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PlexRate – Smart Star Ratings

Name: PlexRate – Smart Star Ratings
Author: Being Plex

Add star ratings anywhere with a shortcode. Works in every page builder, outputs Google Rich Snippets (JSON-LD) and includes spam protection.

PlexRate ranks #49,522 among WordPress.org plugins with 0+ active installations, is #1,048 of 1,317 in the Ratings & Reviews category, and was last updated Oct 19, 2026. Data from WordPress.org, refreshed twice daily — see methodology.

Compatible with WP 7.1.4

v1.2.0 Current Version v1.2.0

Updated 1 week ago Last Update on 19 Oct, 2026

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Plugin Details

Version: 1.2.0
Last Updated: Oct 19, 2026
Requires WP: 5.8+
Tested Up To: 7.1.4
PHP Version: 7.4 or higher
Author: Being Plex

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Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about PlexRate – Smart Star Ratings

It is a short name you type yourself, for example id="logo-design". WordPress and page builders do not create it. Each rating that should keep its own votes needs its own id. If you use the same id in two places, both show the same combined score. If you leave the id out, the plugin uses the current page or post.

The plugin outputs valid structured data, but Google alone decides whether review stars appear. Valid markup does not guarantee them. Test your page with Google's Rich Results Test (there is a button in the Rich Snippets tab) and check Google's review snippet guidelines.

Google supports review snippets only for specific types, such as Product, Recipe, Course, Book, Event, Movie and SoftwareApplication. Types like Article and BlogPosting produce valid markup, but Google does not show review stars for them. The Rich Snippets tab groups the types so you can see this.

Google ignores self-serving reviews. If a business collects reviews about itself on its own website and marks them up as LocalBusiness or Organization, Google does not show those stars. This is a Google policy, not a plugin problem.

Yes. Give each shortcode a different id.

Use [plexrate_review] and turn on Allow Text Reviews in the General settings. If that setting is off, [plexrate_review] shows nothing. [plexrate] never shows a review box.

Yes. Open the Auto Display tab and choose posts, pages or both, and top or bottom of the content. To exclude one post or page, tick Skip automatic rating in its editor sidebar. Manual shortcodes always work.

By default no. One vote per visitor is based on a hash of the IP address and browser. If you switch One Vote Per Visitor off, a visitor can add several votes. Visitors who share an IP address and the same browser type may be counted as one visitor.

Votes are sent with AJAX. If a page cache serves an old copy of the page, the displayed average can lag until the cache is cleared.

Yes. The visitor's real IP is read from the Cloudflare header. The forwarded-for header is used only when the request comes from a Cloudflare IP range.