Recently it becomes much easier to get your rating into the search results of Google. Using hReview rich snippet code in your blog post can raise the CTR in Google if the rating is visible. The GD Star Ratings plugin has already a function to show the snippet beside the stars widget, but the markup is according the Google Webmaster Help section not valid. We wrote a small function that will fix this problem.

First disable the automatic ratings feature

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There are many star rating plugins for WordPress available, while the plugin “GD Star Rating” has many functions, is the “WP Post Ratings” plugin much easier to use. There is one feature I like to see in the last mentioned plugin: A static result view!

People should rate your content on the page where the article or product is located and not on other pages, but showing a rating on other place can increase your CTR.
The following function will show only the images for a given post ID. Install WP Post Ratings (if you don’t have already), add this function into your functions.php file and place the function name into your WordPress theme file. Read more »