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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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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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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