Brutal Rating Block: Interactive Star Ratings & SEO Rich Snippets

Engage your visitors, build social proof, and dominate search engine results. The Brutal Rating Block is a highly flexible Gutenberg star rating plugin that allows your users to rate your content dynamically, or lets you display static scores for your own product reviews.

The real magic? It is deeply optimized for search engines. This block can automatically inject the exact code Google needs to display those highly-coveted golden stars right next to your pages in the search results.

🔥 What makes it brutal?

• Interactive or Static: Enable “Interactive Voting” to let your front-end visitors cast their votes. Turn it off to use the “Current Rating” slider as a beautiful, static visual score for your own reviews.
• Instant Statistics: Built-in dashboard right in your sidebar. Instantly track your “Average Score” and “Number of Votes” with a quick refresh button.
• Total Customization: Don’t like stars? Use our zero-bloat icon-picker to change the rating symbol (hearts, smiles, lightning bolts—you name it). Plus, full color control to match your brand.
• Flexible Scale: While 5 stars is the standard, you have complete control over the “Max Rating” scale. From 3 to 10.
• The SEO Goldmine (AggregateRating): Toggle the Schema.org Data output, and the block automatically generates perfect JSON-LD markup. This tells Google exactly what your rating is, unlocking the chance to get Rich Snippets in search results.

💸 FREE vs. PRO

The Free version lets you test the waters with user engagement, but the PRO version is an absolute requirement if you care about SEO and design.

• FREE Version: You can enable “Interactive Voting” with the default 5-star setup. No statistics, no custom icons, no color changes, no scale adjustments, and absolutely zero SEO Schema generation.
• PRO Version (Unleash the Beast): The ultimate review and rating engine.
  • Automated SEO Schema: Unlock the JSON-LD generation to get those click-boosting stars in Google search results. This feature alone pays for the plugin.
  • Static Fallback: Turn off interactive voting to use the block for your own static editorial reviews.
  • Icon & Color Control: Access the Lucide SVG icon-picker to swap the stars for any symbol, and customize the colors completely.
  • Flexible Scales: Change the maximum rating scale to fit your exact needs.

🛠️ Quick Help: Up and running in seconds

Adding a rating system to your posts is incredibly fast:

1. Click on the + icon in your editor and type “Brutal”, then click on Browse All. Alternatively, click the + icon on the top left corner of the editor screen, scroll down to the Brutal Blocks section (or type “brutal” in the search field), and drag and drop the “Brutal Rating” onto your canvas.
2. Free users: Your interactive 5-star voting is ready. Save the page and let users vote.
3. PRO users: Head to the right sidebar to unlock the real power. Toggle “Output Schema.org Data” on immediately to boost your SEO.
4. PRO users: Decide if you want users to vote (Enable Interactive Voting) or if you want to set a static score yourself using the “Current Rating” slider.
5. PRO users: Tweak the Max Rating scale, change the colors, or swap the default star for any of the 1,600+ icons in our custom SVG picker.