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Custom Review

This plugin gives functionality to gain more and more reviews on woocommerce stores products to the Store owners.

Active installs10+10+ tier
Downloads · 30d81▲ +44.6% vs prev. 30d
Rating2/51 reviews
Health score21/100At risk
All-time downloads1.4KSince Sep 2021
Support resolved—No recent threads
RequiresWP 5.0PHP 7.0+
Downloads · 7d10▼ -47.4% week over week
Our verdict

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Custom Review shows warning signs in 2026 — compare the alternatives below before installing. It runs on 10+ sites, is rated 2/5 and was last updated 5 years ago, and scores 21/100 on our health check.

  • Small user base (10+ active installs)
  • Very few reviews so far
  • No update in 5 years
  • Only tested up to WordPress 5.8 (latest is 7.1)

Daily downloads

257Jul 11Aug 24Oct 8
Yesterday0
Daily average (1y)2
Peak day13May 5, 2026
Last 12 months615

Download spikes usually follow a new release — each site that auto-updates counts as a download.

Rankings

Where Custom Review stands today

WordPress.org search rankings

Live position in the plugin search, top 100
KeywordPositionCompeting pluginsCategory
add review >100 10,000 Best add review plugins →
admin product review >100 4,746 Best admin product review plugins →
custom review >100 7,514 Best custom review plugins →
product review >100 5,840 Best product review plugins →
reviews >100 10,000 Best reviews plugins →

Version adoption

Share of active sites per release.

  • 1.0100.0%

Rating breakdown

★★★★★★★★★★ 2 from 1 reviews

  • 5★0.00%
  • 4★0.00%
  • 3★0.00%
  • 2★100.0%
  • 1★0.00%

About Custom Review

From the official readme · v1.0.0

Description

This plugin gives functionality to gain more and more reviews on woocommerce stores products to the Store owners.

Review plays one of the most important roles in creating trust for the product and store on customer mind before buying the product itself. But there are very few number of the review on the product.

There is a very huge difference in both. Then how to gain more review. Here comes this plugin in action.

Custom Review allows store owners to add the review as many as they want to the product. Plugins create a menu to the admin dashboard to name a custom review in which there is an option to add review which leads to the page to add review.

These pages consist of several different inputs which help the owner to add reviews. Input Field is as follows.

  • Select product – To select the product.

  • Author name – Name of author which is displayed by product single page with review.

  • Rating – Set of star to select the rating.(default 5)

  • Select Date – Set the time of review.

  • Enter text – Text for review.

  • Upload Image – Image to display on comment as icon.

The review created through this, will appear on the default in the comment section. Comment section will have added a new column called Images which has all the images uploaded on the comment using these plugins as you can see in the screen shot.

If you wish to edit the review which is created through a custom review plugin, you can easily edit it by navigating through that review which is enlisted in the comments section.

After navigating to the review you can click on edit, this opens your review in the same format as an added. Make appropriate changes you can esily. After that hit Save.

Main Features

  1. Add reviews as many as you want.
  2. Remove the dependency from customers for client review.
  3. Increases in reviews
  4. Increases in sales

User friendly

This plugin is very simple to use with no hassle between the options. Simple and straightforward option which makes it easy to use.

  • Searchable dropdown to search for the products and select from all the products which available on the store.

  • Author Name, Enter text are simple html input field which are pretty straight forward.

  • Rating is clickable input which takes ratings.

  • Upload image works as a wordpress default media uploader.

If you still face some issues please let us know. We will try to rectify it.

How it helps in increase in Sales

Review of any product shows the experience of that particular customer about that product. What they supposed about that product is how it came to be when it is delivered to them.

It is a kind of feedback from customers which relates to the service of your product, its efficiency, quality and usefulness.

Now the question arises how it increases the sales. Let’s understand it by an example, suppose you want to buy a product then come across the two stores which sell that same product. Build structure, material and description are approximately the same as which you will choose to buy.

This situation arises more frequently than you imagine. Customers get confused from choosing the product because there are millions of products they have to choose from.
Statistically speaking, in online shopping 78% of people liked to buy products on the basis of reviews.
And, Only 26% of customers give reviews of products they purchased. This is a very big difference to overcome.

At this moment reviews play a very important role in converting them. The more positive reviews on a product the more trustworthy the product will be the more possibility to be purchased by customers.

Statistically speaking, in online shopping 78% of people liked to buy products on the basis of reviews.
And, Only 26% of customers give reviews of products they purchased. This is a very big difference to overcome.

Using these plugins you can add your own reviews on your product as it’s given by verified customers. You can do more in festive seasons like Black Friday, Cyber Monday, Thanks Giving, Independence day to increase the trust of your customer over a product which leads to increase in sales for the product.

This the best plugin to increase the review and trust of customers in festive seasons over your product and stores.

Installation

  1. Upload zwk_custom_review.php to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory
  2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
  3. Click on custom review menu on admin dashboard and add review. Fill out the details and enjoy.

Frequently asked questions

How many reviews can we add

As much as you want

Can we make review form back date

Yes, you can. Option select time can be do that.

Does these plugin will cahange the comment view

No, this plugin will inhert default structure of theme

If I stuck somewhere while using this Custom Review

You can esily create new thread and get support.

Can we moderate the review Created

This plugin doesn’t support this feature because it the default feature of wodpress, in comment section user can manage that.

Can same author add review twice

This plugin allows only store owner to create review using diffrent author name. As many as owners want.

Screenshots

Add Review Page to add the review by filling respective entries.
Add Review Page to add the review by filling respective entries.
After saving a review will appear on Comments with new columns as Image of custom review saved.
After saving a review will appear on Comments with new columns as Image of custom review…
How it will appear on the Single product page.
How it will appear on the Single product page.

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FAQ

Custom Review: quick answers

Straight answers, pulled from live WordPress.org data.

Live data from WordPress.org · checked Oct 9, 2026

Is Custom Review free?

Yes. Custom Review is free to download and use from the official WordPress.org plugin directory.

Is Custom Review safe to use in 2026?

Custom Review shows warning signs in 2026 — compare the alternatives below before installing. It runs on 10+ sites, is rated 2/5 and was last updated 5 years ago, and scores 21/100 on our health check.

How many websites use Custom Review?

Custom Review is active on 10+ WordPress websites and has been downloaded 1,444 times since it launched in September 2021. It was downloaded 81 times in the last 30 days.

Does Custom Review work with WordPress 7.1?

Custom Review is officially tested up to WordPress 5.8.18, while the latest release is 7.1.3. It may still work, but try it on a staging site first.

What PHP version does Custom Review need?

Custom Review requires PHP 7.0 or higher. Most hosts run PHP 8.x today, so it works on any modern WordPress hosting.

When was Custom Review last updated?

The latest version, 1.0.0, was released on September 11, 2021 (5 years ago).

Who makes Custom Review?

Custom Review is developed and maintained by Zworthkey.

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