YASR – Yet Another Star Rating Plugin for WordPress

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43 searches this plugin appeared in over the last 90 days, 9 listed. 34 left out as unrelated or noise (years, numbers, stray words). 4 of its tags aren't in the top 24 for their own search.

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Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 83% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

Crossed into this band 19 months ago; a band this size takes about a year or more to cross, which places it about 50% of the way through.

1. ★★★★★ LilGames

   9mo ago

   I’ve been looking for a “ratings” plugin that also generated the appropriate ratings structured data (schema!) and finally, this one does it. Review is for the free version. 4 stars until I get to know it better and might decide to try Pro. This topic was modified 5 months, 3 weeks ago by LilGames.

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2. ★★★★★ looktr

   11mo ago

   New feature suggestions for the add-on The star system shows the average rating given to each topic. However, I want website visitors to see their own ratings for each topic they read. This will have some additional benefits for users. For example, I want to interpret topics rated 1* or 2* as topics they don’t want to see again. This way, visitors will be able to distinguish topics they don’t want to read again. You can do this with a separate single star symbol. A red star could mean 1, a yellow star 2, an orange star 3, a blue star 4, and a green star 5*. If visitors see this new star system on the site’s home page, it will be a very good reference for whether to read the topic or not. Red star: I think the topic is useless; I don’t want to read it again.Yellow star: The topic is useful, but I understood and learned the content. That’s why I don’t want to read it again.Orange star: I read the topic but didn’t fully understand the content. So I may need to read it again.Blue star: I read the topic, understood the content, and learned it. But I may need to read it again.Green star: Even though I understand the content and have learned it, I need to read it regularly.

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3. ★★★★★ xelibris

   12mo ago

   Overall, Yet Another Stars Rating is a powerful and flexible rating plugin, and it does the job well for displaying ratings on single posts. The options for multi-criteria rating and the way ratings are integrated into the content are very useful. However, there are a few bugs when using this plugin with tagDiv themes (e.g. Newspaper / Newsmag). With version 3.4.15, the plugin incorrectly shows rating stars for the category itself on category archive pages, instead of only showing ratings for the individual posts listed in that category. This is confusing for visitors, because it looks like the category is being rated, not the articles inside it. Apart from this, the plugin remains functional, but this display issue is problematic for sites that rely heavily on categories and archives. It would be very helpful if the developer could improve compatibility with tagDiv themes and provide an option (or fix) to prevent stars from appearing on category titles. Once this bug is resolved, YASR will be much easier to recommend for use with tagDiv-based news and magazine sites.

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4. ★★★★★ sergefiu

   1.7y ago

   Fait tout simplement ce que l’on attend de lui, efficacité et facilitée d’utilisation.

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5. ★★★★★ macdus

   2.5y ago

   I’ve been using the plugin for its ratings and schema markup management capabilities. Specifically, I’m using the recipe schema and it so happened that Google changed its requirements as to which fields were optional and which were mandatory. Since the plugin was missing a field which became mandatory, Search Console started to flag my URLs as invalid. I got in touch with the support about the missing field issue, and the field was added to the plugin in 2 days, which I found amazing! Plus, I got notified about the patch being ready, and even got a copy of the updated plugin as an attachment to an email message before the official release to the WordPress plugin store! Huge kudos to the dev and support teams! And one more thing… I use the free version of the plugin, and I got a truly VIP treatment! Way to go team, way to go!

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6. ★★★★★ mschuyler86

   2.7y ago

   This is an amazing plugin. I spent days searching for one that will do what I need. The only thing I think this plugin is lacking is the option to add featured images to the top post results. I feel that is a big need for me, but it’s also something easy for them to add so I’m sure it wont be too long before its added and becomes the best plugin for this. IF I could find the code that displays the results I could add it, but I couldn’t locate it. This topic was modified 2 years, 4 months ago by mschuyler86. Reason: Chose wrong star

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7. ★★★★★ LunaGraphica

   2.9y ago

   We are building a major destination website that will allow ratings and reviews of ~2,000 colleges and universities. We evaluated several plugins, and this was the only one we found that came close to meeting our needs. I was literally about to start writing our own plugin before we found YASR. David has been great at helping to solve some unusual requirements and even sent pointers to sections of code to help me understand the data structures.

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8. ★★★★★ shoesup

   3.0y ago

   Great plugin with good support

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Recent releases and news for this plugin

1. — Version 3.4.15 WP 6.8 compatibility 3.4.15
2. — Version 3.4.11 Upgraded Freemius SDK WP 6.7 compatibility 3.4.11
3. — Version 3.4.7 FIXED: security update 3.4.7
4. — Version 3.4.6 FIXED: compatibility with Yoast SEO plugin 3.4.6
5. — Version 3.4.5 FIXED: This version fixes a warning that randomly appears on the settings page. 3.4.5
6. — Version 3.4.4 TWEAKED: since this version, for non-logged-in users, or users that can’t edit posts, it is no longer possible to vote for a post that do not exist or is marked as private. If, for some reason, you need to do this, just 3.4.4

All 9 disclosed vulnerabilities are patched in the current version (3.4.15). Sites still on an older version should update.

1. Patched Medium · 6.1 Freemius <= 2.10.1 - Reflected DOM-Based Cross-Site Scripting via url Parameter ↗
   2026-04-30 CVE-2024-13362 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation Affects <= 3.4.12 Patched in 3.4.15
2. Patched Medium · 5.3 Yet Another Stars Rating <= 3.4.3 - Missing Authorization via init ↗
   2023-11-27 CVE-2023-39305 Missing Authorization Affects <= 3.4.3 Patched in 3.4.4
3. Patched Medium · 6.1 Freemius SDK <= 2.5.9 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting via fs_request_get ↗
   2023-07-18 CVE-2023-33999 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation Affects 1.4.4 - 3.4.1 Patched in 3.4.2
4. Patched Medium · 5.3 Yet Another Stars Rating <= 3.3.8 - Missing Authorization to Vote Tampering ↗
   2023-07-10 CVE-2023-37867 Missing Authorization Affects <= 3.3.8 Patched in 3.3.9
5. Patched Medium · 6.4 Yet Another Stars Rating <= 3.1.2 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Cross-Site Scripting via Shortcodes ↗
   2023-03-03 CVE-2022-40699 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation Affects <= 3.1.2 Patched in 3.1.3
6. Patched Medium · 6.3 Freemius SDK <= 2.4.2 - Missing Authorization Checks ↗
   2022-03-04 CVE-2022-4974 Missing Authorization Affects < 2.0.2 Patched in 2.0.2
7. Patched Medium · 4.7 Yasr – Yet Another Stars Rating <= 2.9.9 - Cross-Site Scripting via source ↗
   2022-02-03 CVE-2022-23980 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation Affects <= 2.9.9 Patched in 3.0.0
8. Patched Critical · 9.8 Yet Another Stars Rating <= 1.8.6 - Unauthenticated PHP Object Injection ↗
   2019-01-27 Deserialization of Untrusted Data Affects <= 1.8.6 Patched in 1.8.7
9. Patched High · 8.8 Yasr – Yet Another Stars Rating < 0.9.1 - Authenticated SQL Injection ↗
   2015-07-06 CVE-2015-9465 Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an SQL Command Affects < 0.9.1 Patched in 0.9.1

Translated into 64 languages, 9 at 90% or more

Plus 40 more locales with partial translations.

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Growth timeline

Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow

1. 2025-04-26 20K+ → 10K+ down after 1 days in tier
2. 2025-04-25 10K+ → 20K+ up after 1 days in tier
3. 2025-04-24 20K+ → 10K+ down after 1323 days in tier
4. 2021-09-09 30K+ → 20K+ down after 183 days in tier
5. 2021-03-10 20K+ → 30K+ up after 180 days in tier
6. 2020-09-11 30K+ → 20K+ down after 82 days in tier
7. 2020-06-21 20K+ → 30K+ up after 583 days in tier
8. 2018-11-16 10K+ → 20K+ up after 1128 days in tier

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YASR – Yet Another Star Rating Plugin for WordPress: 10K+ active installs, 4.7★ (323 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-11-02. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/yet-another-stars-rating