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.

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This is very importand update. It includes few new things and a lot of changes and fixes. From now on you can set rating text on left or right from the stars as many people asked for. Control panel settings page has been redesigned becasue number of options has grown. You can now set additional CSS classes for rating block and for rating text for posts, comments and reviews separately.

Database reinstallation, upgrade and setup page are fixed. Recalculation of votes is finally done, so you can change number of stars and the plugin will recalculate votes accordingly. I am planning on adding review rating to comments, but there are few problems with that and I hope to solve that soon.

Finally, new version is released. The list of changes and new features is very extensive, and you can read it on plugins changelog page. And again, important notice, this is still beta version, and bugs are to be expected. Some parts of the control panel are not fully tested, and there are some things still missing there.

Translation POT file is included. If you translate plugin to your language, please sent translation files (both DO and MO) to me, and I will include it with next version. Expect POT file to be updateded with every new version.

Some more important changes will follow. But I wanted to point out whatyou can expect to follow with next releases. I will improve on widget(s), control panel and most important, new rating stars rendering that should solve all the problems with different themes and browsers. And for the stable 1.0.0 release there will be ajax support and updated user guide, and I expect a lot bug fixes.

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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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