Flexible ratings and reviews for WordPress
YASR Pro is a WordPress rating and review solution for websites that need more than a simple star display. It helps you present ratings, collect visitor feedback, and organize evaluations in a format that is easy for visitors to understand. The plugin supports customizable rating widgets, review comments, multi-criteria scoring, and structured review information.
Use it for product reviews, content assessments, service feedback, or other situations where visitors benefit from seeing an overall score and separate ratings for important aspects. Ratings can be displayed within posts and pages, or in widget areas such as a sidebar or footer.
Ratings visitors can understand
YASR supports an overall rating that represents the vote given by the person writing a review. This rating can be shown in read-only mode for readers, while the reviewer can enter a score in the editor. Visitor ratings provide a separate option, allowing site visitors to vote through an interactive star interface.
Visitors can also submit comments and share their opinions about published content. Other readers can view these reviews, including both positive and negative feedback, giving your website a more interactive review experience.
Detailed multi-criteria reviews
Multi Sets let you score different aspects of the same item. For example, a videogame review can include criteria such as graphics, gameplay, and story. This approach is useful when one overall score does not provide enough detail. Each set can be inserted into a post using the shortcode created by YASR.
- Overall ratings: display a reviewer’s score where you choose.
- Visitor votes: let visitors rate content through a star widget.
- Multi-criteria scoring: assess several aspects of one review.
- Review comments: allow visitors to share feedback and read responses from others.
- Ranking reviews: display a ranking of the ten highest-rated items by reviewer.
Widgets, shortcodes, and structured data
Rating widgets can be placed in posts, pages, sidebars, and footers. Shortcodes provide a practical way to insert overall ratings, visitor votes, multi-criteria sets, and rankings where they are needed. The responsive design is intended to present rating content across different screen sizes.
YASR includes review Schema.org support for several item types, including Book, Course, Event, Game, LocalBusiness, Movie, Product, Recipe, SoftwareApplication, and others listed in its documentation. Structured data helps search engines understand the review information associated with your content. The BlogPosting item type does not show stars in search results.
For site owners and developers
The plugin is designed to work without coding, while also offering developer-oriented features. YASR uses a REST API and provides hooks for customization. This gives developers additional ways to connect rating functionality with their WordPress projects.
Installation and setup
Install YASR Pro in your WordPress dashboard, activate it, and open its settings. Configure the rating options and create any Multi Sets needed for your reviews. Add the generated shortcodes to posts, pages, widgets, or other supported areas, then publish the content and review the displayed rating experience.
