I have decided to play a little with multilanguage wordpress support, and for starters I added multi language support for GD LinkedIn Badge widget plugin. There is a problem with WP_PLUGIN_DIR constant in WordPress 2.6, so I decided against using it to load domain file for translations.

Also, GD Star Rating plugin is updated again. Development on this one is going very well, and I expect to complete most of the planned features very soon. For now, I have made a lot of reorganizations, and added new stars. Statistics page is updated and improved. Controls for the plugin are changed a bit, and now you can see preview of the real size of the stars on different background. From now on, only PNG images will be used for stars, and every style will be in four different sizes.

By the end of the week, GD Pages Navigator will also going to get multilanguage support, and GD Star Rating will be updated with a lot of new features.

And, again new version. I have added different star styles and sizes. Also, I have completed administrative page that displays all voting statistics for posts and pages. Bug with cookie saving also is fixed. I have added some screenshots for the plugin. Bug again, best way to test it is to download it and try it for yourself.

Finally I had enough time to continue working on the star rating plugin, and here is the first, still alpha version you might wanna try. Currently plugin allows you to set up voting system. All votes are saved into database, so when you update plugin in the following days, all votes will be saved.

Plugin has protection against search spiders. Also, votes are saved based on user id if user is logged in, or visitors ip and cookie if not. You can set if you would like to allow non users to vote or not.

There are still a lot of things missing. I am planning to add sidebar widget, voting control and statistics and new stars styles. So, you can see how the plugin looks like on this blog, and I hope you like it. And, all suggestions and comments are welcome.

Both GD LinkedIn Badge and GD Pages Navigator are updated to fix minor issues with WordPress 2.6. Update fixes problem with new Wordpress 2.6 feature when user can move content folder from WordPress installation folder.

Since I have started developing my ‘GD Pages Navigator’ widget plugin, I wanted to upgrade it so it can support more then one instance on a page. Unfortunatly there are limited resources available for that task, and almost no info about it in the official documentation. There are plugins that use different methods of achiving this, but best method is the one used by plugins build into Wordpress.

So, my starting point was ‘widget.php’ file where this default widgets are located. They also provided a short example of multi instance widget at the end of this file. This example in is good, but it has few errors (copy-paste errors mostly). This function is in the sample code class

I have decided to walk you throught the process of creating a widget that will support more then one instance. This example will show you how to work with different types of settings and it will provide you with some practicle code snippets you can use in your own plugins. Tutorial will be based on my ‘GD Pages Navigator’ plugin. This widget supports multiple instances from the version 3.0.0.
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