When you want to know what people think then you can use a voting or rating system. I’m considering using this to find out what is considered most important for a website. The more important the requirement the higher the rating or the more votes it would get. I’m going to look at the following plugins selected from those matching my search keywords of: rating and vote. The one’s I pick to try will be popular and may be expected to work on the latest version of WordPress.
| Plugin name and description | Plugin links: WP,homepage,bw notes | Version, total downloads, last update, tested |
|---|---|---|
| WP-PostRatings Adds an AJAX rating system for your WordPress blog's post/page. | wp-postratings home ... | 1.62 623554 2012-02-04 3.3.2 |
| WP Voting Site owner to add voting functionality to the blog posts. | wp-voting home ... | 1.7 8766 2011-10-04 3.2.1 |
| GD Star Rating Plugin allows you to set up advanced rating and review system for post types and comments in your blog using single, multi and thumbs ratings. | gd-star-rating home ... | 1.9.17 868987 2012-03-27 3.4 |
| five-star-rating | No info available | |
| Vote-the-Post Let users vote on the posts at your blog. | vote-the-post home ... | 1.1 17395 2008-07-24 2.6 |
Plugins chosen
OK, that’s easy, I’m going to try
wp-postrating(...) on www.rowlandscastlewebdesign.com/rcgc
WP Voting(...) on www.cwiccer.com
and GD Star Rating(...) on on www.fobbonghide.com
Initial comments
wp-voting requires me to add code to the theme template files
if(function_exists('wpv_voting_display_vote')) wpv_voting_display_vote(get_the_ID());
so I’ll come back to that later.
WP-voting revisited
OK, I’ve had another look. I’ll try using the [wpvoting] shortcode then!
I’m going to try this on www.rowlandscastlewebdesign/rcgc
That was unsuccessful. It doesn’t support WordPress Multisite
GD star rating
GD star rating didn’t install well on WordPress Multi-site. I got a couple of fobs so I’ve deactivated it.
I’ve now installed a version on my local machine. It’s very complicated. So another one to come back to later.
I did try it again on www.rowlandscastlewebdesign.com It seems to work.