Finally, after 4 months of development first stable release of WordPress rating plugin with tons of features and options. Plugin features post, page and comments rating, rating rules, moderation, time restricted voting, trend calculations, detailed voting log, import and export of votes, customizable images fro stars and trends, extensive control panel, PDF user guide and more.

This version has numerous bug fixes and few changes from previous RC4 version. I have added voters log where you can see who voted for what and where you can delete votes. Also, time restricted voting is completed but this feature might need some more testing, so I expect the feedback and bug reports.

You can expect regular updates and new features in the future. Roadmap is updated so you can check out what to expect soon. So, install fresh or upgrade plugin and try out new version.
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OK, another bug fix release is ready. Only new feature I am working on right now is time restriction for votes, but that will be available for the 1.0.0.

As for this one, some very important and very annoing bugs are fixed. Flash uploader should be working now with GD Star Rating active, and also few more javascript bugs are gone. All (found so far) bugs with PHP4 are fixed.

So, if you find some more bugs, report them, and I will get on fixing them for the friday stable release.

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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RC release had few bugs so here is the new version. Problem with PHP4 and scandir() function is solved. Problem with widget post title rendering, first comment disabled rating and rendering of post review stars are fixed. I have removed user guide from this release and you can download it from my blog so I can keed the plugin package smaller. Since I will be working on some new features that require some more jQuery, I have added jQuery.ui.datepicker code along with translations for all currently available languages in the plugin.

If more critical bugs are discovered, you can expect more such releases. Also, if you want you can use SVN from Google Code page to get latest version of development code to test it if you like.

The first development cycle is almost over. This release candidate introduce few new features, and announces some more changes that will be available in 1.0.0 stable release. At this point I had no time to update documentation, so if you are confused by some of the (new) options, please visit a forum and ask whatever you need to know.

I will try to go through all changes made for this release, and beleive me, the list is very extensive. For full changelog, you can check Google Code plugin page.

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