New GD Star Rating will be released tomorrow, but now I want to talk about the only big problem that rating plugin has right now.

Some users were (are) getting the following error on their blog(s) after rating:

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by...

Problem is not plugin related, but theme related. Plugin uses get_header() WordPress call to save cookies. Cookies must be set before any HTML output to the browser. This get_header() call is ment to load page header. Before this function there should be NO HTML output. All Header elements should go in header.php that is loaded with get_header() method (default case).

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Another day, and another release. I made mostly cosmetic chaneges to control panel and to the display of stars so I decided to release it right away. You can now control aligment of the rating block and the position of the text for the rating blog. Also, I have added one more text row with some sort of title or message that will be placed above the rating for all 3 types of ratings. For now only text is allowed, but I will work on adding the html in that header.

Control panel settings page is a reorganized because the number of options is grown and I like it more if I don’t need to scroll much to see most of the options.

Very important: This version will still have update database elements from previous versions. Next version 0.9.0 will have some important changes to the database for some new features I am planning. So 0.9.0 will be able to either update from this version, or install fresh.

Comments and suggests are welcome as always.

Here is the new version of rating plugin. Since I have completed all work I have planned on my Starscape theme, I will have more time for this plugin. And this new version adds few new things, introduces many changes and bug fixes.

Since this is still far from final stable release, database handling code is still not completed, and right now there are many uneeded calls made to the database when it comes to comments rating. Also, I had to change some things in database layout, and I have added upgrade code, so this should be working ok. In any case, after you upgrade, please check if the votes are recorded properly, and report any errors you find with that. I have tested upgrading on few test blog, and there were no problems.

And as always, mind that this is still in development, and is not recommended to use it on your production blog.

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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.