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Spotback Rating Widget: WordPress Plugin

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Spotback is a kind of a social bookmarking site that aggregates popular items in the web according to user ratings:

Spotback rate everything widget

Spotback gives you a rating widget which you can incorporate anywhere – on your blog posts, pages, pictures and others, and give visitors and readers an opportunity to rate them.

Now, Spotback has gone ahead to release a cool plugin for WordPress that lets you to easily implement the rating widget on your blog without any hassles.

The plugin comes with a custom widget designer, which allows you to customize the widget with ease. Choose whether you want a star, slider type rating widget or any other.

This plugin is also widgets compatible.

Go to the Spotback Rating Widget WordPress Plugin page to grab it now!

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May 16th, 2007 at 1:51 pm

Posted in blogging,web 2.0

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  • http://digitalmail.blogspot.com/ Atul

    That’s very nice , i hope google will also work on such features for blogger.com

  • http://www.shankarganesh.com/ Shankar Ganesh

    Atul,
    You can install the spotback widget for a Blogger Blog too!

  • http://digitalmail.blogspot.com/ Atul

    thanks shakar for letting me know , I think you should mention this in your post also .

  • http://www.nirmaltv.com Nirmal

    This tool in the form of Plugin is really nice. I will surely use it.

  • http://spotback.com Micha

    Thanks for the review!

    Micha
    Spotback.com

  • http://www.shankarganesh.com/ Shankar Ganesh

    Micha,
    You’re welcome :)

  • http://webstractions.blogspot.com WebStractions

    I just started using this widget a few days ago on a BlogSpot blog, and I am totally impressed with it. Did a little googling for other types of rating widgets and none of them come close to what this little beauty can.

    The coolest feature is that you can design your own rating widget. Add elements to it like tagging your post, related posts similar to the one you are rating, who has rated the post so far, etc.

    Plus the widget is CSS editable — add background images, borders, text colors, etc. All of this is handled on their site and you don’t have to alter any of your template or CSS coding, the effects appear immediately on your blog.

    They have a gallery of user submitted widgets that you can use. Some are very simple. Others are works of art. It is easy to copy them to your account and “blend” the colors for your blog too.

  • http://www.shankarganesh.com/ Shankar Ganesh

    Completely agreed with you, WebStractions, just the best rating widget!

  • http://spotback.com Micha

    It is really awesome to see that our tools make a difference and bring true value to website owners and users. Keep posting great content guys!

    micha
    ceo
    spotback.com

  • http://www.shankarganesh.com/ Shankar Ganesh

    Thanks, Micha.
    Good luck to you and your entire team!
    Hoping to see the widget evolve. Let it rock! :)

  • http://wehttp://webstractions.blogspot.com/2007/05/spotback-rating-widget-for-blogger.html WebStractions

    @Micha — I noticed that you were rating a few posts over at my blog. I think that is pretty cool that you are helping new users out by getting those numbers up past “one”. I know that I rated a couple on my own :)

    Thanx for the boost!

    It would be nice to know what blogs the raters post for, if any, so that we could return the favor. I think this would help in getting several more ratings on the board for everyone. May even get viral. Any chance of implementing that?

    @Shankar — I just now noticed that you are not using this service. Do you have plans to use it?

    If you do. I created a rating widget just for Blogger users. It has the big orange B’s instead of stars.

  • http://www.shankarganesh.com/ Shankar Ganesh

    It would be nice to know what blogs the raters post for, if any, so that we could return the favor. I think this would help in getting several more ratings on the board for everyone.
    Good suggestion. Hope Micha is listening :)

    You have created a good widget, btw, WebStractions. It’ll be going well with Blogspot blogs.

    I may integrate the widget here, probably soon.

    Thanks to your suggestions :)

  • http://spotback.com Micha

    @WebStractions – the reason I rated some of the posts is that I came across them while reading our front page at http://spotback.com. This page is a very powerful and useful discovery tool and I often find great content there. In other words, it wasn’t just giving a boost to your rating, I simply thought your content was worth rating :)

    As for your suggestion about knowing what blogs your raters post for – that’s a good point. We actually already have this data in our system and only need to find the proper way to expose it. I will be happy to discuss this with you to get your thoughts on how you vision this in practice. You can contact me directly at micha (at) spotback (dot) com

    Great suggestion guys – keep’em coming!

    micha.

  • http://wehttp//webstractions.blogspot.com/2007/05/spotback-rating-widget-for-blogger.html WebStractions

    Thanx Micha. I will drop you a line then.

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    I like your blog, this post is really good, but please vary your topics, it will broad your readership.