Getting a Post/user rating system to work

Hi antirich,

I would need to know which rating plugin you’re looking at, and understand how it works to give specific advice.

Generally, I suspect you’re going to need some custom programming to integrate a rating plugin with this one. This will probably involve creating a custom template as described here (How do I change the output template) and discussed here, and adding code that pulls the rating information for each post.

I haven’t worked with any rating plugins myself, so I can’t advise you there.

If you tell me what plugin(s) you’re looking at, I may be able to give you a little more advice.

Well, we’re using “Posts in Page” to publish the posts on the main page. The post are very short, so no need for the user to link to a dedicated post page.

For the ratings, we’re using “Multi Rating”. Both plug ins are up to date.

I’m sure the ratings plug in will work fine with a dedicated Post page, but not so much with what “Posts in Page” is publishing.

The site does use a very customized template. i woudln’t be surprised if some core code may have been left out, for we minimized as much as possible (just a CMS site, not a conversation/blog site)

For reference, here is the live site/page: https://www.purposenotperks.com/real-stories

Thanks.

Okay, I loaded the rating plugin and did some testing, and it looks like you can add the shortcodes into the posts in page template.

First, you need to create a custom output template as described in the FAQ under How do I change the output template.

Then, you need to figure out where you want to add the rating content. I’ve added it under the excerpt below. Use a do_shortcodes statement to insert the rating shortcode.

<!-- This is the output of the EXCERPT -->
<div class="entry-summary">
    <?php the_excerpt(); ?>
    <?php echo do_shortcode("[display_rating_form]"); ?>
</div>

Does that help?