Websites that have some kind of rating sections, host polls or contests and allow visitors to review or comment will need rating plugins for WordPress. It doesn’t take much time to set up such features on a WordPress site and if you choose a good plugin then the task can be made simpler and quicker. Here are the top five rating plugins for WordPress.
1. Rating-Widget: Star Rating System
This plugin allows you to set up a five star rating system for posts, pages, comments, products sold via WooCommerce, BuddyPress users and activities, forum topics, replies and author reviews among others.
2. Polldaddy Polls & Ratings
This plugin works with all WordPress themes without any incompatibility issues. You can create and manage polls along with the ratings with amazing ease. The plugin is available in more than two dozen languages.
3. Yasr – Yet Another Stars Rating
This plugin is best for review websites. You can have a simple rating system or you can have multiple sets or criteria based rating systems. The plugin is very easy to use and there is no need for coding or any extensive technicality. Yasr is available in English, Italian, German, Polish, Dutch, French, Russian, Spanish and many other languages.
4. Multi Rating
Multi Rating is ideal if you have several criteria or a questionnaire and the participants or your audience is expected to consider all the options. You can have five star rating system, percentage and score results, have various criteria, drop-down lists and radio buttons, icons for the ratings as well as different kinds of images courtesy Font Awesome. You can customize the widgets and also have different level of customization for each rating. The plugin also generates daily reports on the number of entries and tracking all activities pertaining to the contests, polls or ratings.
5. kk Star Ratings
This plugin works best for blogs or content sites wherein the posts uploaded have to be rated. There is a cool feature of this plugin where the hovering of the mouse over the ratings will show the stars getting fueled up but only clicks would get the rating recorded. This isn’t an out of the world feature but it is really cool to have such a function in a rating plugin. The plugin also supports Google Rich Snippets so the ratings will get indexed in Google Search, thus helping the website in search engine optimization.
