- WordPress Top Plugins
- Brandon Corbin
- 383字
- 2025-03-31 06:08:56
A blog without content is like a dinner plate with no food. And while WordPress makes it easy to generate content for your blog, out of the box, it's an empty canvas waiting to be filled with dazzling content.
In this chapter, we cover the following:
- Adding ratings to your blog posts
- Automatically creating links to similar blog posts
- Easily including videos from YouTube, Vimeo, and many more
- Creating personalized greetings for your visitors
- Creating slideshows
- Building forms
- Improving WordPress's search
- Automatically pulling content from your other websites
By Milan Petrovic (http://dev4press.com/)
- Why it's awesome: Quickly adds ratings and ranking to your blog posts
- Why it was picked: Super easy to get running, offers lots of customizations
- Manual Install URL:http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/gd-star-rating/
- Automatic Install search term: GD Star Rating
- Geek level: Newbie
- Configuration location: Top Navigation | GD Star Rating
- Used in: Posts, comments, pages
If you want to know what your readers like, then you need to allow them to quickly rate your individual posts and rank other readers' comments; GD Star Rating does exactly this. Don't be fooled by its deceptively simple outer shell. Those rating stars are backed by a massive administrative area that allows you to customize virtually every aspect of how a user rates your blog's content. For example, you can change how the stars look, how many times to allow users to vote, where to display ratings, and much, much more. In addition to being crazily customizable, GD Star Rating also offers awesome analytics on who's rating what, which items are popular, and virtually any other data point you could imagine.
Out of the box, GD Star Rating will include both a 10 Star Rating bar and a Thumbs Up/Thumbs Down ranking scale. Obviously, a post doesn't need both, and 10 Star Rating will work just fine for all of our blog posts. The Thumbs Up/Thumbs Down will be great for our comments.
Uncheck the checkbox next to For Individual Posts and For Individual Pages.
