kk Star Ratings stores per-post rating state in wp_postmeta. The keys are well known: _kksr_ratings holds the vote count, _kksr_casts holds the running total of cast scores, and _kksr_avg holds the current average. The plugin updates those three meta rows every time a visitor votes, and the front-end star widget reads them back at render time.

SleekView Charts treats those meta keys as the chart source. A card can compute a site-wide average across _kksr_avg, weight it by _kksr_ratings for a vote-weighted figure, rank posts by total votes in a Bar card, group posts into star buckets for a distribution pie, or trend daily voting from post_modified on the postmeta rows.

Editors get a real picture of how the corpus performs. A Number card for the average rating, a Pie card for the distribution across one-to-five-star buckets, a Bar card for the top-voted posts, and an Area card for daily voting activity all sit on one dashboard, refreshed against the same postmeta the front-end star widget reads.

kk Star Ratings is a tiny plugin that writes three meta keys per post and renders a star block on the front end. The data is rich enough to support a real dashboard, but the plugin itself never builds one. Editors trust the average without seeing whether the distribution is bimodal.

Growth teams track voting activity by intuition because there is no chart of votes per day. Product teams want a North Star metric but never get the vote-weighted average that _kksr_avg and _kksr_ratings together would give them. SleekView Charts wires the meta into a dashboard.

A Number card for the weighted average, a Pie for the bucket distribution, a Bar for the top-voted posts, an Area for daily activity, all live in one place and refresh against the same meta the front end reads. The chart layer turns the rating numbers into a tool the team can actually steer with.