Displaying reviews from external platforms
External-platform review displays are a prominent strand of the Reviews category.
- Google Reviews: Rich Showcase for Google Reviews and Embedder for Google Reviews are among the named plugins.
- TripAdvisor and multiple platforms: WP Tripadvisor Review Widgets and Reviews Widgets for Google, TripAdvisor, Yelp & Re appear in the category.
- Booking.com and Airbnb: Widgets for Booking.com Reviews and Widgets for Airbnb Reviews are also listed.
- Related tag: google-reviews overlaps with 52 plugins in this category.
Customer, site and product review tools
The category also includes plugins associated with customer, site and product review contexts.
Site Reviews, WP Customer Reviews and HivePress Reviews are among the named options, alongside Faview. The related customer-reviews tag overlaps with 21 plugins, while product-reviews overlaps with 33 and woocommerce with 60, signalling connections to customer feedback and product-related review use.
How reviews overlap with testimonials and ratings
Related tags show that reviews frequently sit alongside other forms of social proof.
- Testimonials: 113 plugins are shared with the Reviews category, the largest overlap among these tags.
- Ratings: The ratings tag overlaps with 68 plugins, while rating overlaps with 34.
- Star ratings: The star-rating tag overlaps with 23 plugins.
A fragmented category with uneven adoption and maintenance
The category is broad, but only a small number of plugins reach high install counts.
There are 355 plugins in the category; 2 have at least 100,000 active installs and 6 have at least 10,000. The top two, Rich Showcase for Google Reviews and Reviews Feed, each have 100,000 installs and were updated this month, though their user-rating evidence differs: excellent with many reviews for the former, and good with few reviews for the latter.
Across the category, 64% of plugins were updated in the last year. Site Reviews has 60,000 installs, an excellent rating with a moderate number of reviews, and an update this month; WP Customer Reviews has 20,000 installs, a good rating with many reviews, and was updated four months ago. Install counts, update timing and rating evidence offer different comparison points rather than a single measure.