Description
Prisma Stars helps WordPress site owners collect customer feedback, moderate submissions, and display approved reviews anywhere with a simple shortcode.
The free plugin includes a responsive Classic Cards design, slider and grid layouts, verified-review badges, a public review form, review categories, email moderation alerts, privacy tools, and flexible appearance settings.
See Prisma Stars in Action
Main features
- Collect star ratings and written customer feedback
- Save new submissions as Pending for manual moderation
- Display reviews as a responsive slider or grid
- Show an average rating and verified-review summary
- Mark approved reviews as verified
- Organize reviews with categories
- Customize heading, subtitle, colors, star sizes, and slider controls
- Send a basic email notification when a review is submitted
- Protect forms with nonces, a honeypot field, duplicate checks, and submission cooldowns
- Export or erase personal review data through WordPress privacy tools
- Remove plugin data on uninstall only when explicitly enabled
- Use lightweight vanilla JavaScript with no external fonts or slider libraries
Shortcodes
[prisma_stars] displays the complete widget using the admin settings.
[prisma_stars_slider] forces the slider layout.
[prisma_stars_grid] forces the grid layout.
[prisma_stars category="visa-services" limit="6"] displays reviews from one category.
[prisma_stars_form] displays the public review form directly on a page.
[prisma_stars_summary] displays only the rating summary.
[prisma_stars_button text="Leave a review"] displays a button that opens the review form.
Privacy
Prisma Stars stores the information visitors enter in the review form, including name, email address, location, service, rating, and feedback. Customer email addresses are stored privately for moderation, duplicate prevention, and privacy requests.
The plugin adds suggested text to the WordPress Privacy Policy Guide and supports WordPress personal data export and erasure requests.
Prisma Stars Pro
Prisma Stars Pro is available separately from PrismaSell and adds additional layouts, advanced review browsing, customer photo uploads, featured reviews, public business replies, advanced notifications, and more display controls.
Screenshots
Installation
- Upload the
prisma-stars-reviews-testimonialsfolder to/wp-content/plugins/, or install the ZIP from Plugins > Add New > Upload Plugin. - Activate Prisma Stars.
- Open Prisma Stars > Settings and configure the widget.
- Add
[prisma_stars]to a page. - Approve submitted reviews from the Prisma Stars admin menu.
FAQ
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Are reviews published automatically?
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No. Public submissions are saved as Pending and must be approved by an administrator.
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Are customer email addresses displayed publicly?
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No. Email addresses are stored privately for moderation and privacy requests.
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Can I show different reviews on different pages?
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Yes. Assign reviews to categories and use the
categoryshortcode parameter. -
Does Prisma Stars use an external review service?
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No. Reviews are stored in your WordPress database, and the frontend does not require external fonts, icons, or slider libraries.
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Does the plugin add review schema?
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The free version does not output review schema. This avoids accidental use of unsupported self-serving review markup.
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Why does the review form use admin-ajax.php?
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It submits reviews without reloading the page. If submissions fail, confirm that security, cache, or firewall tools are not blocking
wp-admin/admin-ajax.php.
Reviews
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Contributors & Developers
“Prisma Stars – Reviews & Testimonials” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.
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Changelog
1.0.3
- Updated the contributor username to the verified WordPress.org account
prismasells. - Updated the plugin folder and text domain to match the assigned WordPress.org slug
prisma-stars-reviews-testimonials. - No user-facing functionality changed.
1.0.2
- Updated the official Prisma Stars Pro product link in the settings and About pages.
- Added a restrained Pro edition information section without locking or limiting any free functionality.
1.0.1
- Documented intentional category and privacy database queries for Plugin Check.
- Documented one-time transient cleanup during uninstall.
- No user-facing functionality changed.
1.0.0
- Initial WordPress.org-ready free release.
- Added responsive slider and grid layouts.
- Added public review submission and manual moderation.
- Added verified-review badges, categories, privacy tools, and settings.