Add User Ratings to Your WordPress.com Posts, Pages & Comments

The recent addition of the PollDaddy Ratings widget to WordPress.com blogs allows you to add star and thumbs-up, thumbs-down ratings to your blog posts, pages and comments. This video walks you through the basics. For more information check out this support page. A WordPress.org plugin version is in the works.

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16 responses to “Add User Ratings to Your WordPress.com Posts, Pages & Comments”

  1. is there also a plugin to install this on self-hosted WordPress blogs?

    1. Michael Pick Avatar
      Michael Pick

      I’m told it’s in the works at the moment and shouldn’t be too much longer

    2. For self-hosted WP blogs try the plugin: GD Star Rating

      http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/gd-star-rating/

  2. younesduret Avatar
    younesduret

    GD-starrating is the best one for self-hosted WordPress

  3. I hope so. It sounds pretty cool.

  4. Great tool, let´s wait the plug-in for self hosted WordPress blogs.

  5. Sounds great! Looking forward to using it soon.

  6. Would be nice with more options as to where they appear and how they appear(centered, left, right etc.)

    But overall a great addition and am looking foreward to more user feedback 🙂

    1. Michael Pick Avatar
      Michael Pick

      If you click on “advanced options” after activating the ratings, you’ll see some options to change alignment, color etc.

  7. Has anyone got this working with P2 theme?

    1. I can’t wait to see this as a plugin I hope it works with p2 cause thats what I’m using on my self hosted blog. I think that gd-star rating is way too complex.

  8. sirxanthos Avatar
    sirxanthos

    Hello,

    Being new to the wordpress function, I tentatively think that this is a great idea if only for the fact that ordinary folks get to voice their opinion via this voting scheme. I don’t think it gets any better in terms of a democratic voice.

    1. Except private blogs are not democratic.

      It’s more of a tool for the blog owner to know what’s liked better and what’s liked less.

  9. I was kind of hoping that the user’s rating of a post would displayed in their comment and then show an aggregate total below the post itself.

    1. If a post has been rated, then before the mouseover to rate it yourself, it will show the average rating.

  10. I hope so. It sounds pretty cool.

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July 17, 2009

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