I have set up a project page on Google Code webiste for GD Star Rating plugin. This way we can now use built in wiki, issue tracker and subversion source code access.

To access GD Star Rating on Google Code, go to this url:

http://code.google.com/p/gd-star-rating/

Source code will be the latest trunk code for the plugin, and this can be considered development version. Everyone can download it from there and use it to preview the planned release. All the latest changes will be on the Google Code SVN.

I will try to update wiki pages to have a list of planned features, roadmap and anything else that can be useful.

Also, there is an issue tracker and I reccommend using it to report bugs and other issues with the plugin. I will check Google Code page as often as I can, and I will also get email notifications, so I will respond to bug reports faster.

Well, I don’t need help coding the plugin, but I would like some input on how to do certain things, about certain featrues. I resumed my work on the plugin, and new version will be released in the middle of the week. This version will have ajax voting support, templates (partial support for now) and few things fixed.

If you want to find out what things I need help with, and you think you might be able to offer a viable solution, keep reading, and join discussion in the forum.

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Unfortunatly, I didn’t have much free time last 2 weeks, and that’s the reason for no new version of GD Star Rating plugin. After 0.9.5 version, I was very, very busy with my job. Good news is, that I will be back working on Rating plugin in the next 4 or 5 days, and you can expect new version sometime next week.

I decided to release plugin little earlier then I first announced it. Plugin has come a long way, and is almost ready for a stable 1.0.0. There are few very importan thing missing, and in the next few weeks, all that will be done. As you could see in the previous post, GD Star Rating has brand new widget.

Widget support multiple instances, so you can add more than one widget with different ratings into your sidebar. And widget alows you full control of the rendering using templates. This is also a preview of template system that the plugin will use for rating stars block, rating tables and everything else.

Continue to see what else is new, or just download plugin and see for your self.

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Rating Widget

Well, it took a while, but new widget for GD Star Rating is almost done. New version of plugin will be available in the next 3 or 4 days. For now, here is the screenshot of the current widget control panel.

As you can see filter is improved a lot and now you can filter by time range, month or last number of days. Also, rendering is now control by the template, and template elements are also on the widget panel. You can orginize it as table, list or anything else you want using html tags, css classes or styles. Also, you can cut titles to a length you want to fit the content in the space you want without line break.

Also, plugin will have few functions for getting the same content for integration in theme. I hope you like the widget. If you have some suggestions, please add comment or forum post.