Display short code in category page

[Paul]

I am using a plugin called "star rating". It gives users the ability to leave a comment with a star rating and shows pictures of stars with "5 based on 1 reviews". I have pasted the short code in the top of the post [stars_rating_avg] in hoping that this would display the stars etc in the excerpt of the category page but it doesn't. Does anyone know if there is a way to achieve this?

Here is the category page and the post I refer to is the second from the top:
https://blacktiegroup.com.au/brisbane-soloists/

Here is the post where you'll see the star rating at the top that I also want to display in the excerpt:

Soloist / Duo / Band 246

Any help on the code and where to place it would be greatly appreciated if this is possible 🙂

https://blacktiegroup.com.au/brisbane-bands/soloist-duo-band-246/

[Anita]

It would be helpful if you could list the link to the plugin so we could see how it works.

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[Paul]

Good point, sorry about that. Here is the link:

Stars Rating

[Anita]

I see the star rating above the comment area. So what's not working for you?

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[Anita]

The plugin says to use the shortcode on "individual" pages or posts. I don't know if you can set that globally.

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[Paul]

I'm wanting it to display in the excerpt in the category page also:
https://blacktiegroup.com.au/brisbane-soloists/

[Anita]

Categories do not have excerpts. There a description box but shortcodes typically will not work in there. The categories are part of WordPress so if you want that to work, ask them on the plugin support page.

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[Paul]

Sorry, perhaps I need to explain it better. On the category / archives page (where the excerpt from the post displays), I was hoping that the "stars and 5 based on 1 reviews" would also display from the actual post, but it doesn't seem to want to display that info.
I hope this makes more sense 🙂

[Anita]

@paul first, don't click the links that you may see from another poster. It was spam that came in overnight. Right, if it's for rating comments, then I guess it wouldn't. But that would be a question for the plugin developer how to implement that on archive pages as that's a WordPress function. It's not specific to Genesis. Reach out to them on their support for that assistance.

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