Bots post as guests. Real customers have accounts. Requiring an account to write a review removes almost all of the first group and almost none of the second.
The first restricts WooCommerce product reviews to logged-in customers. The second extends the same rule to comments everywhere — posts, pages and products alike.
Underneath, both do the same honest thing: they turn on WordPress’s own “users must be registered and logged in to comment” rule for the context you chose, so the form is never rendered rather than being hidden with CSS.
The reviews tab still opens. The star average is still there. The reviews you have earned are still there. Only the submission form is replaced — with one line telling the visitor how to leave one.
Nothing is deleted, hidden or migrated. Turn the setting off again and the form comes straight back.
Anything you wrap in curly brackets becomes the login link. Put the brackets around whichever words should be clickable — the plugin turns them into a link and leaves the rest of the sentence alone.
The link points at the standard WordPress login and returns the visitor to the page they were reading. If your store has its own login page, put its URL in the last field and it will be used instead.
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A plugin that removes something should be very clear about what it leaves behind.
There is no paid tier. This is the whole plugin, and all of it is in the version on WordPress.org.
| Feature | Included |
|---|---|
| Restrictions | |
| Logged-in only, WooCommerce product reviews Applies to products, and only to products | ✓ |
| Logged-in only, comments site-wide Posts, pages and products together | ✓ |
| Pingbacks and trackbacks closed With the site-wide switch | ✓ |
| The message guests see | |
| Custom wording Used for both reviews and comments | ✓ |
| Curly-bracket link syntax {login}, {sign in}, or any words you choose | ✓ |
| Custom login URL Optional; defaults to the WordPress login, returning to the same page | ✓ |
| Build quality | |
| Classic and block themes | ✓ |
| Admin styles load on this settings page only | ✓ |
| Translation ready Translation template included | ✓ |
| Clean uninstall Across every site on a multisite network | ✓ |
Requiring an account raises the bar for writing a review, which is the point — but it also means fewer reviews if nothing encourages the customers who can still write them.
NeoGrow gives those logged-in customers loyalty points for reviewing, and bonus points for attaching a photo. Neither plugin needs the other; they simply solve the two halves of the same problem.
See what NeoGrow doesDisable Reviews
Removes the guests who were never going to buy.
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Gives the customers who remain a reason to write.
From the plugin’s WordPress.org listing, read when this page was last built.
If yours is not here, the support forum is the fastest way to reach someone. New to reviews? The complete guide to WooCommerce product reviews covers the settings around them.
No. The plugin only controls whether the submission form is shown. Every review already in your database stays there, stays visible, and keeps counting towards your star averages. If what you are after is a way to delete WooCommerce reviews in bulk, this is not that plugin — nothing here removes a review.
Only if you ask it to. The first switch is scoped to WooCommerce products and nothing else. The second switch is the one that covers posts and pages as well — it is off until you turn it on.
Yes. Rather than hiding anything with CSS, it works through WordPress’s own comment-registration option and the standard comment form filters, so the behavior is the same whether your theme is classic or block-based.
There is very little of it to slow anything down. It adds no database tables, makes no external requests, loads no front-end JavaScript, and its admin stylesheet is queued only on its own settings page.
Guest review and comment forms come back immediately — the restriction is applied at render time and never written to your WordPress discussion settings. Deleting the plugin also removes its single option row, on every site of a multisite network.
Free, and it stays free. Install it, flip one switch, and stop moderating spam.
Get NeoLite Disable ReviewsRequires WordPress 6.0+, PHP 7.4+ and WooCommerce 8.0+.
