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by Philip Newcomer 5 (8 reviews)

Author Post Ratings

Allows a post author to assign a simple 1-5 star rating to a post, page, or custom post type, which will then be displayed on the post.

Author Post Ratings ranks #16,326 among WordPress.org plugins with 100+ active installations, is #210 of 1,317 in the Ratings & Reviews category, a 5/5 rating from 8 reviews, and was last updated Dec 12, 2013. Data from WordPress.org, refreshed twice daily — see methodology.

Tested up to WP 3.7 (Current: 7.1.4)
v1.1.1 Current Version v1.1.1
Updated 12 years ago Last Update on 12 Dec, 2013
Refreshed 1 week ago Last Refreshed on
#210 of 1,317 in Ratings & Reviews Top 25% by installs No update in over a year
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Active Installs
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Downloads
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Support Resolved
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Rating
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Review 5 out of 5
5 (8 reviews)

Next Milestone 200

Total Progress 16%
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Reviews & Ratings

5.0
8 reviews
Overall 100%
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Security History

Source: WPVulnerability

No known vulnerabilities on record for Author Post Ratings. Checked 3 months ago.

TL;DR

AI summary of the plugin's readme

Author Post Ratings is for site owners or bloggers who want the post author (not visitors) to rate their own content. It solves the lack of plugins offering author-driven star ratings by adding a 1-5 star rating meta box that displays automatically or via shortcode on posts, pages, and custom post types.

  • 1-5 star rating meta box
  • Rate posts, pages, custom post types
  • Leave post unrated
  • Auto-display rating top or bottom
  • Shortcode for custom placement
  • Enable/disable per post type
  • Customizable rating label text
  • Spanish language translation included

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about Author Post Ratings

You can edit author-post-ratings.css in the plugin folder.
Sure, just replace the two images in the author-post-ratings/images/ directory with your own star images. You can also download the Photoshop source files for the supplied star images from the [plugin homepage][plugin homepage URL].
Please use the plugin's support forum here on WordPress extend.
Yes. You can use get_author_post_rating() and the_author_post_rating() in your templates. These functions are explained in more detail on the [plugin homepage][plugin homepage URL]. This plugin is useful and I want to donate to the author. Thank you! Please head on over to my donate page. Any donation, no matter how large or small, is greatly appreciated!

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