And here is another release of the plugin. And there are more new features in this one. The most important new features is trend calculation. Trends can be displayed only in widget right now, but for the next version I will rewrite StarRater shortcode and it will have all the features that are now build in widget and few more extra things. Plugin is compatible with latest WordPress 2.7 development version. But, since 2.7 version is changing a lot, some other problems can happen.

Trends can be displayd as a text or as a image. There are new sets of icons for this, and they can be customized like the stars. For now there is only one set available, but I will add more. There are a lot of fixes included, and I have tried to resolve problems reported so far. Unfortunalty some bugs I couldn’t recreate and therefore I couldn’t fix. Also, some bugs are related to upgrade problems from older versions, so usually problems are solved with database tables reinstall from Setup page.

Also, please be patient if you find some bugs, it’s still under development. Plugin is getting more and more complicated. Only database related code is over 1000 lines long, and bugs are still bound to appear. Also, I recommend using Google Code where you can find daily updated latest plugin version via SVN.

Finally, new version is here. Before I get on with what’s new in this one, I would like to remind you all about the new development website for this plugin hosted on Google Code where you can access lates development source code that’s updated daily. Also, there you can add bug reports, read wiki pages (in works) or comment the soruce code if you fee like it.

Also, since the 1.0.0 is very near, I would like to call on for the translators. Currently beside standard english, I am doing translation to serbian, and Angel Guzman Maeso translated plugin to spanish. There is also french translation but it’s not updated for the last few versions. So, it would be great to have more languages available, so if you are up to the task, get yourself POT file and translate it. There is also a tutorial on this website about that, so you might wanna check that out also.

And now to the new stuff in this latest version of the plugin.

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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.

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.

Another minor release is here. I have added french translation (thanx goes to k|torz), and improved serbian translation. Important notice to translators: both spanish and french is updated by me to new POT file, so you can use included PO language files for future changes. As for the plugin, I was working on imporving control panel and backend DB code. Some small errors are also fixed.

I have included IE6 PNG Transparency Fix in this version. It will only affect users of IE6, for all the other browsers code will not even load, so no worries. Since page can have many, many images it can take few seconds for script to ‘fix’ all PNG images after page loads, but there is no other way.

I will be very busy with my real work for the next 2-3 weeks and will have very little time for this plugin, but you can expect 0.9.5 version in that period. This version will have improved widget and added voting trend for display in tables and widget. Also, I will finish voters log in control panel and will add better control of rating stars and text display.