BjornW

<blockquote>
THIS PLUGIN IS NOT MAINTAINED ANYMORE! 
 For historical purposes this plugin is still online. The general concept could still be useful, 
 the code is probably not working and horrible outdated.
</blockquote>
Create streams of sitewide aggregated content from your multisite WordPress installation with bbAggregate.
A stream contains posts from those blogs allowed to participate in the stream. Anyone writing posts can add his/her post to one or more streams. 
The streams are shown by using a specific page template. (see also the examples directory). It offers functionality similar 
to the sitewide categories / global terms, but with more control and (hopefully) less buggy behaviour.
This plugin adds two database tables to your installation:
<ul>
<li>$prefix_bbAggregate_item (links an item to a stream)</li>
<li>$prefix_bbAggregate_stream (contains the stream info) </li>
</ul>
NB: This plugin is only useful for a WordPress Multisite installation in which multiple 
blogs are being used.
<h4>How does it work?</h4>
First, you create a stream (neccessary user capabillity: ‘manage_options’,admin role works perfectly). (See screenshot-4.png) 
It is recommended to only use letters, numbers and underscores or dashes in the stream name. Spaces in the name may cause problems at the moment.
Streams are defined by a name, a description (which is saved but not yet accessible for public use) and some options (see screenshot-5.png) such as:
<ul>
<li>maximum number of posts (limits the total amount of posts in a stream)</li>
<li>maximum number of posts per blog (limits the amount of posts per blog in a stream)</li>
<li>number of posts per page (limits the amount of posts per page. Pagination is included)</li>
<li>excluded blogs (blogs which have been explicitly excluded from using this stream. Posts from these blogs will not be shown in this stream) </li>
</ul>
After creating a stream (See screenshot-6.png and screenshot-7.png), create a post in a blog which is not excluded from this stream. Below the Post Editing Area you will see a new metabox called 
Streams (see screenshot-8.png) with a list of available streams (streams which have excluded this blog are not shown). By ticking the checkbox in front of the stream name 
you’ve added your post to this stream. Every user able to add a post may add his/her posts to the streams shown.
To show a stream of content you (or the theme designer of the theme you use) need to prepare the theme for showing the items. You need a page template 
for this. An example of this can be found in bbAggregate/examples and the template is called: bbAggregate-template-aggregated-posts. For now you can copy 
it into the directory of your active theme so you can test bbAggregated. Keep in mind though that it will not use your theme’s style! 
Create a page in the blog where you also have copied the page template and select the Aggregated Posts template 
as the page’s template. Add the customfield with the name ‘bbagg_stream’ (without quotes) and customfield value the exact(!) stream name of the stream you want to show (see screenshot-11.png). 
By the way, the example page template the custom field name is hardcoded, but you can change it in the template as long as you also use the new name 
for your customfield. After adding the customfield name and value and publishing the page you can view the page and you should now see your post part 
of the stream’s aggregated content (see screenshot-12.png).
Note: The stream default options can be changed sitewide by visiting the Super Admin->Options (See screenshot-9.png). Look for ‘bbAggregate sitewide defaults’ (see screenshot-10.png). After changing 
the options’ values and saving the changes new streams will use your new defaults. This can only be done by users with super admin rights. Keep in mind that streams are sitewide. Thus streams created in blog 1 
are also visible in the bbAggregate settings of blog 2.
<h3>TODO</h3>
Feel free to send patches 😉
<ul>
<li>Remove database tables upon delete of plugin </li>
<li>Add .po and .mo files for translations</li>
<li>Create php doc files</li>
</ul>

bbAggregate

Create streams of sitewide aggregated content from your multisite WordPress installation with bbAggregate

JS Morisset

Includes a 5 Star Rating in Schema markup:
<ol>
<li>If the Schema markup does not have an ‘aggregateRating’ property.</li>
<li>If Google allows an ‘aggregateRating’ property for that Schema type.</li>
</ol>
Google allows an ‘aggregateRating’ property for these Schema types and their sub-types:
<ul>
<li>Book</li>
<li>Course</li>
<li>Event</li>
<li>HowTo (includes Recipe)</li>
<li>LocalBusiness</li>
<li>Movie</li>
<li>Product</li>
<li>SoftwareApplication</li>
</ul>
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 cannot be added, as doing so would trigger an error in the Google search console. <a href="https://developers.google.com/search/docs/advanced/structured-data/review-snippet" rel="nofollow ugc">See Google’s Review snippet documentation for additional information.</a>

<h3>WPSSO Add Five Stars is a Fallback Solution</h3>
The Google’s Review Snippet technical guidelines reminds us to:
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<a href="https://developers.google.com/search/docs/advanced/structured-data/review-snippet#technical-guidelines" rel="nofollow ugc">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.</a>
</blockquote>
The WPSSO Add Five Stars add-on includes 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 <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/wpsso-ratings-and-reviews/" rel="ugc">WPSSO Ratings and Reviews</a> add-on.
Suggested Rating and Review Plugins and Services:
The <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/wpsso/" rel="ugc">WPSSO Core plugin</a> supports a selection of plugins that provide ratings and reviews:
<ul>
<li>WP-PostRatings</li>
<li>WP Product Review</li>
<li>Yotpo Social Reviews for WooCommerce</li>
<li>WooCommerce</li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/wpsso-ratings-and-reviews/" rel="ugc">WPSSO Ratings and Reviews</a></li>
</ul>
The <a href="https://wpsso.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">WPSSO Core Premium plugin</a> also supports a selection of remote service APIs that provide ratings and reviews:
<ul>
<li>Judge.me (Ratings and Reviews)</li>
<li>Shopper Approved (Ratings and Reviews)</li>
<li>Stamped.io (Ratings and Reviews)</li>
</ul>
<h3>WPSSO Core Required</h3>
WPSSO Add Five Stars is an add-on for the <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/wpsso/" rel="ugc">WPSSO Core plugin</a>, which creates extensive and complete structured data to present your content at its best for social sites and search results – no matter how URLs are shared, reshared, messaged, posted, embedded, or crawled.

WPSSO Add Five Stars for Google Rich Snippets

Add a 5 star rating and review from the site organization if the Schema markup does not already have an 'aggregateRating' property.

bbAggregate vs WPSSO Add Five Stars for Google Rich Snippets