The lightest and fastest plugin to rate posts and pages by their authors, comptatible with Google rating snippets.
| Author: | Philip Newcomer (profile at wordpress.org) |
| WordPress version required: | 3.1 |
| WordPress version tested: | 3.6.1 |
| Plugin version: | 1.2 |
| Added to WordPress repository: | 22-09-2013 |
| Last updated: | 22-08-2015
Warning! This plugin has not been updated in over 2 years. It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when used with more recent versions of WordPress.
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| Rating, %: | 74 |
| Rated by: | 3 |
| Plugin URI: | http://philipnewcomer.net/wordpress-plugins/g... |
| Total downloads: | 3 112 |
| Active installs: | 50+ |
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This plugin gives you the possibility to display ratings on posts / pages and also on Google search results.
It is extremely light, very fast to load, comptabible with all versions of WordPress and will not break any of your plugins. It is inspired of similar existing plugins, but remains very simple. As you know, page speed is a factor to increase Google ranking, as well as the use of rich snippets.
Important
Rating function is voluntarily limited to authors (only authors can rate, and not visitors) through the admin panel, in order to remain as light and fast as possible.
Main functionnalilties
- Rating from 0 to 5, with a 0.5 step, in the post edit screen,
- Use of Google snippets to help Google to display ratings in search results,
- Rating tags detected in Google Webmaster Data Highlighter tools,
- No use of javascript / ajax to improve loading,
- Different format of ratings available (star, heart, gradient),
- Use of sprites to improve loading of PNG images,
- Automatic display of ratings in posts, pages or both,
- Possibility to display ratings in posts through ‘shortcode’,
- Possibility to display ratings anywhere with ‘php function’.
Additional information / help
More information on shorcode, PHP function, etc… on plugin web page:
http://bonplangratos.fr/wp/plugins/google-quick-ratings