User assessment is everywhere. All popular e-commerce websites provide user reviews of products. Q & A sites such as quora and stackoverflow rely on user evaluations to determine the best answers. Books, movies, enterprises, and even university professors will rank according to user evaluation. There are many types of WordPress sites to integrate user evaluation. WordPress based e-commerce sites are the most reliable applications, but it is not the only one with useful ratings. Here are some other potential applications for user evaluation to get creative juice streams: The
Blogs that publish user submitted content can use ratings to highlight the best content. Sites that publish product or service reviews can use ratings to add explicit visual representations of ratings to product or service reviews. This is what we do on this blog. In fact, you can see the application of this technology in the second half of this article. Business websites can add ratings on product and service pages to express support for users’ preferred products and services. If you are really confident, you can add a rating system to your blog posts so that readers can evaluate the quality of the content. In this article, let’s take a look at the popular rating plug-in rating widget: star review system. I will demonstrate how to use it and evaluate it on a scale of 1 to 5 stars. Because obviously, we need to evaluate components. Then, we will add user evaluation to your site and tell you some practical alternatives. If the rating widget: star review system is not sold. The
Rating widget: what is the star review system? Rating widget: the star review system (later called rating widget) is an advanced word press plug-in. WP claims to be the most popular five star rating system on the web. The free version of the plug-in provided by. Org has more than 10000 active installations. Plug ins can also be used on a variety of other website platforms, including blogger, Tumblr, squarespace, Shopify, Wix, and jQuery widgets. The
The free version of the plug-in allows you to add ratings to posts, custom post types, pages, and comments. The developers also said that rating widget is compatible with woocommerce, buddypress and bbpress, and can be used on multi site networks. In other words, rating widgets can add customized ratings to almost all the content on the WordPress website. How to use the rating widget: navigate to starreview system plug ins > new, search for \
Next, select the ratingwidget entry from the administrator menu. The WordPress site must be connected to the server hosting the evaluation artifacts service. Click OK. Connect to the site and send a confirmation email to the email address associated with the user profile. If you have not received the email, please confirm whether the email address in the configuration file is the email address being confirmed. If necessary, change the email address in the configuration file and select the option to return to the ratingwidget and resend the confirmation email. After receiving the confirmation email, click the button in the email to activate the plug-in. The
After enabling the rating plug-in in posts, pages, and comments, go to ratingwidget> settings. The settings menu has four tabs. Blog
Gifts: use this tab to control the level of posts. Home page post: use this tab to control how ratings are displayed on the page specified as the post page in the Settings > reading menu. By default, Posts appear on the first page, but if you set a different page as a Posts page, the settings of that tab apply to the selected page. Message: constitutes the message level. Page: use this tab to control the level of the page. Starting from the blog posts tab, set the rating criteria that apply to blog posts. The free version of the plug-in can automatically generate up to 3 standards, with an average of summary level. The
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The final results are as follows: The front page Posts tab provides the same options as the blog posts tab, so we won’t discuss them in detail. However, if you use the blog post level, it is recommended to set the home page level to read-only, using only a single standard and label. With these settings, only the summary level is displayed on the home page, and visitors must access blog posts and add their own level. By default, the comment level is set to show simple likes or dislikes instead of a 5-star rating. In most cases, it is recommended that you disable comment ratings or leave the default settings. In any case, you can make the necessary adjustments on the notes tab. The
The settings on the page tab are the same as those on the posts and previous page Posts tabs. Use the pages tab to determine how ratings are displayed on site pages. If you are a WordPress developer of advanced evaluation component technology, you can browse many other options. For example, there is a shortcut code in the middle of the content (instead of the default location) that can be used for degradation. There are also several PHP functions that can be used to return or output ratings in the topic template file. Shortcut code and functions are particularly useful for handling custom post types. According to the creation and display method of the customized post type, you can view the post level settings applied to the customized post type. However, in some cases, many levels will not render as you wish. In this case, you can use the custom post type editor to hide the default rating and replace it with shortcut code or PHP added to the relevant template or plug-in file. The
To learn more about the options available to developers, please refer to the rating widget documentation. The rating widget contains built-in components. To enable, go to rating widget>top rated widget and select the add widget now button. Appearance>widget, the new part rating widget: top rated is listed as available parts. You can add artifacts to the artifacts area and configure it to display posts, pages, or comments. Fine tune the content displayed in the component by selecting the sequence condition, default sequence, and duration applied to select the component content. The assembly can be used multiple times. That is, \
