GD Rating System
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About
Powerful, highly customizable and versatile ratings plugin to allow your users to vote for anything you want.
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What It Does
GD Rating System lets you attach ratings, star votes, and like buttons to virtually any content type on a WordPress site, including posts, pages, comments, and custom objects. It supports multiple rating methods (stars, likes, thumbs) and deep customization through templates, shortcodes, and widget areas. Admins can control vote weighting, user restrictions, and where ratings appear without touching code.
Who It's For
This plugin fits developers and site builders running content-driven sites like directories, review hubs, tutorials, or recipe collections who need fine-grained control over how votes are collected and displayed. It is also well suited to Dev4press fans or sites already using other plugins from the same author, given the consistent ecosystem and long-term maintenance track record. Casual bloggers who just want a like button will find the feature set heavier than they need.
Who Should Skip It
If you run a small blog or low-traffic site that simply wants a single like button or thumbs up/down widget, this plugin is overkill and the configuration surface will slow you down. Sites expecting tens of thousands of ratings right out of the box should weigh the 1,000 active installs against more battle-tested alternatives like WP ULike.
The Bottom Line
GD Rating System earns an overall quality score of 73.83 out of 100 thanks to excellent maintenance and solid ratings, despite a tiny install base. It is the right pick for users who want highly configurable, template-driven ratings and trust a single-vendor ecosystem. Everyone else will be better served by WP ULike's larger community and battle-testing.
Related Plugins
Choose WP ULike instead if you want a proven, lightweight like/dislike button with 60,000 installs and a much larger support community to fall back on.
Pick this if your primary need is pulling in third-party Google reviews rather than collecting first-party votes from your own visitors.
Choose Favorites when you want a simple, user-driven bookmarking system rather than a numeric or star-based rating.
Choose Democracy Poll if your goal is poll-style multi-choice voting on specific questions rather than ongoing rating aggregation.
Pick Poll Maker if you need visual polls, versus battles, or image-based voting rather than standard content ratings.