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How To Add Star Ratings In WordPress Posts _ Google Search
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Jan 25, 2024
In this tutorial video, the content creator demonstrates how to integrate star ratings into WordPress posts, with a specific focus on enhancing visibility in Google Search results. The tutorial likely covers the implementation of structured data and markup to enable star ratings, providing viewers with step-by-step instructions on the necessary coding or plugin configuration. By following the guidance in the video, WordPress users can optimize their content for search engines, potentially leading to richer search snippets with star ratings. This tutorial is valuable for individuals seeking to improve the presentation of their content in Google Search results, potentially increasing click-through rates and user engagement.
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Hi everyone, welcome to Ketub blogging and in this video I will show you how you can add a star rating schema in your WordPress website
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So as you can see in this post there is a star rating like this and user can easily read this post according to their choice
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And if you read it like this and it will ask you to follow you on social media or share this post
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And you can also take feedback from your visitors if they give you one star rating
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So you can basically use this as a feedback tool and improve your blog post
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And you can also show a star ratings like this. So let me show you
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Sometimes you will see a option like this star ratings. So you can also implement the star rating schema in your WordPress website
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So let's check how you can implement this star rating system in your WordPress website
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And here in this video I will use two plugins and I will give you review about this plugin
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So the first plugin is Rate My Post, WP rating system. So let's install this plugin and check how you can implement it in your WordPress website
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So for this you will need to go to your WordPress dashboard and go to plugins and let's click
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on Add New and I will search for Rate My Post. Now let's install this plugin and by the way if you found this content helpful then make sure
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to hit the like button. So let me just activate this plugin first
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Okay, the star rating plugin is installed and as you can see there is a option called Rate
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My Post. Just click on here and here you can see this option, star rating thumbs up, hearts, smileys
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So we'll go for star rating here and I will click on Add Rating Wizard to All Post
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So it will add the Star Rating Wizard after at the end of the blog post
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Now, you can also add result wizard to all posts or you can also send me email whenever
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someone posted a star rating. So I will not do that. I will enable the prevent accidental votes here and I will select with structured data
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So you can select type of structure data for rich snippets. So in case I am selecting it as product or you can select if you are reviewing about movie then you can also implement movie schema or if you are reviewing books then you can also select book course like that so let me just select it as product
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and if you don't want to implement the star rating in particular post then you can also
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add that post ID here so that it will exclude that post in star rating and you can click
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on read mode to know more how to get the post ID and add it here now let's click on
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show feedback widgets if rating is negative. So if someone give you one star rating, then it will
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ask you some feedback or it will ask the visitors to give some feedback why they give you
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one star in that post. And you can also enable so social widgets if rating is positive. So if they
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give you five star, then it will show you social wizards. So it will ask encourage users to follow you
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on social media links. So you can add your Facebook, Twitter links like that. So let me just
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add my YouTube channel link here and I will insert it here
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Now let me just add the LinkedIn. So let's so that is Twitter available so let me just add the Twitter here and that's it
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Now let's it's asking to add rating which are to custom post type if you want to add
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this custom post type then you can do that and you can also an ambulance
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for archive pages and you can also support multilingual website compatibility and if you don't
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want to use this plugin then you can enable this option so that once you install this plugin
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it will delete all the data from your database so let's click on save settings
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okay now the settings is saved let me just open one of the post from here so let me just go
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to post here and let me just open a page a post from here
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Now let me just scroll down and as you can see there is the star rating schema like this
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So let me just give it 4 star or if I select 1 star and submit then it will ask you to give
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some feedback so let me just and as you can see it will ask you to give feedback so I can give
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this feedback to the author so that he can improve the post
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So let me just refresh this post again and I just address this post again and I I cannot give multiple votes in the same post So let me just open this in an incognito mode
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Now let me just scroll down and let me just add another rating here
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Now let me just click on submit and it will ask you to follow you on social media like this
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So in this way you can add a star rating system in your WordPress website using this plugin
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And let's check some more settings in this plugin. So I will click on Rate My Post here
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And let's click on Customize. And you can see different options like you can customize the leap empty or disable or
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disable or different elements that we get in this plugin. So you can read it and change it according to your choice
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And you can also change the font size and icon size like that
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And let's click on security here. And you can get it. give the permission to change the rating system, you can only select it as admin and who
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can rate your post so I will keep it as everybody or if you are using any membership website
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then you can also select the lock in user here and you can also track IP address of your
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visitors and you can also block multiple rating with the same IP address so you can
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enable this and you can also track your users if you want now let's see you can also track your users if you want
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click on Save Settings. Now let's click on Tools and you can also migrate the ratings from other plugins if you
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want and you can also delete plugins data also. So that's it and you can add the rating system using this free plugin in your WordPress website
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Now let's take a different plugin for the same purpose. So let me just use this plugin KK star rating
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So let me just install this plugin first. So I will go to WordPress dashboard and let me just go to the plugins first
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And let me just deactivate this plugin. Before that, let me just copy this plugin and let's go to recon, Res result task tool
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And let me just paste the URL and let's test the URL
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And let me just scroll down and as you can see the review snippet is already added
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And as you can see, you will get the best rating and rating count and rating value
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So in this way you can also add the rating schema in your WordPress website through the website this plugin So by the way don go for this because I have no index this website because I am using this
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website for testing purpose only. So let me just go to plugins here and let me just deactivate this plugin
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Now let's add the second plugin here KK star ratings. So let me just copy this name here and I will search for this plugin
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So you can either use that plugin or you can use the KK star rating plugin
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So let me just install this. Now let me just activate this plugin
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Now it will ask you to allow continue. So let's skip this one
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Now you can enable the status active or deactivate and you can also allow voting in archive
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or not. And you can select post pages, archive pages or home pages
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So I will keep it as post. And you can also select the different category
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So it is asking to exclude certain categories. So I will exclude on category post here
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Now let's click on Save. Now let's click on appearance here and you can also change the greetings like red this or you
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can change this number of stars and you can change the size and you can also change the position
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So let me just set it like bottom left or bottom center
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So let me just select bottom center here. Now let's click on Save Changers
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Now let again go to post here and let me just refresh this page
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And as you can see you will see this option, rate this post. So let me just give it as 5 star
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And as you can see the 5 star rating is added. So this is a simple plugin
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If you want to just insert the star rating schema in your WordPress website, then you can
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use this plugin and if you want to get more customization features then you can use the rate
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my post plugin. And if you check in WP Hive, then it is passed all the testing in this WP Hive test
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And let's check. And I think this has impact on memory users
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So that's why I recommend you to use this plugin, rate my post for your star rating in WordPress
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So if you found this content helpful, then make sure to hit the like button
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And if you have any feedback regarding this video or regarding our channel, then you can ask
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me in the comment section. I will see you in the next video. Thank you
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