In a 2019 survey by Statista, 91 percent of U.S. online customers agreed that positive reviews made them more likely to use a business.
As the influence of customer reviews grows, so does the demand for them. That’s why there’s an increasing number of review sites or blogs, magazines, and news sites that include product and service reviews.
You can easily create your own review site, or add reviews to your site, on WordPress with the right WordPress theme. Below is a collection of some of the best review WordPress themes. Let’s take a look.
Recommended Plugins for Review Themes
Before we dive into our list, here are a few WordPress plugins that you might want to consider with this type of theme. These tools will save you a lot of time (and headache) while setting up your site and will power your marketing and sales efforts over time.
HubSpot WordPress Plugin
HubSpot’s WordPress plugin connects your WordPress site to your HubSpot CRM. This allows you to capture, organize, and engage web visitors with forms, live chat, email, and more.
As you foster relationships and communicate with visitors over time, HubSpot’s WordPress plugin automatically records interactions in your CRM, creating a unified timeline view of each visitor’s contact history with your business. Not only does this make lead management easier, but it allows you to tailor a truly personalized customer experience for every person visiting your website.
Customer Reviews for WooCommerce
The WooCommerce customer review plugin is a great addition to any customer review website. Once a review is submitted, it verifies that the submission isn't spam then publishes the review in a slider module on your webpage.
It can also trigger follow-up emails once a review is published. You can use these emails to thank customers for submitting their feedback or offer a promotional discount for a future purchase.
Easy Testimonials
If you want to prominently display positive customer reviews, Easy Testimonials is a great tool for doing it. It lets you customize a module for visitors to fill out, then publishes their testimonials on your desired webpage.
As we can see from the example below, you can add a star rating, submission date, and quote box to your testimonial module. You can also include information about the customer who submitted the review. This makes your testimonials feel more credible because visitors know who wrote them.
Best Review WordPress Themes
The review WordPress themes below range in price, functionality, and design options. They're also designed for different business niches, from technology to blogging to gaming. However, each can help you build a review website quickly and easily.
1. Extra
Extra is one of the most popular magazine-style themes for WordPress. Since it's powered by the drag-and-drop front-end Divi Builder, it offers virtually unlimited design possibilities and options for building a product review website.
With Extra, you can create product review posts with a star rating, product description, pros and cons section, "Buy Now" button, and a review box. This built-in module allows you to add a product rating with several breakdowns, or components that make up the overall rating. For example, if you are going to rate a meal, then possible breakdowns include taste, presentation, and price.
If you don't have a lot of experience with coding, but still want to create and customize a great-looking review site, Extra is the theme for you.
2. REHub
REHub is one of the most attractive, feature-rich WordPress themes that can be used to create a product review site. This theme includes some amazing demo sites to choose from, including some for ecommerce stores, price comparison sites, multi-vendor marketplaces, and review sites.
This theme is more than just a simple review theme — it comes with powerful features that support product comparisons, multivendor marketplaces, coupon management, and more.
It also allows users to submit their own reviews on the front-end of your site — which can make it easier to build and foster an online community.
You also have the option to monetize your site by creating paid submission packages.
3. Newspaper
Newspaper is one of the best-selling news themes of all time in the CodeCanyon marketplace. If you're looking to create a news site where you can build a community and add product and service reviews, this is a great theme for you.
With almost 40 pre-built demo sites and the front-end toolkit tagDiv Composer included, Newspaper can help you to create a feature-rich and modern review site quickly and easily — without coding. It has a built-in review system for creating review articles based on stars, points, or percentages. It also includes a header builder and footer manager so you can customize every part of your review site.
You can also monetize your site with the custom Ad Box widget, and build a community with Newspaper's seamless integration with the BuddyPress and bbPress plugins.
4. Zeen
Zeen is a modern news and magazine WordPress theme that can be used by users of every skill level. Its minimalist design, built-in layout builder, and multiple monetization options make it perfect for review sites as well as blogs, magazines, news sites, and WooCommerce shops featuring reviews.
In addition to providing three review post layouts, including one with parallax scrolling, Zeen comes bundled with the Let’s Review plugin. This plugin allows you to choose from several design templates for your reviews and add unlimited affiliate buttons, pros, and cons to them. With this plugin, visitors can also leave their own reviews in the comments section.
In addition to affiliate links, you can monetize your site with ads, sponsored posts, promo boxes, and more.
5. aReview
aReview is a free and simple theme that’s ideal for creating a basic review site for movies, games, or affiliate marketing.
In addition to its responsive design, aReview comes with custom widgets, full colors control, great-looking icons, Google fonts, and the ability to upload your own logo and favicon. These customization options will enable you to create a review site that reflects your unique branding and looks good on any device.
6. SmartMag
SmartMag is ideal for users looking for a stylish and modern review theme. While the design is minimalist, the functionality of this site is rich.
In addition to five demos you can install in one click, SmartMag offers a drag-and-drop builder, multi-page content slideshow feature, multiple mega menu options, and boxed and full-width layouts for customizing your site.
It also had an integrated review system that allows you to use stars, points, or percentages to present ratings in your articles. There are also several custom widgets included in this theme, including a “Recent Tabs” widget that lets you add popular posts, recent posts, latest posts from a specific category, or top review posts in tabs in your sidebar.
7. NanoMag
NanoMag is a responsive WordPress theme that comes with a built-in review system and several pre-designed demos to help you create a review site quickly and easily.
To customize these demos, you can use the built-in drag-and-drop page builder with 14 custom blocks. You can also choose from six header styles, four mega menu options, and a boxed or full-width layout to make sure that your site looks unique.
Custom widgets and shortcodes make it easy to add functionality to your review site. There's widgets for adding a Facebook "like" button, popular posts display, social icons, and more, and shortcodes for inserting audio, video, image sliders, buttons, block quotes, or tabs.
8. Cloux
Cloux is a multipurpose theme that’s primarily used for creating gaming review sites.
In addition to including game listing and publicity features and an advanced game search system, Cloux comes with its own review system. This system allows you to add an analysis, pros and cons section, and total star or points rating with a breakdown of scores on individual components that contributed to the overall rating.
Cloux also comes bundled with the WPBakery page builder and works seamlessly with the WordPress Customizer so you can easily create and customize your review site.
9. MagXP
MagXP is one of the fastest loading WordPress themes that you can use to create a stunning product review site.
This fully responsive theme works seamlessly with the WP Review Pro plugin, one of the best review plugins. WP Review Pro comes with 16 pre-designed review templates that you can customize and five rating systems: star, point, percentage, circle, or a thumbs up/thumbs down rating.
MagXP includes over 10 ready-to-use homepage designs and a drag-and-drop page builder so you can build your review website fast. It also offers unlimited color options, sidebar options, pre-defined layout possibilities, over 630 Google fonts, multiple pagination options, and an off-canvas mobile menu, among many other features, for customizing your site’s design.
10. Entrance
If you are looking for a feature-rich, well-optimized, modern, and minimal design, Entrance is a great theme option for you. This theme comes with a clean design that will offer a great reading experience to your user.
This theme is one of the best options to create your review site, news magazine site, personal blog or any other kind of content-driven site. It is a fully responsive and retina-ready design that will display your site perfectly on small screen devices as well.
The Entrance theme offers you some different homepage design options to choose from, and you can easily customize all the homepage options to make it perfectly fit your needs. The live theme customizer will help you to work on the design of your site and make sure that you can easily change the color combination and all other aspects without any issue.
It offers a drag and drop page builder, which you can use to create custom pages for your site. It also offers you multiple blog layout options to choose from, so creating a modern and user-friendly design with this theme is extremely easy.
11. newspaperss
Newspaperss is a free WordPress theme that can be used to create online magazines, personal blogs, newspapers, and review sites. Like the Bootstrap framework, this theme was designed with a mobile-first approach. Meaning, it was designed for mobile devices first and then scaled up to display on larger screen sizes. As a result, your review site will support proper rendering and touch zooming on all devices.
The free version of the newspaperss theme also comes with two homepage demos, five custom post widgets, and an image slider. The pro version offers even more demos and customization options.
12. Vinkmag
Vinkmag is a highly-rated WordPress theme that’s perfect for newspapers, magazines, and review sites.
In addition to coming with a built-in style editor and header and footer builder, Vinkmag is also compatible with the Elementor page builder to simplify the customization options. You’ll also have your pick of 30 demos,16 header styles, and multiple post slider and layout variations.
Vinkmag also comes with advanced features like infinite scroll and a reading progress bar, designed to improve the user experience on your review site.
13. News Magic
If you want to create a review site with great looking magazine-style design, News Magic is the theme you need. This theme comes with a very attractive design that can easily keep your readers engaged.
News Magic offers a robust range of features, including a fully responsive and retina-ready design, great-looking mega menu and sticky sidebar options, and a flexible and highly customizable layout. Its built-in review and rating system is particularly valuable. You can add star, point, or percentage ratings and breakdown those ratings into different components. You can also include a summary and user rating.
This theme is created with the latest HTML5 & CSS3 code so it's SEO friendly and fast loading. Since News Magic is fully compatible with the BuddyPress, bbPress, and WooCommerce plugins, you can use this theme to build a review site that engages and fosters an online community.
14. Valenti
Valenti is a fully responsive theme for magazines and blogs. With its integrated review system and widget, you can also use Valenti to build a powerful review site.
Its review system supports three styles: stars, points, and percentages. It lets you include a score to appear as a subtitle in post thumbnails and up to three pros and cons with custom titles in individual reviews. You also have the option to turn user ratings on or off.
To design your review site, Valenti comes with a robust theme options panel, which you can use to customize your site’s layout, color scheme, navigation menu, and more. It also comes with a unique featured image system, which allows you to choose among different featured image styles for individual posts and pages, as well as multiple sticky sidebar options, blog styles, and footer layouts.
15. Puzzles
Puzzles is a colorful WordPress theme specifically created for product review site.
You get three modern rating systems to add product reviews to your site. You can display both user and author ratings based on multiple criteria.
Puzzles theme also comes with five homepage demos, six color schemes, and over 100 shortcodes to help you easily customize your review site's design and functionality.
16. Interactive
Interactive is a highly-rated blogging theme by MyThemeShop. Like the other MyThemeShops, Interactive comes integrated with the WP Review Pro plugin, making it easy to add product reviews using star, point, percentage, circle, or thumbs up/thumbs down ratings to your blog.
Interactive includes five pre-defined layouts with bold typography, social media buttons, and ads. It also comes with unlimited color options, sidebar options, over 630 Google fonts, multiple pagination options, and an off-canvas mobile menu, among many other features.
Interactive’s built-in functionality and flexibility — for example, you have the option to upload a custom logo, enable lazy loading, add custom CSS, and more — make it ideal for creating and customizing a review site.
17. Gauge
Gauge is a premium theme with a powerful review system. This review system supports site admin and user ratings, sorting and filtering options by ratings, and rich snippets in SERPs.
Using this built-in system, you can create comprehensive reviews for any kind of content — from games to movies to food, and more — using multiple rating criteria, including good and bad points. Each review item has a centralized “hub page” that displays all the news, videos, and images relating to that item in a tabbed navigation menu.
To design your site, Gauge comes bundled with the premium Visual Composer plugin and includes tons of customization options. It also offers front-end and social login options and integrations with the BuddyPress and bbPress plugins so you can create a community around your review site.
18. Edition
If you are planning to create a blog where you want to review a product with detailed content, you will love Edition.
Edition comes with a beautiful design that is perfect for any news magazine or blog. It offers multiple homepage designs, a drag-and-drop layout builder, and powerful theme options panel for easily customizing your site.
It also comes with an easy-to-use review system with unlimited review criteria to create and add product reviews to your site.
19. GoodGame
GoodGame is another powerful theme for creating a gaming review site. Like Gauge, it comes bundled with the Visual Composer plugin. It offers two custom page builder blocks.
With GoodGame, you can easily turn any post into a review with the star rating block. Once set in the post editor, this rating will show up in the post thumbnail everywhere on your site and in SERPs. GoodGame also has a custom Review summary block that allows you to list all the pros and cons for the review item and rate multiple aspects separately. These breakdown ratings are animated to engage your visitors as they scroll.
20. Cool
Like MagXP, Cool is a modern and responsive theme that's integrated with the WP Reviews Pro plugin. You can easily add star, point, percentage, circle, or thumbs up/down ratings to your posts and pages, and choose among 16 customizable review templates.
Cool offers a stylish design with multiple drag-and-drop sections and a powerful theme options panel. In addition to choosing among four possible layouts, you can customize your review site with advanced features like parallax scrolling, unlimited colors and backgrounds, and over 600 Google fonts.
21. Alegria
Alegria is a clean and responsive WordPress theme for blogs, magazines, and news sites.
It comes bundled with the Taqyeem review plugin. With this premium plugin, you can add a review box to any post or page, including custom post types, and to your site’s sidebar. In the sidebar, you can set the display to the best reviews, the most recent, or a random collection.
You can ensure the review box matches your branding by changing the color, typography, and rating system (your options are stars, points, and percentages). Review boxes can include custom titles, summaries, user ratings, and a breakdown of components that contribute to the overall rating.
Alegria also includes a customizable homepage layout, six homepage widgets, unlimited colors, custom backgrounds, and an advanced admin panel for creating and customizing your review site.
22. Newsmag
Newsmag is a fully-featured review theme that will help you create a modern review or news site to attract visitors and generate revenue.
In addition to offering over a dozen pre-built demos and premium widgets, including Instagram, newsletter, and weather widgets, Newsmag comes with a built-in rating system. With this system, you can create review articles featuring star, point, or percentage ratings. Other advanced functionality includes a popular posts block, customizable sticky menu option, and infinite or lazy loading. These and more features will enable you to create a unique review site.
23. PowerMag
PowerMag is a stylish WordPress theme for review sites, or magazines that feature reviews.
Powermag comes with a powerful built-in review system. With this system, you can set star or percentage ratings and base these ratings on up to six custom criteria. This system also supports Google rich snippets with star ratings and can enable users to add their own ratings.
It also comes bundled with the premium Visual Composer plugin so you can create and customize your site with a drag and drop page builder instead of coding. Other advanced features, like a shortcode generator, dual featured slider, and optional sticky navigation menu, further simplify the design process.
Choosing Your Review WordPress Theme
Whether you're looking to create a review site or add reviews to your blog, magazine, or news site, the right WordPress theme can help. Review WordPress themes will have specific layouts and features that make it easy to add star ratings, pros and cons, and other review sections to your homepage, blog posts, and other parts of your site.
Editor's note: This post was originally published in October 2019 and has been updated for comprehensiveness.
