The first development cycle is almost over. This release candidate introduce few new features, and announces some more changes that will be available in 1.0.0 stable release. At this point I had no time to update documentation, so if you are confused by some of the (new) options, please visit a forum and ask whatever you need to know.

I will try to go through all changes made for this release, and beleive me, the list is very extensive. For full changelog, you can check Google Code plugin page.

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Just a quick post about current development of GD Star Rating. I have been adding new things, but mostly I am focused on fixing reported bugs. And good news is that most of the reported bugs are fixed! Just to mention some of the most important:

1. invalid rendering postion for StarRater shortcode
2. XHTML validity problems
3. crashing WordPress rendering in some rare cases
4. invalid template initialization

If you have found more bugs, please report them in comments or on the forum. And if you want to test latest development snapshot, go to Google Code Project Page and get it from SVN or from Download page (0.9.9 Dev).

On monday I will release GD Star Rating 0.9.9 Release Candidate. And most likely for Halloween stable 1.0.0 will be released.

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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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.

Well, laste few days I have received a lot of emails and there was a discussion in the forum and on this blog about the features for GD Star Rating plugin. So, I have decided to slow down with new version, and instead I will do a rewrite on some parts of the plugin to add new things, and to make possible easier expansion for the future versions.

So, the planned 0.8.0 Beta will not be released befoe all these things are done. But, the most important thing is to make a list of the things that will be changed. If you are interested in these features, please continue reading.
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