Embed your RatingStar seal and Google review stars (rich snippets) into any WordPress site.
Published on WordPress.org as RatingStar.de Seal.
- Settings page — store your RatingStar profile slug and API key once under Settings → RatingStar; the slug is verified against your live profile.
- Seal widget in nine variants — round seal and banner seal (static), plus
the live widgets profile card, rating bar, overall rating, quote, carousel,
review wall and footer bar; via the
[ratingstar]shortcode or the RatingStar Seal block. - Site-wide seal — floating profile card or footer bar on every page.
- Google review stars — server-side
LocalBusinessJSON-LD withAggregateRatingon the front page, key-based and cached for 6 hours.
- WordPress 6.0 or newer
- PHP 8.1 or newer
- Upload the
ratingstar-de-sealfolder towp-content/plugins/, or install the ZIP via Plugins → Add New → Upload Plugin. - Activate RatingStar.de Seal under Plugins.
- Open Settings → RatingStar and enter your profile slug and embed key.
Place the seal with the shortcode [ratingstar variant="profile-card"] or the
RatingStar Seal block (pick the variant in the sidebar). Variants:
seal-circle, seal-circle-banner, profile-card, bar, hero, quote,
carousel, wall, footer-bar.
Appearance attributes from the embed generator in your RatingStar portal go
straight into the shortcode, e.g. [ratingstar variant="carousel" car-count="4" theme="dark"], or into the block's "Embed attributes" field. Keep Google
review stars enabled under Settings → RatingStar to also output the rating
as server-side JSON-LD on your front page.
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).