Philip Newcomer

There are plenty of plugins available which allow site visitors to rate posts, but I didn’t find any that gave the post author that functionality, so I wrote this plugin. Author Post Ratings adds a meta box to the post edit screen, allowing you to chose a 1-5 star rating for the post, or to leave it unrated. The plugin will automatically add the post rating (using stars, and an optional label) to the top or bottom of the post. If you wish, you can disable that functionality altogether and use a shortcode to insert the post rating anywhere in the post you choose. The plugin supports ratings for posts, pages, and custom post types, all of which can be individually enabled or disabled in the plugin settings. It is also fully internationalized, with Spanish language translation files included.
<h3>Translating the Plugin</h3>
The post rating label text can be changed in the plugin settings, so no translation is required for the frontend (public side) of the site. However, if you wish to translate the backend settings interface, the plugin is fully internationalized and ready for translation. There is a .po and a .mo file included in the plugin’s ‘languages’ directory for your convenience.
The plugin includes the following translations:
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<li>Spanish 
courtesy of <a href="http://www.webhostinghub.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">WebHostingHub</a>.</li>
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Author Post Ratings

Allows a post author to assign a simple 1-5 star rating to a post, page, or custom post type, which will then be displayed on the post.

Steve Puddick

Custom Ratings is a fun and creative tool that allows your visitors to interact and rate your site content.
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<li>Choose from a selection of ‘built in’ rating images or upload your own single image. Custom ratings automatically converts the image to grayscale for disabled ratings, and splits images in half for half values.</li>
<li>All text is fully customizable and translateable.</li>
<li>WPML compatible with a cumulative tallying system between languages.</li>
<li>Use the built in CSS or your own.</li>
<li>Fully compatible with caching plugins such as W3C Total Cache and Super Cache.</li>
<li>Full control over caching time for AJAX based voting data. </li>
<li>Option for manual placement of Custom Ratings components in theme templates. </li>
<li>Full support for custom post types.</li>
<li>Compatible with WooCommerce products.</li>
<li>Control over which templates Custom Ratings appears on.</li>
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Add some personality to your website and install Custom Ratings today!
Thanks to the following open source projects which Custom Ratings has utilized:
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<li><a href="http://www.ractivejs.org/" title="Ractive" rel="nofollow ugc">Ractive</a></li>
<li><a href="https://bgrins.github.io/spectrum/" title="Spectrum" rel="nofollow ugc">Spectrum</a></li>
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Custom Ratings

A fun and creative way to let your site visitors rate your posts, pages, and more!

Author Post Ratings vs Custom Ratings