Rate Star Review Vote - AJAX Reviews, Votes, Star Ratings

Enhance your WordPress site with the Rate Star Review plugin, enabling users to leave star ratings and detailed reviews for any type of content. This robust plugin supports multiple rating dimensions per post, vote buttons, AJAX updates for seamless user experience, and integrates customizable review types by content. Ideal for content creators aiming to improve interaction and obtain feedback, it also features integration options for monetizing votes, making it perfect for contests and premium content strategies. Benefits

• Flexible Review System: Allow users to rate, vote, review any type of content including posts, pages, and custom post types.
• AJAX Functionality: Reviews, ratings, votes (likes) update dynamically without page reloads, offering a smooth user experience.
• Customizable Star Ratings: Choose from various scales (e.g., 3, 5, 10 stars) to suit different review contexts.
• Multiple Content Dimensions: Support for reviewing multiple aspects of a single item, such as different features or performance metrics.
• Monetization of Reviews: Integrate with the MicroPayments Plugin to enable paid votes (likes), adding a revenue stream.
• Comprehensive Shortcodes: Easily embed review forms and ratings on any page using customizable shortcodes.
• Live Updates: Review lists and average ratings update live on the page as users submit their feedback.
• Category-Specific Ratings: Manage and display ratings by category for targeted insights and contest management.
• Enhanced User Engagement: Encourage community interaction by allowing users to express their opinions and participate in reviews.
• Skin in the Game: Monetize user participation in contests and premium content by requiring paid votes.

Key Features

• Star Ratings, Review Title and Text Content
• AJAX review and lists (no page reload required)
• Unlimited review types associated by content type, content id, post id
• Update review (after adding review, it can be updated anytime with same form)
• Ratings by category (rate and also get stats by category)
• Shortcodes to add review, list reviews, display ratings
• Separately review multiple aspects and content type for an item
• Live update of review list on same page when adding, updating review
• Updates and can display average rating per post (meta)
• Custom maximum stars (ex: 3, 5, 10 stars)
• Configure post types to include reviews for (post, page)
• Vote and vote count per post, for specific categories (i.e. for contests like Top Summer Videos)
• Integrates APF Optimizer for speed and resources on AJAX requests: Filter plugins allowed to run on specific pages
• Integrates with MicroPayments Plugin to support paid votes on selected categories, introduce skin in the game for contests and premium content
• Bundles only the Fomantic UI runtime subset used by this plugin, including required font assets
• Privacy setting to optionally show recent voter display names in frontend vote metadata; disabled by default
• Compact server-rendered listing summaries for MicroPayments, Picture Gallery and Video Share VOD: independent stars and likes, with no per-card startup requests
• Free likes and permitted retractions work directly in supported listings; paid votes open the item page for the existing explicit payment workflow
• Review moderation setting to save reviews as pending and approve them from the Reviews admin section
• Optional review role allowlist to restrict review writing to specific WordPress roles, in addition to user capability to read content

Dependencies

• WordPress bundled jQuery for frontend AJAX and rating initialization
• Optional: MicroPayments for paid voting flows

Third-Party Libraries

• Fomantic UI 2.9.4 component subset, MIT License, bundled locally in scripts/semantic/

Recommended for use with these solutions

• Paid VideoChat
• Broadcast Live Video
• Video Share VOD
• Picture Gallery - Picture Gallery – Frontend Image Uploads, AJAX Photo List.

Shortcodes [videowhisper_review post_id="" content_type="" content_id="" rating_max="5" id="" update_id=""] Shows form to add and update review for specific post and content. AJAX based. Can also update reviews list if on same page. [videowhisper_reviews post_id="" show_average="1" content_type="" content_id="" id=""] Lists reviews for specific content (by post,content). At least post_id or content_id must be specified. AJAX based. [videowhisper_rating post_id="" rating_max="5"] Displays average rating for a post (average of all ratings for that post). Post Metas Integrators can call VWrateStarReview::listing_summary( $post_id, array( 'stars' => true, 'likes' => true ) ) after authorizing each public listing item. AJAX listings should call VWrateStarReview::enqueue_listing_assets() on their initial page. The helper renders published public post metadata only, excludes password-protected items, and respects the configured voting post types/categories. It does not reveal voter identities. Likes require sign-in; paid votes keep the existing item-page flow. Existing shortcode integrations remain available. Updates these meta valuate when rating posts:

• rateStarReview_rating = average rating normalized as value between 0 and 1 (multiply with maximum to display)
• rateStarReview_ratingNumber = number of reviews
• rateStarReview_ratingPoints = sum of normalized ratings for easy sorting popular items (rating * ratingPoints) Rating by category will update those for each rated category as:
• rateStarReview_rating_category$id
• rateStarReview_ratingNumber_category$id
• rateStarReview_ratingPoints_category$id

How to use this? In example, if you have a post presenting an electronic product and want site members to be able to review and rate separately different aspects like Features and Performance these can be content types. A review form for each content type can be setup: [videowhisper_review content_type="Features" post_id="1"] [videowhisper_review content_type="Performance" post_id="1"] Then to show all reviews for that item, you can use [videowhisper_reviews post_id="1"] . Another example, if an article is about a book with 2 parts, you can also use content_id to allow users to post a review for each part for each aspect (like Utility, Clarity). [videowhisper_review content_type="Utility for Part" content_id="1" post_id="1"] [videowhisper_review content_type="Utility for Part" content_id="2" post_id="1"] [videowhisper_review content_type="Clarity for Part" content_id="1" post_id="1"] [videowhisper_review content_type="Clarity for Part" content_id="2" post_id="1"] Then list all reviews for all parts, [videowhisper_reviews post_id="1"] or just for an aspect or part. Public text translations With the current Agentic Multilingual Translator active and the relevant public text providers enabled, agents with Site Manager access can draft and separately publish supported public review headings, bodies and the configured empty-list message. Enable Translator drafting/publication and the appropriate Site Manager role, personal and connection permissions. Translating does not publish the original or unlock manual corrections. The first adapter supports published reviews with an exact association to an ordinary public Post or Page. Session/room reviews and protected parents are excluded. Moderated sites permit authors to draft translations; administrator review is required to publish them. Authors choose a writing language from the site languages. Existing reviews without language metadata use the site source language. Configure the empty-list message in Rate Star settings. If the optional AJAX plugin filter is enabled, include Translator among the allowed review AJAX plugins. Public locale hints never grant read, write or publish permissions.

1.8.0

• Add optional public review and configured-message translations, stored writing languages and signed public AJAX locale hints. Preserve ownership, source freshness and native moderation.

1.7.1

• Find creator setup, media approval, preparation jobs and related integration settings from the VideoWhisper toolbar; contextual guidance explains workflow ownership.
• Listing likes show icons and counters, with translated action/status tooltips and accessible labels. Paid voting still opens the item page.

1.7.0

• Add compact server-rendered listing stars, like counters and free-like buttons for content-plugin integrations, with one delegated browser handler and no per-card startup requests.
• Keep voting categories, post types and retraction settings; paid votes use the existing item-page payment workflow.
• Add an optional integration API while retaining all existing shortcode, review and vote behavior.

1.6.10

• Require plugin file-modification policy and native installation/activation or deletion permissions for APF optimizer files; multisite also requires network plugin management permission. Existing APF files and settings are retained when a change is denied.
• Include pinned UI source/build instructions and the upstream icon-font license notice.
• Security: constrain shortcode and AJAX interface IDs before they enter JavaScript declarations, callbacks and controls.
• Reject array-shaped vote and review fields before processing, while retaining existing nonce, login, review ownership and moderation checks.
• Encode review controls and startup data for their final JavaScript and HTML contexts.
• Requires WordPress 6.9 and PHP 8.2 or newer.

1.6.9

• Fixed late-rendered vote and review shortcode startup scripts so they run from the page footer after WordPress has rendered the content.

1.6.8

• Fixed front-end vote and review AJAX URLs when a security plugin uses a private admin path, keeping public requests on WordPress's standard wp-admin/admin-ajax.php endpoint.

1.6.7

• Moved front-end shortcode scripts to WordPress's inline-script API for improved compatibility with modern content security policies.

1.6.6

• Moved screenshots to SVN assets and updated WordPress.org support metadata.

1.6.5

• Security: prevent arbitrary post updates through review AJAX requests by limiting updates to the current user's review in the same review context
• Security: add nonce validation to review and vote AJAX mutations
• Security/privacy: store new vote identities by user ID and only show voter display names when explicitly enabled in settings
• Moderation: add optional review moderation workflow with pending review status and review management under the plugin admin menu
• Access control: add optional role allowlist for review writing while leaving blank as allow-all for logged-in users
• Maintenance: escape remaining frontend category/review output and reduce bundled Fomantic UI assets to the runtime subset used by the plugin

1.6

• Integrates APF Optimizer for speed and resources on AJAX requests: Filter plugins allowed to run on specific pages

1.5

• Integrates with MicroPayments Plugin to support paid votes on selected categories

1.4

• Content vote with [videowhisper_vote post_id=""] shortcoded (can automatically show on content pages)

1.3

• Rate and display ratings by category (if enabled)
• Support for special characters
• PHP 8 support

1.2

• Calculate and save average rating per post.

1.1.1

• First release.