I have set up a project page on Google Code webiste for GD Star Rating plugin. This way we can now use built in wiki, issue tracker and subversion source code access.

To access GD Star Rating on Google Code, go to this url:

http://code.google.com/p/gd-star-rating/

Source code will be the latest trunk code for the plugin, and this can be considered development version. Everyone can download it from there and use it to preview the planned release. All the latest changes will be on the Google Code SVN.

I will try to update wiki pages to have a list of planned features, roadmap and anything else that can be useful.

Also, there is an issue tracker and I reccommend using it to report bugs and other issues with the plugin. I will check Google Code page as often as I can, and I will also get email notifications, so I will respond to bug reports faster.

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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Unfortunatly, I didn’t have much free time last 2 weeks, and that’s the reason for no new version of GD Star Rating plugin. After 0.9.5 version, I was very, very busy with my job. Good news is, that I will be back working on Rating plugin in the next 4 or 5 days, and you can expect new version sometime next week.

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.

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.