Description
Lightweight AJAX 5-star post ratings with Schema.org markup, shortcodes, a sidebar widget, and admin vote management.
WP-POST-RATING is powerful rating plugin with ajax security requests.
Features:
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Very faster
Plugin use OOP and Vanilla JS, svg icons and CSS variables -
Seo-friendly
Plugin use Schema for show stars rating in google search results -
Without jQuery (Native js)
Native js is very fast -
Customize color of stars
You can customize color of stars and the second color will generate automatic -
MultiLanguages
+English (en_US)
+Spanish (es_ES)
+Russian (ru_RU)
Functional:
- Widget for show latest (any sort) votes in sidebar (other place)
Shortcodes:
[wp_rating]show rating[wp_rating_total]show total votes for current post[wp_rating_avg]show total votes for current post
Screenshots





Installation
- Upload the
wp-post-ratingdirectory to the/wp-content/plugins/directory on your web server - Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
- In settings copy shortcode and put it in your template.
Reviews
Contributors & Developers
“Wp Post Rating” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.
Contributors“Wp Post Rating” has been translated into 1 locale. Thank you to the translators for their contributions.
Translate “Wp Post Rating” into your language.
Interested in development?
Browse the code, check out the SVN repository, or subscribe to the development log by RSS.
Changelog
1.3.1
- Fixed: Release zip no longer includes dev files (
.editorconfig,.distignore, sourceassets/js/) that could confuse installs on strict hosts
1.3.0
- Changed: Removed runtime Composer vendor (Twig, Symfony DI); plugin uses a lightweight PSR-4 autoloader and PHP templates
- Added:
PluginBootstrapservice wiring,.wordpress/Docker dev stack with plugin bind-mount, Playground blueprints (.sandbox/, rootblueprint.json) - Fixed: Text domain loaded on
init(WordPress 6.7+ notice); lazy loading for admin list table and widget classes - Note: Updating from 1.2.x removes thousands of old vendor files; on some hosts the dashboard update may fail once — delete the plugin folder and reinstall if you see “Could not copy file”
1.2.5
- Added: Makefile
plugin-removeto deactivate and remove the plugin from local Docker installs - Improved:
.distignoreexcludes dev tooling from WordPress.org packages (node_modules, Docker/Makefile, docs)
1.2.4
- Fixed: wordpress.org and incomplete installs missing
src/Compat/ListTableLoader.php(fatal on activation) - Fixed: release package now always ships
src/Compat/forWPR\Compat\ListTableLoader(Composer PSR-4 autoload)
1.2.3
- Requires WordPress 6.0+ and PHP 8.1+ (tested up to WordPress 6.8)
- Added: display rating before or after single post content, or manual shortcode/PHP only
- Added: English (en_US), Spanish (es_ES), and updated Russian (ru_RU) translations
- Added:
make i18nto compile language files; Docker/Makefile for local development - Added: WordPress Playground blueprint (
assets/blueprints/blueprint.json) for plugin directory preview - Improved text domain loading with English (en_US) fallback
- Improved activation and automatic
wpr_ratingtable creation when missing after deploy - Improved admin settings sanitization, bulk actions, and SQL ORDER BY handling
- Improved Twig translations and PSR-4 autoload; build uses Yarn and sass
- Fixed WP_List_Table and admin ratings screen on newer WordPress
- Fixed deprecated PHP filter usage (PHP 8.2+), ConfigService notices, and version-check deactivation
- Fixed empty plugin options JSON decode and several admin UI strings
- Security: removed hardcoded third-party API credentials from plugin code
1.2.0
- Stars rating library moved to @romua1d/star-rating-js library
1.1.1.0
- Global refactoring. Moved to Symfony DI
1.1.0.4
- Fix critical bug
1.1.0.3
- Fixed bug which blocked work with page builders, like as Divi, Beaver, Visual Composer, Themify, Elementor, Oxygen
1.1.0.2
- Fixed bug with ajax request
- Fixed schema.org json
1.1.0
- Global refactoring
- Added twig templates
- Added checkbox for activating schema
- Added shortcodes total and avg count votes
1.0.5
- Added full color constructor for rating view
- Small refactoring
1.0.4.2
- Fix vote table default sort in admin area
- Small refactoring
1.0.4.1
- Fix bug with pagination all votes in admin area
1.0.4
- Added color chooser support
1.0.3.3
- Optimize XHR to backend
1.0.3.2
- Fix ajax incorrect answer
1.0.3.1
- Fixes with loader and display data. Correct SEO schema
1.0.3
- Fix username in widget
- Fix date in widget for multilang sites
- Remove event click from star in widget
- Add validator for ajax vote request
- Chore code
- Update language
1.0.2
- Visual fixes
1.0.1
- Change horizontal position
1.0.0
Release.
* Ajax voting
* Votes in admin panel
* Shortcode support
