Plugin / Rate my Post – WP Post Rating

Description

Rate my Post is a lightweight, responsive and free WordPress rating plugin which allows you to quickly and easily add rating widgets to your posts and pages. You can add rating widget to your posts and pages with a shortcode or automatically in plugin settings (every post/every page, below the content). The plugin also comes with results widget which can be added automatically, above the content of your posts, or manually with a shortcode.

The plugin has also stats section where you can see how many votes each post/page received and what is its average rating. It also allows you to change ratings from backend and supports structured data for rich snippets. Analytics section allows you to see the details about each vote on your website.

What sets Rate my Post apart from other WordPress rating plugins is its simplicity, performance and impact on engagement. It works with any page cache plugin and is probably the most customizable free WordPress rating plugin.

The plugin also features Top Rated Posts widget which displays top rated posts according to your settings.

It does not require any web development skills. However, the plugin is also perfect for developers as it comes with neat hooks. Check out the documentation to learn more. Furthermore, the plugin is based on the WordPress Plugin boilerplate for a standardized, organized and object-oriented codebase.

Rating Widget Features:

1. Choose between different types of rating widget: Stars, Thumbs, Hearts, Smileys and Trophies

2. Add rating widget to any page/post with shortcode: [ratemypost]

3. Add rating widget to all posts or pages with one click in settings

4. Option to show results above post/page content or add results manually with shortcode: [ratemypost-result]

5. Option to automatically include rating and result widget to custom post types

6. Exclude ratings from certain pages and posts – such as About Us page etc.

7. All texts and colors can be easily changed in plugin settings

8. Option to add structured data for Rich Snippets to be displayed in search engines

9. Option to get email when a post is rated

10. Option to prevent accidental votes on mobile

11. Prevent double votes with cookies

12. Analytics section with data about votes, average ratings and feedbacks

13. Enables you to manipulate votes from backend – you can set what role is required to manipulate votes in the backend

14. Option to hide average rating

15. Option to color the stars in rating widget with average rating

16. Option to show half stars

17. Option to show descriptive ratings while users hover on stars

18. Option to disable headings for compatibility with table of contents plugins

19. Option to track votes with Google Analytics – tested with GA Google Analytics, MonsterInsights and Google Analytics by ShareThis plugins, but might also work with others.

20. Option to track votes with Matomo

21. You can define what is a negative rating to use the feedback widget and social widget

22. Option to enable reCAPTCHA v3 protection

23. Option to show results/stars on archive pages

24. Option to allow only logged in users to rate

25. Option to prevent double votes via IP addresses

Feedback Widget Features:

1. Optional feature – you can enable it or disable it

2. After negative vote (you define what is a negative vote), displays the feedback widget

3. Users who give you bad rating can help you improve your post

4. Feedback is not posted publicly – it is available only to you

5. Option to get an email if somebody leaves you feedback

6. Option to only count negative votes if feedback is left

Social Widget Features:

1. Optional feature – you can enable it or disable it

2. Shows “follow us on social media” after positive vote

3. You add URLs to your social media profiles in settings

4. Option to show social share links instead of social follow links

Top Rated Posts Widget:

1. Optional feature – you can enable it under Appearance – Widgets

2. Select how many posts to show

3. Select minimum average rating required

4. Option to show featured image

5. Option to show star rating

Why use Rate my Post?

1. Increase engagement

2. Get feedback and improve posts/pages

3. Get more followers on social media

4. It’s responsive, lightweight and simple to use

5. It’s probably the most customizable free WordPress rating plugin

6. It uses AJAX and thus works super fast

7. It’s compatible with caching plugins

8. It supports structured data for rich snippets

9. It works with multilingual websites

10. AMP compatibility (BETA)

11. reCAPTCHA v3 protection

12. Migration tools – easily migrate from kk Star Ratings, YASR or WP-PostRatings

Translations:

1. German translations thanks to the great German community see contributors

2. Portuguese (Brazil) translations thanks to Douglas douglasferraz89

3. Spanish (Costa Rica) translations thanks to Mario marbaque

4. Spanish (Spain) translations thanks to Javier Esteban nobnob