Aprendiz Reviews is a plugin developed by Víctor Alonso from Aprendiz Seo to create a carousel of customisable reviews that can be added and managed from the admin and displayed with a shortcode[rewievs] anywhere in a post or page or in a widget without relying on external services.
If you need a lightweight plugin with clean code, without heavy external dependencies and easy to use for this task you can download it for free from here adding zero in the order. To thank the author for releasing the work you can leave a donation or post a review on your blog.
Documentation and a demo of the plugin.
The uncluttered design of the reviews is smooth and adapts well to any template. Although the plugin adds a base style, you can always overwrite it with CSS in your template to give it the look you want.
As easy to use as it is effective, once installed you have three options in the admin of your site. Under Add review you will find the fields for writing reviews including name, number of star ratings and an avatar that will be displayed round.
This is what the review management area looks like.
In Schema Settings you have two options, the entity type and a field to add a name.
Automatically include structured data(JSON-LD) to improve your Google ranking.
<script type="application/ld+json">{
"@context": "https://schema.org",
"@type": "Product",
"name": "Mi producto o servicio",
"description": "Opiniones reales de clientes verificadas.",
"aggregateRating": {
"@type": "AggregateRating",
"ratingValue": 3.6,
"bestRating": "5",
"ratingCount": 5
},
"review": [
{
"@type": "Review",
"author": {
"@type": "Person",
"name": "Una reseñita más"
},
"datePublished": "2025-05-26",
"reviewBody": "Aprendiz Reviews es un plugin que patatín y patatán. Eso es seguro. Si alguien te dice lo contrario te está engañando.",
"reviewRating": {
"@type": "Rating",
"ratingValue": "1",
"bestRating": "5"
}
},
The plugin weighs 14.6 Kb unzipped. The reviews are stored in the wp_reviews table. And five reviews took 16 Kb in the DB.
In a quick test I only missed a couple of options to adjust the horizontal scroll time of the carousel as it can sometimes be too fast to read longer reviews or even stop on mouseover. Even so, it is responsive, mobile compatible, tactile and draggable on both mobile and desktop.
Another thing I missed is the ability to edit the text of the reviews in case a typo creeps into the message. Now you can only delete or hide them.
At the moment you can only add reviews from the admin, but it could easily be extended to add them from the frontend. Future updates will be available from the plugin page.
The author is open to suggestions for improvements, comments or integrations. You can send your suggestions from their contact page or leave your feedback on Gumroad.
