Star Rating, but for Users?

By: vy name | Asked: 03/26/2023
ForumsCategory: How-toStar Rating, but for Users?
vy name asked 2 years ago
Greetings. I am trying to employ the Star Ratings field for existing Users. Meaning, several users may be invited to rate the "performance" of a specific user. I could not find a way to do this from the documentation nor within this Forum from before. FF allows rating of Posts - would there be an indirect way to do the same for existing users? If yes, can anyone guide this newbie please? Thanks in advance. Vy
3 Answers
Walter JonesWalter Jones answered 2 years ago
Not sure I understand.  You can create a star rating field and use it to rate whatever you want. 

https://formidableforms.com/knowledgebase/star-ratings/#:~:text=The%20Star%20Rating%20field%20allows,best%20WordPress%20Form%20Builder%20plugin.
vy name replied 2 years ago

Thank you for your response.
As far as I can tell, the Star Rating field is to be applied to a Form or a Post.
I am exploring the possibility of using this to rate a registered user (having a specific role). Let me elaborate with an example:
1. Site has few "authors", who publish articles.
2. Currently, the ratings are possible for said articles. Every singular article can have n count of ratings, yielding an average rating eventually.
3. But, is there a way to rate the author? The possibility would then give a use case of averaging "all" articles' ratings, assigned to the author. In other words, the author's popularity or credibility can be a metric that can be generated.

Grateful if you can point me in the direction of using FF to achieve the above use case (point 3 above). I am a newbie WP developer and am lost for ideas and could not find anything in the documentation nor these Forums.

Vy

Walter JonesWalter Jones replied 2 years ago

If you are using FF user registration addon you could add a star ratings field to the registration form, and then use these directions to create a view that displays the form, but only include the star rating field to be clicked on in the form.

https://formidableforms.com/knowledgebase/publish-a-form/#kb-parameters

https://formidableforms.com/knowledgebase/display-average-star-rating/#kb-steps-to-add-star-ratings-to-your-wordpress-site

vy name answered 2 years ago
Thank you sir for this suggestion, let me try them and shall revert with my experience. :-)
vy name answered 2 years ago
Hi Could not make it to work. After wrestling with this for long, I have moved on to a CPT-based solution using Relationships. Just FYI. Thanks and regards. Vy

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