Philip Newcomer

<p>There are plenty of plugins available which allow site <em>visitors</em> to rate posts, but I didn’t find any that gave the post <em>author</em> that functionality, so I wrote this plugin. <em>Author Post Ratings</em> 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.</p>
<h3>Translating the Plugin</h3>
<p>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.</p>
<p>The plugin includes the following translations:</p>
<ul>
<li>Spanish<br />
<em>courtesy of <a href="http://www.webhostinghub.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">WebHostingHub</a></em>.</li>
</ul>


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.

ecoal95

<p>A <strong>super fast</strong> <strong>WordPress star rating plugin</strong>, optimized for SEO, and with a really low impact on page load (just CSS + a bit of HTML, plus the strictly required JS for working).</p>
<h3>Developers</h3>
<p>The svn repo has been recently synchronized with <a href="https://github.com/ecoal95/ec-stars-rating" rel="nofollow ugc">a github one</a>.</p>
<p>Contributions are more than welcome, so feel free to submit a PR there if you wish 🙂</p>
<h3>How it works</h3>
<p>Basically we create a new table called <code>(prefix)ec_stars_votes</code>, where we store the votes of the people (to prevent duplicate votes).</p>
<p>The number of votes and the sum of the total votes are stored in the <code>(prefix)options</code> table in form of custom meta fields, one for the count, and another for the sum. Both fields get updated when someone votes.</p>


EC Stars Rating

A lightweigt, blazing fast star rating plugin for WordPress

Author Post Ratings vs EC Stars Rating