Title: Post Ratings Author: digitalnature Published: November 22, 2011 Last modified: May 12, 2016 --- Search plugins This plugin **hasn’t been tested with the latest 3 major releases of WordPress**. It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when used with more recent versions of WordPress. ![](https://s.w.org/plugins/geopattern-icon/post-ratings.svg) # Post Ratings By [digitalnature](https://profiles.wordpress.org/digitalnature/) [Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/post-ratings.3.0.zip) * [Details](https://wordpress.org/plugins/post-ratings/#description) * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/plugins/post-ratings/#reviews) * [Installation](https://wordpress.org/plugins/post-ratings/#installation) * [Development](https://wordpress.org/plugins/post-ratings/#developers) [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/post-ratings/) ## Description [Post Ratings](http://www.dfactory.eu/plugins/post-ratings/) is a simple, developer- friendly, straightforward post rating plugin. Relies on post meta to store avg. rating / vote count. For more information, check out plugin page at [dFactory](http://www.dfactory.eu/) or plugin [support forum](http://www.dfactory.eu/support/forum/post-ratings/). #### Features include: * Allow your site users to rate posts (of any kind) * Display the average post rating, vote count or weighted (bayesian) rating within your posts * Display a widget with the top rated posts in your sidebar * Allow you to create your own rating formula Why another rating plugin? Because the existing ones are either outdated, bloated with useless functionality, or just too buggy 🙂 ## Installation 1. Install Post Ratings either via the WordPress.org plugin directory, or by uploading the files to your server 2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress 3. Go to the Post Ratings settings and set your options. ## FAQ Installation Instructions 1. Install Post Ratings either via the WordPress.org plugin directory, or by uploading the files to your server 2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress 3. Go to the Post Ratings settings and set your options. How does this plugin log votes? Basic check trough cookies, IP match against a limited transient-cached IP list, and user meta records (if registration-only ratings are enabled). If any of these checks fail the user is not allowed to rate. How do I change the rating template? If you want to change the HTML mark-up for the ratings create a “post-ratings-control. php” template within your theme folder. Check out the original template from this package for help on how to edit it. How do I manually display the rating links where I want? Either fill the custom filter field with your own action tag in the plugin settings, or use the `[rate]` shortcode. Translations: * German – by Thorsten Wollenhoefer * Polish – by Bartosz Arendt * Slovak – by Martin ## Reviews ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/c8d7b3cf9d3c0ab877aa9898f24d8cf60005fd265edb6c61baabd181dcac96af? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[This was a pleasant surprise](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/this-was-a-pleasant-surprise/)󠁿 [Luis Martins](https://profiles.wordpress.org/lmartins/) January 18, 2018 Well thank you so much for this simple but well put out plugin. I was pleasantly for a few reasons: It doesn’t fill the admin UI with a ton of upsell offers It puts its options on where they make sense, in the settings option and not top level as many developers like to do It goes to the point and just works. Thank you! ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/effb5f17d15b4c227fb54a38904724d1b3f606268f4d9a5f81b6c01c9058bdb2? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[Exactly fits my needs, but…](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/exactly-fits-my-needs-2/)󠁿 [jakubd](https://profiles.wordpress.org/jakubd/) January 17, 2018 Nice simple plugin, but all ratings are lost when deactivating and activating the plugin 🙁 ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/f7ec0cc0cb53e6dc82f5e38a6f8054fafbccc35394455a8f9917adc838bb2262? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[Post Ratings](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/post-ratings-2/)󠁿 [Lost Mountain](https://profiles.wordpress.org/gtgtigran35/) January 12, 2017 fast conected with my site, can rate my posts, ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/a49e068b4d4c7d25a203c76c68f0109f99d19e393f99d65a7c3d70fe425a1ae9? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[Perfect and to the point](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/perfect-and-to-the-poing/)󠁿 [Travis Wade](https://profiles.wordpress.org/tnwtech/) September 3, 2016 Exactly what I was looking for. Simple rating system without a lot of complexity. ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/6c0d59956ec3582d69ff78ca44e9eb91e92f1b3f7d48b8fc2d3317a3f1f175a3? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[it works !!!](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/it-works-871/)󠁿 [tayfunozer](https://profiles.wordpress.org/tayfunozer/) September 3, 2016 Google ‘also stars looks !.. Thank you man !!!!!! +Maximum 1 vote to remove the limit? ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/70b98bdd2602aa86be376fcb1f8cbe5ec83ce4165fc4adc928c88558afdbf83a? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[Simple. Easy to use. Does everything I need.](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/simple-easy-to-use-does-everything-i-need/)󠁿 [B](https://profiles.wordpress.org/johnnybrackett/) February 7, 2017 If you need a ratings plugin, this is the one. Cheers for developing an awesome plugin! [ Read all 25 reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/post-ratings/reviews/) ## Contributors & Developers “Post Ratings” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin. Contributors * [ digitalnature ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/digitalnature/) * [ dFactory ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/dfactory/) [Translate “Post Ratings” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/post-ratings) ### Interested in development? [Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/post-ratings/), check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/post-ratings/), or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/post-ratings/) by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/post-ratings/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss). ## Changelog #### 3.0 * Complete plugin rewrite and update by [dfactory](https://dfactory.eu/) #### 2.4 * Added Slovak translation, tx Martin * Fixed wrong path to .mo/.po files * Added wrapper for current_user_can (experimental), eg. current_user_can(‘rate’, $post_id) #### 2.3 * Added support for proxies that send the client IP * Fixed a bug in the template loader, tx @ Spencer * Fixed a bug with the transient post limit checks * Added German translations (tx Thorsten) and fixed a possible localization issue #### 2.2 * The rating control (HTML) can now be fully customized trough the “post-ratings- control.php” template (create one inside your theme) * Removed the formatRatingsMeta method, as it’s now unnecessary * Fixed a compatibility issue with certain PHP setups #### 2.1 * Fixed issue on widgets page from 2.0 #### 2.0 * Fixed buggy rating records on multisite * Themes can now override default CSS, if post-ratings.css is present in the theme dir #### 1.9 * Added cache flush triggers * Decreased the_content filter priority to accomodate plugins that don’t handle excerpts correctly * Added CPT support for the “archives” page visibility setting * Fixed an issue with duplicate user rated posts ID records #### 1.8 * Fixed an issue with the shortcode (not being displayed in certain situations) * Added “force” argument to the shortcode; if present, page visibility setting is ignored #### 1.7 * Support for Google Rich Snippets, using microformats mark-up; note that this can only work on singular pages! #### 1.6 * Added a few filter tags (and a javascript event on succesful rate), so the output can be easily changed #### 1.5 * Fixed a js issue with voting introduced by mistake in 1.4 * Some updates to the Atom widget code (as Atom Widget API changed) #### 1.4 * Fixed 2 bugs related to Atom-based themes #### 1.3 * Fixed bug in which the user formula wasn’t working outside the widget * Fixed an issue where under certain conditions pages would be empty * Added some API info the FAQ #### 1.2 * Added the ability to use a custom bayesian formula * Made the IMDB rating formula as default * Fixed some localization inconsistencies on the Atom widget #### 1.1 * Added Atom widget (replaces the default widget if the site runs on an Atom theme) * Fixed javascript error when running non-Atom 2+ themes #### 1.0 * First public release. ## Meta * Version **3.0** * Last updated **8 years ago** * Active installations **600+** * WordPress version ** 4.0.0 or higher ** * Tested up to **4.5.33** * Tags * [ajax](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/ajax/)[post](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/post/) [postrating](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/postrating/)[rating](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/rating/) [ratings](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/ratings/) * [Advanced View](https://wordpress.org/plugins/post-ratings/advanced/) ## Ratings 4.5 out of 5 stars. * [ 19 5-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/post-ratings/reviews/?filter=5) * [ 0 4-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/post-ratings/reviews/?filter=4) * [ 2 3-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/post-ratings/reviews/?filter=3) * [ 0 2-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/post-ratings/reviews/?filter=2) * [ 2 1-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/post-ratings/reviews/?filter=1) [Your review](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/post-ratings/reviews/#new-post) [See all reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/post-ratings/reviews/) ## Contributors * [ digitalnature ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/digitalnature/) * [ dFactory ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/dfactory/) ## Support Got something to say? 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