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Free Plugin by Marcel Pol v5.1.0

Gwolle Guestbook

Gwolle Guestbook is the WordPress guestbook you've just been looking for. Beautiful and easy.

Gwolle Guestbook

The facts

Rating
4.8★ from 113
Active installs
20k+
Price
Free
Last updated
21 Aug 2026
Added
Feb 2009
Requires WP
4.1
Tested up to
WP 7.1
Requires PHP
7.0
Downloads
1,582,883

Our analysis

AI-assisted

Gwolle Guestbook is a WordPress plugin designed to integrate a guestbook into your website. It offers a user-friendly frontend for visitors to leave entries and includes features like pagination, a widget for displaying entries, and a clean admin interface for managing submissions.

The plugin supports multiple guestbooks, anti-spam measures, and easy import/export from other guestbooks. It is suitable for anyone looking to add a dedicated guestbook feature to their WordPress site, rather than using the standard comment section.

Best for: This plugin suits website owners who want to add a guestbook feature to their WordPress site.

What it does well

  • Easy to use frontend for visitors
  • Supports multiple guestbooks
  • Includes various anti-spam features
  • Simple import/export functionality
  • Clean admin interface for management

Where it falls short

  • Limited information on specific features and customisation options
  • No details on support response times

Verdict

Gwolle Guestbook provides a straightforward solution for integrating a guestbook into WordPress, with various useful features. It may be a good choice for those looking for a dedicated guestbook option.

From the developer

Marcel Pol's own description of Gwolle Guestbook, lightly tidied.

Gwolle Guestbook is the WordPress guestbook you’ve just been looking for. Beautiful and easy.
Gwolle Guestbook is not just another guestbook for WordPress. The goal is to provide an easy and slim way to integrate a guestbook into your WordPress powered site. Don’t use your ‘comment’ section the wrong way – install Gwolle Guestbook and have a real guestbook.

Current features include:

  • Easy to use guestbook frontend with a simple form for visitors of your website.
  • List of guestbook entries at the frontend with pagination or infinite scroll.
  • Widget to display an excerpt of your last or your best entries.
  • Simple and clean admin interface that integrates seamlessly into WordPress admin.
  • Dashboard Widget to easily manage the latest entries from your Admin Dashboard.
  • Easy Import from other guestbooks into Gwolle Guestbook.
  • Notification by mail when a new entry has been posted.
  • Moderation, so that you can check an entry before it is visible in your guestbook (optional).
  • 7 anti-spam features, like Honeypot, Nonce, Form Timeout, Akismet, Stop Forum Spam and Custom Quiz Question.
  • Simple Form Builder to select which form-fields you want to use.
  • Simple Entry Builder with the parts of each entry that you want to show.
  • Multiple guestbooks are possible.
  • MultiSite is supported.
  • Localization. Own languages can be added very easily through GlotPress.
  • Admins can add a reply to each entry.
  • A log for each entry, so that you know which member of the staff released and edited a guestbook entry to the public and when.
  • IP-address and host-logging with link to WHOIS query site.
  • RSS Feed.
  • BBcode, Emoji and Smiley integration (optional).
  • Easy uninstall routine for complete removal of all database changes.

… and all that integrated in the stylish WordPress look.

Import / Export

You may have another guestbook installed. That’s great, because Gwolle Guestbook enables you to import entries easily.
The importer does not delete any of your data, so you can go back to your previous setup without loss of data, if you want to.
Trying Gwolle Guestbook is as easy as 1-2-3.

Import is supported from:

  • DMSGuestbook.
  • WordPress comments from a specific post, page or just all comments.
  • Gwolle Guestbook itself, with Export supported as well (CSV-file).

Support

If you have a problem or a feature request, please post it on the plugin’s support forum on wordpress.org. I will do my best to respond as soon as possible.

If you send me an email, I will not reply. Please use the support forum.

Translations

Translations can be added very easily through GlotPress.
You can start translating strings there for your locale. They need to be validated though, so if there’s no validator yet, and you want to apply for being validator (PTE), please post it on the support forum.
I will make a request on make/polyglots to have you added as validator for this plugin/locale.

Demo

Check out the demo at https://demo.zenoweb.nl.

Add-On

Read the full description on the official page →

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