Search filters
Switch each filter on or off and drag them into the order visitors see on the search page.
1Category
2Location
3Nearby
4Minimum rating
5Sort dropdown
What is it?
Your own customer review website
A review website theme with business pages, star ratings, verified reviews and owner replies. A Trustpilot clone you own outright.
Make money
Businesses pay you, not a platform
Businesses pay for invitations, rating widgets and featured spots. You keep 100%, with no commission and no monthly theme fee.
Multi-criteria star ratings and trust score
Reviewers rate each business on criteria that fit your niche, such as delivery for shops or punctuality for trades. Scores roll into an overall rating and a trust score that favours recent, verified reviews.
- Custom criteria per category
- Weighted trust score
- Star distribution chart
Verified reviews and proof of purchase
Reviewers upload an order email or invoice, and moderators check it privately before adding a verified badge. Readers can filter to verified reviews, and documents are never shown to the business or the public.
- Proof-of-purchase upload
- Invite-only review links
- Filter to verified only
Photo reviews and helpful votes
Reviewers attach several photos to each review, and every image feeds a gallery on the business page. Helpful votes push detailed, balanced reviews to the top instead of one-line rants.
- Multi-photo uploads
- Helpful-vote sorting
- Business photo gallery
Reviewer profiles and reputation badges
Every reviewer gets a public profile with location, member date, review count and helpful votes. Readers judge a review by its author, and top-reviewer badges reward your best contributors and discourage fake accounts.
- Public reviewer pages
- Reputation badges
- Review history
Elementor-Ready Review Site Templates
Elementor-friendly: Design your homepage, category hubs and business pages with the free Elementor plugin, using drag-and-drop rating, review and top-rated blocks.
View Live Demo200+ Pre-Built Review Blocks
Star-rating breakdowns, review carousels, category grids and trust-score panels, each pulling live review data into any page.
Explore Our ThemesBusiness claims and public owner replies
Businesses claim their page free by verifying their company email or domain, then update details and post one public reply under each review. Every claimed business is a potential paying subscriber.
- Email or domain verification
- Public owner replies
- Owner-managed profile
Review moderation queue and flagging
Business flags, reader reports and automatic hold rules for links and phone numbers land in one queue. Moderators approve, remove or redact personal details, but never rewrite what a reviewer said, and each decision is logged. A legal complaint form records every complaint with a reply deadline. Businesses cannot delete reviews, paying or not.
- Business and reader flags
- Legal complaint tracking
- Logged decisions
Paid business plans with no commission
Offer a free plan so every company can claim its page, then sell monthly or yearly upgrades with invitations, widgets and featured slots. You set the prices, and payments go to your account through 30+ gateways.
- Free and paid tiers
- Monthly or yearly billing
- You keep 100%
Review invitations for fresh, genuine reviews
Happy customers rarely review unprompted. Paid businesses upload all their recent orders, not a hand-picked few, and the platform emails each customer a single-use review link with an automatic reminder, tracking who opened and who reviewed.
- Single-use review links
- Automatic reminders
- Invitation tracking
Embeddable rating widgets
Businesses copy and paste widgets that show their live rating, review count and latest reviews on their own website. Every widget links back to your site, and you choose which styles each plan unlocks.
- Badge, carousel and mini styles
- Live score and count
- Links back to your site
Category rankings and best-of lists
Pages like "best plumbers in Austin" are what people search before they buy. The theme builds ranked lists per category and location, and you can sell a labelled featured slot above the organic ranking.
- Automatic ranked lists
- Category and location pages
- Labelled featured slots
SEO-ready review pages with structured data
Every business page is original content written by real customers, with fast loading, clean URLs and structured data markup for ratings. Google decides when to show stars, so treat them as a bonus, not a promise.
- Structured data markup
- Clean business URLs
- Fresh content every day
15 ready-to-use designs
Browse all 15 designs One theme. Every kind of review site.
Choose a starting point for your review site. Make it yours in minutes.
Local business reviews
A Trustpilot or Yelp for your town: trades, cafés, dentists and salons, rated by their customers.
Restaurants & food
Restaurants, cafés, bakeries and bars, rated dish by dish.
Hotels & travel
Hotels, tours and attractions, reviewed by people who went.
Software & SaaS
Business software scored on ease of use, features and support.
Online shops
Photo reviews of what really turned up at the door.
Every design includes star ratings, owner replies and best-of rankings.
- Fully responsive designs
- No plugins required
- Easy to customise
The admin area
One admin area runs your entire review site.
Ratings, moderation, business claims and search filters are all set from one dashboard instead of a stack of review and membership plugins.
Open the admin demoModeration rules
New reviews go live straight away, and anything with a link, phone number or email address waits for a check.
Hold reviews with links
A web address in a review or reply holds it for a check.
Hold reviews with phone numbers
Seven or more digits in a row, in any format.
Hold reviews with email addresses
An email address in a review or reply holds it for a check.
Hide flagged reviews until a decision
Off: a flagged review stays live until a moderator decides.
One dashboard
New businesses, members, comments and revenue over 7, 30 or 90 days, a to-do list of moderation queues, and every other screen one click away.
Approval & expiry
Approve each new business before it appears, and choose what happens when a listing's time runs out.
Review pending businesses1 business is awaiting approval.1
Yes, hold new FREE listings for review
Applies to every new submission.Set to draft (unlisted)
Business claims
A business claims its page free with a code sent to its own work email, then replies to its reviews.
Approve claims by company email
A code sent to an address at the business's own website domain approves the claim.
Let reviewers add a missing business
The business waits for your approval before it appears.
Add structured data for ratings
Adds structured data markup for ratings to business pages.
Site generator
Connect your own AI account, describe your review site, and the generator lays out the pages. Ask for changes in plain English or move the blocks yourself.
Works with your own AI account
AssistantAdd a row of top-rated restaurants under the hero.
Automatic emails
Every email the site sends is ready to go. Edit the wording of any of them, or switch one off.
Manage emailsAll 68 on
New review of your businessSent to a business owner when a review goes live
Business replied to a reviewSent to a reviewer when the business replies
Review invitationSent for a business to a customer it invited
Claim verification codeSent to a work email to prove a business claim
Social proof
Pop-ups and bars that show visitors what is happening on your review site, such as new reviews, sign-ups and how many people are browsing right now.
Recent activityNew businesses as they are added
Sign-upsNew members and newsletter subscribers
ReviewsStar ratings members leave
Live activityPeople browsing right now
Countdown timerA deadline offer or top bar
Announcement barA promotion or news
New 5-star review: Cedar Valley PlumbingPriya from Austin · just now
SMS & payment gateways
Text members through Twilio, Vonage, MessageBird or Plivo, and take payments through PayPal, Stripe and 140 more gateway plugins.
Members choose email, SMS or both for their notifications.
TwilioVonageMessageBirdPlivo
Uses your own account with the providerSend test
+140 more
Everything, built in
No extra plugins to buy or configure
These are the plugins most review sites end up installing. With the Review theme they are already there, switched on from the admin area.
Elementor editing
By PremiumPress
Restyle business pages, category pages, headers and landing pages in the free Elementor page builder.
Needs: Free Elementor pluginElementor-ready
200+ review site blocks
By PremiumPress
Rating summaries, review feeds, category tiles and top-rated lists.
Find it: Block ExplorerBuilt in
11 languages
By PremiumPress
English plus 10 language packs. Every label can be translated.
Switch on: Settings › LanguageBuilt in
146 payment gateways
By PremiumPress
PayPal, Stripe and 144 more free gateway plugins for your own merchant account.
Switch on: Checkout › GatewaysFree add-ons
Ratings & trust score
By PremiumPress
5 stars or scores from 1 to 10, with a trust score that weighs recent and verified reviews more.
Switch on: PremiumPress › Review SettingsBuilt in
Search & filters
By PremiumPress
Category, location, nearby and minimum-rating filters, in your order.
Switch on: Design › Search Page DesignBuilt in
Business claims
By PremiumPress
Owners claim their page free with a code to their work email, then reply to reviews.
Switch on: PremiumPress › Review SettingsBuilt in
Review invitations
By PremiumPress
Businesses on a paid plan email their customers a link to leave a review.
See them: PremiumPress › InvitationsBuilt in
Email & SMS verification
By PremiumPress
Members confirm their email or phone before their account opens.
Switch on: Users › Verification & LoginBuilt in
How it compares
A Trustpilot clone you own vs the alternatives
Rent a hosted review service, glue plugins together or pay a developer. Here is how they compare.
| PremiumPress Review | SaaS review platform | Plugin stack | Custom build | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Price | $99 one-time | Monthly subscription | Several yearly licences | Large project fee |
| You run the platform | Yes | No, you are a customer | Yes | Yes |
| Keep business subscription revenue | 100% | Not possible | Depends on add-ons | Yes |
| Business claims & public replies | Built in | N/A | Extra add-on | Must be built |
| Verified-review badges | Built in | N/A | Rarely | Must be built |
| Moderation queue | Built in | N/A | Basic | Must be built |
| Monthly fees | None | Every month | Renewals | Maintenance |
| Unlimited installs | Yes | N/A | Per-site licences | One site |
| Time to launch | Days | N/A | Weeks of setup | Months |
| Works with Elementor (free) | Yes | N/A | Varies | Varies |
Questions
Review WordPress Theme FAQ
The questions we hear most before people buy. Still unsure? Our support team is happy to help.
What can I build with this review WordPress theme?
Any site where people rate businesses, products or services: a Trustpilot clone for online shops, a Yelp clone for local trades, or a software review site. You choose the categories, rating criteria and whether reviews need proof of purchase.
Is the review WordPress theme available to buy now?
Yes. The Review Site Theme is on sale now. Try the live demo first, then buy it from this page and download it straight away from your PremiumPress account.
How does a customer review website make money?
Mostly from the businesses being reviewed. Owners claim their page free, then upgrade for invitations, rating widgets and analytics. You can also sell featured spots in category rankings. You set every price and keep all the revenue, with no platform commission.
How do verified reviews work?
Reviewers upload a proof of purchase, such as an order email or receipt, which moderators check privately before adding a verified badge. Paid businesses can also send invite-only review links. Uploaded documents are never shown publicly.
Can businesses reply to reviews or remove bad ones?
They can reply, but not remove. A business claims its page and posts one public reply under each review. It can flag a review that breaks your guidelines, and your moderation queue decides. That rule keeps the site trustworthy.
What happens if a business says a review is false?
It can flag the review, and anyone can use the legal complaint form on each review. Complaints land in your moderation area with a reply deadline. You can ask the reviewer, remove the review or keep it, and every step is logged. Starter review guidelines are included; check them against the law where you operate.
Will my review pages show stars in Google?
We cannot promise that. Business and review pages output structured data markup for ratings, giving search engines a clear summary of each score. Google decides when to show rich results, so treat stars as a possible bonus, not a guarantee.
Do I need extra plugins for ratings, moderation or payments?
No. Multi-criteria ratings, reviewer profiles, business claims, moderation, paid plans and rating widgets are part of the theme. You install one review website theme instead of a review plugin, a membership plugin and a payments add-on.
How much does the review WordPress theme cost?
The theme is $99, paid once. That includes 6 months of support and updates, free install and setup, unlimited installs on sites you own and a 14-day money-back guarantee. There are no monthly fees and no commission.
Can I start in one niche and add categories later?
Yes. Many review sites start narrow, such as wedding suppliers in one region, then add categories as traffic grows. Categories, rating criteria and ranking pages are managed in the admin area, so you expand without rebuilding.
Can I design the site with Elementor?
Yes. The theme is Elementor-ready, so you can edit the homepage, category pages and landing pages with the free version of Elementor, using pre-built blocks for rating summaries, review feeds and top-rated lists, all without code.
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