How can I add Schema Aggregate Rating values?

There are several ways to add aggregate rating markup to your content, but first, let’s talk about what an “aggregate rating” actually is. ;-) The Schema.org website defines the Schema aggregateRating property value as: The overall rating, based on a collection of reviews or ratings, of the item. Two things to keep in mind about this: An aggregate rating value is calculated from several customer ratings / reviews for the current webpage content (e-commerce product reviews, for example). Google prefers — and often double-checks — that Schema markup reflects the current content of the webpage. So, if you want to manually set aggregate rating and/or review values in your Schema markup, make sure these customer ratings and/or reviews also appear in your webpage content (ie. the ratings and reviews are visible). So what’s the best and easiest way? The very best (and easiest) way is to use a supported plugin that offers rating and review features, like the WPSSO Ratings and Reviews add-on. The WPSSO RAR add-on extends the WordPress comment system with optional rating and review features, and does not conflict with WooCommerce’s own product rating features. ;-) Note that if you’re using the WPSSO Core Pro plugin, ratings and reviews from WooCommerce, Yotpo Social Reviews for WooCommerce, and WP-PostRatings are also supported. Alternatively, if you’re using a non-supported plugin — that saves aggregate rating values in post meta — you can use a WPSSO Core custom filter to add the Schema aggregateRating markup. Note that if you’re using the WPSSO JSON Pro add-on, you can also hook the Schema aggregateRating property directly. Either filter will work fine — it just depends on your personal preference. ;-) If none of the above solutions work for you, the WPSSO Schema JSON-LD Markup add-on also offers a [schema] shortcode that you can use to customize the current webpage Schema properties. The schema shortcode documentation includes a practical example on how to add custom aggregate rating values to your content.

Better WordPress Thumbnails for Facebook, Google, Open Graph, Pinterest, Schema, SEO, Twitter, etc.

April 29, 2019Updated on June 24, 2019 JS Morisset Leave a comment Open Graph, Pinterest Rich Pins, Rich Cards, Schema, SEO, Twitter Cards, WPSSO TIE

Did you know that WordPress creates thumbnails automatically? All images must be sharpened after resizing? And WordPress does NOT sharpen resized images?

Better Schema for WooCommerce Step-by-step Guide

April 14, 2019Updated on April 29, 2019 JS Morisset WooCommerce, WPSSO Core, WPSSO JSON

I’ve written a simple Step-by-step Guide for WooCommerce and WPSSO that explains common Schema validation warnings, and offers a quick and easy solution.

[Solution] Google “Missing Product ID” for WooCommerce

March 10, 2019Updated on April 29, 2019 JS Morisset Rich Cards, Schema, SEO, WooCommerce, WPSSO Core, WPSSO JSON

Google’s testing tool can report a “Missing Product ID” warning for WooCommerce products. Learn how to fix this issue with WPSSO and WooCommerce attribute(s).

Why WordPress Image Sizes for Social Sharing and SEO?

March 3, 2019Updated on March 5, 2019 JS Morisset Open Graph, Rich Cards, Schema, SEO, Twitter Cards, WPSSO Core

Most social and SEO plugins use the full size image URL for social / SEO meta tags and Schema markup. This can be problematic for several reasons…

Custom Product Attributes in WPSSO for WooCommerce

January 25, 2019Updated on February 28, 2019 JS Morisset WooCommerce, WPSSO Core

WPSSO Core Pro and the WPSSO JSON Pro add-on provide complete Schema markup (aka Google’s Product Rich Card) for WooCommerce products, including all variations and extensive product information (size, weight, sale prices / dates, color, condition, etc.) – far beyond the basic Schema markup provided by the WooCommerce plugin itself. WPSSO Core Pro can also […]

WPBakery (Visual Composer) Bug in Change Handler

September 27, 2018Updated on December 14, 2018 JS Morisset jQuery, WPBakery

The WPBakery (Visual Composer) changeHandler function uses the “vc.accordion” data attribute without first checking for it’s existence. Any plugin or theme using a jQuery show / hide event trigger (for example) will trip this bug, and the post editing page will fail to load properly. I’ve posted the bug report to the Visual Composer channel […]

Social and SEO Plugins with Quality Assurance Features

July 27, 2018Updated on July 30, 2018 JS Morisset Open Graph, Plugins, Schema, SEO

Why your social and SEO plugin should check for minimum and maximum image resolution, aspect ratio, maximum image file size, and duplicate meta tags.

Redirect Attachment Pages for SEO? Read This First!

July 11, 2018Updated on July 11, 2018 JS Morisset 2 Comments SEO, WordPress

Last month Yoast added a feature to their Yoast SEO plugin to allow redirecting attachment pages to the media itself — here’s why you may not want to do that. ;-)

Inherit Featured and Custom Meta Images from Parents

July 10, 2018 JS Morisset WPSSO IPM

Have you defined a featured image for a parent and wished its children used the same featured image automatically?

Add Meta Tags and Schema JSON-LD to the REST API

July 6, 2018Updated on July 9, 2018 JS Morisset REST API, WPSSO REST

The WPSSO REST API (aka WPSSO REST) add-on includes a new head element in the WordPress REST API query result.