Display X posts anywhere with rate-bar (cant rate)

I needed to show X posts on the home page with the rate-bar without the ability to rate (just to show) and the ones with high rates, here how i did it. I got some code from the plugins source. This is an simple version of the code i did for one of my wordpress sites.

function wp_post_high_rate($post_type = 'products', $min_votes = 0, $limit = 12, $chars = 0, $display_rate = true){
    if(function_exists('the_ratings')) {
        $i=0;
        global $wpdb;
        $ratings_max = intval(get_option('postratings_max'));
        $ratings_custom = intval(get_option('postratings_customrating'));
        $output = '';
        if(!empty($post_type) && $post_type != 'both') {
          $where = "$wpdb->posts.post_type = '$post_type'";
        } else {
          $where = '1=1';
        }
        if($ratings_custom && $ratings_max == 2) {
          $order_by = 'ratings_score';
        } else {
          $order_by = 'ratings_average';
        }
        $temp = stripslashes(get_option('postratings_template_highestrated'));
        $highest_rated = $wpdb->get_results("SELECT DISTINCT $wpdb->posts.*, (t1.meta_value+0.00) AS ratings_average, (t2.meta_value+0.00) AS ratings_users, (t3.meta_value+0.00) AS ratings_score FROM $wpdb->posts LEFT JOIN $wpdb->postmeta AS t1 ON t1.post_id = $wpdb->posts.ID LEFT JOIN $wpdb->postmeta As t2 ON t1.post_id = t2.post_id LEFT JOIN $wpdb->postmeta AS t3 ON t3.post_id = $wpdb->posts.ID WHERE t1.meta_key = 'ratings_average' AND t2.meta_key = 'ratings_users' AND t3.meta_key = 'ratings_score' AND $wpdb->posts.post_password = '' AND $wpdb->posts.post_date < '".current_time('mysql')."' AND $wpdb->posts.post_status = 'publish' AND t2.meta_value >= $min_votes AND $where ORDER BY $order_by DESC, ratings_users DESC LIMIT $limit");

        if($highest_rated) {
          echo '<div class="row">';
          foreach($highest_rated as $post) {

            if($i % 6 ==0) {
              echo '</div><div class="row">';
            }

            echo '<div class="col-xs-6 col-md-2">';
            echo '<div class="thumbnail product-holder">';
            echo '<a href="';
            the_permalink($post->ID); 
            echo '"><img src="'.get_the_post_thumbnail_url($post->ID, 'thumbnail').'" alt="'.$post->post_title.'"></a>';
            echo '<div class="caption text-center">';
            echo '<h4>'.$post->post_title.'</h4>';
            echo '<div class="rate">';

            if ($display_rate == true) {
                echo '<div id="post-ratings-'.$post->ID.'" class="post-ratings">';
                    $score = $post->ratings_score;
                    $off = 5 - $score;

                    $y = 1; 
                    while($y <= $score) {
                      echo '<img src="'.home_url().'/wp-content/plugins/wp-postratings/images/stars/rating_on.gif" class="post-ratings-image">';
                      $y++;
                    } 

                    $y = 1; 
                    while($y <= $off) {
                      echo '<img src="'.home_url().'/wp-content/plugins/wp-postratings/images/stars/rating_off.gif" class="post-ratings-image">';
                      $y++;
                    } 
                echo '</div>';
            }
            echo '</div>';
            echo '</div>';
            echo '</div>';
            echo '</div>';
            $i++;
          }
        } else {
          echo __('N/A', 'wp-postratings');
        }
    }
}