WPSSO Add Five Stars

The WPSSO Add Five Stars add-on will include a 5 star rating and review from the site organization in the Schema markup if:

1. The Schema markup for the document does not already have an 'aggregateRating' property.
2. Google allows an 'aggregateRating' property for the document Schema type.

Google allows an 'aggregateRating' property only for these Schema types and their sub-types:

• Book
• Course
• Event
• HowTo (includes Recipe)
• LocalBusiness
• Movie
• Product
• SoftwareApplication

If the Schema type in the Document SSO metabox is not one of these types (or one of their sub-types), then a 5 star rating and review cannot be added, as doing so would trigger an error in the Google search console. See Google's Review snippet documentation for additional information.

WPSSO Add Five Stars Should be a Fallback Solution

The Google's Review Snippet technical guidelines reminds us to:

Make sure the reviews and ratings you mark up are readily available to users from the marked-up page. It must be immediately obvious to users that the page has review content.

The WPSSO Add Five Stars add-on will include a 5 star rating if the document Schema markup does not already have an 'aggregateRating' property. It is always preferable to include actual ratings and reviews from your visitors and/or customers in the webpage. The WPSSO Add Five Stars add-on can be used in combination with any of the following third-party plugins and service APIs, or the WPSSO Ratings and Reviews add-on.

Suggested Rating and Review Plugins and Services

The WPSSO Core Premium plugin supports a number of third-party plugins and remote service APIs offering rating and review features:

• Supported third-party plugins:

  • WP-PostRatings
  • WP Product Review
  • Yotpo Social Reviews for WooCommerce
  • WooCommerce

• Supported service APIs:

  • Shopper Approved (Ratings and Reviews)
  • Stamped.io (Ratings and Reviews)

Alternatively, if your site already uses the built-in WordPress commenting system, the WPSSO Ratings and Reviews add-on can be used to extend the WordPress comment system with rating and review features.

WPSSO Core Required

WPSSO Add Five Stars (WPSSO AFS) is an add-on for the WPSSO Core plugin.

Install and Uninstall

• Install the WPSSO Add Five Stars add-on.
• Uninstall the WPSSO Add Five Stars add-on.

Version Numbering

Version components: {major}.{minor}.{bugfix}[-{stage}.{level}]

• {major} = Major structural code changes and/or incompatible API changes (ie. breaking changes).
• {minor} = New functionality was added or improved in a backwards-compatible manner.
• {bugfix} = Backwards-compatible bug fixes or small improvements.
• {stage}.{level} = Pre-production release: dev < a (alpha) < b (beta) < rc (release candidate).

Standard Edition Repositories

• GitHub
• WordPress.org

Development Version Updates

WPSSO Core Premium customers have access to development, alpha, beta, and release candidate version updates:

Under the SSO > Update Manager settings page, select the "Development and Up" (for example) version filter for the WPSSO Core plugin and/or its add-ons. Save the plugin settings and click the "Check for Plugin Updates" button to fetch the latest version information. When new development versions are available, they will automatically appear under your WordPress Dashboard > Updates page. You can always reselect the "Stable / Production" version filter at any time to reinstall the latest stable version.

Changelog / Release Notes

Version 1.2.1 (2022/03/07)

Maintenance release.

• New Features
  • None.
• Improvements
  • None.
• Bugfixes
  • None.
• Developer Notes
  • None.
• Requires At Least
  • PHP v7.2.
  • WordPress v5.2.
  • WPSSO Core v11.5.0.

Version 1.2.0 (2022/01/19)

• New Features
  • None.
• Improvements
  • None.
• Bugfixes
  • None.
• Developer Notes
  • Renamed the lib/abstracts/ folder to lib/abstract/.
  • Renamed the SucomAddOn class to SucomAbstractAddOn.
  • Renamed the WpssoAddOn class to WpssoAbstractAddOn.
  • Renamed the WpssoWpMeta class to WpssoAbstractWpMeta.
• Requires At Least
  • PHP v7.2.
  • WordPress v5.2.
  • WPSSO Core v9.14.0.

Version 1.1.1 (2021/11/16)

• New Features
  • None.
• Improvements
  • None.
• Bugfixes
  • None.
• Developer Notes
  • Refactored the SucomAddOn->get_missing_requirements() method.
• Requires At Least
  • PHP v7.2.
  • WordPress v5.2.
  • WPSSO Core v9.8.0.

Version 1.1.0 (2021/10/19)

• New Features
  • None.
• Improvements
  • None.
• Bugfixes
  • None.
• Developer Notes
  • Moved allow_aggregate_rating() and allow_review() filter methods to the WpssoSchema class.
• Requires At Least
  • PHP v7.0.
  • WordPress v5.0.
  • WPSSO Core v9.2.1.

Version 1.0.0 (2021/10/18)

• New Features
  • Initial release.
• Improvements
  • None.
• Bugfixes
  • None.
• Developer Notes
  • None.
• Requires At Least
  • PHP v7.0.
  • WordPress v5.0.
  • WPSSO Core v9.2.0.