Description
Includes a 5 Star Rating in Schema markup:
- If the Schema markup does not have an ‘aggregateRating’ property.
- If Google allows an ‘aggregateRating’ property for that Schema type.
Google allows an ‘aggregateRating’ property for these Schema types and their sub-types:
- Book
- Course
- Event
- HowTo (includes Recipe)
- LocalBusiness
- Movie
- Product
- SoftwareApplication
If the Schema type in the Document SSO metabox is not one of these types (or one of their sub-types), then a 5 star rating cannot be added, as doing so would trigger an error in the Google search console. See Google’s Review snippet documentation for additional information.
WPSSO Add Five Stars is a Fallback Solution
The Google’s Review Snippet technical guidelines reminds us to:
The WPSSO Add Five Stars add-on includes a 5 star rating if the document Schema markup does not already have an ‘aggregateRating’ property. It is always preferable to include actual ratings and reviews from your visitors and/or customers in the webpage. The WPSSO Add Five Stars add-on can be used in combination with any of the following third-party plugins and service APIs, or the WPSSO Ratings and Reviews add-on.
Suggested Rating and Review Plugins and Services:
The WPSSO Core plugin supports a selection of plugins that provide ratings and reviews:
- WP-PostRatings
- WP Product Review
- Yotpo Social Reviews for WooCommerce
- WooCommerce
- WPSSO Ratings and Reviews
The WPSSO Core Premium plugin also supports a selection of remote service APIs that provide ratings and reviews:
- Judge.me (Ratings and Reviews)
- Shopper Approved (Ratings and Reviews)
- Stamped.io (Ratings and Reviews)
WPSSO Core Required
WPSSO Add Five Stars (WPSSO AFS) is an add-on for the WPSSO Core plugin, which creates extensive and complete structured data to present your content at its best for social sites and search results – no matter how URLs are shared, reshared, messaged, posted, embedded, or crawled.
Installation
Install and Uninstall
Reviews
Contributors & Developers
“WPSSO Add Five Stars for Google Rich Snippets” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.
Contributors
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Changelog
Version Numbering
Version components: {major}.{minor}.{bugfix}[-{stage}.{level}]
- {major} = Major structural code changes and/or incompatible API changes (ie. breaking changes).
- {minor} = New functionality was added or improved in a backwards-compatible manner.
- {bugfix} = Backwards-compatible bug fixes or small improvements.
- {stage}.{level} = Pre-production release: dev < a (alpha) < b (beta) < rc (release candidate).
Standard Edition Repositories
Development Version Updates
WPSSO Core Premium edition customers have access to development, alpha, beta, and release candidate version updates:
Under the SSO > Update Manager settings page, select the “Development and Up” (for example) version filter for the WPSSO Core plugin and/or its add-ons. When new development versions are available, they will automatically appear under your WordPress Dashboard > Updates page. You can reselect the “Stable / Production” version filter at any time to reinstall the latest stable version.
WPSSO Core Standard edition users (ie. the plugin hosted on www.ads-software.com) have access to the latest development version under the Advanced Options section.
Changelog / Release Notes
Version 2.2.0 (2024/08/25)
- New Features
- None.
- Improvements
- None.
- Bugfixes
- None.
- Developer Notes
- Changed the main instantiation action hook from ‘init_objects’ to ‘init_objects_preloader’.
- Requires At Least
- PHP v7.4.33.
- WordPress v5.9.
- WPSSO Core v18.10.0.