New RC3 version is now available. This version adds some of the time restriction functionality, mostly still unusable, but getting there. Also, MySQL4 related problems are (hopefully) fixed. There are some small overall changes and fixes. Import from WP-Post Rating plugin is added, but right now without some more testing I am not 100% sure that import will always work. So, please report errors if you find any.

Also, there is an important update to code that’s saving votes. I have added check to see if the vote is valid. There was a case that someone changed ajax request with voting data and sent vote value of 1000. Now something like that can’t happen.

This post is mainly about some of the features that have gone through changes recently, and until I complete user guide, maybe they are not that easy to use.
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All plugin and theme authors that added multilanguage support to their plugins and themes, should provide valid POT file with all needed translation strings. This is not required, but it saves a lot of time for the translators.

Translation process needs to produce two files, one with extension MO and the other PO. MO file is the file with actual translation, and the PO is more of a template file that looks like POT but has translation string in it. This PO file is needed if you later need to change and update translation.

There are different tools you can use to translate POT file in PO/MO files, and this post will be about POEdit. This is free and multi platform program that works on Windows, Linux and MacOS. I have noticed that POEdit is not working with plural translations as it should, at least with the ones used by WordPress.

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