Rate Star Review Vote – AJAX Reviews, Votes, Star Ratings
Enhance your WordPress site with the Rate Star Review plugin, enabling users to leave star ratings and detailed reviews for any type of content. This robust plugin supports multiple rating dimensions per post, vote buttons, AJAX updates for seamless user experience, and integrates customizable review types by content. Ideal for content creators aiming to improve interaction and obtain feedback, it also features integration options for monetizing votes, making it perfect for contests and premium content strategies. Benefits Flexible Review System: Allow users to rate, vote, review any type of content including posts, pages, and custom post types. AJAX Functionality: Reviews, ratings, votes (likes) update dynamically without page reloads, offering a smooth user experience. Customizable Star Ratings: Choose from various scales (e.g., 3, 5, 10 stars) to suit different review contexts. Multiple Content Dimensions: Support for reviewing multiple aspects of a single item, such as different features or performance metrics. Monetization of Reviews: Integrate with the MicroPayments Plugin to enable paid votes (likes), adding a revenue stream. Comprehensive Shortcodes: Easily embed review forms and ratings on any page using customizable shortcodes. Live Updates: Review lists and average ratings update live on the page as users submit their feedback. Category-Specific Ratings: Manage and display ratings by category for targeted insights and contest management. Enhanced User Engagement: Encourage community interaction by allowing users to express their opinions and participate in reviews. Skin in the Game: Monetize user participation in contests and premium content by requiring paid votes. Key Features Star Ratings, Review Title and Text Content AJAX review and lists (no page reload required) Unlimited review types associated by content type, content id, post id Update review (after adding review, it can be updated anytime with same form) Ratings by category (rate and also get stats by category) Shortcodes to add review, list reviews, display ratings Separately review multiple aspects and content type for an item Live update of review list on same page when adding, updating review Updates and can display average rating per post (meta) Custom maximum stars (ex: 3, 5, 10 stars) Configure post types to include reviews for (post, page) Vote and vote count per post, for specific categories (i.e. for contests like Top Summer Videos) Integrates APF Optimizer for speed and resources on AJAX requests: Filter plugins allowed to run on specific pages Integrates with MicroPayments Plugin to support paid votes on selected categories, introduce skin in the game for contests and premium content Bundles only the Fomantic UI runtime subset used by this plugin, including required font assets Privacy setting to optionally show recent voter display names in frontend vote metadata; disabled by default Review moderation setting to save reviews as pending and approve them from the Reviews admin section Optional review role allowlist to restrict review writing to specific WordPress roles, in addition to user capability to read content Dependencies WordPress bundled jQuery for frontend AJAX and rating initialization Optional: MicroPayments for paid voting flows Third-Party Libraries Fomantic UI 2.9.4 component subset, MIT License, bundled locally in scripts/semantic/ Recommended for use with these solutions Paid VideoChat Broadcast Live Video Video Share VOD Picture Gallery – Picture Gallery – Frontend Image Uploads, AJAX Photo List. Shortcodes [videowhisper_review post_id=”” content_type=”” content_id=”” rating_max=”5″ id=”” update_id=””] Shows form to add and update review for specific post and content. AJAX based. Can also update reviews list if on same page. [videowhisper_reviews post_id=”” show_average=”1″ content_type=”” content_id=”” id=””] Lists reviews for specific content (by post,content). At least post_id or content_id must be specified. AJAX based. [videowhisper_rating post_id=”” rating_max=”5″] Displays average rating for a post (average of all ratings for that post). Post Metas Updates these meta valuate when rating posts: – rateStarReview_rating = average rating normalized as value between 0 and 1 (multiply with maximum to display) – rateStarReview_ratingNumber = number of reviews – rateStarReview_ratingPoints = sum of normalized ratings for easy sorting popular items (rating * ratingPoints) Rating by category will update those for each rated category as: – rateStarReview_rating_category$id – rateStarReview_ratingNumber_category$id – rateStarReview_ratingPoints_category$id How to use this? In example, if you have a post presenting an electronic product and want site members to be able to review and rate separately different aspects like Features and Performance these can be content types. A review form for each content type can be setup: [videowhisper_review content_type=”Features” post_id=”1″] [videowhisper_review content_type=”Performance” post_id=”1″] Then to show all reviews for that item, you can use [videowhisper_reviews post_id=”1″] . Another example, if an article is about a book with 2 parts, you can also use content_id to allow users to post a review for each part for each aspect (like Utility, Clarity). [videowhisper_review content_type=”Utility for Part” content_id=”1″ post_id=”1″] [videowhisper_review content_type=”Utility for Part” content_id=”2″ post_id=”1″] [videowhisper_review content_type=”Clarity for Part” content_id=”1″ post_id=”1″] [videowhisper_review content_type=”Clarity for Part” content_id=”2″ post_id=”1″] Then list all reviews for all parts, [videowhisper_reviews post_id=”1″] or just for an aspect or part.
Really Simple Security – Simple and Performant Security (formerly Really Simple SSL)
Easily improve site security with WordPress Hardening, Two-Factor Authentication (2FA), Login Protection, Vulnerability Detection and SSL certificate. Really simple, Effective and Performant WordPress Security Really Simple Security is the most lightweight and easy-to-use security plugin for WordPress. It secures your WordPress website with SSL certificate generation, including proper 301 https redirection and SSL enforcement, scanning for possible vulnerabilities, Login Protection and implementing essential WordPress hardening features. We believe that security should have the absolute minimum effect on website performance, user experience and maintainability. Therefore, Really Simple Security is: Lightweight: Every security feature is developed with a modular approach and with performance in mind. Disabled features won’t load any redundant code. Easy-to-use: 1-minute configuration with short onboarding setup. Security Features Easy SSL Migration Migrates your website to HTTPS and enforces SSL in just one click. 301 redirect via PHP or .htaccess Secure cookies Let’s Encrypt: Install an SSL Certificate if your hosting provider supports manual installation. Server Health Check: Your server configuration is every bit as important for your website security. WordPress Hardening Tweak your configuration and keep WordPress fortified and safe by tackling potential weaknesses. Prevent code execution in the uploads folder Prevent login feedback and disable user enumeration Disable XML-RPC Disable directory browsing Username restrictions (block ‘admin’ and public names) and much more.. Vulnerability Detection Get notified when plugins, themes or WP core contain vulnerabilities and need appropriate action. Login Protection Allow or enforce Two-Factor Authentication (2FA) for specific user roles. Users receive a two-factor code via Email. Improve Security with Really Simple Security Pro Protect your site with all essential security features by upgrading to Really Simple Security Pro. Advanced SSL enforcement Mixed Content Scan & Fixer. Detect files that are requested over HTTP and fix them to HTTPS, both Front- and Back-end. Enable HTTP Strict Transport Security and configure your site for the HSTS Preload list. Firewall Really Simple Security Pro includes a performant and efficient WordPress firewall, to stop bots, crawlers and bad actors with IP and username blocks. 404 blocking – Blocks crawlers as they trigger unusual numbers of 404 errors. Region blocking – Only allow/block access to your site from specific regions. Automated and customisable Firewall rules. IP blocklist and allowlist. Security Headers Security headers protect your site visitors against the risk of clickjacking, cross-site-forgery attacks, stealing login credentials and malware. Independent of your Server Configuration, works on Apache, LiteSpeed, NGINX, etc. Protect your website visitors with X-XSS Protection, X-Content-Type-Options, X-Frame-Options, a Referrer Policy and CORS headers. Automatically generate your WordPress-tailored Content Security Policy. Vulnerability Measures When a vulnerability is detected in a plugin, theme or WordPress core you will get notified accordingly. With Vulnerability Measures, you can configure simple but effective measures to make sure that a critical vulnerability won’t remain unattended. Force update: An update process will be tried multiple times until it can be assumed development of a theme or plugin is abandoned. You will be notified during these steps. Quarantine: When a plugin or theme can’t be updated to solve a vulnerability, Really Simple Security can quarantine the plugin. Advanced Site Hardening Choose a custom login URL Automated File Permissions check and fixer Rename and randomize your database prefix Change the debug.log file location to a non-public folder Disable application passwords Control admin creation Disable HTTP methods, reducing HTTP requests Login Protection Secure your website’s login process and user accounts with powerful security measures. Two-Step verification (Email login) 2FA (two factor authentication) with TOTP Passwordless login with passkey login Enforce strong passwords and frequent password change Limit Login Attempts With Limit Login Attempts you can configure a threshold to temporarily or permanently block IP addresses or (non-existing) usernames. You can also throw a CAPTCHA after a failed login (hCaptcha or Google reCaptcha) Access Control Restrict access to your site for specific regions. Add specific IP addresses or IP ranges to the Blocklist or Allowlist. Useful Links Documentation Security Definitions Translate Really Simple Security Issues & pull requests Feature requests Love Really Simple Security? If you want to support the continuing development of this plugin, please consider buying Really Simple Security Pro, which includes some excellent security features and premium support. About Really Simple Plugins Our mission is to make complex WordPress requirements really easy. Really Simple Security is developed by Really Simple Plugins. For generating SSL certificates, Really Simple Security uses the le acme2 PHP Let’s Encrypt client library, thanks to ‘fbett’ for providing it. Vulnerability Detection uses WP Vulnerability, an open-source initiative by Javier Casares. Want to join as a collaborator? We’re on GitHub as well!
