google Reviews, rated 4.9 out of 5 by 1,617 reviewers. Only plugins with at least 50 reviews are counted.
Are these GD Rating System 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 GD Rating System 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 GD Rating System 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
Like Button Rating ♥ LikeBtn is the closest match to GD Rating System by the data we track, and Rich Showcase for Google Reviews has the widest reach with 100,000+ active installs. Widgets for Booking.com Reviews shipped the most recent release, on September 4, 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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