Rating-Widget keeps two layers of data. The vote API lives on the Rating-Widget service, but the plugin caches the resulting counts and averages back on each post in the rw_post_data postmeta, alongside per-page configuration in rw_settings. Tracked posts also store their category and taxonomy metadata through normal wp_term_relationships rows, which the plugin uses to scope ratings by category.

SleekView Charts reads those postmeta values as a regular column source. Each card picks a postmeta key to group by (rating average, vote count, category term ID, post type) and aggregates with Count, Sum, Average, Maximum, or Minimum across the matching posts. The result is a dashboard that shows ratings at the level the editor actually thinks about: per post, per category, per post type.

A typical setup combines a Number card for the site-wide average rating, a Pie card for the share of ratings per category, a Bar card for the top-rated posts, and an Area card for posts published over time stacked against their average rating. Editors stop opening the Rating-Widget dashboard in a separate tab and start reading the answer inside the same WordPress admin.

Rating-Widget gives every post a star rating, but the default reporting dashboard lives on a separate service. Editors who want to know whether the tutorial section pulls higher ratings than the news section have to leave WordPress, open the external admin, and pivot the data manually. The cached rating numbers already sit on every post in the rw_post_data postmeta, so the answer is one query away.

SleekView Charts reads that postmeta directly, joins it to the rest of the site through standard WordPress relations, and renders the numbers as Number, Pie, Bar, and Area cards. The team stops switching tabs to read a number and starts reading it inside the same admin they already use to publish posts and manage categories, which means the rating signal actually informs the editorial decisions instead of sitting unread.