False average rating in Schema mark-up

  • Resolved Yaroons

    (@yaroons)


    6 years, 4 months ago

    Hi, thank you for a great plug-in but I ran into 1 weird problem.
    When I test the reviewpage on this page: https://search.google.com/structured-data/testing-tool the average rating (The value “hreview-aggregate”) doesn’t calculate the average right.

    I tested it and the average rating of 9 ratings of 5 stars = 5.
    The average rating of 8 x 5 stars and 1 x 4 = 4.
    The average rating of 7 x 5 stars, 1 x 4 and 1 x 3 = also 4.

    What I make up of this is that it seems to round the decimals.
    Now Google shows 4 out of 5 stars while it should show 4.8 or 4.9.

    Could you please fix this soon?
    This is in my opinion the only downside. Other than that this plug-in is just perfect!

    Thanks!

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  • Thread Starter Yaroons

    (@yaroons)

    Hi,

    Just wanted to let you know that I took a peek at your code and already solved the problem I described above.

    To solve it:

    On line 525 in testimonial-rotator.php

    change

    $global_rating_number = floor($global_rating / $post_count);

    to

    $global_rating_number = ($global_rating / $post_count);
$global_rating_number = round($global_rating_number,1);

    and on line 530 (531 after you added the line above)

    remove .0

    from

    echo "\t<div class=\"rating\">{$global_rating_number}.0</div>\n";

    Now it gives the right rating with one decimal.

    I hope you can implement this change in the next update.

    Thanks!

    Plugin Author Hal Gatewood

    (@halgatewood)

    It’ll be in the next release. Thanks for your work on this!

    Thread Starter Yaroons

    (@yaroons)

    Hi Mr. Gatewood,

    That’s good news!
    I just updated it yesterday to the latest version again but had to change this bit after the update was done. Like I do after every update, because ofcourse I don’t want to show a 4 when it should show a 4.8 rating ??
    But that little bit of extra trouble was worth it every time because I absolutely love your plug-in.
    When this is fixed, you got the best rating plug-in out there, man!
    So you’re welcome and thank you!

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