SN Rating Installation Document


Contributors: Divesh Kumar, Paritosh Gautam
Tags: Rating, Demographic information, Rating by region, Rating by post, Rating by Page, Rating by post type
Requires at least: 3.0
Tested up to: 3.5

How To Install plugin?

  1. Upload the folder 'sn_rating' to the '/wp-content/plugins/' directory
  2. Activate the plugin through the 'Plugins' menu in WordPress.

Enable Rating for Entities

This plugin can be set with different rating boxes for different entities like post / page / comments.

Goto settings/Rating Settings from admin you will see the following screen:

Entities

Multiple entities are listed in the list shown in the screenshot above. If you want to enable the rating for post then tick the Enable checkbox and click on save changes.

Changes will reflect on the post detail and blog listing page as shown in the screenshots below:

Single Post Page

Blog List Page

Different Rating Images/themes

You may assign a differnt rating box for every entity type by going to Settings/Rating Settings and click on the link highlighted in the screenshot below:

Edit Theme Link

When you click on this link it will open a popup window as shown below:

Assign Theme

Select rating theme/images for post/pages/comments etc, and save changes.

You may also provide your custom images as well. Goto plugins/sn_rating/images/themes/YOUR_DIRECTORY and put active.png (for active image) and non_active.png (for non-active image). Your custom images will start showing in the list of different rating scale images.

Multiset Rating Parameters

Multiset Rating Parameters can be created for rating boxes as well where user can rate the content based on different parameters like efficiency, cost, valuable etc.

To create Rating Parameter in admin panel goto Settings/Rating Settings and click on Rating Parameters tab:

Factors Page

Existing Factors are listed down in a table format where you can Edit and Delete. To create a new Rating Factor under Add Rating Parameter field provide the label for factor and click on save changes which will save the record and refelection will update the table with new factor.

Assign Factors with entity

Once factors are created they need to be attached with an entity to make them visible. To assign factors with entities again goto Settings/Rating Settings and on General Tab in the list of entities click on Assign Rating Parameters.

Assign Rating Parameters

This will open a popup like in the screenshot below:

Assign Rating Factors

Select Rating Parameters you want to attach with the current entity and click on save changes. See the screenshot below for post page visibility of multiset factors.

Multiset Factors

Most Rated Content Flag

Goto Settings/Rating Settings and on General Tab select the and tick the Enable Most Rated Flag. This will make content as Most Rated Content and this will be shown in the content as shown below:

Most Rated

Advanced Options

On Settings/Rating Settings there is a tab for Advanced Tab.

Advanced Tab

Demographic Mode:

Demographic mode shows the details of top 10 regions where rating was provided, which is through the widget.

Rating Widget (No Multi Factor)

Rating Widget No Multiple Factors

Rating Widget (Multi Factors)

Rating Widget Multiple Factors

Share Buttons

Share Buttons

Enabling Demographic Mode Feature:

Demographic mode checkbox by default is disabled, To enable DemoGraphic Mode please download Gzip File and extract this in plugins/sn_rating directory.

Download and Extract Gzip File (GeoLiteCity1.dat)

Download Gzip

Extract Gzip

Delete zip

Check mark Demographic mode for Demographic feature to enable

Enable Demographic Mode

Rating Scale configuration

Rating Scale configuration

Analytics Page for rating information

Rating Analytics