Rate my Post – WP Rating System free WordPress plugin

Rate my Post – WP Rating System allows you to easily add rating functionality to your WordPress website. Visitors can rate your posts/pages and send you private feedback after rating. Functionality to create custom rating widgets that work independently of posts and pages is available in the PRO version.

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.

Highlights

• Lightweight, responsive and free
• Add rating functionality to your website automatically or use shortcodes – no coding required!
• Option to show ratings visually before the content of each post (so-called results widget)
• Stats section where you can see how many votes each post/page received and what is its average rating.
• Analytics section with detailed information about each rating such as time, IP (optionally), username, title, time spent on page before rating etc.
• Easily change ratings in the admin panel
• Supports structured data for rich snippets according to the latest Google guidelines
• GDPR compliant
• Top rated posts widget
• Custom templates for complete customization
• Works with infinite scroll plugins and popups (implementation requred)

Developers

While the plugin does not require any coding, it is perfect for developers as well because it comes with neat hooks and is based on the WordPress Plugin boilerplate for a standardized, organized and object-oriented codebase. Since version 3, Webpack is used as a module bundler and Gulp as a task runner.

See:

• Documentation

• GitHub

Shortcodes

[ratemypost] – embeds rating widget

[ratemypost-result] – embeds results widget

It is also possible to embed a rating of whichever post by passing the id of the post to the shortcode.

[ratemypost id=”1″] – embeds rating widget for the post with the id of 1

[ratemypost-result id=”1″] – embeds results widget for the post with the id of 1

PRO Version

Rate my Post PRO comes with advanced schema selector which allows you to select schema type directly in the post editor for each post and supports custom rating widgets. Read more about Rate my Post PRO.

Components

The plugin includes five components; rating widget, results widget, social widget, feedback widget and top rated posts widget.

Rating Widget Features:

Rating widget adds the basic rating functionality to your website

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 the settings

4. Option to automatically include rating widget to custom post types

5. Exclude rating widget from certain pages and posts – such as About Us page etc.

6. All texts and colors can be easily changed in the settings

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

8. Option to get email when a post is rated

9. Option to prevent accidental votes

10. Prevent double votes with cookies

11. Option to hide average rating and vote count

12. Option to show descriptive ratings while a user hovers over rating icons

13. Google Analytics integration

14. Option to enable reCAPTCHA v3 protection

15. Option to show results (visual rating) on archive pages

16. Option to allow only logged in users to vote

17. Option to prevent double votes via IP addresses

Results Widget Features:

Results widget is similar to the rating widget, but is not interactive – it only displays rating visually.

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

2. Add results widget to any page/post with shortcode: [ratemypost-result]

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

4. Option to automatically include results widget to custom post types

Feedback Widget Features:

Feedback widget enables visitors to leave you anonymous feedback

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

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

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

4. Feedback is not posted publicly – only you can see it

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

Social Widget Features:

Social widget displays social follow or social share links after the rating has been submitted

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

2. Shows social follow/share links after a positive rating (you define what is a positive rating in the settings)

Top Rated Posts Widget:

Displays top rated posts on your website

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

2. Select how many posts to show

3. Select minimum average rating required

4. Select minimum vote count required

5. Option to show featured image

6. Option to show visual rating

Why use Rate my Post?

1. Increase engagement

2. Get feedback and improve your content

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

11. reCAPTCHA v3 protection

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

Translations:

Please help translate the plugin to your language here. The plugin also comes with POT file if you prefer using software such as Poedit.

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

5. Chinese (China) translations thanks to lufffy

6. Russian translations thanks to Mikhail Alferov malferov