Stellar - Star rating for WordPress

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Stellar is a star rating plugin for WordPress. This plugin can create and save ratings for each WordPress entry, whether it is a Post, Page or Product. Support search Microdata allows you to improve the position and visibility of the plugin on Google pages with the click of a button in the settings. Flexible settings make it possible to create a rating of any capacity 3 stars, 5 stars, 10 stars, and even 12 stars. And of course, choose any icon from the huge library of predefined icons or even upload your own SVG icon for rating.

The plugin is completely protected from cheating due to the customizable limit of votes from one IP. In addition, due to the fact that the results are cracking in a distributed manner, it is not possible to deceive the system of scoring in Stellar.

Stellar Rating WordPress plugin great for popular WordPress Themes
Great for all popular WordPress Themes
Results in the WordPress pages list
Results in the WordPress pages list
Assignments for any WordPress entity
Assignments for any WordPress entity
Customize Number of Icons, Colors, Sizes, and Shapes
Customize Number of Icons, Colors, Sizes, and Shapes
Incredible cross-browser compatibility
Incredible cross-browser compatibility
Schema.org Microdata for the best positions in Google search
Schema.org Microdata for the best positions in Google search
Minified & optimized vanilla JS without jQuery
Minified & optimized vanilla JS without jQuery
Stellar Rating WordPress plugin suitable for all kind of Layouts and Templates
Suitable for all kind of Layouts and Templates
Stellar Rating WordPress plugin are tested and Compatible with Popular Page Builders
Tested and Compatible with Popular Page Builders
Convenient and fast User Interface
Convenient and fast User Interface
Stellar Rating WordPress plugin is compatible with WordPress 5+
Compatible with WordPress 5+

We keep an eye on the WordPress core updates and regularly update our plugins. So you can be sure that the plugin is fully functional with the latest version of WordPress.

Features of the Stellar WordPress plugin

The flexible configuration of the plugin binding displays the plugin only on those WordPress pages that you want, and for those groups whose user you choose. Rating results can be displayed both on the backend and on the frontend of the site, or they can be hidden completely.

The Stellar WordPress plugin is exceptionally compatible with all modern browsers. It does not matter which browser users view your site: Chrome, Firefox, Opera, Safari, or Edge. Everything will look great on all devices and in all browsers. And this is especially important if your website has much unique content, such as a Blog, Glossary, Portfolio, Corporate Website, eCommerce Project, Creative Agency, Real Estate Listing, Personal CV, a Restaurant, Retail Company, Global Media Agency or Magazine.

There are no compatibility restrictions for the Stellar Rating WordPress Plugin. The plugin can work with any WordPress theme. Therefore, when buying a plugin, you can be sure that it will work on your Avada, Jupiter, BeTheme, The7, Flatsome, Enfold, Porto, Bridge, Uncode, TheGem, Newspaper, Salient, Total, X Theme, Kalium, ListingPro, Impreza, Phlox Pro, XStore, Brooklyn, MyListing, Ave, WoodMart, Education, Soledad, Real Homes, Electro, Kallyas, JNews, Stockholm, Martfury, Rehub, Houzez, Motors, Traveler, Oshine, Shopkeeper, Jevelin, Consulting, MyHome, Ronneby, Masterstudy, Avas, CheerUp, Pearl Business, Norebro, Residence, Bimber, and more other WordPress Themes.

Installation smooth and takes only a few seconds. The plugin is ready to work immediately after installation – you only need to install and activate it in WordPress. Read more about Setting a Star Rating for WordPress Pages.

Installing the WordPress plugin is quick and straightforward. After you have downloaded the archive with the plugin, you will see the file with the plugin inside. Unzipped purchased the product you will see inside the archive with the plugin pluginname.zip There are two ways to install it:

Installation of the Plugin through the WordPress Admin panel ( Recommended for most users )

STEP 1

First of all, open WordPress admin area login page and login in into WordPress as Admin. To do this visit http://yoursitename/wp-admin

STEP 2

Go to Plugins > Add New

Add New Plugin to WordPress
Add New Plugin to WordPress
STEP 3

Click Upload Plugin Button

Upload New Plugin to WordPress
Upload New Plugin to WordPress
STEP 5

Choose archive with Plugin and press Install Now Button

STEP 6

After Installing go back to the Plugins page and click Activate below plugin title

Activate Installed Plugin

Installation the plugin through FTP or build-in File manager

STEP 1

Use Login and Password to connect to your web-server via FTP or use your hosting file manager.

STEP 2

Upload archive with plugin to /wp-content/plugins

STEP 3

On next step Unzip the archive with the plugin

STEP 4

Installing WordPress Plugin is almost finished. Go to the Plugins page and click Activate below plugin title. You can find out your username and password on the website of your hosting provider.

Activate Installed Plugin

After installing and activating the plugin, you can go to settings of the Plugin. Also, you can read more helpful articles about WordPress Themes and WordPress Plugins.

Stellar is a star rating plugin for WordPress. This plugin can create and save ratings for each WordPress entry, whether it is a Post, Page or Product. Flexible settings make it possible to create a rating of any capacity 3 stars, 5 stars, 10 stars, and even 12 stars. And of course, choose any icon from the huge library of predefined icons or even upload your own SVG icon for rating.

Installing a Star Rating for WordPress

To install the plugin, read the article Installing WordPress Plugin. Installing the plugin takes only a few seconds.

To open the plugin settings slick Settings below plugin name on the plugins page

Stellar on the plugins page
Stellar on the plugins page

or in the WordPress Sidebar menu go to Stellar

Stellar Star Rating for WordPress in the WordPress sidebar
Stellar in the WordPress sidebar

In the plugin settings, there are several tabs responsible for various groups of plugin settings.

General settings

Stellar already has initial settings allowing you to use it without additional configuration. But you can change any default settings so that the plugin better suits your WordPress site or theme.

Post Types

Select the post types, including custom post types, where you need to add the rating display. The available types are in the drop-down list.

Position

Position selector sets wherein the Stellar will be displayed. You can choose one option:

Rating points

This setting sets how many points (rating icons) will be used on your site. You can choose from 1 to 12, and you can also change your choice in the future – all existing ratings will be recalculated for the new score system.

Stellar Icon

This setting sets the icon for the rating. Using IconsPicker, you can select one and 2000+ icons from a predefined library. To do this, click on the button Icon Library.

Stellar Icon picker
Stellar Icon picker

Or you can download your own SVG icon. To do this, click Upload SVG and upload the icon using the standard Media Library interface.

Icon size

This setting sets the size of the rating icons. You can select a value between 10px and 60px.

NOTES

We recommend that you do not make the icons too small; this can complicate the interaction with the plugin on your mobile phone and lower the position of the page in the search results

Icon space

Adjusting the Icon space increases the indentation between the icons. You can select any number in the range from 0 to 50px

Default Icon Color

Icon color in Normal state

Active icon color

Icon color in Active state

Hover icon color

Icon color in Hover state

Layout

The layout setting is needed to control the position of the Stellar icons block relative to the container. And also to establish the arrangement of the button block relative to the description block.

Stellar Star Rating for WordPress – Layouts
Layouts

Description

This is the section of the standard WordPress editor where you can write description text. The description is very important that your users know what to do.

Results

On the results tab, you can configure everything with regard to storing the display and processing of rating results on the front-end and back-end.

Current user rating

The option allows displaying the latest rating of the current visitor on the page.

The current user rating displays as stars
The current user rating displays after the custom test

Results on front-end

Shows or hides the overall page rank on the frontend. The rating that this setting display is shown in X.XX format, as a number in two decimal places. You can choose between:

Results text

The phrase or line of text to be displayed next to the rating scale.

Total voters on front-end

The option allow to hide/display the total number of voters on the current page.

The voters number can be displayed in different positions, with custom text:

Valuation on front-end

This setting displays a hint with the numbers of the user’s current vote. Data is displayed in the format rating/points. You can choose between:

Rounding for icons

The setting allows you to enable/disable rounding of rating values to painting icons partially or completely.

Display results before voting

The toggle to enable/disable voting results display before a new user votes.

Session control

The toggle to enable/disable the track sessions. If the option is enabled, it allows users to change their rating only during one session.

Voting limit

This sets the limit of votes from one IP address. You can select any number in the range from 1 to 10

Limit exceeded message

A field that allows you to change the message text when the user exceeds the vote limit.

Results in the admin area

This parameter defines the format for displaying the results in the admin panel. Results will be displayed in the posts/pages list. You can choose between:

Results in the admin area
Results in the admin area

Reset rating

The data reset button resets all rating data for all posts. Use this button after the site debugging is completed to reset the debug rating data ​​to 0.

Please note that the Data reset cannot be undone.

Rich Snippet

This setting adds schema markup to the page HTML code. Schema markup allows you to display page rating data in Google search results.

Example of the Google search results
Example of the Google search results

Your data will be converted to a 5-star rating system regardless of what type of rating you choose in the plugin settings.

SEO MICRODATA

The option allows you to enable the schema markup by default or add the Advanced Schema Markup using the JSON+LD structure.

JSON+LD MARKUP

Add a markup structure depending on the data types you want to use. Read more about it and find examples in the article https://developers.google.com/search/reference/overview

Once you finish setting up the markup, you can check it for correctness using the tool https://search.google.com/structured-data/testing-tool

Shortcode

New shortcode support is available since version 2.1. The shortcode allows you to display a list of top-rated posts.

[stellar top="10" for="page" cols="4"]

Where the parameters:

Posts display style settings in the top-rated list

Gutter

Specify the gutter between the elements of the post block in the list.

Post image

The toggle to enable/disable the display of the images in the posts list. When the toggle is enabled, there are new options that are available:

Post title

The toggle to enable/disable the display of the title in the posts list. Here you can select one of the available Post title tags from the list. Depending on the selected tag, the text display style will be changed. These tags also help to make your page more SEO friendly.

Post excerpt

The toggle to enable/disable the display of the post excerpt on the list.

Post rating

The toggle to enable/disable the display of the post rating on the top-rated list. Here you can select Rating icon size.

Save Changes

Do not forget to click Save Changes after changing the Star Rating for WordPress settings. After clicking this button, the settings will be saved and applied to all pages of the website.

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