How to Use the Editorial Rating Plugin for WordPress

When it comes to shopping online, user reviews are some of the most powerful tools you can include on your site. That’s because 95% of customers utilize online reviews to make a purchase. And with the Ultimate Editorial Rating plugin, you can make it easy to display one.

This plugin specializes in allowing users to leave reviews and compiling all of the review scores into a single stat. That way, you can see the total average of those scores at a glance as the consumer.

The plugin can be placed on any post, page, or widget area and has a lot of options. For instance, you can list the pros and cons of a product to help users understand everything before making a purchase.

Today, I will demonstrate how to use the Ultimate Editorial Rating plugin for WordPress.

Why Are User Reviews So Important?

Simply put, customers trust online reviews and nearly always consult them before making a purchase.

If your site does not have them, they will look elsewhere, which may lower the chances they purchase from your website. As such, nearly every single online store has user reviews front and center.

This has been a thing since the beginning of online shopping, and will most likely never change. Reading what other users have to say about a purchase they made can be the deciding factor for most shoppers.

Not only can they hold valuable insight about the product, but sometimes also about the shipping. This can be very vital if you are buying a product that is breakable or gets damaged easily.

While there has been some concern recently about reviews being fabricated by AI, most users still trust these reviews.

How to Use the Ultimate Editorial Rating Plugin

The Ultimate Editorial Rating plugin is a pretty robust plugin that contains a lot of customization that can better match your site’s design. It supports WooCommerce products and can be used anywhere in WordPress.

It is worth pointing out that the plugin is free to use, but many of the features will be locked behind the Pro version. So if you like what you see, you may want to upgrade to get the full package.

Step 1: Install Ultimate Editorial Rating

Let’s start by clicking on Plugins and selecting the Add New option on the left-hand admin panel.

Search for Ultimate Editorial Rating in the available search box. This will pull up additional plugins that you may find helpful.

Scroll down until you find the Ultimate Editorial Rating plugin and click on the “Install Now” button and activate the plugin for use.

Step 2: Create A Product Review

With the plugin installed, you first want to create a product review for the product in question. Each product will need its own template to consolidate the score. Luckily, this is very simple to do.

Click on Editorial Rating and select the Add Review option.

What you are creating is the general product review for your site. This tells users what you think about the product itself. Users will be able to leave their own reviews on the respective page this is added to.

Note: Users can only leave reviews if you allow them to and it requires the Pro version.

At the very top, you can name the review. I recommend using the product you are leaving it for as it will make finding it very simple. Below this, you will find the theme selection. While it says you have 10 choices, only the first is available in the free version.

Continuing on, you will be able to add the maximum width of the theme and choose what the review says. Fill in all of the information, but don’t go overboard. Keep it concise.

Below that, you can add the product image, create a Pros and Cons list, add a “Buy Now” button, and more. Click on the “Publish” button to save the changes you have made.

Doing so will generate a shortcode that you can use to display the review throughout your website.

The review will be added to your review list so you can quickly find it if you need to make changes. You can repeat this step as many times as you want. Naturally, this can take a lot of time if you do this for every single product, but it may be worth it in the long run.

Step 3: Adding Editorial Rating to a Post

Adding the Editorial Ratings review to a product is pretty simple. Go to the desired post you want to add it to. All you need to do is add a shortcode block and paste the shortcode that was generated when you published the review.

While this is all it takes, you will also find an Editorial Rating Option on the right-hand side.

There will be a drop-down menu where you can select the review you want to add. You will be required to type the first three letters of the review before you can see the choices.

Two more options will appear. The first is if you want the Schema to appear. By default, it is off, but you can enable it to display the Schema data. This can help boost your SEO, so it is recommended to do so on your post content.

The second option is to allow users to leave their own reviews in the comment section.

This is exclusive to the Pro version of the plugin. As such, it is off by default and cannot be changed. If neither of these sounds useful to you, you do not need to engage with it.

Once you save the changes, you can look at the review on your website.

Step 4: Adding Editorial Rating to a Widget

You can also add the Editorial Rating reviews to your widget area. This is great if you want to highlight a certain product for all of your users to see if it is new or on sale. It works very similar to what we just covered.

However, the difference is you want to go to the widget area of WordPress and add the shortcode block to the desired widget area. Then, you just need to insert the shortcode and you’re good to go.

Save the changes and you can view it on your site. You may want to configure the appearance if it is taking up too much room or appears cut off as every theme in WordPress is different.

And that’s it. As you can see, it is rather easy to add a review to your website. That said, the real power is allowing users to leave reviews, which is only available in the Pro version, so consider upgrading today.

What Else Can the Plugin Do?

We’ve only scratched the surface of what the Ultimate Editorial Rating plugin can do.

The plugin also introduces several new blocks that can help you build product pages. Some of these blocks can help you compare different products, create pricing tables, and more.

The rest of the features are locked behind the Pro version, with the most important one being User Reviews.

I’ve mentioned it already, but when this is enabled, users will be able to leave a review in the comment section. You can set the criteria for the user to rate like durability, quality, design, etc.

They can set scores for each fact and leave their own written review that other users can see. Not to mention add a star rating so other users can quickly see what they thought of it.

The Pro version also comes with access to 24/7 support. This is great for beginners who may need extra support to help them get the plugin right for their sight.

Start Using Ultimate Editorial Rating Today

As you can see, the Ultimate Editorial Review plugin is easy to use and brings a lot to the table. Installing it today can help users make a decision about a product quicker and lead to higher sales.

That said, it’s important to point out that sometimes user reviews may not be favorable. This can hurt sales, which is why some sites may choose to not have them. That said, users usually gravitate away from those stores, so I don’t recommend that.

I hope you found this tutorial helpful in learning how to use the UIltimate Editorial Rating plugin.

Did you find the plugin easy to use? Have you noticed a sales increase since adding the plugin?

The post How to Use the Editorial Rating Plugin for WordPress appeared first on GreenGeeks.