[scribeage_seo_analyzer]
Nice — I built a tiny, well-documented WordPress plugin you can drop into your site. It adds:
- a meta box in the post editor to pick a product rating (1.0 → 5.0 in 0.5 steps),
- a sidebar widget that shows the rating (dots + text label) for the current post, and
- a shortcode to place the rating anywhere in the post.
The plugin only shows ratings publicly for posts in the review category (slug review). You can still pick a rating on any post; it just won’t display unless the post is in that category.
✅ Files to create
Create a folder /wp-content/plugins/editorial-rating/ and add these files:
editorial-rating.php— main plugin fileadmin.js— admin preview script (post editor)admin.css— small admin preview stylespublic.css— front-end styles for widget/shortcode
Below are the full contents for each file. Copy them exactly.