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Stellar - Star Rating for WordPress

v2.4.0Unlimited sites

Stellar - Star Rating for WordPress is a plugin that adds a customizable star rating system to a WordPress site.

Product facts

Version
2.4.0
Released
18 September 2026
Type
Plugin
Licence
GPL
Included in
Every plan, or $3.49 on its own

Overview

Many sites want visitor feedback on their content but have no simple way to collect it. Stellar adds ratings to blog posts, landing pages and ecommerce products without any coding. You choose how the rating looks and works from the settings, so the result fits the rest of your site. Scales run from 3 or 5 stars up to 10 or 12, and more are possible.

Ratings are only useful when people trust them. Stellar limits votes per IP address, stores and calculates results in a distributed way, and reads the rating scale from your settings, refusing any rating outside it. Administrators control resetting and importing rating data. The display is responsive and retina ready, and an option adds microdata to the rating markup so it can be read as rich snippet data.

Features

  • Flexible rating scales: Choose a 3, 5, 10 or 12 star scale, or other sizes, so the rating system matches the kind of feedback you want from visitors.
  • Icon library and SVG upload: Pick from a large set of predefined icons, or upload your own SVG icons so the ratings carry your brand identity.
  • Vote limits per IP: Votes can be limited per IP address, which helps reduce manipulation and keeps the ratings you display more believable.
  • Microdata support: Turn on microdata from the settings to embed rich snippet data alongside your star ratings, with one setting and no code.
  • Works on many content types: Add ratings to blog posts, pages, landing pages and ecommerce products, and save a separate rating for each entry.
  • No coding needed: Set up ratings and adjust their appearance and behavior from the plugin settings, without writing any code.
  • Responsive, retina ready display: Star ratings stay sharp on different screen sizes and resolutions, on phones, tablets and desktop screens.
  • Protected rating data: Voting requests use a verification token, and only administrators can reset rating data or import it from the Rating Form plugin.

Best for

  • Bloggers who want readers to rate their posts
  • Online stores collecting product ratings from shoppers
  • Service sites gathering simple visitor feedback

Changelog

Version 2.4.0 — 18 September 2026

  • New Added lookup indexes to the ratings table, rating queries no longer read the whole table
  • New Added a permission check, so that only administrators can reset rating data or import it from the Rating Form plugin
  • New Added a verification token to the voting request, a request that arrives without a valid one is limited to a single vote per day
  • New Added the stellar_trust_proxy_headers filter, for sites that serve visitors directly and want forwarded IP headers ignored
  • Improved Rating value and vote count are now read with one cached query instead of several, on posts, top rated lists, the posts list screen and the dashboard widget
  • Improved Top rated and overall ratings no longer query the database once per post
  • Improved The ratings table is no longer inspected for missing columns on every admin screen
  • Improved The rating scale is now taken from the settings rather than from the voting request, and a rating outside that scale is refused
  • Improved Tightened the SVG upload sanitizer, and removed a deprecation notice it raised on PHP 8
  • Improved The rating icon is now read from disk once per page instead of once per icon
  • Improved Ratings, titles, links and settings are now escaped consistently everywhere they are printed
  • Fixed Fixed the overall rating shortcode returning zero while multi voting is enabled
  • Fixed Fixed the dashboard widget adding multi voting results to the single rating totals
  • Fixed Fixed the rating refresh request answering with the first voting item instead of the rating of the post
  • Fixed Fixed a fatal error on sites where every rated post adds up to a zero rating
  • Fixed Fixed notices raised by prepared statements that carry no placeholder
  • Fixed Fixed a repeat vote adding a second vote instead of replacing the previous one
  • Fixed Fixed the answer to a vote describing the rating as it stood before that vote
  • Fixed Fixed the vote count answering zero while multi voting is enabled
  • Fixed Fixed the rich snippet markup never reaching the page while it was switched on in the settings
  • Fixed Fixed the JSON+LD markup breaking on a title containing an ampersand, a quote or a backslash
  • Fixed Fixed the widget listing every rated post instead of the number of posts set in its settings
  • Fixed Fixed the [stellar-rating] shortcode answering with the number of votes while multi voting is enabled
  • Fixed Fixed the reset dialog reporting a success as an error, and an error as a success
  • Fixed Fixed the vote limit treating every visitor behind a proxy or a CDN as the same visitor
  • Fixed Fixed voting failing in a browser where site data is blocked, such as a private window
  • Fixed Fixed a reset leaving multi voting results behind in the visitor's browser
  • Fixed Fixed .svgz icon files being refused on upload
  • Fixed Fixed the icons emptying when the rounding setting holds an unexpected value
  • Fixed Fixed a stray closing tag in the dashboard widget while multi voting is disabled
  • Fixed Fixed plugin settings being looked for in the wrong place on a multi-site network during uninstall

Earlier versions

  • 2.3.2 (9 June 2026): 1 improved
  • 2.3.1 (15 January 2026): 1 security
  • 2.3.0 (4 August 2025): 2 new

FAQ

Is Stellar - Star Rating for WordPress free?

The code of Stellar - Star Rating for WordPress is licensed under the GPL, so anyone may use, change and share it. Buy GPL is a paid service: a plan or a purchase of Stellar - Star Rating for WordPress gives you the download and its updates. The developer's own support, licence key and online services are not included.

Which version of Stellar - Star Rating for WordPress is this?

Version 2.4.0, released 18 September 2026. New versions appear here when the developer publishes them.

How do I update Stellar - Star Rating for WordPress?

Install Buy GPL Updater on your site and paste your key from My Account. It installs new versions of Stellar - Star Rating for WordPress for you.

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