WPSSO Ratings and Reviews

Extends the built-in WordPress comment system.

Compatible with WooCommerce and its product ratings.

Provides Schema Aggregate Rating markup.

Provides Schema Review markup:

Including information about the review (author name, creation time, excerpt, rating) and threaded replies / comments for each review.

No templates to modify or update:

Simply activate the plugin to enable the addition of ratings and reviews.

WPSSO Core Required

WPSSO Ratings and Reviews (WPSSO RAR) is an add-on for the WPSSO Core plugin, which provides complete structured data for WordPress to present your content at its best on social sites and in search results – no matter how URLs are shared, reshared, messaged, posted, embedded, or crawled.

Install and Uninstall

• Install the WPSSO Ratings and Reviews add-on.
• Uninstall the WPSSO Ratings and Reviews add-on.

Frequently Asked Questions

• None.

Notes and Documentation

• Developer Resources
  • Get Average Rating

1. 

   The WPSSO RAR settings page to enable ratings by post type and select colors for the star ratings.

2. 

   The WPSSO RAR review submission - note the customized labels (Your Rating, Your Review, etc.).

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 edition 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. When new development versions are available, they will automatically appear under your WordPress Dashboard > Updates page. You can reselect the "Stable / Production" version filter at any time to reinstall the latest stable version.

WPSSO Core Standard edition users (ie. the plugin hosted on WordPress.org) have access to the latest development version under the Advanced Options section.

Changelog / Release Notes

Version 2.22.1 (2023/07/13)

• New Features
  • None.
• Improvements
  • None.
• Bugfixes
  • None.
• Developer Notes
  • Minor code optimization and standardization:
    • Replaced {get|update|delete}_{comment|post|term|user}_meta() functions by {get|update|delete}_metadata().
• Requires At Least
  • PHP v7.2.34.
  • WordPress v5.5.
  • WPSSO Core v15.16.0.

Version 2.22.0 (2023/02/20)

• New Features
  • None.
• Improvements
  • None.
• Bugfixes
  • None.
• Developer Notes
  • Added a new 'wpssorar_post_column_rating_value' filter.
  • Removed the 'wpsso_cache_refreshed_notice' filter hook.
  • Removed the WpssoRarFilters->filter_cache_refreshed_notice() method.
• Requires At Least
  • PHP v7.2.34.
  • WordPress v5.5.
  • WPSSO Core v15.4.0.

Version 2.21.0 (2023/02/14)

• New Features
  • None.
• Improvements
  • Changed the cache clearing action hook to a cache refresh filter hook.
• Bugfixes
  • None.
• Developer Notes
  • Added a new WpssoRarFilters->filter_cache_refreshed_notice() method.
  • Removed the WpssoRarActions->action_clear_cache() method.
• Requires At Least
  • PHP v7.2.
  • WordPress v5.5.
  • WPSSO Core v15.3.0.

Version 2.20.1 (2023/01/26)

• New Features
  • None.
• Improvements
  • Added compatibility declaration for WooCommerce HPOS.
  • Updated the minimum WordPress version from v5.2 to v5.5.
• Bugfixes
  • None.
• Developer Notes
  • Updated the WpssoAbstractAddOn library class.
• Requires At Least
  • PHP v7.2.
  • WordPress v5.5.
  • WPSSO Core v14.7.0.

Version 2.20.0 (2023/01/20)

• New Features
  • None.
• Improvements
  • None.
• Bugfixes
  • None.
• Developer Notes
  • Updated the SucomAbstractAddOn common library class.
• Requires At Least
  • PHP v7.2.
  • WordPress v5.2.
  • WPSSO Core v14.5.0.