RatingStar.de Seal for WordPress

Embed your RatingStar seal and Google review stars (rich snippets) into any WordPress site.

Status: early development — see the repository issues for the roadmap.

Features

• Settings page — store your RatingStar profile slug and embed key once under Settings → RatingStar; the slug is verified against your live profile.
• Seal widget (planned) — render the RatingStar seal (round badge, banderole, floating badge) via the [ratingstar] shortcode or a Gutenberg block.
• Google stars (planned) — server-side JSON-LD (AggregateRating) in the page head, cached via a transient, toggleable per page.

Requirements

• WordPress 6.0 or newer
• PHP 8.1 or newer

Installation

1. Upload the ratingstar-de-seal folder to wp-content/plugins/, or install the ZIP via Plugins → Add New → Upload Plugin.
2. Activate RatingStar.de Seal under Plugins.
3. Open Settings → RatingStar and enter your profile slug and embed key.

Usage

Place the seal with the shortcode [ratingstar variant="banner"] (variants: banner, circle, card) or the RatingStar Seal block (pick the variant in the sidebar). Keep Google review stars enabled under Settings → RatingStar to also output the rating as server-side JSON-LD on your front page.

Development

The plugin is self-contained and loads without a build step — drop the folder into any WordPress install's wp-content/plugins/ directory to test.

For a release, bin/build.sh produces an installable, dev-file-free ZIP. Pushing a v* tag triggers the GitHub Action that deploys that version to the WordPress.org plugin SVN (requires the SVN_USERNAME / SVN_PASSWORD repository secrets).

License

GPL-2.0-or-later.