Show extravote stars in Google

[ecolora]

Hello, do You know that it's real?



Here's link to article with that modifications of Your plugin:

http://www.yazov.com/blog/joom/104-extravote-raiting-in-google.html

That article uses http://schema.org/AggregateRating tags.

Could You add that feature in Your future versions?

It will be greate for Joomla articles and Your plugin will be the most popular on extensions.joomla.org.

[chus]

Hello,

You can use this plugin in order to acchieve this:

http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions/clients-a-communities/ratings-a-reviews/19850

Cheers!

[ecolora]

http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions/clients-a-communities/ratings-a-reviews/1985

404 - Resource not found

[chus]

Sorry, I have now corrected the link from my previous post.

Thanks!

[ecolora]

why You can not do that?

[chus]

I guess I could but I don't want to make the plugin more complex unnecessarily

[ecolora]

So You do not want update Your plugin? That's strange... I'm developer too. My extension is Commedia for musical sites:

http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions/multimedia/multimedia-players/audio-players-a-gallery/21375

I try to update it more and more.

If so, somebody will make more convinious plugin in the future... That's not good.

[Reink]

The modifications I made to thsi plugin are very simple (otherwise I could not do it).

I modified the extravote.php file.

I placed the Itemprop and Itemscope into the existing <span> for this plugin resulting in the following.
The values I added to the <span> are itemprop="aggregateRating" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/AggregateRating" with some escaping resulting in the following:

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<span class=\"extravote-info\" id=\"extravote_".$id."_".$xid."\" itemprop=\"aggregateRating\" itemscope itemtype=\"http://schema.org/AggregateRating\">"

The next I made two (three places) extra <span>'s to place the tags for the values in.

Resulting in the following modified lines:

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   $html .= JTEXT::sprintf('PLG_CONTENT_EXTRAVOTE_LABEL_RATING', '<SPAN itemprop="ratingValue">'.$rating.'</SPAN>');

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$html .= JTEXT::sprintf('PLG_CONTENT_EXTRAVOTE_LABEL_VOTES', '<SPAN itemprop="reviewCount">'.$rating_count.'</SPAN>');

and

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$html .= JTEXT::sprintf('PLG_CONTENT_EXTRAVOTE_LABEL_VOTE', '<SPAN itemprop="reviewCount">'.$rating_count.'</SPAN>');

I tested it with the Rich Snippet Testing Tool at http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/richsnippets and it works great.

The modifications to the code are simple and only add minor data to the output of the plugin.

[ecolora]

Good modificatinos! Thanks!

Could author of plugin add that feature into his extension? It could be an option: show stars in Google or not.

chus: Could You?

[lecer]

Hi,

I try this in the function plgContentExtraVoteStars ligne 119 without success ... somebody could help me please (or sent me the good file):

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<span class=\"extravote-info\" id=\"extravote_".$id."_".$xid."\" itemprop=\"aggregateRating\" itemscope itemtype=\"http://schema.org/AggregateRating\">"
    if ( $counter != -1 ) {
           if ( $counter != 0 ) {
            $html .= "( ";
                if($rating_count!=1) {
                            $html .= JTEXT::sprintf('PLG_CONTENT_EXTRAVOTE_LABEL_RATING', '<SPAN itemprop="ratingValue">'.$rating.'</SPAN>');
                            $html .= JTEXT::sprintf('PLG_CONTENT_EXTRAVOTE_LABEL_VOTES', '<SPAN itemprop="reviewCount">'.$rating_count.'</SPAN>');
                            //$html .= JTEXT::sprintf('Votes', $rating_count);
                } else {
                            $html .= JTEXT::sprintf('PLG_CONTENT_EXTRAVOTE_LABEL_VOTE', '<SPAN itemprop="reviewCount">'.$rating_count.'</SPAN>');
                            //$html .= JTEXT::sprintf('Vote', $rating_count);
                 }
                $html .=" )";
         }
      }
       $html .="</small></span>";
      
       return $html;
   }