Adding a Star Rating

Here’s how easy it is to add a star rating to your blog post in Polldaddy (check out the screencast on the bottom of the page to see a video tutorial on how to create a star rating):

Login to your Polldaddy dashboard. Click on the big blue Create a new… dropdown and select Rating:

Give your rating a name. Select the 5-Star Rating radio button in the Rating Type box, and choose a Rating Size. We selected Large, just because:

The ratings screen within Polldaddy

Click on the blue Save Rating Widget button to save your rating widget. Clicking on this button brings up a pop-up from which you can copy code that you can paste into your website.

Save your ratings in Polldaddy

Now, all you need to do is embed your nifty widget. There’s an option to copy and paste JavaScript if that suits your fancy, or you can copy the handy shortcode as shown in the example below, and paste into your WordPress site post. Note that if you have a WordPress.org site, you’ll need to download and install the Polldaddy plugin, first.

Screenshot for embedding star rating widget into WordPress

Easy peasy lemon squeezy. Here’s what it looks like on your site:

Here’s a video screencast on how to create a star rating: