What Is The Best WordPress Rating Plugin
"The best" is such a loaded question, since it is really subjective. What's best for me may not be best for you and vis versa. But that said, my favorite rating plugin for WordPress is WP Post Ratings Plugin from Lester Chan at GaMerZ.
WP Post Ratings allows you to have a 1-## rating system on your WordPress blog, where you decide how high the rating system can go. You can use the typical 1-5 rating, a 1-10 rating or even a 1-100 rating if you wanted.
You can display the rating of your posts as an image or as text, and the plugin comes with three different image sets to use for rating your blog posts. There is a "star" set, and "bar" set and a "square" set. I use the "square" set here on Blog Strokes.
The WP Post Ratings Plugin uses AJAX to display and allow voting, so the page does not need to refresh when a reader votes on your post.
You can choose to display the voting in your WordPress Theme template files, or you can add it directly into your posts, which would allow you to have voting on some posts, but not all. And there are five distinct customizable snippet templates for the voting sections of the plugin that you can customize to fit your blog.
Finally WP Post Ratings allows you to display the posts on your blog that have been rated the highest, or the posts that have been rated the most often. You can choose how many posts to display for either view, and you can customize the output so that it looks nice in your blog.
Do you use a WordPress Rating Plugin on your blog? Which one do you use and why do you like it better than the others?
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Hi.. I want Yes/No rating on
Hi.. I want Yes/No rating on wordpress blog..
Anyone have?
it would looks like:
http://www.pcworld.com/article/156021-4/top_10_biggest_bogus_tech_rumors...
thanks
hi there, i'm trying to use
hi there, i'm trying to use the same rating plugin as you (for word press ) but every time i try to vote i get the next error: undifined function get_ipaddress() on line 396!... i checked the 396 line, but it seams everything is ok...i don't know why. It works 2 day in a row...than boom...i get this error...pls right me back at demosten3@yahoo.com thx a lot
If you're having a problem
If you're having a problem with the stars not looking right on your sites background then there is a simple and quick solution. All you have to do is open up the css file for the post ratings and change it to the same background color as your page.
Hi Stephen, The reason i
Hi Stephen,
The reason i went with the Squares on this blog is because i just couldn't get the stars to look right on the background, so I figured I'd give the squares a try. I may redo the images later for the stars, but I like the squares alright for now.
In the footer I'm actually just using the "most popular" display like this.
[php]
< ?php get_highest_rated('post', 5); ?>
[/php]
For the most viewed section I'm using WP-PostViews, also by Lester Chan with this template code.
[php]
< ?php get_most_viewed('post', 5); ?>
[/php]
On the homepage I use a $postcount variable to display the rating code (and other stuff) for the first post, which is full text, but not for the rest of the posts which are excerpts.
I use the WP-Post Ratings
I use the WP-Post Ratings plugin too, with the star set. I chose it because it seemed to be the most popular when I had a look at what people were saying.
I like it, but I find not many people actually use it.
I made one change to it, so that users couldn't vote on my home page (because it only shows a summary). To do this, I edited postratings.php and added || is_home() to the condition on about line 67. I see you've disabled voting in your footer - how did you do this?
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