GD Star Rating

February 21, 2012 by Garen
Filed under: Wordpress and Blogging

( The Best Web Hosting Service)- Rating blogs are now becoming popular lately. I think it is mainly because the owners know that ratings mean their users will get involved in their posts, as they will give rankings on their posted topics and share their views on it, whether it is a movie, a program, or any download that are reviewed on your site.

In case you plan on adding this feature on your blog, a recommended plugin to help you is GD Star Rating. It enables the user to choose from 8 different rating types and synchronizes all reviews accurately with comments, pages and posts. The ratings can be displayed as stars and posted as widgets for the top ratings and statistics. The rating system is highly customizable on the setting panel.

The different types of rating are as follows:

Article rating based on posts and pages voted by users
Article reviews
Comments rating – rating of each visitor’s comment by other visitors
Comments review rating – users vote a comment review
Multiple rating – can be a mixture of different features and elements
Multi ratings review – based on reviews and article rating per element
Article thumbs rating – based on thumbs up or down (like or not)
Comment thumbs rating – based on comment ratings by other users

GD Star Rating plugin also supports cache plugins for a faster loading of data. It also supports the new features in Google called Rich Snippets, a rating system that users can see when searching for a product or service. Widgets can be configured to work with GD Start Rating too to display average rating of blog posts or comment posts.

A custom GDSR button can automatically integrate and synchronize results in a page with other rating results, in real time. So it means all ratings are displayed as what they really are in the current time. One can also use templates for easy layout display of the ratings, as well as custom graphics to change the default stars and icons.

The plugin is also currently available on different languages such as English, Serbian, Spanish, German, Italian, Polish, and much more. One can also integrate the rating system in the RSS feeds for a real time update to your subscribers. IP blocking and data importing/exporting is also a great feature of this plugin. It uses Ajax for dynamic loading and each IP data is saved whenever a user vote.

GDSR is also a great plugin that is consistently getting updates to improve performance, so you can expect more features coming in shortly.

Check out the GD Star Rating plugin here.

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