Erik Molenaar

True, but the great thing about how your plugin works is that the class=”yasr_schema” (containing the rich text snippets) is always & only inserted once.

Even when multiple rating widgets are placed on the page.

This makes sure we can place the ratings just about everywhere we want: top, bottom, within content, sidebar, footers; without worrying about duplicate rich text snippets in code. Nice ??

Done! 5-star rating with pleasure! ??

Please make sure the ‘read only’ shortcode will stay without rich text snippets in future updates (or if you must: offer these as an backend option for the read_only shortcode)! ;-D

By the way: your ratings plugin is about the only one which offers a true, clean ‘read only’ rating, without rich text snippets.

This offers the awesome option to place ratings on top AND bottom of post content, without duplicating the corresponding rich text snippets (which confuses google!). Awesome work!

Check out our live site, which has the read only rating on top (with shortcode) & rating on the bottom (with auto insert) of post content: https://networklessons.com/mpls/introduction-to-mpls/

Thanks again for the great plugin!

I’ll wait patiently for future updates, thanks for all the great work ??

Hello Dudo. Thanks again for the quick help.

I have approx. 500 posts on my website. For a future update, it would be a very helpful feature to select the item type on a global plugin level? ??

Looking forward to your reply and update!

Hello Dudo, thanks for your help! I did not see this edit screen earlier, as I inserted PHP shortcodes directly in code ??

The generated item type is correctly “Blog Posting” when I select “Other”. But it is missing 3 required additional item props in the item scope to be valid:

1. datePublished
2. headline, and
3. image!

Check out the Structured Data Testing Tool: https://goo.gl/NSOEjz

Hello Lester

Nice! Is there also a PHP shortcode to control this setting: “Who is Allowed To Rate?”

This way I build code to set some Posts to allow ratings by Guests, and other Posts to allow only Registered Users.

Looking forward to your reply. Thank you!

I understand Google demands the rich text snippet to be visible for the user on the front end, and not only exist in code. But isn’t this already the case? Check out: https://snag.gy/cpkOJ.jpg

From my perspective, it is not necessary to display the bottom line on the bottom of the post.

So why not placing the itemprop=”aggregateRating” under in the already visible id=”yasr_visitor_votes_8847″ ? This way the bottom line is not needed, and Google is happy.

Looking forward to your reply. Thanks!

I assume this is a text only output, correct?
Not with the nice stars? ??

Hello Lester. Thanks for your quick reply. I also tried PHP in the Rating Templates without any luck sadly.

I only want to give the ability to rate under specific conditions.

I believe there is only 1 PHP code available, which is ‘the_ratings’ correct? Wouldn’t it be a great feature to offer an 2nd php code as in:

‘the_ratings_readonly’ (won’t allow any voting, only viewing)

Looking forward to your reply. Thank you!

I solved it by hiding the elements, but perhaps it could be an improvement for the plugin by hiding these via a checkbox in its settings?