Ratings
Contents
- Enabling Ratings
- Advanced Settings
- Rating Reports
- Ratings on WordPress.org
- Creating A Custom Image
- Demo Video
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Enabling Ratings
The PollDaddy Rating widget is now available on WordPress.com. This enables you to place rating widgets on your blog posts, pages and comments. To get started, look for the ‘Ratings’ item in the menu of your dashboard.
Click on ‘Settings’ and on the next page you should see 3 tabs across the top. Currently you can enable ratings for posts, pages and comments. You can also choose if you want to enable the rating above or below the content. To enable a rating just tick the box and click on ‘Save Changes’.
Once you enable a rating for some content it should appear on your blog like below. Users can hover over the stars and choose a rating for your content. All ratings are then added up to give a general score for that content.
Advanced Settings
When you enable a rating widget for some content on your blog, you can access some advanced settings for the widget. Choose the rating you want to edit in the tabs on the settings page and look for the Advanced Settings link.
Here you can choose between Star and Nero ratings, images sizes, set a custom image for your rating, adjust layout and font properties, and customize the labels for all text in the widget. If you look to the right of the advanced settings screen you can also see a live preview of your widget.
Rating Reports
Once you have a rating enabled and start to collect some ratings from your readers you can view your rating reports.
You can view reports for ratings on your posts, pages and comments (if you have them enabled). You can also filter ratings by date to see what content is popular in any given time period.
Ratings on WordPress.org
We are currently working on a plugin for .org and hope to release it very soon. In the mean time check out WP-PostRatings.
Creating A Custom Image
You can override the image for any rating by setting a custom image on the advanced settings screen. The ratings use just one image for all states of the star. You must create your image in the same dimensions as the star size you choose. Small stars are 16px, medium stars are 20px and large stars are 24px. If you look at the image for the red star below you will see how they are laid out.
The stars above are all in one image. The stars in the left column are used for displaying the rating and the stars in the right column and used for the hover. i.e. when a person moves their mouse over it. You can also use just one column of stars if you do not want to have a hover state. Here is one using the PollDaddy logo…
You must place this image online somewhere as we don’t allow image uploads at the moment. Once you do you can link to it in the custom image URL box in the edit rating screen. The resulting rating widget will look like this…
Demo Video
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Last modified: July 2, 2009
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