Built on my own food blog
I'm James, and I've run Healthy Living James since 2016. I've lived with ME/CFS since 2010, so every hour at the laptop counts. My readers leave lovely, detailed comments, but they sit at the bottom of the post where most people never scroll. Pasting them in by hand, recipe after recipe, was never going to happen. So I built Recipe Reviews to do it for me.
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See it on a live recipe ↗$49 / year · 1 site
Works with WP Recipe Maker. Does not work with Tasty Recipes.
Bought it already? Open the setup guide
REAL BLOCK, REAL RECIPE
The green is the colour on my own blog. On your site it starts from your theme's brand colour and uses your theme's fonts, and you can change the colours any time.
The problem
Someone lands on your recipe and wants to know one thing: will this work for me? The answer is often already there, in a reader comment saying they made it, loved it and what they swapped. Recipe Reviews finds the strongest approved comment and shows it near the top, where people decide whether to cook.
Live on ten food sites
Why it earns its spot
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$49 / year · 1 site
From a food blog SEO consultant
James's Recipe Reviews plugin is a simple, effective way for food bloggers to highlight authentic reader feedback directly within their recipe posts. From an E-E-A-T standpoint, showcasing real user-generated content (UGC) helps reinforce trust, demonstrate reader engagement, and provide valuable social proof. Best of all, the plugin automates much of the process, making it an easy win for bloggers looking to improve their recipe content.
How it works
Free WPRM is fine. Recipe Reviews does not work with Tasty Recipes.
Only real comments already on the recipe. Nothing invented, nothing generated.
Choose where it sits in your posts once, and it shows your strongest review on every recipe automatically. Pin, swap or hide a review whenever you like.
Live in about 15 minutes, starting in admin-only preview. See the setup guide
New reviews
When readers leave new approved comments, Recipe Reviews scores them. If one is stronger than the current pick, it takes over when the plugin next rescans that recipe. Prefer to choose yourself? Pin any approved comment in one click, or mark one Never use so it stays off the page.
Hand-added reviews
Lots of food bloggers have pasted a reader review into their top or most recent posts. That covers a handful of recipes. Recipe Reviews covers your whole site, and keeps it up to date on its own. When a stronger review is approved, it takes the spot on its own the next time that recipe is checked, without you redoing the post.
Recipe Reviews detects common hand-added review boxes, including Feast quote boxes. It shows nothing extra there until you choose, so readers never see two boxes.
Your box is hidden and your featured review sits in the same spot as on every other recipe. If a post has no review to show yet, your box stays.
Your box is only hidden when the page is shown. Nothing in the post is rewritten, so you can switch back any time.
The reviews you picked by hand never stop you using it. Now your best reviews get seen on every recipe page, not just the few you had time to do.
From people already using Recipe Reviews
“As a busy mom, I'm always looking for quick ways to make my site better for readers. Recipe Reviews did everything I needed, quickly, and I'm really happy with how it looks on Joyfully Mad.”
“Recipe Reviews automatically surfaces the best reader review right where people decide whether to make the recipe. Setup took minutes, it matched my branding right away, and it's quietly become one of the best conversion tools I've added this year.”
“I'm seriously blown away by this plugin! I had no idea how much of the work it would do on its own. It automatically picks out and rotates the best reviews from my recipes, and I barely have to lift a finger!
And the design? LOVE IT! It even picked up my brand colors automatically, so everything blends beautifully with my site. It looks so polished and professional, like it was custom-made just for me.
Honestly, this is one of those plugins you install and immediately wonder how you ever managed without it.
Thank you, James! You've created something amazing!”
“I've really enjoyed using Recipe Reviews on my food site!! It's very simple, straightforward, and does exactly what I need without unnecessarily complicating or cluttering the site. Definitely a plugin I'd recommend to other food bloggers, because it really makes the reviews pop!”
“I love the Recipe Reviews plug-in. I've always wanted to feature reviews on my posts, but didn't want to take the time to do it manually. Now the plugin does it automatically for me!”
Essentials
$49 a year.
One site.
Twelve months of private updates and email support. Your licence covers one WordPress site.
14-day money-back guarantee. Try it on your recipes, and if it is not for you, reply to your purchase email for a full refund.
Once you buy, we may occasionally email you about new Draftili plugins and updates. You can say no at checkout if you're asked, or opt out with one click in any email. Privacy policy
Works with WP Recipe Maker. Does not work with Tasty Recipes.
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FAQ
$49 / year · 1 site · WP Recipe Maker only
14-day money-back guarantee. Try it on your recipes, and if it is not for you, reply to your purchase email for a full refund.
Once you buy, we may occasionally email you about new Draftili plugins and updates. You can say no at checkout if you're asked, or opt out with one click in any email. Privacy policy
