WordPress Rating Plugin

Learn how to create a WordPress Rating Plugin in this series of 2 tutorials. At the end of this series you will have a complete and simple plugin to get your content rated by your visitors. You can use to for your marketing purposes and see which content is rated high, which low and then see how to improve it.

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How to Create a WordPress Rating Plugin for Your Content – Part 1

Content rating can be a great marketing insight and with this WordPress Rating plugin we will create a simple rating pop-up that will not get in the way of your readers but can help you by getting insights on your content.

Rating Stars with WordPress logo

How to Create a WordPress Rating Plugin for Your Content – Part 2

In this second tutorial we will create the styles and scripts for our WordPress Rating Plugin. It requires those to function and display properly on each page, post or any content type for which we have decided to get ratings.

You can also download the plugin here: WordPress Rating Plugin (.zip)

Homework: if you have time, try to implement a description field below the rating buttons. Collect the description and show it in the rated content table. Hint: You may store them separately without knowing to which rating it belongs or have a complete refactor of the plugin.