I have made a lot of changes in the plugin, and most of the things are fully rewritten. Last two weeks I got a lot of emails, and there were also few forum posts with feature requests and suggestions, so I have decided to compile a list of things that needs to be done. And that’s the reason for so much changes from previous release version.

I did some experimenting on the way to render stars better so it will work in every theme with every browser. There could still be some problems with some themes, so if you find such a problem or even better a solution, please leave a post in the forum.

Also, note that this is still in development and NOT stable version so I don’t recommend to use it on the production blog. Many of the features are not finished, and in the next 2-3 weeks I expect to have stable 1.0.0 version. So, test this one, report bugs and help me to create the best rating plugin for WordPress. And if you are curious about what’s new continue reading this post.

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New version of Pages Navigator is available. Now you can set if you want widget to be shown or hidden on some WordPress special pages like 404 error page, search results page, archive, single posts, page or archive. This way you can create special widget instance that will be shown only if the page is not found (404).

If you have any suggestion, or you want to report a bug with the widget, leave a comment or make a post in the forum.

New version is ready. This one will hopefully fix duplicate voting, header sent error message and few other small errors. I have tested it last two days on different blogs, with WordPress 2.5.1 and WordPress 2.6, and so far I couldn’t find any problem. If you still getting errors, please report it in the forum and add exact error you get along with version of WordPress you are using.

This version has working widget. There is still work to be done, but for now widget supports multiple instances, and you can add as many differently set rating widgets in sidebars as you want. For now you will have a list with rating displayed.

Also, shortcode support is expanded, new options are added into TinyMCE3 plugin settings and now you can have rating displayed with stars. You can see the example on the screenshot on the right.

Next version will be availbe in the next few days with some changes to widget and control panel.

And now, for something completely different. Plugin that can be used to create plugins!

Well, I am almost 100% sure that this is one of a kind plugin, and so far I am unaware of any other similar attempt: to created one base (core) class that implements all the standard code needed for a plugin to work. To use this class, extend it, set parameters through constructor, and just concentrate on writing the actual code for the plugin features. Code is tested onlyt with WordPress 2.5 and WordPress 2.6 and older WP versions will not be suported.

Add to that Wizard that can be used to create skeleton for a plugin. Set a bunch of different parameters that describe plugin features, and in a wizard folder (must have write rights) you get folder for the plugin with all needed files, and all the necessary code for start. Such plugin can be activated in WordPress and it will work immediately. Are you intrigued? Keep reading…

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