This release has some very important bug fixes related to time restrictions, auto inserting rating into comments and votes deletion. So, I strongly reccomend to update your blogs with this version.

Also, there are couple of new things. First is new widget that will display average blog rating calculated on the basis of all posts. You can see it in the sidebar on this blog. I have added more options for better control of restricting votes with logged IP addresses and cookies. And, more options are now by default hidden on the settings panel, making it easier to use. And if you need some of the hidden options, you can turn them on from general tab.

As always, all comments and bug reports are welcomed. Next version will be released sometime next week.

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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New version is ready. This one will hopefully fix duplicate voting, header sent error message and few other small errors. I have tested it last two days on different blogs, with WordPress 2.5.1 and WordPress 2.6, and so far I couldn’t find any problem. If you still getting errors, please report it in the forum and add exact error you get along with version of WordPress you are using.

This version has working widget. There is still work to be done, but for now widget supports multiple instances, and you can add as many differently set rating widgets in sidebars as you want. For now you will have a list with rating displayed.

Also, shortcode support is expanded, new options are added into TinyMCE3 plugin settings and now you can have rating displayed with stars. You can see the example on the screenshot on the right.

Next version will be availbe in the next few days with some changes to widget and control panel.

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.