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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.
WidgetWidget code can be used outside of the sidebar, and you can add the widget directly into your theme wherever you like. There is a new function you can use for this called wp_gdsr_render_widget(). Detailed explanation is available in the user guide. User GuideI get a lot of question about user guide, and many people don’t realize that the user guide is included with the theme. It’s location is user_guide folder in the plugin folder. This version fo the plugin has improved user guide (not yet complete, working on it). Bugfixes and ChangesThere were few bugs in the previous version, and they are now fixed. Also, rendering is somewhat improved and I have fixed few problems with database code. Also, admin pages are improved, and I have added 2 new empty (for now) pages that will be availabel in one of the next versions. And as a bonus I have added two new ’stars’ styles, this time shaped as a hearts. Final 1.0.0 is only few features away. Next up is votes log, trend calculation and ajax support. |
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Posted on 01:08, September 15th, 2008 by 
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Hi, first of all, thanks for great plugin!!
BTW, I appreciate that if you could add some feature that I can manage how “Rating: 9.0/10 (1 vote cast)” part appears, from the admin page since I have no resources to translate the language file myself…
I appreciate that if you could consider that for the final release.
BTW, 0.9.5 fixed the header tex bug for me. Great!
OOPS, now new 0.9.5 beta one corrupts text header for 2 byte characters. It was working in last version.
I appreciate that if you could fix that…
Also, when average is 10, 11 stars appear on the page instead of 10.
I hope those feedbacks help the final version to be a super rocking plugin!
@ First comment, this is going to change and it will use templates.
@ Second & Third comment: I need some example, screenshot or something like that along with teh settings you used. Create a post in the forum about that, that’s the best way.
1. try to enter “日本語” to header text, save it, then go to see the config page again. Characters are not saved in right shape. It was working with previous beta.
2. take a look at
You will see 11 stars.
http://tinyurl.com/5e4wxa
Before someone give me another vote
I will try to post in your forum from next conversation.
Thanks a lot for response tho!
Well, first problem is due to changes in saving this text. I wanted to allow users to insert HTML there, and I use html decode/encode functions. They somehow change the text you entered. I will look into that.
The other problem is due to your theme css having the same CSS class INNER, and this class adds padding to mine INNER class. I will change names in next version.
firstly thanks for your awesome plugin, i always search for one like that
i have a suggestion for you , can you make the plugin as review blog? not just rating? like wpreviewsite.com ??
Thanks agian for your plugin
iam sorry, but now i try to acticate the plugin but give me error messge
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected $end in /home/xxx/public_html/mydomain/blog/wp-content/plugins/gd-star-rating/code/gd-star-dbone.php on line 87
what can i do
Plugin suport review ratings (rating by the author of the post), and it will support multiple ratings per post, but this will take some time. If you have a suggestion about rating method, create a topic in the forum, and describe what would you like exactly. Believe me, this plugin will remain free, and is going to be the most powerful rating plugin there is for Wordpress. I just need time.
Millan, thanks for response.
Assuming that you are using htmlentities, you could add encoding as a 3rd parameter:
htmlentities($str, ENT_QUOTES, ‘UTF-8′);
I guess you can pull it out of WP config values.
You also need that encoding value for html_entity_decode when you decode it.
I hope it helps to resolve the issue, and yours will be welcomed as a great plugin in 2 bytes languge world!!!
Thanx, I will try this.
most of the problems are from substr, strlen, and htmlentities for the plugins that does not use regex replacements. That fix like 95% of the problems with plugins when I localize them to work with 2 bytes languages, as long as they use UTF-8. Anyway, thanks for great pluging again.
Nice plugin. I’m just missing two things so I can use it. I would like the ability to only add voting on specific pages. So I can avoid the about us page, contact and any other which are irrelevant. I tried using the shortcode [starrater] which shows the stars but you can’t vote with it. It would also be nice if you could include the red star button in the editor when you shut the editor off.. I can’t run it on because I also run ExecPHP. Thanks.
My bad. I had already voted on that article so I could’nt vote… will look more into it. Thanks.
You can set voting only on the pages you want to using shortcodes and disabling auto insert of rating code, or setting vote rules for specific pages. User guide is not finished yet, but read the pdf added with the plugin, and play with the control panel options to see what it can do.
I’ve been manually inserting the vote code into the pages where I need it, but it would be nice if I could get the stars to be inline. As it is, no matter where I put the code, it always forces itself onto a seperate line. I can’t get it to say “Rating:” immediately next to it. It’s not the worst thing in the world, but it’s driving me crazy that I can’t style it the way I want to. Is it currently possible or is this something I’ll have to wait for the final release to do?
This can’t be done. Rating stars must be added using DIV’s, and they are always rendered in the new line. You can try to add CSS class (advanced options in control panel activated) to a rating block that can try to render block inline, but I can’t guarantee that will work. On thing is sure, I will not be adding something like that beacuse such things tend to break the whole rendering code that is made to work in all browsers. Custom CSS is the only thing you can try at this point.
Please take a look at my site and tell me why only the first comment on any post can NOT be rated:
http://the12stepbuddhist.com
thanks
-d
I am not sure. It depends on the settings you use. Please, give me the screenshots of the settings pages, create new topic in the forum.
Also and I am noticing that you are using some other rating plugin as well for articles. Why do yuo need to separate plugins for the same thing?
The other plugin doesn’t work well for comments. I wanted to add comment ratings. I made Buddhas instead of stars for that plugin. I’d be happy to use just one if I can use my Buddhas and have comment ratings.
I am planning to add conversion of data from other plugins to mine. As for the Buddhas, you can add your own. I have added instruction in the forum on how to add your own stars or in this cases Buddhas.